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On October 20 the Sydney Opera House turned 40, celebtrating the milestone birthday of Jørn Utzon's masterpiece with a month of festivities: an anniversary concert, exhibitions, an architecture & design symposium, a website, a series of short films, and of course operas. Here we...
The Wall Street Journal gives its 2013 architecture and design honors to David Adjaye and Thomas Woltz.
The studio flats in the 1926 Bauhaus Dessau are now available as hotel accommodations for travelers.
Santiago Calatrava has released renderings of his design of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.
While many cities around the world are furnished with cookie-cutter bus stops that are often emblazoned with advertising, the village of Krumbach, Austria, is taking a much different approach, inviting seven international architects to design one-of-a-kind shelters.
To recognize the achievements of firms profiled on World-Architects.com, we present the third biannual roundup of Awards, Competitions, Completed Buildings, Exhibitions, and Monographs; carefully selected, just like the profiles.
A Usonian house Frank Lloyd Wright designed in 1939 is finally realized, the 13th Wright building at FSU.
Most of the participating architects in "Architecture for Dogs" are from Japan—such as Kazuyo Sejima, Toyo Ito, Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, Atelier Bow-Wow, and project director Kenya Hara—so it's fitting that the final leg of the project's world tour takes place at...
To mark the release of its Dekton "ultra-compact surface," Cosentino is holding an exhibition (until October 31) at the Center for Architecture in New York City. The show highlights Daniel Libeskind's "Beyond the Wall" sculpture being realized at Cosentino's global...
The 45-story Torre David in Caracas, Venezuela, that is now home to an informal community of more than 750 families is a far cry from the high-profile commissions Iwan Baan is normally commissioned to photograph. It is one of the "ingenious homes in unexpected places" he discusses in...
The two big-name architects will design the residential buildings that make up Phase 3 of London's Battersea Power Station development.
The Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) selected two innovative community projects—in Palestine and USA—for its 2013 awards.
Developer Cathedral Group has asked 20 architects and designers to design dolls' houses for the 21st century. Each will be auctioned off next month to raise money for KIDS, a UK charity that helps disabled children and their families.
The award will be presented to the architect on Tuesday 19 November at a lecture she will give at RIBA in London.
Maryn Hekker is the recipient of the Best Overall Submission award in the Nemetschek Vectorworks competition.
While in Singapore for the 2013 World Architecture Festival, World-Architects visited local firm WOHA to check out their five-story office, chat about some of their projects in the city, and look at some in-progress projects. Here is our report.
On Saturday the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that Team Austria, made up of students from the Vienna Institute of Technology, is the winner of the 2013 Solar Decathlon, held at Orange County Great Park in Irvine, California.
No, this short film—one of five made by Architectuul for the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Close, Closer—is not about architects falling in love with each other. It's about an architect and the building he loves, in this case Robert Slinger of Kapok Architects and John...
Preservationists have successfully halted demolition of M. Paul Friedberg's modernist landscape in Minneapolis.
The proliferation of building façades covered in apparently random rectangles of color should be called "the Swisspearl effect," due to the colorful spectrum offered by the Swiss company for its fiber cement rainscreen panels. Yet some architects use the colors more selectively...
Chinese investors are helping to resurrect Joseph Paxton's famous 1851 creation in its namesake park in London.
On September 28 the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens opened the Sackler Gallery, a new exhibition space and restaurant in a former gunpowder depot about a five-minute walk from the main gallery. Zaha Hadid designed a signature swooping appendage to the 1805 brick building,...
The Aukland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki in New Zealand by Frances-Jones Morehen Thorp and Archimedia took the top honor at WAF.
Antoni Gaudi's masterpiece in Barcelona is on track to be completed 100 years after his death.
World-Architects traveled to Singapore for the sixth World Architecture Festival (WAF), held at Marina Bay Sands from October 4-6. Architects from all over the world converged on the city-state to present their shortlisted projects, listen to other architects do the same, and find out what...
The American Society of Landscape Architects announces the winners of its 2013 Professional Awards.
From 27 September to 13 October the Lucerne Festival Ark Nova 2013 Music Festival is taking place in Matsushima, Japan, what organizers call "a city left with memories of the unforgettable earthquakes and tsunamis that struck Japan on March 11, 2011."
Collective-LOK's "Screen Play" is selected for the Van Alen Institute's new street-level space.
Emirates Glass and Arena International have announced the winners of the 10th annual international architecture awards.
Photographs of the "Mark's House" in Flint, Michigan, have drawn criticism for their representation of the installation's reflective wrapper.
For the design of the Health Sciences Education Building at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in Phoenix, CO Architects found inspiration in Arizona's iconic canyon formations, splitting the building into two six-story wings and wrapping the exterior in a rainscreen of copper panels. Chandler,...
The fifth Oslo Architecture Triennale, which opened 19 September, is curated by Rotor and built around the theme Behind the Green Door – Architecture and the desire for sustainability. Rotor asks if architecture is up to the task of building the sustainable society and addresses it...
Historian Joseph Rykwert will be awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects' Royal Gold Medal, in recognition of a lifetime's work.
One of the highlights of the weeklong London Design Festivalnbsp;(14-22 September) is the Endless Stair, which occupies the lawn in front of the Tate Modern until 10 October. London's dRMM was obviously inspired by M.C. Escher in their design, which entices people to move up and down...
Circles at various scales predominate in the new Fletcher Hotel situated near the A2 highway southeast of central Amsterdam. Octatube worked with Benthem Crouwel Architects to realize the outer glass skin but also its structure and the inner layer, creating an integrated façade system.
Five winners were selected from the twenty projects shortlisted for the 2013 cycle of the triennial Aga Khan Award for Architecture.