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The Island of Hawai'i (aka the Big Island) is made up of five volcanoes and their lava flows—two volcanoes are still active, so the island keeps growing. With this geologic condition, it is no surprise that architect Craig Steely calls the modern houses he has designed on the island...

Today's predilection for glass walls and roofs often results in glare and heat gain, two issues addressed typically through shades, louvers, and other means of blocking or cutting down on direct sunlight. SageGlass, an "electronically tintable dynamic glass," is an alternative that... John Hill

Japanese architect Toyo Ito has been named the latest recipient of architecture's highest honor. John Hill

Buildings housing architecture schools can have a large impact on the future architects studying inside them. The decision to renovate rather than build anew can instill students with respect for existing buildings as well as an appreciation for the juxtaposition between old and new. The...

The Bjarke Ingels Group is selected to design the LEGO museum, and the Amager Bakke Waste-to-Energy Plant breaks ground. John Hill

World-Architects visited the New York office of BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group to check out their newly expanded studio on the 12th floor of the Starret-Lehigh building in Chelsea, chat about some of the differences and similarities between working in Denmark and the United States, and look at some... John Hill

The scheme by Stewart Hollenstein, with Colin Stewart Architects, has been chosen for the new library and plaza at Green Square Town Centre. John Hill

Seattle's NBBJ is designing Google's 1.1-million-square-foot "Bay View" complex in Mountain View, California. John Hill

Geographically Florida is defined as a peninsula and a panhandle. Jacksonville sits in the northeast corner of the state, at the confluence of these two conditions. One result of this location is what architect Christopher Frye describes as eclectic buildings that are rooted in their place....

Tucked into a quiet corner of Fukushima Prefecture’s Bandai Atami hot spring district, the baths at Hanare no Yado Yomogino resort have an 800-year history. After the Great East Japan Earthquake and related nuclear disaster in 2011, however, the owners suffered from the public’s fears...

Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China. It is the most important economic, cultural and communication hub in the western region with more than seven million inhabitants in the inner city and more than six million in the suburbs. Since the early 21st century, with the...

In December World-Architects attended a BIM Boot Camp organized by Nemetschek Vectorworks. The increasingly important topic of Building Information Modeling (BIM) was tackled across seven presentations in nine hours, ranging from basic definitions of BIM to in-depth case studies. This article... John Hill

Bookstores may be a dying breed, but they are integral to universities, where they provide more than just textbooks to students. But when a national chain runs the bookstore there is the risk of inserting a standard big-box into the context of the school and town. Thankfully for the...

The recently departed Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute will serve as Creative Director of the 2013 Shenzhen Biennale. John Hill

A few months short of its completion, Russians are calling for the "Mariinsky 2"—the most expensive theater building in the world—to be demolished. John Hill

Five finalists have been chosen from 335 works for the 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. John Hill

Oak and Laurel Halls serve the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Connecticut. Leers Weinzapfel Associates carefully inserted the contextual yet contemporary buildings into the school's Storrs campus. Although separated from each other...

Paul Rudolph's Orange County Government Center is saved, but Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital will face the wrecking ball. John Hill

On March 1 the Storefront for Art and Architecture is holding its 30th Anniversary Gala in the magnificent 9-story atrium space of Temple Court at 5 Beekman Street in Lower Manhattan. John Hill

Theatre Aspen opened its new facilities last June, just in time for a summer of concerts in the city's beautiful Rio Grande Park. The new structure consists of a demountable black box theatre that is removed after the summer season and a permanent pavilion that houses the lobby,...

The 2012 Building of the Year on American-Architects is the Masonic Amphitheatre Project in Clifton Forge, Virginia, designed and consructed by the design/buildLAB at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design. John Hill

World-Architects visited the New York office of OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture, headed by partner Shohei Shigematsu. We talked with Mr. Shigematsu about his background and experience with OMA, got a tour of the SoHo office space, and looked at some in-progress projects. John Hill

The world’s first re-locatable research facility opened on February 5, one hundred years after Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic Antarctic expeditions. John Hill

The Spanish architect is the recipient of an award created in 1963 in honor of German architect Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950). John Hill

The 1912 Cass Gilbert-design library has reopened after a $70 million renovation oversaw by Cannon Design. John Hill

Concrete is traditionally considered to be heavy and monolithic, but the addition of glass fibers changes concrete to something lightweight and even porous. The sculptural potential of this increasingly common method can be seen in the application of Rieder's Sculptural fibreC panels... John Hill

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, has selected Steven Holl Architects to design an expansion to its Edward Durell Stone-designed building. John Hill

If one state embodies the merits of modern, single-family residential architecture it is California, the land of Eichlers, the Case Study Houses, and now Dwell magazine. The influence of the latter and the broader "tyranny of consumerism" can be found in the "fresh voice and...

Foster + Partners, working with the European Space Agency, is exploring the possibility of using 3D printing to build a lunar base from the moon's soil. John Hill

Voting for Building of the Year 2012 on American-Architects is closed. The winner will be announced in eMagazine #7/13 on February 11. John Hill

As architects Osamu Nishida and Erika Nakagawa designed this residence in Kanagawa Prefecture, they conceived of the architectural plan as a map. The pair strewed elements of the residence across the lot, and by doing so created a unique home structured similarly to a village. The...

This urban infill project in Fayetteville is a house and studio for a painter who is also a professor at the University of Arkansas. The house is situated on the south to take advantage of the sun, and the studio is on the north for that side's ever-important indirect light; a carport...

Is this a bird's eye view of Midtown Manhattan? Or a model of a planned city in China? No, it's actually a sculpture made entirely of scrap wood by James McNabb. John Hill

Voting for the 2012 Building of the Year at American-Architects, German-Architects, and Swiss-Architects ends on Thursday, January 31. John Hill

Janjaap Ruijssenaars is designing the "Landscape House" as a Möbius strip to be built from blocks made from a 3-D printer. John Hill

The team of Monadnock Development, Actors Fund Housing Development, and nARCHITECTS has won a competition for mirco-units in Manhattan. John Hill