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An empty one-story dentist's office in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, about five miles northwest of the Loop, has been transformed into the two-story home for a boutique furniture studio. A workshop and showroom for Nothing Design Company sits behind the screen-like brick facade, no...
A recent panel discussion at AIA New York's Center for Architecture explored the state of architectural criticism, “wrestling with questions of ethics, equity, and influence and the role that critics play in the public's perception of the built environment.” World-Architects was in attendance;...
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City is a new exhibition that opened at The Shed on February 12. The celebration of the 20th anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installation of 7,503 saffron-colored gates in Central Park also features an...
At a recent event at the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, Mexico, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) announced the five finalists for the 2025 Americas Prize, which honors the best work of architecture completed in the Americas between June 2022 and December 2023.
Architecture, Not Architecture is the new career-spanning monograph on New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro, published this month by Phaidon. Befitting the name, the book is split into two parts — one half presenting buildings and other architecture projects, the other half showing...
The first film in the Canadian Centre for Architecture's three-part Groundwork series, which explores alternative modes of architectural practice that respond to the urgency of the climate crisis, is available to watch online: Into the Island follows architect Xu Tiantian of Beijing's...
The second installment in the two-part exhibition of Folios produced by the Architectural Association in London between 1983 and 1991 is now on display at Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. World-Architects stopped by and took some photos.
The second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale opened to the public on January 25 at the Western Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, where it will be on display until May. New for this edition is the AlMusalla Prize, an international competition for a small prayer...
Two sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen are on display in the plaza of Lever House at 390 Park Avenue in New York City until November. World-Architects stopped by to take a closer look at Architect’s Handkerchief, which was inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose...
A settlement has been reached between artist Mary Miss and the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) over Greenwood Pond: Double Site, which opened in a city-owned park in 1996 as part of the museum's permanent collection. Although it will be demolished, DMAC will pay the artist $900,000, and...
Beatriz Ramo, architect at STAR strategies + architecture, gives Architectural Digest a tour of The Cabanon, the 74-square-foot (6.9-m2) apartment in Rotterdam she...
Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation is a new book by Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus that assembles 96 specially commissioned black-and-white, square-format drawings that show architectural drawing — albeit digitally produced — is alive and well in...
The needs of older people are often neglected in hospital architecture. Greater focus on age-appropriate design is essential to meet the needs of this growing patient group. Geriatrician Cornel Sieber talked to us about helpful approaches in architecture and the importance for clients to...
With the new year upon us, World-Architects is looking ahead to some of the exhibitions, grand openings, and book releases that should be taking place over the next twelve months. Here we present 25 things to look forward to in 2025 in four categories: events, openings, publications, and...
A new video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles architectural designer Jenny Sabin, whose eponymous design studio and design lab at Cornell University investigate the intersections of architecture, science, and the fine arts.
Take a look back at 2024 — our 30th year! — as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last 12 months. Instead...
To Build Law is a new documentary and the second installment in “Groundwork,” a three-part film and exhibition series from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) that explores alternative modes of architectural practice. The film documents the conceptualization and development of...
Two and a half years after Mexican architect Frida Escobedo was selected to design the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, renderings have been released of what is notably the first wing designed by a woman in The Met's 154-year...
Mattress Factory, the “artist-centered” museum housed in an early 20th-century Stearns & Foster mattress warehouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, recently opened REIFICATION, a site-specific installation by artist Eugene Macki that fuses sculpture and performance. Take a tour through...
The Vancouver Art Gallery is scrapping plans to build a new home designed by Herzog & de Meuron due to rising costs, and will seek a new architect.
One of the most formally striking buildings added to an office profile on World-Architects in recent weeks is Sun Tower, a waterfront cultural facility in Yantai, China, designed by OPEN Architecture, the Beijing firm of Huang Wenjing and Li Hu. Take a visual tour through a building “sculpted...
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features a 20-minute interview with Spanish architect Rafael Moneo at his studio in Madrid.
With author Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Anna Heringer talks intelligently, open-heartedly, and captivatingly about her development as a person and what this means for her architecture. Form Follows Love is a monograph, biography, and manifesto all in one.
Age of the Stirling Prize-winning Centenary Building at England's University of Salford, set to be demolished after standing empty for eight years and be replaced by about 900 homes amid a...
Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries is on display at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal from November 14, 2024 until March 16, 2025. Here we present a few of Erickson's photographs from the CCA archive that express how the Canadian...
World-Architects recently visited Making Home–Smithsonian Design Triennial, which opened at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City on November 2 and is on display until August 10, 2025. Take a visual tour through some of the 25 site-specific installation that...
The Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture in London has announced that, in response to climate change and the urgent need to “cultivate careful use and reuse of materials and space,” next year it will start offering a new post-professional program in Conservation and Reuse.
With the exhibition Soft Power - Making Cities the Brussels Way, on view at Basel's Swiss Architecture Museum (S AM) until March 16, 2025, S AM declares Belgium's architectural culture to be a role model. But what does Brussels have over Switzerland?
A lot of books make their way to the office of World-Architects, so many that coverage of all of them is impossible. Occasionally, the books we receive converge to paint a portrait of contemporary publishing, as do the nine books assembled here. They signal other ways of making books: via...
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2024, selecting the ten best architecture books from 170 submissions from 74 publishers.
UMBAU. Nonstop Transformation is a traveling exhibition organized by gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner. It opened in Venice last year, coinciding with the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the third of the exhibition's five iterations is on display at the Goethe-Institut...
The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) has announced the four winners of its Missing Middle Infill Housing Design Competition, which challenged entrants to reimagine designs for “missing middle density” homes in four categories: six-flats, two- and three-flats, rowhouses, and single-family...
Ahead of the crowning of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2024, aka “the UK's best new building,” on the evening of October 16, the Royal Institute of British Architects has released short films on each of the six shortlisted projects.
Billed as “the first-ever major museum exhibition to examine the career of the influential 20th-century architect Paul Rudolph,” Materialized...
During its annual international conference that took place in London and Paris last week, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named Pan Pacific Orchard, a 23-story hotel in Singapore, as the 2024 Best Tall Building Worldwide. Designed by Singapore's WOHA, it is the second...
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features an interview with architect Liz Diller in the studio of Diller Scofidio + Renfro on New York's West Side, not far from the practice's breakout project, the High Line.