Magazine
Found
on 22-01-2024
Mass Studies, the office of South Korean architect Minsuk Cho, has been selected to design the 23rd Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, set to open in London's Kensington Gardens in June. Archipelagic Void is inspired by small courtyards found in old Korean houses. John Hill
Number
on 19-01-2024
Price per square meter paid for the plot of land where The Henderson, a 36-story office building designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, is nearing... René Ammann
Headlines
on 18-01-2024
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named Lesley Lokko the 2024 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal, given annually “to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence on the advancement of architecture.” John Hill
Headlines
on 18-01-2024
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the 40 shortlisted works selected by the jury for the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. John Hill
Insight
on 17-01-2024
Point of Origin – Building a House in Austria documents the construction of an alpine house designed by Rem Koolhaas that is notably the Dutch architect’s first house realized since the House in Bordeaux 25 years ago. With apparently unfettered access to architect, client, and... John Hill
Film
on 16-01-2024
The ten “regions” of NEOM, the new urban plan in northwestern Saudi Arabia, were unveiled over the course of the last three years, from The Line in January 2021 until Aquellum just this month. Ten short films reveal the preliminary imagery and themes for each region. John Hill
Headlines
on 15-01-2024
Last week Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) announced that the “Millennium Park 20th Anniversary Celebration” will take place July 18–21, almost exactly 20 years after 24-acre park opened to the public. John Hill
Headlines
on 11-01-2024
Swiss-born architectural historian Kurt Forster, who held positions at the CCA, Getty Center, and ETH Zurich, among other institutions, died at his home in New York City on January 6 at the age of 89. John Hill
Insight
on 09-01-2024
Madeline Beach Carey's latest installment in her “Building Novels” series, which focuses on works of fiction where buildings and architecture play integral roles, delves into Time Shelter, the Booker Prize-winning novel by Georgi Gospodinov in which the different floors of a Zurich... Madeline Beach Carey
Number
on 08-01-2024
Six years after its launch, number of the anticipated 270,000 homes to be “unlocked” by £4.2 billion ($5.34 billion, or €4.88 billion) in spending promised by Britain's major housebuilding infrastructure fund René Ammann
Beoordelingen
on 08-01-2024
Last month New York City opened the East Midtown Greenway, an eight-block-long link in a loop of pedestrian and bike paths around Manhattan, located along the East River between 53rd and 61st Streets. World-Architects visited the project to take a closer look at the design by Stantec. John Hill
Film
on 04-01-2024
Listen to Ben van Berkel talk about his travels to China, the theater UNStudio is building in Hong Kong, projects in Australia, Germany and Spain, the recently completed John Hill
Found
on 19-12-2023
As 2023 draws to a close and our thoughts linger on what transpired over the last twelve months, World-Architects is taking a month-by-month look at some of the stories we covered: awards, competitions, buildings, books, exhibitions, and passings. John Hill
Insight
on 18-12-2023
Variations on our reality are currently on display at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. The curators of “What if” have given a stage to entries from architectural competitions that will never be realized. It is a look into the past that is sad, albeit briefly, but with positive... Katinka Corts
Number
on 18-12-2023
Estimated number of housing units being created by office-to-residential conversions in the United States right now: 21,000 René Ammann
Headlines
on 13-12-2023
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban studies have announced that Miami's Chad Oppenheim is winner of “the highest honor for architecture in the United States.” John Hill
Film
on 12-12-2023
The latest video tour by Akira Koyama, founder and owner of KEY OPERATION INC. / ARCHITECTS, goes inside the new headquarters the studio designed for Juzen Chemical Corporation near the Jintsu River in the city of Toyama. John Hill
Headlines
on 12-12-2023
Dogma, the Brussels-based practice of Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara, is the 2023 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award, named for the influential architecture critic and landscape designer. John Hill
Number
on 11-12-2023
