Fifteen architects and designers will advise design of Rikers Replacement jails
In October 2019, the City Council approved a controversial Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) application for the $8.7 billion plan to construct four new smaller jails to replace the [...] Read...
View ArticleCommunity voices come first in reimagining of downtown Atlanta detention center
In many, if not most, major American cities where available real estate is at a premium, a soon-to-be-redundant 471,000-square-foot building in the heart of downtown would typically be ripe for [...]...
View ArticleRikers closure delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, budget cuts
It’s been known for months that the closure of Rikers Island as a jail complex would be delayed; with New York City’s finances in dire straits because of the coronavirus [...] Read More... The post...
View ArticleState judge blocks Rikers replacement tower in Manhattan
It looks like the already beleaguered plan to replace New York’s Rikers Island jail complex has had another wrench thrown in its works. Yesterday, State Supreme Court Judge John Kelley [...] Read...
View ArticleAIANY speaks out against designing places of incarceration
On September 30, the Board of Directors of AIA New York, the largest and oldest chapter of the American Institute of Architects, issued a statement calling on AIANY members to [...] Read More... The...
View ArticleManhattan’s notorious “Tombs” will close next month as part of Rikers...
New York City’s plan to close the jails on Rikers Island and replace them with four borough-based alternatives has been delayed by the coronavirus, budget woes, and community opposition, but [...] Read...
View ArticleThe AIA updates its code of ethics, prohibits members from designing torture...
Calls for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to censure members for willing designing spaces of detention, execution, and torture are nothing new; AN has repeatedly published pieces over the...
View ArticleHDR responds to reports of surveilling clients’ opponents
In August, Vice reported that global design and engineering consultancy HDR, Inc., which among its manifold business verticals includes designing jails, has been monitoring the social media accounts of...
View ArticleHere are the six design-build teams competing to build the Rikers Island...
During his final week presiding over City Hall, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has revealed the six teams in the running to design and build a quartet of [...] Read More... The post Here are the...
View ArticleAn expanded scope for a training facility in Chicago raises questions about...
Who is the city for? This is the most urgent question in modern urban life. It’s also one that we ask with increasing frequency in the face of rising rents, [...] Read More... The post An expanded...
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