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John Hill | 03.02.2025

Insight

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.


John Hill | 28.01.2025

Found

Outpost Office, the practice founded by architects and educators Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann, have installed Color Block No. 2 at various in-between spaces both outside and within the Wexner...


John Hill | 14.01.2025

Film

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...


John Hill | 06.11.2024

Headlines

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 | 18.10.2024

Headlines

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 | 20.09.2024

Products

The American Hardwood Export Council's (AHEC) contribution to this year's London Design Festival is Vert, a timber structure designed by Diez Office with OMCºC as a cooling space for visitors and a means of increasing biodiversity in urban environments. Vert is installed at the Parade Ground...


John Hill | 09.09.2024

Found

AA Folios: 1983–1985 is a small but dense exhibition now on display at The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. Open to the public for just three weeks, the exhibition presents seven of the fourteen Folios produced by the Architectural Association in...


John Hill | 27.08.2024

Film

Architectural Digest tours the 75.9 House in the Vancouver countryside with architect Omer Arbel, who devised a tent-like fabric formwork for the house's lily pad-shaped columns, in its latest “Unique Spaces” video.


John Hill | 26.03.2024

Film

Stuart Graff, president and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, gives a tour of Tirranna, a late but lesser-known house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for a “breathtaking” setting in New Canaan, Connecticut, that, Graff says, “rivals even Wright's most famous work, Fallingwater, in the...


John Hill | 15.02.2024

Film

Architectural Digest presents a short film, narrated by A-list celebrities, that takes viewers inside the Brown House in Bel Air, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1955, restored by Marmol Radziner for Tom Ford earlier this century, and recently remodeled by Hollywood producer Ryan...


John Hill | 20.11.2023

Headlines

The Reggio School in Madrid by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation and the Gabriela García Márquez Library in Barcelona by SUMA Arquitectura are the joint winners of the FAD Architecture Award 2023.


John Hill | 24.10.2023

Film

A new video from Architectural Digest delves into something fans of architecture and cinema have long appreciated: the prevalence of ultra-modern houses as the lairs of villains in Hollywood movies.


John Hill | 19.10.2023

Found

The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of 2023 DAM Architectural Book Award, selecting the ten best architecture books from 245 submissions from 102 publishers.


René Ammann | 23.04.2023

Number

Share of the facade of the Reggio School in the Spanish city of Madrid that is covered by cork, creating a habitat for microbiological fungi as...


René Ammann | 26.01.2023

Number

Amount global investment in offices fell last year: 42%


The Architectural Team | 09.01.2023

Building of the Week

The Anne M. Lynch Homes at Old Colony is a multi-phase redevelopment of federal public housing in South Boston dating back to 1940. Boston's The Architectural Team has been responsible for the design of numerous buildings at Old Colony since 2011. The architects at TAT answered some questions...


John Hill | 04.11.2022

Insight

The award-winning book Swissness Applied focuses its attention on New Glarus, the tiny Wisconsin town whose downtown buildings draw tourists through facades that exude Swissness. World-Architects editor John Hill delved into the book by Nicole McIntosh and Jonathan Louie of Architecture...


John Hill | 20.10.2022

Headlines

Ten winners have been announced in the 14th iteration of the International DAM Architectural Book Award, given jointly by the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM).


John Hill | 22.03.2022

Film

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) has released two more short videos made as part of its Find and Tell program, in which scholars in residence at the CCA discuss some of their discoveries in the CCA's extensive archive.


John Hill | 10.03.2022

Found

Last summer, students in the Architectural Association's nanotourism program built three interconnected interventions at Wörthersee, a predominantly privatized lake in the Austrian state of Carinthia, including a Sound Cannon that taps into the presence of the Vienna Boys' Choir Summer...


René Ammann | 21.06.2021

Number

Estimated area of office space globally that has been vacated since the pandemic began: 103 million square feet...


John Hill | 14.05.2021

Headlines

The 59th edition of the Salone del Mobile will be held from September 5 to 10, 2021, as "an innovative, iconic and unique edition" curated by Italian architect Stefano Boeri and a team of "young international architects and professionals."


John Hill | 06.04.2021

Film

Paris's Bruther, the firm of Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot, is the recipient of the seventh biennial Swiss Architectural Award, as announced in early April. Three short films by Daniele Marucci show a trio of the firm's buildings in context and in use.


LOT office for architecture | 22.03.2021

Building of the Week

This aptly named townhouse stands out from its neighbors in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood by way of a bold color choice. The same blue covers the rear elevation that faces a minimalist patio in concrete and corrugated metal, while the interior spaces are bright and white. LOT office for...


John Hill | 15.01.2021

Found

Artist Olafur Eliasson's installation, Atmospheric wave wall, was recently unveiled on the base of Chicago's Willis Tower, which was bought by Blackstone for $1.3 billion in 2015. The artwork is part of a $500 million renovation of the iconic skyscraper still known to many as the Sears...


PARTISANS | 11.01.2021

Works

Fold House is a residential property in Hamilton, Ontario that “folds” into the contours of a hillside through its undulating wood and steel structure. 


John Hill | 30.11.2020

Headlines

After canceling its 2020 edition, the next iteration of Milan's famous Salone del Mobile furniture fair has been postponed from April until September 2021 to "[guarantee] safety in light of the ongoing pandemic."


R/URBAN DESIGN OFFICE | 17.08.2020

Works

Two roads were there. A wide road with traffic and a narrow alley in a residential area. The new office space for R/URBAN DESIGN OFFICE LLC was planned between these two contrasting roads. Originally, it was divided into a commercial tenant space facing the wide road and a residential space...


John Hill | 14.07.2020

Headlines

Two years after making history by becoming the first woman selected to direct the Architectural Association in London, Eva Franch i Gilabert has been fired from her post over "specific failures of performance."


John Hill | 07.05.2020

Products

The facade of 30 Warren Street, a 12-story residential building nearing completion in New York's Tribeca neighborhood, is covered in precast concrete panels with a corded texture formed from rolls of corrugated cardboard.


René Ammann | 04.05.2020

Number

Width that desks in open-plan offices have shrunk over the years: 40 cm (15.75") 


Point Office | 27.04.2020

Building of the Week

This house takes its name from Figure Eight Island, a barrier island in North Carolina that is home to a large number of regionally inflected modern homes. Point Office responded to the island's architectural context and the dictates of coastal regulations. The architects answered a few...


CU Office | 27.02.2020

Works

In a context of the human history stacked like thick sedimentary rocks, Dongxiang Culture Center was gently placed into it not with a historic vocabulary but in a modern way.


John Hill | 06.02.2020

Headlines

The Architectural League of New York has announced the eight firms receiving its 2020 Emerging Voices awards. 


Berania Office | 03.02.2020

Works

A green 2,000-square-meter garden is located in the Zibadasht region of Karaj, with a cottage placed in center of the garden. The client approached us to demolish the cottage and generate a new mansion.


John Hill | 26.07.2019

Film

Itinerant Office's second edition of its "Past, Present, Future: about being an architect yesterday, today and beyond" project wraps up with an interview with Francisco Aires Mateus, founder of Lisbon's Francisco Aires Mateus Arquitectos.