Number of homeless kids in San Francisco, California, waiting for shelter ahead of Christmas: 363 René Ammann
Headlines
on 08-12-2023
Amy Hau, who began her career as artist Isamu Noguchi's assistant in 1986 and for the last eight years has been a principal at New York's WXY Architecture and Urban Design, has been appointed director of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. John Hill
Headlines
on 07-12-2023
Brett Steele, who moved from the Architectural Association in London to the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture in 2017, has been named the new dean of the USC School of Architecture, a post he'll assume in February 2024. John Hill
Products
on 06-12-2023
Rotterdam's Studio RAP recently completed Ceramic House, a new facade on Pieter Cornelisz Hooftstraat, Amsterdam's famous designer shopping street. Algorithmic design and 3D printing combined to create a contemporary riff on traditional masonry architecture. John Hill
Headlines
on 04-12-2023
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) returned to Singapore last week, crowning the Huizhen High School in Ningbo, China, designed by Approach Design Studio and the Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group, as World Building of the Year 2023. John Hill
Number
on 30-11-2023
Approximate number of people who follow the @african_brutalism account on Instagram, a collection of photos of African modernist and brutalist architecture (with 241 posts, as of today):... René Ammann
Film
on 28-11-2023
London's Architecture Foundation recently held its annual Book Week, featuring “fourteen of the best newly published architecture books” in roughly half-hour videos presented by their authors. Some highlights. John Hill
Number
on 27-11-2023
Age of RMIT Village, a 12-story student housing complex in the city of Melbourne, Australia, to be knocked down and rebuilt for $264... René Ammann
Headlines
on 25-11-2023
The recipients of the 34th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 25, 2023, during the 40th Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia. John Hill
Headlines
on 22-11-2023
On Monday, November 20, a topping-out ceremony was held for the 1,388-foot (423m) tower designed by Foster + Parters for JPMorgan Chase, the replacement for the bank's Midtown Manhattan office tower that was torn down in 2021. John Hill
Insight
on 21-11-2023
In Vladimir Belogolovsky's interview with Chris Bosse, the Sydney-based co-founder and co-director of LAVA discusses achieving more with less, combining ideas coming from nature based on principles that remain constant and technology that constantly evolves, being innovative, and pursuing a... Vladimir Belogolovsky
Film
on 21-11-2023
The new wing of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal, will open to the public in early 2024. The museum first opened to the public in 1999 in a building designed by Álvaro Siza, who also added the new wing — appropriately called the Álvaro Siza Wing. John Hill
Beoordelingen
on 20-11-2023
A gateway should provide access — literally, an opening — but also present a strong image that attracts people toward it. The Roger Williams Park Gateway Center achieves both of these: acting as a point of entry for the eponymous historic park and making a bold statement with colorful... INFORM Studio
Specials
on 20-11-2023
Heimtextil, the international trade fair for home and contract textiles, will take place from January 09 to 12, 2024. It is a meeting point and melting pot for the international community from the fields of design and production, architecture and interior design, expertise, trend forecasting,... Silke Bücker
Headlines
on 20-11-2023
The Reggio School in Madrid by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation and the Gabriela García Márquez Library in Barcelona by SUMA Arquitectura are the joint winners of the FAD Architecture Award 2023. John Hill
Number
on 20-11-2023
Amount Canadian architect Asen Vitko spent to turn the empty 123-year-old neo-Gothic St. Mary the Virgin church in Toronto into 17 townhomes: $16 million... René Ammann
Headlines
on 16-11-2023
The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has announced the comprehensive restoration of the Brick House, designed by Philip Johnson at the same time as the iconic Glass House. The restoration will be complete next year, in time for the Glass House's 75th... John Hill
Insight
on 10-11-2023
Marta Vall-llossera Ferran became the president of the Superior Council of Architects’ Associations in Spain (CSCAE) after the sudden death of her predecessor Lluís Comerón in 2022. Madeline Beach Carey spoke with Vall-llossera Ferran about her challenges as president, the crises Spain is... Madeline Beach Carey