Salt Lake City’s design review standards could be changing, which could lead to new buildings being taller instead of longer.

On June 12, 2025, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) unveiled its updated 2025 Design Guidelines, which is a resource provided for internal and external partners regarding requirements, ...

Buildings over 220,000 gross square feet must be brought into compliance by June 1, 2026, those 90,001—222,000 gross square feet by June 1, 2027, and buildings 50,000—90,000 gross square feet ...

“It may be a hybrid of design standards and form-base code,” Malloy said. “The hope is that it will give developers a better sense of building mass, and it’s important that if we want 12 ...

Businesses and organisations are increasingly prioritising sustainable design, construction and maintenance of their premises, with globally recognised green building standards such as LEED ...

The General Services Administration on Monday announced updated design and construction standards to promote the use of “cleaner, more efficient” energy in the 300,000 federal buildings ...

The city of Chicago has worked for years on building design standards that prevent fatal crashes of migratory birds. Making those standards optional for builders is a problem, bird lovers say.

The design phase not only informs what it will take to complete the project (time, money, materials) but also determines the building's future lifetime eco-efficiency.

As mentioned by the architect Chuck Peterson during a recent delve into thin brick application, there were eight tangible key benefits he found when using the material in the design and ...