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Film
on 2/28/23
The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC) will open at the World Trade Center in September 2023, two decades after a performing arts center was first proposed for the site. The design by John Hill
Headlines
on 2/27/23
For the 9th winter in a row, the lifeguard stations at Woodbine Beach in Toronto have been transformed by architects, designers, and students into “bold designs that spark conversations.” John Hill
Found
on 2/24/23
Juha Leiviskä 2000–2022 is a new monograph on the Finnish architect best known for the creation of churches with jaw-dropping interiors. The new book, published by the Museum of Finnish Architecture, collects churches and other projects designed by Leiviskä this century. John Hill
Film
on 2/23/23
The Noguchi Museum has release a 20-minute film about In Praise of Caves: Organic Architecture Projects from Mexico by Carlos Lazo, Mathias Goeritz, Juan O’Gorman, and Javier Senosiain, which wraps up its four-month run at the end of February. John Hill
Headlines
on 2/23/23
The Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977, recently sold for $22 million. John Hill
Headlines
on 2/21/23
In a press conference held on Tuesday, February 21, curator Lesley Lokko described details of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, that will open in May. John Hill
Insight
on 2/20/23
World-Architects visited the New York studio of David Hotson Architect after the Saint Sarkis Armenian Church was voted by readers of American-Architects as John Hill
Headlines
on 2/20/23
Peter Muller, an architect known for Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired single-family houses in Sydney in the 1950s and 60s and, in later years, regionally informed resorts in Bali, died on February 17, 2023, at the age of 95. John Hill
Found
on 2/17/23
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is launching the new exhibition series “Architecture Now” with New York, New Publics, which showcases a dozen buildings, landscapes, interiors, artworks, and other proposals “that critically engage with their material and social contexts to... John Hill
Film
on 2/15/23
The latest episode of “Architecture in Concrete,” a series created by EARCH magazine, takes viewers inside Kuba & Pilař's conversion of a 1980s canteen into the New Headquarters of the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. John Hill
Headlines
on 2/14/23
The six finalists for the fourth Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) were announced at an event in Medellín, Colombia. Founded by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in 2014, MCHAP awards "the best architectural work in the Americas realized in the preceding two years." John Hill
Headlines
on 2/10/23
MAD Architects has revealed it competition-winning design for Terminal 3 at Changchun Airport, which Ma Yansong's firm has designed in collaboration with China Airport Planning & Design Institute and Beijing Institute of Architectural Design. John Hill
Products
on 2/8/23
Inside Outside has designed a four-story facade of curtains for Moussafir Architectes' renovation of a ten-story concrete building from the 1970s in Paris. A showroom, offices, and apartments sit behind the operable curtains that look face Rue du Vertbois in the 3rd arrondissement. John Hill
Headlines
on 2/6/23
Satellite imagery, an exhibition, and a promotional video illustrate that progress is being made on The Line, the flagship city for NEOM, the $500 billion megaproject in Saudi Arabia. John Hill
Found
on 2/3/23
Anish Kapoor's bean-like sculpture at 56 Leonard Street wrapped up construction this week, more than five years after the completion of the slender 57-story apartment tower designed by Herzog & de Meuron. World-Architects stopped by on a chilly February morning to see it in person and take... John Hill
Headlines
on 2/2/23
A week after the nearby Camden Highline received planning approval, the Camden Council has approved plans for RSHP's extension of the listed British Library designed by Colin St. John... John Hill
Headlines
on 2/1/23
SANAA's Kazuyo Sejima and CCA founder Phyllis Lambert are this year’s recipients of the Jane Drew Prize and Ada Louise Huxtable Prize, respectively, part of the W Awards given out by The Architectural Review and Architects’ Journal. John Hill
Film
on 1/31/23
A few months after World-Architects came across Amie Siegel's mesmerizing half-hour film The Architects in a museum, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art speaks with the artist about her film and video installations. John Hill
Found
on 1/31/23
