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Share of US residents — of every age, sex, race and class category — who prefer Classical over Modern architecture, according to a recent... René Ammann

Fletcher Priest Architects’ Brunel Building provides an abundance of light-filled responsive workspace and delivers a new focus for an area of London rich in engineering history. Fletcher Priest Architects

Louisiana Channel has released a short film, The Walls Are Dancing, in which architect Anna Heringer describes the design and realization of Anandaloy, the building in Bangladesh that just won the John Hill

After speculation as to if the 2021 edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial would happen, the Biennial has announced a new format and artistic director for its fourth edition. John Hill

More than 90 architects have donated around 100 original drawings, models, photographs, and other architectural objects to be sold on Design Miami's website. All of the proceeds are going to Beirut Urban Lab, which is working to restore buildings and public spaces in Beirut following the... John Hill

German architect Anna Heringer's Anandaloy Building, a combined center for people with disabilities and textile studio in northern Bangladesh, has won the second annual award from the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation. John Hill

Originally to be the dormitory building of Shangyou River Hydropower Station in Shangyou County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, the site is close to Yangming Lake Scenic Area which has beautiful natural scenery and is about 40-50 minutes' drive distance from downtown Ganzhou.  MONOLITH ARCHITECTS

A new video from Polygon explores the role of architecture in video games, discussing how players move and feel in such games as Control, Dark Souls, Portal, and Gone Home. John Hill

The Design Museum in London has announced the shortlist for its 13th annual Beazley Designs of the Year, the exhibition and awards celebrating "the most game-changing designs of the  last year ." John Hill

This joint city hall and police station serves the residents of Green Forest, a small town in Northwest Arkansas. The building is easy to find, since it sits directly next to the town's historic water tower that was built in the 1930s. Modus studio answered a few questions about their design... modus studio

While his generation failed in its attempt to change society through architecture, Wolf D. Prix says today’s young talent does not even try to do so, preferring to take refuge in a romanticized past. What is urgently needed are fresh concepts for the next twenty years. Elias Baumgarten

Antonio Virga has delivered, in the historic center of Cahors, the “Grand Palais,” a 7-theater cinema with a capacity of 1,051 spectators that is part of a master redevelopment plan for the Place Bessières, now dedicated to pedestrians. antonio virga architecte

An architecture school dean resigning, a Pritzker Prize-winning architect writing a letter, and a survey determining if Americans like modern architecture: three headlines discussed briefly. John Hill

A new exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, explores Anupama Kundoo’s "handmade houses" and other projects that "just take time." Ulf Meyer visited Anupama Kundoo – Taking Time, the fourth installation in the museum’s “The Architect’s Studio” series,... Ulf Meyer

The eagerly anticipated Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum, designed by Studio Zhu-Pei, was completed recently. Composed of nine barrel-vaulted elements structured in concrete, the building stands out for its brick cladding that is composed of a mix of new bricks and recycled bricks, the latter... John Hill

Studio Zhu-Pei designed the new Imperial Kiln Museum that unpretentiously tells the stories from the porcelain-manufacturing town of Jingdezhen in terms of shape and material, and in so doing comments on the future-potentials of the past far beyond this one town. Eduard Kögel

The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab at Florida International University is in the midst of its six-part series titled Whither Criticism?, which features live conversations with architecture critics on Wednesdays in September and October. John Hill

The Röhrig House is part of a series of hillside houses designed by Studio Hertweck in the German Rhine Valley. Studio Hertweck

Canadian interdisciplinary design firm Johnson Chou Inc. was recently awarded the Interiors: Residential 2020 AZ Award from AZURE Magazine for their project, ShadowBox. Johnson Chou Inc.

Chinese landscaping and landscape painting inspired the design of the Yu-Jo Courtyard House, which uses outdoor spaces to ensure privacy and to connect the family inside to nature outside. The architects at Wittman Estes answered a few questions about the house located in Clyde Hill,... Wittman Estes

Estimated share of people over 45 currently living in London who say they expect to move somewhere outside of Greater London the next time... René Ammann

Architect Marek Jan Štěpán has occupied himself with the idea of this church intermittently for the past 30 years. However, the intention to build a church first came up in the relaxed atmosphere of 1968 and was finally fulfilled after 50 years. Atelier Štěpán

We were approached by a retired couple to design a tea house, which is a small building of about 60 square meters. The site is located a short walk from Kinomiya Shrine, up a steep slope.  Yamazaki Kentaro Design Workshop

Originally planned to open in June of this year but delayed due to COVID-19, Tadao Ando’s renovation of Paris's Bourse de Commerce for François Pinault is now scheduled to open on January 23, 2021. John Hill

Following a seven-month closure, Eileen Gray reopens on October 13 for a brief run at Bard Graduate Center on Manhattan's Upper West Side. World-Architects got a peek at the exhibition recently and also explored the accompanying virtual exhibition and the companion catalog. Here is our... John Hill

On the morning of October 6, the award ceremony for the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize given to Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects... John Hill

One of three contributions to this year's Great Rivers Biennial at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) is Tim Portlock's Nickels from Heaven, a series of large-scale prints that dramatically depicts cityscapes in the midst of major transformations. John Hill

Six years after Rem Koolhaas and his firm OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture won the competition to design an office building for media company Axel Springer in Berlin, the... John Hill

On the historic campus of Franklin & Marshall College, the new Winter Visual Arts Building takes shape as a raised pavilion formed by the site’s 200-year old trees, the oldest elements of the campus. A new campus destination for all students, the building’s spaces aim to evoke the creative... Steven Holl Architects

Three functions intertwine in this adaptive reuse of an old industrial building in San Francisco's South of Market (SOMA) area, placing an art gallery and artist studio on the ground floor, and a residence upstairs. Dumican Mosey Architects answered a few questions about the project. Dumican Mosey Architects

Share of the 70,000 or so villages in Shandong, China’s second-most-populous province with more than 100 million people, that will be René Ammann

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the three winners of the inaugural Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA) Asia Edition. John Hill

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the four winners of the third biennial Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). John Hill

The winners of the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA) will be announced during YTAA Day, taking place online from 11:00 to 17:00 (CEST) on Monday, October 5. Watch it live here.

New York's Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2020 National Design Awards, which recognizes design excellence and innovation in nine categories. John Hill

Women Take the Lead is the title of this year's Landslide, The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s (TCLF) annual program drawing attention to threatened and at-risk landscapes in the United States. An online exhibition highlights a dozen landscapes designed by "women who shaped the American... John Hill