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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

Years beyond which the doomed Ontario Science... René Ammann

The French office of architects Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki, in collaboration with Mexican architect Frida Escobedo and France's AIA Life Designers, have been selected to renovate the Centre Pompidou, the iconic Parisian building designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers in the 1970s.

The Hessian state capital of Wiesbaden is celebrating the opening of a shining architectural icon. The museum of private collector Reinhard Ernst is architecture at its finest, designed by the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, the 1993 Pritzker Prize laureate  Falk Jaeger

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

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 project in print until it has reached drinking age. The four recently... John Hill

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

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

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

Industrial buildings converted into cultural venues are nothing new, but recent years have seen some notable examples of an apparently inflexible type — grain silos — transformed into eye-catching places of culture. Adding to Thomas Heatherwick's MOCAA in South Africa and the... Prokš Přikryl architekti

Years the Michigan Central Station Detroit stood vacant before more than 3,100 skilled tradespeople worked 1.7 million hours to restore the iconic building that... René Ammann

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

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

Since it is so far from the city center, the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Siegen does not play a major role in the town of Siegen, Germany. The competition for the relocation of the faculty, which has now been decided, marks the start of a change. The aim: bring more life to... Katinka Corts

Site Specific, Surface/Subsurface, Public Natures, Evolutionary Infrastructures — the titles of the books by and about Weiss/Manfredi, the... Vladimir Belogolovsky

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

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

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

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

Amount the Los Angeles City Council has approved to set up barriers, install an all-encompassing fence, enlist private on-site security, and... René Ammann

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

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

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

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

Number of companies in major markets, including the UK, Germany, and France, that are seeking to decrease their footprints in the next three to five years, René Ammann

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

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

A short film from Serpentine features Korean architect Minsuk Cho speaking about the work of his firm, Mass Studies, and his design of Archipelagic Void, this year's Serpentine Pavilion, opening to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on Friday, June 7. John Hill

Number of “new well located properties over the five fiscal years to June 2029” the Australian government plans to build because of the increased record of... René Ammann

Five months after Italy's Carlo Ratti was named curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale that is set to open in May 2025, Ratti and new Biennale President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco have revealed the exhibition theme: Intelligens. John Hill

The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig, designed jointly by Berlin-based architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke, has been honored with the Katinka Corts

The new home for the Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) opened at the end of April. It was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) to be “the computing crossroads of the MIT campus.” John Hill

The city of Jingdezhen in the province of Jiangxi is renowned beyond China since historical times for its porcelain production. More recently, the Imperial Kiln... Eduard Kögel

Number of workers complaining about temperature in a new mixed-use building in Oslo avoiding traditional HVAC (in a typical office,... René Ammann

Studio Sangath, the Ahmedabad studio of Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof, employs 15 architects from across India. They work on houses, building conversions, and various extensions to existing buildings, and they design art installations, exhibitions, lighting, furniture, and books.... Vladimir Belogolovsky

Munich is looking forward to its first building by architect Francis Kéré: a children's daycare center in the middle of the TU Munich campus, where Kéré works as a professor. For this project, he teamed up with timber construction expert Hermann Kaufmann. Manuel Pestalozzi