Saint Sarkis Armenian Church, located in the north Dallas suburb of Carrollton, has received the most votes in our poll for US Building of the Year 2022. Designed by David Hotson Architect, the church reaches far back in time and thousands of miles across the globe to link itself with Armenian... John Hill
Headlines
on 1/30/23
Born in New York City in 1923 and now living in Houston, American architect Victor Alfred Lundy, the designer of striking modern churches and other buildings in the middle of the last century, turns 100 on February 1. John Hill
Film
on 1/26/23
“Architecture as Organism (The Primordial Architect)” is one chapter in a film made by Bijoy and Premjit Ramachandran about architect Balkrishna Doshi, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2018 and died on January 24, 2023. John Hill
Headlines
on 1/26/23
Decades in the making, and with a final price tag of $11 billion, the East Side Access project opened on January 25, delivering riders from Long Island to the new Grand Central Madison terminal in East Midtown, Manhattan. John Hill
Headlines
on 1/24/23
Dr. Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, the recipient of the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2022 RIBA Royal Gold Medal and other honors, died in Ahmedabad, India, on January 24, 2023, at the age of 95. John Hill
Headlines
on 1/23/23
Camden Highline, the proposed transformation of a stretch of unused railway in London into an elevated park, has received its first planning approval, giving the James Corner Field Operations design the green light to move forward with construction. John Hill
Found
on 1/20/23
Mies fans rejoice: A new book documents 36 built and unbuilt collective housing projects designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe over a 40-year period — from low-rise ensembles built in Germany in the mid-1920s to a pair of mid-rise slabs completed in Montreal two years before his death in 1969 —... John Hill
Film
on 1/19/23
For the Prada Fall Winter 2023 menswear show held inside the Deposito at Fondazione Prada, Rem Koolhaas and AMO devised a bare space with a movable ceiling punctuated... John Hill
Headlines
on 1/19/23
The City of Nantes has announced the three teams competing to design the Cité des Imaginaires (City of Imaginations), a major cultural project that will be home to the Jules Verne Museum. John Hill
Headlines
on 1/18/23
London's Kingston University has announced that Grafton Architects, designers of the award-winning Town House on the university's Penrhyn Road campus, have been hired to design an academic building at the school's nearby Knights Park campus. John Hill
Headlines
on 1/16/23
La Biennale di Venezia has announced the first-ever Biennale College Architecture, which will take place this summer during the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, curated by Lesley Lokko. John Hill
Found
on 1/13/23
A trio of projects recently uploaded to World-Architects point to ceramic tile in shades of blue as a popular choice for covering the facades of residential buildings. John Hill
Film
on 1/11/23
In a new film by Akira Koyama, founder and owner of KEY OPERATION INC. / ARCHITECTS, the Tokyo architect gives an on-site tour of Ginza Extra Small Building, a five-story commercial building with a tiny footprint. John Hill
Headlines
on 1/10/23
Last month the Kunstmuseum Bern, one of Switzerland's oldest museums, revealed the 39 architectural teams selected for the two-stage competition to reimagine the "Museum of Fine Arts Bern of the Future." John Hill
Headlines
on 1/9/23
MVRDV has won the competition to design the new central library for Wuhan, China, describing their winning design as a "three-faced flowing shape [that] celebrates the position of the 'city of 100 lakes' at the confluence of two rivers." John Hill
Headlines
on 1/6/23
Artist Refik Anadol has filled the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art in New York with a large video wall displaying images of artworks from the MoMA collection mutated by artificial intelligence software. Obviously timely, the installation is also beautiful to behold. John Hill
Film
on 1/3/23
Filmmaker Mohamed El Zayat's "STRUCTURES" is a short film that was inspired by the Nasr City, the modernist desert city east of Downtown Cairo that was established in the late 1950s and is home to brutalist housing, stadiums, and other buildings. John Hill
Reviews
on 1/1/23
In 2022 we presented 40 Buildings of the Week, featuring short Q&As with architects about recently completed buildings in the United States. It's your turn to help us crown a US Building of the Year by voting for your favorite. The winner will be announced at the end of January. John Hill