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Breaking Ground in Bluff City

Construction begins on Memphis Brooks Museum of Art by Herzog & de Meuron and Archimania

exterior of a mid-century arena in memphis
Big Doings in Bluff City

Memphis proposes $684 million sweep of stadium renovations and demolition of historic Mid-South Coliseum

a small, sanctuary-like structure with square stained glass windows
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Daily digest: Ellsworth Kelly’s Austin closes for a cleaning, a Putin statue lands in Central Park, and more

illustration of a new museum along the mississippi river in memphis
Bluff Piece

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art unveils a new Herzog & de Meuron-designed home

aerial rendering of tom lee park along the Mississippi river
Heal the Land

Memphis’s long-neglected Tom Lee Park gets an overhaul, and Theaster Gates wants to honor its namesake

a large crack in a steel span of the Hernando de Soto Bridge
The Plot Thickens

Inspector who failed to detect potentially “catastrophic” fracture on Memphis bridge fired

a bridge crossing the Mississippi River, the Hernando de Soto Bridge
Not Good At All

Memphis’s Hernando de Soto Bridge shuttered after major fracture discovered

a historic office building in Memphis, a Driehouse Foundation award winner this year
Second Callings

The Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Awards recognizes 2020 pillars of restoration excellence

a rendering of the new tom lee park in memphis
Memphis Greens

Studio Gang and SCAPE reveal updated plans for riverside park revamp in Memphis

Spatial Affairs Bureau’s work spans across disciplines but consistently aims to engage architecture at the landscape scale, as evidenced by the firm’s Round Hill Pavillions, a series of indoor-outdoor structures that combine influences from the English picturesque and American vernacular architecture to envision new ways of engaging with memory, ecology, and bucolic vistas.
Space Oddity

Spatial Affairs Bureau runs wild over disciplinary boundaries

Photo of the Ballet Memphis building
Curtain Call

The Ballet Memphis building shines behind a corrugated copper curtain

Big Muddy

Memphis looks to its river for a new cultural space and aquarium

Rendering of the Cook Convention Center's new exterior. (Courtesy Looney Ricks Kiss)
Convention Wisdom

Memphis Cook Convention Center is about to receive a major facelift

Curtain Call

National Black Theater Museum proposed for Memphis

The Big Muddy

Studio Gang envisions the future of Memphis’s Mississippi riverfront

Memphis (B)elle

Fly-through animation reveals Memphis International Airport remodel

Pinch to Grow and Inch

Memphis moves closer to rejuvenating one of its oldest neighborhoods

Permanently On Loan

Midcentury modern bank building in Memphis to become boutique hotel

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