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World-Architects got an exclusive peek at 520 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan ahead of its official topping out on Thursday, October 24. At 1,002 feet (305 m) tall, the mixed-use supertall designed by KPF for the development firm Rabina will be the tallest mixed-use tower on Fifth Avenue... John Hill

After being closed since 2021, following four suicides in just two years. Related Companies, the developer of Hudson Yards, reopened Heatherwick Studio's The Vessel with safety netting that allows visitors to access portions of the climbable sculpture's 150 stairs and 80 landings. John Hill

Vladimir Belogolovsky spoke with David Lake, co-founder, with Ted Flato, of Lake|Flato, about Lake’s love for building, learning from other architects, designing buildings as good neighbors, wanting to be artfully practical, and sharing insights about his partner and his mentor, O’Neil Ford. Vladimir Belogolovsky

Reports indicate that the University of Illinois is scrapping its plan to build a headquarters for the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) in The 78, a mixed-use development taking shape in Chicago's South Loop. John Hill

Joseph Rykwert, the esteemed architectural historian and recipient of the 2014 RIBA Royal Gold Medal, died on October 18, 2024 at the age of 98. Here we present two video interviews — one from 2020 and one from 2017 — in which Rkywert recounts certain formative events of his life. John Hill

October is a busy month in New York City, with exhibitions opening, numerous lectures and book launches taking place, and otherwise inaccessible buildings opening to the public for the Archtober Buildings of the Day and Open House New York Weekend. World-Architects visited two John Hill

Rojkind Arquitectos, the Mexican studio known for its propensity for innovation, has designed a compact building dedicated to wine production and research. Pictograma Winery combines a rigorous and complex geometry with the use of raw materials and organically integrates the structure into its... Antonio La Gioia

Number of core-and-shell single-family homes per year that one of Automated Architecture's (AUAR) pop-up micro-factories... René Ammann

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. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winner of the 28th RIBA Stirling Prize: The Elizabeth Line, a new transport network for London — “a monumental achievement” designed by Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation, and AtkinsRéalis.  John Hill

Ma Yansong and MAD Architects have just completed One River North, a new mixed-use apartment building with retail that the architects describe a “a cracked-open canyon in the heart of Denver.” John Hill

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... John Hill

The latest video by Vancouver-based architect and YouTuber Dami Lee pits a trio of architects against AI tools in a design battle, a rematch of a similar battle she made last year. Artificial intelligence has advanced made rapid advances in the ensuing months, so the results of the new... John Hill

The latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's “Building Novels” series, which looks at works of fiction where buildings and architecture play integral roles, is Zachary C. Solomon's first novel, A Brutal Design, whose protagonist is an architecture student and which is set in an... Madeline Beach Carey

More than a dozen years in the making, the Kinderspital Zürich (University Children’s Hospital Zurich) was officially inaugurated on October 1 and will welcome its first patients on November 2. The design by Basel's Herzog & de Meuron consists of the acute-care hospital and a building...

Number of years the construction of Saudi Arabia’s kilometer-high Jeddah Tower, which will become the world’s tallest skyscraper upon completion, was stalled René Ammann

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... John Hill

Structural engineer Hanif Kara, design director at AKT II, the engineering firm he cofounded in 1996, is the latest recipient of the Soan Medal, given annually since 2017 by Sir John Soane's Museum in London. John Hill

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. John Hill

Under the thematic focus “Architectures with,” the 2024 Obel Award has been awarded to Colectivo C733, a group comprised of multiple architecture studios and dozens of architects who came together to realize 36 projects across Mexico in the span of just 36 months.  John Hill

Billed as “the first-ever major museum exhibition to examine the career of the influential 20th-century architect Paul Rudolph,” Materialized... John Hill

Faced with a tiny lot abutting neighbors on three sides — a not uncommon condition in the densely built-up city of Hanoi — ODDO Architects designed a vertical house for a family, where each of its five floors has a different function. The architects sent us some text and images on TH House. ODDO Architects

In the United States in 2019, 37% of businesses were located in large urban areas. The share today, after the pandemic and working... René Ammann

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... John Hill

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has announced that the Community Production Center Las Tejedoras, a workshop for local women artisans in Chongón, Ecuador, designed by architects José Fernando Gómez and Juan Carlos Bamba, is the winner of the fifth MCHAP.emerge Award. John Hill

SD Review 2024 – The 42nd Exhibition of Winning Architectural Drawings and Models was displayed last month at Hillside Terrace in Tokyo and now moves to the Kyoto Institute of Technology Museum and Archives. The Japan-Architects editors visited the exhibition in Tokyo and John Hill

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. John Hill

Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis: A Fable stars Adam Driver as an architect, master builder, and scientist who leads the Design Authority in the fictional city of New Rome. With a supernatural power and a Nobel Prize to his credit, he strives to realize a utopian future inspired by... John Hill

For twenty years, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library was a tenant in existing buildings in Chicago, therefore lacking an architectural image. In May of this year, the nonprofit institution that was founded in 2003 opened its new bespoke home near Kenosha, Wisconsin — an angular steel... Jahn/

Price per person per night that fans of the late superstar Prince will pay to stay at his two-story Purple Rain house in... René Ammann

Earlier this year Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza was named an honorary member of the International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA), “in recognition of his exceptional contribution to global architecture.” Next month he will give a keynote at the CICA 2024 International Conference. John Hill

Fredric Jameson, the literary and cultural critic and longtime professor at Duke University, died on September 22 at the age of 90. Best known for the 1991 book Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Jameson was influential in architectural circles for making... John Hill

Two Trees Management has announced the completion of Domino Square, a one-acre public space that is an extension of Domino Park and which sits in the heart of the larger redevelopment of the former Domino Sugar Refinery site in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. John Hill

Re:Imagine London is a collaboration between Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Epic Games that allows users of Fortnite to shape sections of London with curvy modules designed by ZHA. As explained in a video from The B1M, the just-released feature encourages young gamers to understand urban... John Hill

Citizens of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, are being asked to vote on one of two designs — by David Hotson Architect and Wilmotte & Associés — for the modernization and completion of the Cascade Complex that was started in the 1970s but never finished. John Hill

Notable as the largest public project in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, since the completion of the Wellington Regional Stadium in early 2000, Tākina – Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre features a shimmering glass facade facing Wellington Harbour. The architects at Studio... Studio Pacific Architecture