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Bjarke Ingels’ firm BIG has released first renderings for a new whiskey distillery and headquarters for Blue Run Spirits, a Kentucky-based company and creator of award-winning bourbons and rye whiskies.BIG’s design scheme will consist of a 35,000-square-foot (3,252-square-metre) distillery and a 20,000-square-foot (1,858-square-metre) rickhouse as a new facility compound in Georgetown, Kentucky.Set to begin construction in 2023 at the Lanes Run Business Park, the project is expected to open in 2025.With new distillery operations, the company expects to bring at least 45 fulltime jobs to the local economy, according to a press statement by the company. “It evokes the journey of…

The Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo has announced the theme and details for its exhibition at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice Architecture Biennale.The Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 will take place from Saturday 20 May to Sunday 26 November, 2023 at the Arsenale and Giardini venues in Italy. Themed as rks2 | transcendent locality, the Pavilion of the Republic of Kosovo will explore different norms of migrations – from physical aspect, duration and emotional presence.This year, the Republic of Kosovo is taking part for the fifth time in the International Architecture Exhibition in Venice Architecture Biennale. Kosovo-based architects Poliksen…

Work on the Triangle Fire Memorial, commemorating the tragic fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in Greenwich Village on March 25, 1911, is wrapping up. The blaze took the lives of 146 factory workers. In the aftermath of that tragedy, legislation emerged to require buildings requirements and improved working conditions for factory workers. Since 2013 Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, an organization dedicated to educating the public about the fire, has been working to realize a memorial on the facade of the building that honors the memory of those who perished in the blaze, many of whom were women. The…

Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista PiranesiThe Morgan Library & Museum225 Madison AvenueNew YorkThrough June 4 Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–78) was born in Venice into a lineage of architects, engineers, and masons, but it was in Rome where he established his singular identity as an artist, architect, and archeologist who has transfixed generations of audiences with his dizzyingly complex etchings of the Eternal City and creations of his own imagination. Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, an exhibition that opened at the beginning of March at the Morgan Library & Museum, offers a comprehensive look at Piranesi’s artistic trajectory.…

At the entrance to the Central Library in Utrecht, The Netherlands, a colorful new installation features light-up signs depicting names of authors, Latin phrases, and other graphic icons. The art piece, titled Intellectual Heritage, wraps around the library’s arched main entrance as means to extend the library’s messages outside. It was designed by Dutch artist Maarten Baas. The Central Library occupies the city’s former Main Post Office building, a brick behemoth designed by architect Joseph Crouwel in the style of The Amsterdam School in 1924. Intellectual Heritage spans 31 feet by 26 feet (9.5 by 8 meters) above the door…

The 28th UIA World Congress of Architects has announced its programme, featuring influential and innovative profiles in the built environment.The UIA World Congress of Architects, for the first time which will be held a Nordic country, and Copenhagen, will take place in Copenhagen from July 2 to 6, 2023.The programme of the Congress will welcome speakers who have strong contributions to architecture, science, business and politics, as well as sustainable approaches to new solutions and methods.BIG founder Bjarke Ingels, socially-minded Burkinese architect, Diébédo Francis Kéré, EC President Ursula von der Leyen, MASS Design Group Director Christian Benimana, Nigerian architect, urbanist…

Civil Architecture has created a sundial with the fragments of round-shaped calendar-like notes that make our sense of time more understandable referencing to the courtyards of mosques in Islamic Architecture. Envisioned as fragmented, sculptural pieces within the desert-like landscape created by OMA, Civil Architecture, led by architects Hamed Bukhamseen and Ali Ismail Karimi, have reimagined the sundial based on the Islamic references in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Image © Laurian GhinitoiuSundials were used as indicators to show the time of the five daily prayers in the Islamic world – they were used either on the walls or the courtyards of mosques.Image © Laurian…

Czech architecture practice Mjölk Architekti has built a wooden headquarters for Kloboucká lesní, a management company for sustainable forestry, in Brumov-Bylnice, Czech Republic. Named Kloboucká lesní Headquarters, the 1,034-square-metre building, is predominantly made of glued laminated timber, manufactured only about a hundred meters from the site.Featuring a large triangular space where all program elements are distirbuted in four levels, the building was designed to adhere the principles of sustainable design and demonstrating the potential of sustainable construction.Referencing to the mission of the company, identifying itself as progressive and creative in sustainable forestry, Mjölk Architekti developed a headquarters that represents the company’s vision and values.The four-storey headquarters…

Republic of Symmetry, an Instagram account managed by Damjan Bulatovic, features perfectly aligned building elements, including staircases, facades, and interiors in which walls, balconies, and windows are all mirrored vertically. Bulatovic, who is trained in architecture and interior design, started the account five years ago as a passion project. “As someone who has always been a perfectionist at heart, I was immediately drawn to symmetrical pictures when I first created my Instagram account. I found great joy in exploring and admiring them, and at the time, there were no daily active pages dedicated to this topic,” Bulatovic told AN. “I…

After over a year and half of steady growth, the end of 2022 saw the start to a slow decline in billings for architects. The trend continues. The monthly Architecture Billings Index (ABI) put out each month by The American Institute of Architects (AIA) reported a score of 48.0 for the month of February. (Any score below 50 indicates a decrease in billings from the previous month.) In January the ABI score was 49.3. In its report the AIA said this latest decline reflects “an extension of a recent downturn in design activity.” While the national average for billings has…