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The Genius of the Place: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Bawa is a new documentary, directed by Sri Lankan native Afdhel Aziz, that explores the work of "Sri Lanka's most important architect" and "the greatest architect you've never heard of."
In the special topic "Healing Architecture", we engage in discussions with important national and international experts about the criteria for creating high-quality environments in healthcare buildings. The topic will focus on the complex healthcare system, including such specialized...
In Vladimir Belogolovsky’s interview with Christoph Ingenhoven, the architect talks about learning from his professors in Aachen and Düsseldorf, his decision not to go into an architectural partnership with his father, and trying to incorporate every progressive and sustainable idea into his...
A team of Danish architects and landscape architects has completed the European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden, a campus that aims to “advance material research for science and innovation.”
Shelter Island is a small island town near the eastern end of Long Island that is reachable only by ferries. The island is home to numerous modern houses, such as the Eco House, previously featured as a US...
Minimum number of Chinese developers that defaulted or failed to make debt payments in the last three years, according to the credit ratings agency Standard...
In the competition for the Residence of the German Embassy in Herzliya, Israel, the jury selected a joint design submitted by the three architectural firms: Gustav Düsing, wolff:architekten, and Architekten für nachhaltiges Bauen, with landscape design by emmerik garden design and research.
Powerhouse Sydney has announced that Powerhouse Parramatta, billed as “the largest cultural development in Australia to be created since the Sydney Opera House,” will open in early 2025.
The Flint Hills is a region in Eastern Kansas that is notable for being home to large reserves of tallgrass prairie, the type of landscape that once covered much of the American Midwest. The off-the-grid Youngmeyer Ranch Field Station allows students and faculty from Wichita State University...
Number of outside windows an all-white stucco L-shaped single-level corner house in the town of Morelia, in Central Mexico, counts to make the clients feel secure: 0
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2023 National Design Awards, which “recognize design innovation and impact” in ten categories, including architecture and landscape architecture.
More than fifteen years in the making, the Louis Armstrong Center is the final piece of the campus of the Louis Armstrong House Museum in the neighborhood of Corona, Queens, where jazz great Louis Armstrong lived for nearly thirty years. Caples Jefferson Architects answered a few questions...
Jean-Louis Cohen, the French architectural historian and longtime professor of architectural history at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts died unexpectedly on August 7, 2023.
Recently, London-based architect John Pawson celebrated the release of his latest monograph, Making Life Simpler, authored by Deyan Sudjic and published by Phaidon. In Vladimir Belogolovsky’s interview with Pawson, he discusses key references and influences, his design process, what...
Orange Crush is an apt monicker for this five-story mixed-use apartment building in Philadelphia, both for its striking color scheme and the way it appears squeezed, like an old soda can; the latter aspect arises from the site's unique conditions. The architects at ISA answered a few questions...
Chappe is a new “art house by the sea” that opened earlier this year in Tammisaari, in southern Finland. The small building was designed by JKMM Architects for the Albert de la Chapelle Art Foundation.
The European office of Oppenheim Architecture, based in Basel, has won the competition to turn the Toptani Residence in Tirna, the capital of Albania, into the Besa Museum.
In Berlin, the famed “Mäusebunker” (Mouse Bunker), previously under threat of demolition, has been given protected status, while in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Harry Weese's nearly 50-year-old Village Hall now faces a similar threat.
The challenge of rethinking our built and future environment is a global one. Politician Margrethe Vestager and architect Bjarke Ingels engaged in a conversation on a UIA panel about the responsibility shared by all stakeholders in the construction industry, policymakers, and the general...
Thom Mayne's Los Angeles studio has completed a mixed-use complex that will foster connections outside and inside Vigo through high-speed trains, a shopping mall, and the city's largest public plaza.
In recent decades, the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone has developed into the fastest growing metropolis in the world. As a result, new ways of natural resource management are needed. Doreen Heng Liu and her
Architects Thom Mayne, Rienier de Graaf, and Peter Cook, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and other players involved in The Line, the controversial NEOM project unveiled in 2021, discuss the...
Concept designs by the six shortlisted firms in the “Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition” have been revealed, with a winner to be announced in August.
Estimated number of households globally who have solar panels installed on their roofs today: 25 million
One of the many impacts of the shift from print to digital media this century has been the closure of printing plants. The Los Angeles Times closed its large Costa Mesa facility in 2010, but instead of tearing it down and starting anew, developer SteelWave and Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney...
Together with architect Christian Heuchel of O&O Baukunst and editor Christiane Fath, World-Architects conceived “Town Planning in Democratic Structures,” a special theme on our platform and now a book.
Back in May, the winner of the inaugural divia award was announced in Berlin and then celebrated in Venice, the latter coinciding with the opening of this year's Architecture Biennale....
The Centro de Investigación del Mar de Cortés (Sea of Cortez Research Center) opened in Mazatlán, Mexico, at the end of May. Located in Parque Central Mazatlán, the impressive building was designed by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio.
The Royal Academy of Arts in London has announced that Irish architect Shane de Blacam is the recipient of the 2023 Royal Academy Architecture Prize, which recognizes architects who have made "a significant impact on society."
In a short film produced by Glenstone Museum, founders Emily and Mitch Rales, architect Thomas Phifer, artists Doris Salcedo, Glenn Ligon, and Jeff Wall, and numerous members of the Glenstone team discuss the museum located on 230 acres in Potomac, Maryland.
Frequency with which the Great Mosque in Djenné, Mali, is freshly plastered in mud: Yearly
OPEN's sculptural Sun Tower topped out, appropriately, on June 21, the summer solstice. The 50-meter-tall structure in Yantai, China, is expected open to the public next year. Watch a time-lapse of its construction.
During a ceremony in Venice on EUmies Awards Day, June 29, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announced the three winners of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards in the Young Talent category. A fourth award given by the Mies Foundation was also...
The Tchoban Foundation's Museum for Architectural Drawing has become a must-visit for architects and architecture enthusiasts from around the world when visiting Berlin, just like the neighboring Aedes Architecture Forum. The exhibition ArchiVision is celebrating the museum's tenth...
As part of the World-Architects team that visited Venice for the vernissage in May, Italian photographer Flavia Rossi put the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale in the pictures. Her photos give an impression of the diverse interpretations of curator Lesley Lokko's theme
Two decades in the making, the International African American Museum (IAAM) opened to the public on June 24, 2023, in Charleston, South Carolina, on “hallowed ground” — waterfront land that centuries ago served as a port of arrival for enslaved Africans.