Mayor de Blasio unveils plan to close Rikers Island for good
Mayor Bill de Blasio has unveiled a plan to close Rikers Island, the city’s troubled jail complex. Over the next few years the city intends to shutter the multi-jail facility, located on a...
View ArticleThis design team has ideas for a better, more humane jail system
Rikers Island, New York City’s notorious jail complex, is set to close within the next decade. For some activists, the pace of change is too slow, but, if the city is taken at its word, ten years is a...
View ArticleGrowing private detention industry threatens immigrants’ rights on the...
The collision of private law enforcement and privately managed immigration enforcement at sites of detention is dramatically altering the landscape of migrant processing and justice—largely to the...
View ArticleACSA cancels controversial detention center competition
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) announced today that it has nixed a controversial student competition to design an immigrant detention center. The brief asked participants...
View ArticleDenmark’s latest maximum security prison designed to feel less like a prison
Denmark’s recently opened maximum-security Storstrøm Prison, the second-largest in the country, is meant to evoke feelings of a small provincial village, according to Scandinavian designers C.F. Møller...
View ArticleCity taps Perkins Eastman to research alternatives to Rikers
New York City has tapped Perkins Eastman to study the design and location of new city jails to replace Rikers Island, the detention facility that’s slated for shutdown over the next decade. The...
View ArticleRikers replacement jails are announced in NYC mayor and City Council agreement
Only two weeks after New York City announced that Perkins Eastman would be studying potential locations and designs for the borough-based jails that will eventually replace Rikers Island, the Mayor’s...
View ArticlePreservationists rally to save the prison where Oscar Wilde was persecuted
The Reading Prison in Berkshire, England, has been put on the market and cultural figures are rallying to save the building where Oscar Wilde was incarcerated between 1895 and 1897. The Grade II-listed...
View ArticleDeborah Berke Partners’ prison-to-women’s rights club conversion canceled
A social club for nonprofits dedicated to tackling women’s equality issues was slated for Manhattan’s West Side inside a former women’s prison, but now it appears the long-awaited conversion has been...
View ArticleDesigning Justice + Designing Spaces builds infrastructure to end mass...
While “justice” might be considered too abstract a design initiative for most architects, it has become a second language for the Oakland-based Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS). Co-founded...
View ArticleGrowing private detention industry threatens immigrants’ rights on the...
The collision of private law enforcement and privately managed immigration enforcement at sites of detention is dramatically altering the landscape of migrant processing and justice—largely to the...
View ArticleACSA cancels controversial detention center competition
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) announced today that it has nixed a controversial student competition to design an immigrant detention center. The brief asked participants...
View ArticleDenmark’s latest maximum security prison designed to feel less like a prison
Denmark’s recently opened maximum-security Storstrøm Prison, the second-largest in the country, is meant to evoke feelings of a small provincial village, according to Scandinavian designers C.F. Møller...
View ArticleCity taps Perkins Eastman to research alternatives to Rikers
New York City has tapped Perkins Eastman to study the design and location of new city jails to replace Rikers Island, the detention facility that’s slated for shutdown over the next [...] Read More......
View ArticleRikers replacement jails are announced in NYC mayor and City Council agreement
Only two weeks after New York City announced that Perkins Eastman would be studying potential locations and designs for the borough-based jails that will eventually replace Rikers Island, the Mayor’s...
View ArticlePreservationists rally to save the prison where Oscar Wilde was persecuted
The Reading Prison in Berkshire, England, has been put on the market and cultural figures are rallying to save the building where Oscar Wilde was incarcerated between 1895 and 1897. [...] Read More......
View ArticleDeborah Berke Partners’ prison-to-women’s rights club conversion canceled
A social club for nonprofits dedicated to tackling women’s equality issues was slated for Manhattan’s West Side inside a former women’s prison, but now it appears the long-awaited conversion has [...]...
View ArticleDesigning Justice + Designing Spaces builds infrastructure to end mass...
While “justice” might be considered too abstract a design initiative for most architects, it has become a second language for the Oakland-based Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS). Co-founded...
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...
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