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This newly built house is located in the conservation area of Hampstead village in north-west London.
The much-anticipated Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, will open to the public in January 2017, fourteen years after the Swiss architecs began the project.
House 4.16.3 is located in the city of Erechim, in the countryside of Rio Grande do Sul, brazilian state, around 400 km from the state capital, Porto Alegre. The region has a subtropical climate, with warm, humid summers and chilly, rainy winters, which poses yet another challenge to the...
The Terra Cotta Studio - a brick building gives the Vietnamese artist a dedicated place for creating clay sculptures and pottery.
Important works by modern masters Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List by their World Heritage Committee.
The design prioritizes simplicity and durability. Inside, stone pine and native Loden wood were used to create a warm contrast to the concrete exterior, providing a welcoming atmosphere to the space, which doubles as a hall for residents.
On 23 May 2016, the world’s first Rose Museum officially opened to the public. This is the same day as the start of the 2016 World Federation of Rose Societies (WFRS) Convention.
HOUSE 1 is an architectural installation based on an experimental format for collaborative design and construction by ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace) – an international group of young architects and researchers, scientists, and doctoral candidates from the EPFL (École...
Riegler Riewe Architekten designed the Silesian Museum in Katowice, Poland, with primarily underground galleries. The building reveals itself on the surface as glass cubes with an almost icy appearance.
Our second student-design-build project in as many weeks (see last week's Girl Scouts Cabins) consists of fourteen cabins on a steep hillside in a Colorado pine forest. Built on-site in less than a month, the cabins feature steel frames and interiors fitted out with plywood...
Sharing Models: Manhattanisms, a new exhibition at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City, presents 30 visions for the city by 30 international architects.
Belgium's DDS & Partners Architects has won the Milan Expo Horizontal Farm competition with a design that envisions part of the site for the 2015 Universal Exposition as a reinterpretation of the cascina, the traditional Italian farm.
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have announced the 132 projects from 43 countries that have won 2016 International Architecture Awards.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed the six projects in the running for the 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK's best new building.
The Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects, a modern Livery company that promotes quality architecture in the City of London and beyond, has named One New Ludgate by Fletcher Priest Architects and Two New Ludgate by Sauerbruch Hutton as City of London Building of the Year 2016.
Immerse yourself within Nonotak Studio's Hoshi – an installation that creates an "infinite space" through lights, mirrors and sound – courtesy of a 360-degree, virtual reality video from The Creators Project.
Eole, a headquarters integrated within the city and its landscape
Denise Scott Brown's 2013 comments about a "Pritzker inclusion ceremony," acknowledging her role alongside partner Robert Venturi, brought gender inequality within the architecture profession to the fore. She is hardly alone in demanding more representation by women in...
Golden light shines through a canopy of leaves to create a unique gathering space in the atrium of the new Philips Lighting headquarters in Eindhoven. Intelligent lights in the parametric designed ‘tree’ generate different scenarios, boosting communication, interchange and...
Completed in 1973 and considered one of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's early masterpieces, the Douglas House in Harbor Springs, Michigan, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior.
Austin’s Bouldin Creek neighborhood provides a unique and ever-changing context to the Main Stay House.
In the third and final segment of our three-part survey of the major components of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, here are a seven of the Collateral Events and Special Projects that World-Architects visited in Venice.
The Euro Cup finals take place on Sunday with Portugal squaring off against France on its home turf in Saint-Denis. André Chiote, an illustrator who happens to live in Oporto, Portugal, has depicted a few of the Euro Cup venues in his distinctive style.
Arte Charpentier Architectes has designed an innovative and challenging structure for the entry to the Evergreen Campus in Paris.
House H is located in an exclusive area in Madrid. The house has a floor area of 16,145 sf (1,500 m2) and is the answer to the broad and diverse functional needs of the client, a well-known international sportsman.
The young Parisian architecture agency UBALT has realized its first project: the renovation of a small apartment in Paris's Le Marais district.
The recovery of thermal allotments in Caldes de Montbui, Spain, and the new Solidarność Square in Szczecin, Poland, were announced as joint recipients of the 9th European Prize for Urban Public Space at an awards ceremony on Monday, July 4th.
Nestled in the privacy of a hemlock forest, FAHOUSE presents an amazing building that seems to emerge from a children's story.
Over the weekend the National Building Museum (NBM) in Washington, DC, opened ICEBERGS, an installation designed by James Corner Field Operations for the museum's huge Great Hall.
Yesterday the LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction launched the $2 million Lafarge Holcim Awards 2016/2017, which "identifies the ideas with the highest potential to tackle today’s challenges to increasing urbanization and to improve quality of life."
The World Architecture Festival has announced the finalists in the 17 completed buildings categories that will be vying for Building of the Year at the 2016 festival taking place in Berlin from 16-18 November.
Responding to the need for contemporary buildings "to protect and temper with as little energy and resources as possible," Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects covered the facade of the 8 Octavia residential building with louvers that each occupant operates. Primarily facing west...
On June 17 at Toronto’s historic Evergreen Brick Works, Azure Magazine revealed the 18 winners of its 6th annual AZ Awards.
The project consists of the renovation of an existing building in Boulogne Billancourt, the redesign of the facades, taking into account the overall structure, the renovation of the technical premises, and the optimization of office spaces.
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA), with local architecture firm Interactive Design Architects (IDEA), have been selected by the Obama Foundation to design the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in Chicago.
The much anticipated extension of the Kunstmuseum Basel opened to the public in April. Architects Emanuel Christ and Chrisoph Gantenbein have crafted a building that interprets the classical elements of architecture found in the museum's main building. A dynamic Light Frieze across the facade...