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Headlines
on 19-08-2024

Warsaw's WXCA has won the competition to design a new building for the 104-year-old Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, Poland. John Hill


Found
on 15-08-2024

Constructing Hope: Ukraine is an exhibition at the Center for Architecture in New York City that gathers the grassroots work of numerous multidisciplinary creatives who are applying architectural thinking to support Ukraine's ongoing reconstruction efforts. Take a visual tour through... John Hill


Headlines
on 31-07-2024

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings in the running for the 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize, considered “the UK’s most prestigious architecture award.” John Hill


Film
on 31-07-2024

The latest architecture-related film from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features an interview with Andrés Jaque, founder of the Office for Political Innovation and Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). John Hill


Found
on 09-07-2024

With summer break upon us, World-Architects has rummaged through some of the many recently published architecture books to find a dozen recommendations for summer reading, presented in alphabetical order by title — or clockwise per our sunny illustration. John Hill


Insight
on 08-07-2024

World-Architects spoke recently with architect, engineer, author, and educator Carlo Ratti via Zoom, to discuss his plans for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and parse the theme — Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. — that he has defined for the exhibition. Our... John Hill


Film
on 05-07-2024

The latest installment of The Architects Series, a project of The Plan Magazine and Iris Ceramica Group, presents a half-hour documentary on the architecture and interior design studio NOA... John Hill


Headlines
on 03-07-2024

What would have been the first Pompidou outpost in North America, the “Centre Pompidou x Jersey City” paroject has been put on hold indefinitely, with New Jersey lawmakers pulling funding for the project that would have adaptively reused the city-owned Pathside Building. John Hill


Headlines
on 01-07-2024

The Architects' Journal is reporting that among the numerous firms that have pulled out of The Line, the flagship project of the $1.5 trillion NEOM development in Saudi Arabia, is Morphosis, the Los Angeles firm of Thom Mayne that was leading the 170-kilometer-long project and designing its... John Hill


Found
on 28-06-2024

Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Buildings is a new book published by Prestel that sees architectural photographer Cemal Emden visiting all of the completed works of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978). The book presents such famous works as the Brion Tomb and Castelvecchio as well as... John Hill


Headlines
on 27-06-2024

Alexandros Tombazis, who was considered the father of bioclimatic architecture in Greece and espoused a “less is beautiful” approach to architecture, died on June 24 at the age of 85 following a long illness.  John Hill


Film
on 26-06-2024

Watch a trailer for Green Over Gray – Emilio Ambasz, a documentary that explores the revolution in green architecture through four projects designed by Emilio Ambasz, including the terraced ACROS Building in Fukuoka, Japan. The film is being shown at numerous film festivals this year. John Hill


Found
on 25-06-2024

I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture, the highly anticipated exhibition on influential, world-famous architect Ieoh Ming Pei (1917–2019), opens at M+ in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District on June 29. Here we take a visual tour through a smattering of the drawings, photographs, and... John Hill


Headlines
on 24-06-2024

Miss Dior: Stories of a Miss opened recently at Roppongi Museum in Tokyo. Designed by OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu, the exhibition unfolds through seven rooms, each revealing a different facet of the Miss Dior parfum. Japan-Architects got a preview of this latest stop for the touring... John Hill


Film
on 19-06-2024

The latest video from Stewart Hicks takes a deep dive into 400 Lake Shore, a pair of skyscrapers that recently broke ground in Chicago, focusing on how the architects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill developed the form of the skyscrapers to address wind forces. John Hill


Found
on 18-06-2024

How long after an architecture firm is established should it release its first monograph? A number of variables come to play in determining an answer, but the notorious slowness of architecture means a firm might not put its projects in print until it has reached drinking age. The four... John Hill


Headlines
on 13-06-2024

Two years ahead of Barcelona serving as World Capital of Architecture and hosting the UIA World Congress in 2026, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Barcelona City Council are launching an international ideas competition asking young architects to remodel ten party walls spread across the... John Hill


Film
on 12-06-2024

Les Matérialistes is a short documentary film produced by Architecture Without Borders Quebec, Dark Matter Labs, Les Interstices, and RECYC-QUÉBEC about the titular participatory futurist pilot project that is focused on the circular economy of construction materials in Quebec. John Hill


