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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

World-Architects got an exclusive peek at 520 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan ahead of its official topping out on Thursday, October 24. At 1,002 feet (305 m) tall, the mixed-use supertall designed by KPF for the development firm Rabina will be the tallest mixed-use tower on Fifth Avenue... John Hill

After being closed since 2021, following four suicides in just two years. Related Companies, the developer of Hudson Yards, reopened Heatherwick Studio's The Vessel with safety netting that allows visitors to access portions of the climbable sculpture's 150 stairs and 80 landings. John Hill

Vladimir Belogolovsky spoke with David Lake, co-founder, with Ted Flato, of Lake|Flato, about Lake’s love for building, learning from other architects, designing buildings as good neighbors, wanting to be artfully practical, and sharing insights about his partner and his mentor, O’Neil Ford. Vladimir Belogolovsky

Reports indicate that the University of Illinois is scrapping its plan to build a headquarters for the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) in The 78, a mixed-use development taking shape in Chicago's South Loop. John Hill

Joseph Rykwert, the esteemed architectural historian and recipient of the 2014 RIBA Royal Gold Medal, died on October 18, 2024 at the age of 98. Here we present two video interviews — one from 2020 and one from 2017 — in which Rkywert recounts certain formative events of his life. John Hill

October is a busy month in New York City, with exhibitions opening, numerous lectures and book launches taking place, and otherwise inaccessible buildings opening to the public for the Archtober Buildings of the Day and Open House New York Weekend. World-Architects visited two John Hill

Rojkind Arquitectos, the Mexican studio known for its propensity for innovation, has designed a compact building dedicated to wine production and research. Pictograma Winery combines a rigorous and complex geometry with the use of raw materials and organically integrates the structure into its... Antonio La Gioia

Number of core-and-shell single-family homes per year that one of Automated Architecture's (AUAR) pop-up micro-factories... René Ammann

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

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winner of the 28th RIBA Stirling Prize: The Elizabeth Line, a new transport network for London — “a monumental achievement” designed by Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation, and AtkinsRéalis.  John Hill

Ma Yansong and MAD Architects have just completed One River North, a new mixed-use apartment building with retail that the architects describe a “a cracked-open canyon in the heart of Denver.” John Hill

UMBAU. Nonstop Transformation is a traveling exhibition organized by gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner. It opened in Venice last year, coinciding with the Venice Architecture Biennale, and the third of the exhibition's five iterations is on display at the Goethe-Institut... John Hill

The latest video by Vancouver-based architect and YouTuber Dami Lee pits a trio of architects against AI tools in a design battle, a rematch of a similar battle she made last year. Artificial intelligence has advanced made rapid advances in the ensuing months, so the results of the new... John Hill

The latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's “Building Novels” series, which looks at works of fiction where buildings and architecture play integral roles, is Zachary C. Solomon's first novel, A Brutal Design, whose protagonist is an architecture student and which is set in an... Madeline Beach Carey

More than a dozen years in the making, the Kinderspital Zürich (University Children’s Hospital Zurich) was officially inaugurated on October 1 and will welcome its first patients on November 2. The design by Basel's Herzog & de Meuron consists of the acute-care hospital and a building...

Number of years the construction of Saudi Arabia’s kilometer-high Jeddah Tower, which will become the world’s tallest skyscraper upon completion, was stalled René Ammann

The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) has announced the four winners of its Missing Middle Infill Housing Design Competition, which challenged entrants to reimagine designs for “missing middle density” homes in four categories: six-flats, two- and three-flats, rowhouses, and single-family... John Hill

Structural engineer Hanif Kara, design director at AKT II, the engineering firm he cofounded in 1996, is the latest recipient of the Soan Medal, given annually since 2017 by Sir John Soane's Museum in London. John Hill