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Architect Magazine

SHoP Wants to Turn Los Angeles Inside Out

As transit-oriented development becomes increasingly central to Southern California’s growth strategy, Habitat offers a glimpse of what the next generation of Los Angeles projects might look like: less focused on cars, more focused on people; less isolated, more connected; and more willing to treat landscape not as decoration, but as infrastructure. If Los Angeles was once defined by the freeway, Habitat suggests that its future may be shaped by something else entirely—the public realm.

The Architect's Newspaper

With Habitat, SHoP Architects and Steinberg Hart bet on a high-density, public transit-oriented Los Angeles

Habitat is an undeniable improvement over the site’s former role as a single-story Public Storage facility. But it can’t perform miracles alone; to strike the right balance of urban vitality and natural serenity, several more developments will have to pop up along the Metro line with equal audacity.

The New York Times

Gotham FC to construct $35 million training facility, a first for the club: ‘This is absolutely huge’

The 2025 NWSL Champions announced plans to construct the club’s first-ever training facility. Renovations, designed in collaboration with SHoP Architects, will begin by late summer, with an estimated completion date of next year.

Archinect

Northwestern University selects 12-firm longlist to design new engineering building

Northwestern University’s search for an architect-engineer team to design a future engineering research building has drawn considerable interest, with more than 100 firms responding to the initial open call.

Crain's New York Business

Meet the Notable Leaders in Architecture, Engineering & Construction for 2026

At SHoP Architects, Angelica T. Baccon leverages her particular specialty leading projects at the intersection of enterprise and technology, including Uber’s headquarters in San Francisco and several confidential projects for global leaders in Silicon Valley. Under Baccon’s leadership, SHoP Architects won two competitions in Sydney, Australia remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic — Atlassian Central Tower, soon to be the tallest hybrid timber tower in the world, and 55 Pitt Street. Baccon is the immediate past chair of the board of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting women in architecture and design.

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The world’s tallest timber tower: Sydney’s impossible build

In this video, we break down the engineering behind Atlassian Central, the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower. From the complexities of high-rise timber construction to the “green” philosophy of its design, learn the powerful lessons engineers are taking from this project and how it is setting a new global benchmark for the profession.

Los Angeles Times

Is This the End of Status-Driven Luxury? Inside LA’s Newest Wellness-First Apartment Campus

The bigger argument of the project comes into view when you stand in front of it on a weekday afternoon. A cyclist rolls off the bike path. An office tenant takes a meeting outside. A resident walks back from Whole Foods. Somewhere up above, a balcony door is open. It’s a small scene, but it answers the bigger question Angelenos have been asking for a few years now. What does luxury actually mean in a city that’s recalibrating around wellness, walkability, flexibility, and community?

Architectural Digest

111 West 57th Street: Everything You Need to Know About the World’s Skinniest Skyscraper

Despite being the world’s skinniest skyscraper, this New York tower is still shaking up midtown Manhattan in a big way. Located at 111 West 57th Street, the residential skyscraper cuts straight through the sky with an astounding height-to-width ratio of 24:1. The building’s original footprint is smaller than an NBA regulation basketball court—59 by 75 feet—but it rises over 1,400 feet into the sky. 111 West 57th Street is like a monument for impactful design. In addition to holding the record for skinniest skyscraper, the building is also the second tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere, reaching a whopping 1,428 feet high, including a 300-foot decorative steel crown.

The New York Times

Downtown Tower or Tree-Lined Street? A New Brooklynite Weighed Her Options.

She watched Brooklyn Tower—with both rental and condo units—rising nearby on Flatbush Avenue. With 92 stories, it’s the tallest building in Brooklyn, connected to the historic Dime Savings Bank. So she rented a one-bedroom there.

Urbanize LA

Take a trip inside the Habitat development rising at 3401 S. La Cienega Blvd.

Lendlease and Aware Super are preparing to open Habitat LA, the latest mixed-use development to rise next to Metro’s La Cienega/Jefferson Station in Baldwin Hills. SHoP Architects designed Habitat, its first Los Angeles-area project.

Dezeen

Twelve “regionally diverse” architecture studios selected for US embassy design

A group of 12 architecture studios, including SHoP Architects, Weiss/Manfredi and Ennead Architects, has been selected by the US Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations to work on diplomatic buildings for the next five years.