Headlines
on 12-06-2024

Fumihiko Maki, the celebrated Japanese architect who was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993, died of natural causes at his home in Tokyo on June 6. He was 95. John Hill


Headlines
on 10-06-2024

As announced at the annual AIA Conference on Architecture that recently took place in Washington, DC, Rafael Viñoly's Tokyo International Forum, completed in 1996, is the 2024 recipient of the AIA's Twenty-five Year Award. John Hill


Headlines
on 06-06-2024

The Obel Award, the annual prize founded by the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation in 2019 to honor architectural contributions to human development all over the world, has announced the focus of its sixth cycle: “Architectures WITH.” John Hill


Found
on 05-06-2024

The 23rd Serpentine Pavilion opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on June 7. Designed by Korean architect Minsuk Cho and his firm Mass Studies, the pavilion is titled Archipelagic Void, referring to the five “islands” radiating from a central open space and referenceing... John Hill


Film
on 04-06-2024

The fifth edition of Living Places - Simon Architecture Prize launched at the end of May at Simon Company's headquarters in Barcelona. The event was accompanied by a new short film, “El Luchador,” that features a professional wrestler inside Agustín Hernández's famous Taller de Arquitectura in... John Hill


Headlines
on 03-06-2024

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, which last expanded in 2007 with the Bloch Building designed by Steven Holl Architects, will hold a design competition later this year to select the architect for its next expansion. John Hill


Headlines
on 31-05-2024

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Aviation have released renderings for the design of Satellite Concourse One at O’Hare International Airport, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ( John Hill


Found
on 30-05-2024

A recent issue of Architectural Design (AD) delves into the early archive of Lebbeus Woods, the visionary architect, celebrated delineator, and influential educator who died in 2012. Focusing on the Black Notebooks he filled from the late 1960s to 1985, the publication offers something... John Hill


Products
on 30-05-2024

To express the fluid, soft shapes of their design of the Hainan Science Museum, now under construction in Haikou, China, Ma Yansong and MAD Architects opted for panels made from fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP). John Hill


Film
on 28-05-2024

Seven and a half years after it opened to the public, Snøhetta co-founder Kjetil Trædal Thorsen speaks about the Lascaux IV International Centre for Cave Art in Montignac, France, in a new six-minute video. John Hill


Headlines
on 23-05-2024

Architecture Exchange, a platform “dedicated to catalyzing ideas and debate within architecture,” recently put out a call soliciting nominations “for the most significant architectural theory texts in the period between 2008 and 2024.” John Hill


Found
on 23-05-2024

Unzoomed is a daily online game that asks people to guess the city they are looking at in an aerial view; each incorrect guess reveals more context as the view zooms out. The game by Benjamin Td is fun and addictive, especially for architects and planners. John Hill


Insight
on 22-05-2024

In January, we asked visitors to our American-Architects platform to vote for their favorite Building of the Week from 2023. In the end, the US Building... John Hill


Film
on 21-05-2024

The latest episode of Mossback's Northwest, the Cascade PBS video series hosted by Knute Berger (aka Mossback), tells the story of architect Minoru Yamasaki and the US Science Pavilion he designed for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. John Hill


Insight
on 20-05-2024

The Glass House — Philip Johnson's estate in New Canaan, Connecticut, that is open to the public through the National Trust for Historic Preservation — is celebrating its 75th anniversary with the reopening of the Brick House, which was built in 1949 alongside the more famous Glass... John Hill


Found
on 17-05-2024

Jenny Holzer: Light Line is on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City from May 17 until September 29, 2024. The major exhibition features a selection of artworks created by the artist from the 1970s to the present and, at its center, a new manifestation of Installation for... John Hill


Headlines
on 16-05-2024

Spanish architect and professor Alberto Campo Baeza and German professor of chronobiology Till Roenneberg have been named the 2024 laureates of The Daylight Award, respectively in the architecture and research categories. John Hill


Headlines
on 15-05-2024

The creepy (slow-moving) landslide of Portuguese Bend forced the closure of Wayfarers Chapel earlier this year, but with the landslide accelerating since, management has decided to disassemble the 1951 building designed by Lloyd Wright, the son of Frank Lloyd Wright, so it can be reassembled... John Hill


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