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For the Motion. Autos, Art, Architecture exhibition now at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Gramazio Kohler Research is revisiting its ten-year-old Flight Assembled Architecture project, adding virtual inhabitants to the utopian city for 30,000 inhabitants.
June is Pride Month, marking June 28, 1969, when a group of LGBTQ+ people rioted following a police raid of New York’s Stonewall Inn. Fittingly, this June sees the release of Gay Architects: Silent Biographies, from 18th to 20th Century, which finds two German experts, Wolfgang Voigt...
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced that the Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle, Washington, designed by Steven Holl Architects and completed in 1997, has been awarded the 2022 Twenty-five...
The first new building at Glenstone since the 2018 opening of the Pavilions, designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners, is a bespoke pavilion housing a Richard Serra sculpture. World-Architects editor John Hill got a peek at the new building, also designed by Phifer, before it opened to the...
Factor by which a trio of prestigious London hotels — Claridge’s, the Connaught, and the Berkeley — have potentially...
Baiziwan Social Housing is a large 12-building project spanning six blocks near Beijing's CBD. The design by Ma Yansong's MAD Architects accommodates 4,000 families.
Foster + Partners has shared an episode of the Sky Arts documentary series The Art of Architecture that is devoted to the firm's Dolunary Villa in Kaplankaya, Turkey.
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) announced that the firm was victorious in the competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre in China's Shaanxi province.
The likeness of the tower at Hayward Field to an Olympic torch is no coincidence: the architects at SRG Partnership designed it to resemble one as a nod to the many University of Oregon students reaching the Olympics. Also fitting was the renovated field serving as a venue for the US Olympic...
The white perforated facade enfolding Wave One was partly inspired by a series of photographs by Pierre Carreau, titled AquaViva, in which the architects analyzed the geometric complexity of the sea waves captured by the photographer.
Number of cities the Gulf state of Bahrain wants to build on reclaimed land: 5
One of the latest titles in Detail's "Architecture and Construction Details" series is devoted to BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, the 17-year-old firm that was founded in Copenhagen but now has 500 employees in five offices around the world. World-Architects takes a look inside its pages.
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has announced the 38 Outstanding Projects culled from the more than 250 works nominated for the 2022 MCHAP and MCHAP.emerge awards.
A team led by Rotterdam's West 8 has been named the winner in the international design competition for the design of Parque Central Madrid Nuevo Norte.
A team led by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has been selected in a global competition to design the new Dock A at Zurich Airport, with a design that is "comprised predominantly of solid regional wood."
The Bubble, a documentary by Austrian filmmaker Valerie Blankenbyl, was the big winner at the BARQ Festival in May, winning Best Documentary Feature Film. World-Architects editor John Hill...
Engineers Jürg Conzett and Gianfranco Bronzini, recipients of the Prix Meret Oppenheim 2022, speak about their process of designing bridges and other structures in a short film released upon their receipt of the prize on June 13.
The Thaden School, a five-year-old high school in downtown Bentonville, Arkansas, has a 30-acre campus with school buildings and landscapes designed by EskewDumezRipple and Marlon Blackwell Architects through a regional design excellence program administered by the Walton Family Foundation....
Eduard Kögel reviews Walter Koditek's HONG KONG MODERN, Architecture of the 1950s–1970s, which documents more than 300 buildings and ensembles and, per DOM Publishers, "gives an unprecedented comprehensive overview on the architecture of that transformative period" in Hong Kong.
The limestone-clad 611 West 56th Street, a 35-story residential tower designed by Alvaro Siza, is now complete, as documented in photos taken recently by João Morgado.
Number of city-center two-bedroom flats one could buy in Egypt for the price of one city-center two-bedroom flat in Hong Kong: 52
Architect Kazuo Shinohara’s Umbrella House has found a new home — in Germany, though, not in its former home of Japan. The building joins the Vitra Campus as a venue for small gatherings and, following buildings by R. Buckminster Fuller and Jean Prouvé, the third historic building to be...
The west facade of the former GSW Headquarters high-rise in Berlin, designed by Sauerbruch Hutton, is set to be renewed and redesigned. This is architecturally, ecologically, but also economically questionable and sends the wrong signal.
The new Nasjonalmuseet (National Museum), designed by Klaus Schuwerk Architects, is the largest art museum in Scandinavia — and one of its finest, according to Ulf Meyer, who visited ahead of its opening day.
At the Resource Rows, Copenhagen's Lendager Group — an architecture studio, business consultancy, and material supplier in one — shows how facades in new construction can be made from materials cut out of old buildings.
The Plus is a factory and experience center east of Oslo, Norway, designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group for urban furniture manufacturer Vestre. A short film takes viewers above and inside the carbon-neutral facility that opens this month.
Black Chapel, Chicago artist Theaster Gates's design for the Serpentine Pavilion 2022, opens to the public in Kensington Gardens on Friday, June 10, with a new series of paintings by the artist inside the cylindrical space.
The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) has been posting short films of the twenty shortlisted projects in the running for the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture to its YouTube channel.
Share of the world's 250 biggest contractors who are Turkish and are challenging China as leading builder in Africa: 40
Twenty projects in sixteen countries have been shortlisted for the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, culled from 463 projects nominated for the 15th cycle of the prestigious $1 million award.
Developers Great Gulf, Dream, and Westdale Properties have unveiled design details for Forma, a two-tower residential development in Downtown Toronto designed by Frank Gehry.
Boonserm Premthada, Thailand’s most interesting architect, argues that “architecture is the physical creation of an atmosphere, serving to heighten our awareness of our natural surroundings.” Premthada revealed other interesting aspects of his unique approach to architecture in his...
Air Square is a transportable venue that activates underused urban spaces by bringing them purpose and a vibrant public life. It responds to the need to alleviate climate change issues by tackling overexposed heat islands and lack of green and livable public spaces. The upper ring is designed...
The Royal Academy of Arts in London has announced that French architect Renée Gailhoustet is the recipient of the 2022 RA Architecture Prize, which recognizes architects who have made "a significant impact on society."
The Rotterdam Rooftop Walk is a temporary installation designed by MVRDV for Rotterdam Rooftop Days, giving visitors a different experience of the city from an "orange carpet" at a height of 30 meters.
Roberto Cicutto, President of La Biennale di Venezia, and Lesley Lokko, who was appointed artistic director of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale in...