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Share of the world's 250 biggest contractors who are Turkish and are challenging China as leading builder in Africa: 40 René Ammann

Twenty projects in sixteen countries have been shortlisted for the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, culled from 463 projects nominated for the 15th cycle of the prestigious $1 million award. John Hill

Developers Great Gulf, Dream, and Westdale Properties have unveiled design details for Forma, a two-tower residential development in Downtown Toronto designed by Frank Gehry. John Hill

Boonserm Premthada, Thailand’s most interesting architect, argues that “architecture is the physical creation of an atmosphere, serving to heighten our awareness of our natural surroundings.” Premthada revealed other interesting aspects of his unique approach to architecture in his... Ulf Meyer

Air Square is a transportable venue that activates underused urban spaces by bringing them purpose and a vibrant public life. It responds to the need to alleviate climate change issues by tackling overexposed heat islands and lack of green and livable public spaces. The upper ring is designed... KOGAA

The Royal Academy of Arts in London has announced that French architect Renée Gailhoustet is the recipient of the 2022 RA Architecture Prize, which recognizes architects who have made "a significant impact on society." John Hill

The Rotterdam Rooftop Walk is a temporary installation designed by MVRDV for Rotterdam Rooftop Days, giving visitors a different experience of the city from an "orange carpet" at a height of 30 meters. John Hill, Katinka Corts

Roberto Cicutto, President of La Biennale di Venezia, and Lesley Lokko, who was appointed artistic director of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale in... Lesley Lokko

Home to Sesame Street for decades, Kaufman Astoria Studios is a storied New York City institution that is uniquely integrated into the neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, where it has been located for more than 100 years. Recent developments include an outdoor backlot and the construction... GLUCK+

Number of custom colors used on the sun-protection panels on the west facade of the former GSW Headquarters in Berlin, now threatened with "disfigurement" by... René Ammann

The new home of the Museum of Ethnography, designed by Napur Architect and built as part of the ambitious Liget Budapest Project that is transforming Budapest's City Park, opened to the public on May 23. John Hill

The Novartis Pavillon, a new exhibition, meeting and event center designed by the firm of Michele De Lucchi, recently opened on the Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland. A highlight of the campus's first publicly accessible building is its zero-energy media facade. John Hill

Buildner (formerly Bee Breeders) recently announced the winner of the Iceland Greenhouse Restaurant competition, awarding the first-place prize to architects Derin Kinacigil and Juan... Derin Kinacigil, Juan Franco

Witnesses, the new exhibition on the research practice Forensic Architecture and the fifth exhibition in The Architect’s Studio series at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, is disturbing, says Ulf Meyer. Ulf Meyer

The Royal College of Art has unveiled its new campus in Battersea, London, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, the latest and largest building project in the 185-year history of the RCA. John Hill

On the occasion of Forensic Architecture – Witnesses, the fifth exhibition in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's "The Architect’s Studio" series, the museum presents a... John Hill

Located on axis with the famous clock tower of Clemson University's Tillman Hall and directly across the street from the equally iconic Bowman Field, the new Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business features a design influenced strongly by its site conditions. LMN Architects answered a few... LMN Architects, LS3P Associates

Artist Tomás Saraceno's permanent installation, Cloud Cities Barcelona, has opened to the public at the top of Torre Glòries, the iconic skyscraper, previously known as Torre Agbar, designed by Ateliers Jean Nouvel with b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos. John Hill

Earlier this month Shigeru Ban spoke at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin as part of the "On the Duty and the Power of Architecture" lecture series. Ulf Meyer sat down with the Japanese architect after the talk,... Ulf Meyer

The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced that Bangkok's (all)zone, led by co-founder and design director Rachaporn Choochuey, has been selected to design the next MPavilion, which will open in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens in November. John Hill

Cost of a 2,000-square-foot (186 m2) house with three furnished bedrooms and attached bathrooms in the small Indian... René Ammann

Architects Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects and professor Anna Wirz-Justice have been named the 2022 laureates of The Daylight Award in the Architecture and Research categories, respectively. John Hill

This month the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) announced that the long-awaited Taipei Performing Arts Center is finally complete, with the official opening taking place in August. A five-minute film takes viewers inside the building. John Hill

Designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studios in close collaboration with Google, Bay View is Google’s first-ever ground-up campus with the mission to operate on carbon-free energy, 24 hours a day, seven days a week by 2030. BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, Heatherwick Studio

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has won the international architectural competition for the new Vltava Philharmonic Hall in Prague, beating out Diller Scofidio + Renfro, MVRDV, SANAA, and Snøhetta, among other... John Hill

World-Architects editor John Hill was in Barcelona for EUmies Awards Day last week, sitting down with Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects in the Mies van der Rohe... John Hill

The Bubble, a 2021 film directed by Valerie Blankenbyl about The Villages, Florida – with over 150,000 residents, it is the largest retirement community in the world – won Best Documentary Feature Film at the BARQ Festival. John Hill

While in Barcelona for EUmies Awards Day, World-Architects got a tour of the La Borda - Cooperative Housing – the Emerging Architecture Winner – from Eliseu Arrufat and Carles Baiges,... John Hill, Lacol

World-Architects was in attendance at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion on Thursday, May 12, for EUmies Awards Day, a series of talks and an award ceremony for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award; a recap. John Hill

The inaugural edition of Model. Barcelona Architectures Festival, an initiative of the Barcelona City Council and the Catalan Architects’ Association (COAC), took place from May 5 to 15 at a handful of venues across the city. John Hill

Amount paid at an auction for Casa Batlló: Living Architecture, a dynamic NFT (non-fungible token) by Turkish-American new media... René Ammann

The award ceremony for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award was held at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion on Thursday, May 12, the same day an exhibition of the 40 shortlisted projects ended. Take a tour through the EUmies Awards 2022 Exhibition... John Hill

Architecture shapes the identity of a location. Modernism, however, has brought about the emergence of a globalized aesthetic. Interchangeability and non-identity characterize many cities worldwide. How can this conformity of urban design be counteracted, how can a local identity be... Christian Heuchel

The material used to construct a building is decisive for its character and impact. Brick has been playing a central role in European building culture—building with brick was considered a status symbol for a long time.  Christian Heuchel

Celebrated Canadian architect Claude Provencher, co-founder of the practice Provencher_Roy and instrumental in the creation of the Conseil du patrimoine culturel du Québec, died on May 6, 2022, at the age of 72. John Hill

The office of Marc Mimram Architecture et Ingénierie recently completed the new water sports and water park leisure complex of Reims. The UCPA Sport Station Grand Reims plays host to a wide array of sports practices, with its three swimming pools, skating rink, fitness space and padel and... Marc Mimram Architecture et Ingénierie