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As is the case for many other building typologies in China today, schools are often realised with standardised building modules designed independent of any location or topography. Hongling High School in the Futian district of Shenzhen is no exception. While it tends to be assumed that the... Eduard Kögel

Price paid in 2024 for a European-style home in Hong Kong owned by Hui Ka Yan, founder of the onetime property giant China Evergrande, who in 2009 paid $130... René Ammann

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Modulus Matrix: 85 Social Housing in Cornellà, Barcelona, designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes is the winner of the 2024 RIBA International Prize. John Hill

Spirit of Space takes a peak-fall-foliage visit to architect Steven Holl's off-grid Watercolor Hut on his ‘T’ Space campus in Rhinebeck, New York, to speak with the architect about his working process, the quiet focus the hut enables, and even the tools he paints with. John Hill

The recipients of the 35th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 23, 2024, during the 41st Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia. John Hill

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... John Hill

Schenker Salvi Weber have built St. Pölten's new KinderKunstLabor (Children's Art Laboratory). Michael Salvi answered some questions about the spatially and atmospherically rich building that was developed using a physical model. Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten

Amount the tenant of a 2-bedroom apartment in a low-energy property in West Kirby, England, pays monthly in energy costs in the winter: £10 ($12.50) René Ammann

Take a tour through the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village via a new book from Dominique Perrault, A Village and its Double: Urban Planning Manual: Olympic and ParalympicGames, Paris 2024. Published by Actar, the 800-page book is an urban manual that is the antithesis of other... John Hill

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, working with Malcolm Reading Consultants, has announced the six finalists who will take part in second stage of the international design competition to expand the Kansas City, Missouri institution. John Hill

Longwood Reimagined, a 17-acre expansion of Longwood Gardens carried out by WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism in collaboration with Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture, opens to the public on Novemer 22, 2024. John Hill

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. John Hill

In the Malaga region of the Serranía de Ronda, Philippe Starck has designed a unique and surrealist oil mill that fuses tradition, art, and architecture in homage to olive oil and local culture. An intense red concrete cube, like the earth of the landscape on which it stands, represents “the... Antonio La Gioia

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. Elias Baumgarten

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... René Ammann

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... John Hill

One day after NEOM announced the design team that will be realizing the first phase of The Line, the anchor project for the larger $500 billion megaproject underway in Saudi Arabia, Nadhmi Al-Nasr stepped down as CEO of NEOM. John Hill

The first conference organized by Diversity in Architecture (DIVIA) brought together international experts, researchers, practicing women architects, and students to “explore diversity and discuss the unique challenges and opportunities women face in architecture.” A recording of the November... John Hill, Elias Baumgarten

The City of Frankfurt am Main, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and DekaBank have announced the winner of the International High-Rise Award 2024/25: CapitaSpring, a mixed-use tower in Singapore designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Carlo Ratti Associati.

NEXT architects has a record of designing nature-inclusive projects, more than one of them providing for the needs of bats. First was the aptly named Bat Bridge that spanned the Vlotwatering and provided habitats for bats, then the Hop-overs De Centrale As, which was designed to lead bats... NEXT architects

Age of American architect Victor A. Lundy — Word War II veteran, child of Russian immigrants, and designer of the iconic St. Paul Lutheran Church built in 1959 in Sarasota,... René Ammann

When planning children's hospitals, it's essential to consider the unique needs of young patients and the people accompanying them. Herzog & de Meuron kept this in mind when designing the new Zurich Children's Hospital, which will soon open in Zurich-Lengg. Katinka Corts

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... John Hill

The Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 (TAB24) opened to the public in Tallinn, Estonia, on October 10, with three components — curatorial exhibition, symposium, and installation competition program — addressing the overarching theme “Resources for a Future.” World-Architects asked... John Hill

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. John Hill

London's Royal Academy of Arts has released a 17-minute film presenting the collaborative social housing projects in Mallorca developed by Cris Ballester Parets, John Hill

Sotheby's has announced its completion of the purchase of 945 Madison Avenue, the former Whitney Museum of American Art designed by Marcel Breuer in 1966, and the hiring of Herzog & de Meuron to lead the renovation of the building into the auction house's global headquarters. John Hill

Built in seven phases over seven years, the Rising Star school buildings opened in March 2023 in in Hopley, Zimbabwe. Constructed by hand from more than half a million bricks, the linear school buildings arranged around a courtyard are characterized by round arches at the walkways and in the... Engineers Without Borders Germany

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? Elias Baumgarten

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... John Hill

During a special event held at the Royal Academy of Arts on October 31, Livyj Bereh, the volunteer group that has been rebuilding roofs in Ukraine since May 2002, was awarded the 2024 Royal Academy Dorfman Prize, which aims “to celebrate new ideas and practices that highlight the future... John Hill

First year the British public rose in protest against urban planning — the destruction of Covent Garden in London and the intention to... René Ammann

In the latest episode of Momentum, a new series from Bloomberg Originals, host Haslina Amin speaks with architects in Seoul to learn about architecture in Korea and explore how the country's contemporary architecture may be “its next big thing.” John Hill

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced that, four years after construction commenced, the scaffolding has been removed from the Peter Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries, which will become the home of LACMA's permanent collection when it opens in April 2026. John Hill

Number of olive trees surrounding LA Almazara, a... René Ammann

Buildings from the 1970s and 80s are at or past their effective lifespans, forcing decisions over their demolition or renovation. A commendable example of the latter is Herta Mohr, the circular renovation of Cluster Zuid, designed by Joop van Stigt for Leiden University's Faculty of Humanities... De Zwarte Hond