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World-Architects got an exclusive peek at 520 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan ahead of its official topping out on Thursday, October 24. At 1,002 feet (305 m) tall, the mixed-use supertall designed by KPF for the development firm Rabina will be the tallest mixed-use tower on Fifth Avenue...
To publish, or self-publish, that is the question. Well, that is one question for architects to consider these days, as publishers cut back on the number of architecture titles they release, and technologies make it easier than ever to independently publish books in print. World-Architects...
A. Eugene (Gene) Kohn, one of the three founders of Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), died on March 9 at the age of 92. A short film from KPF and a 2020 interview with the Business of Architecture podcast illuminate Kohn's takes on the architectural profession.
City Climb, billed as "the highest open-air building ascent in the world," has opened on the top of 30 Hudson Yards in New York City, directly above Edge, an outdoor skydeck that cantilevers from the supertall skyscraper.
On September 14, developers SL Green and Hines, with architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, cut the ribbon on One Vanderbilt, which at 1,401 feet (427m) is the tallest office building in Midtown Manhattan.
Multiple sources are reporting that the team of KPF, Heatherwick Studio, James Corner Field Operations, Architects 61, and Lead 8 has been selected to design Terminal 5 at Changi Airport in Singapore.
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have announced the winners of the 23rd American Architecture Awards.
After a full first day of keynotes, project presentations, tours, and other events at the 2016 World Architecture Festival in Berlin, the winners in fourteen categories were announced.
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has uploaded a bunch of interviews that took place during its 2015 conference in New York. Here we present a handful of highlights.
Last night the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANY) announced the winners of the 2016 Design Awards in four categories: Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design.
The Ontario-based museum has unveiled the designs of five architects/teams in a two-stage competition as part of their relocation to the Parks Canada Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site on the Trent-Severn Waterway.
The Ontario-based museum has shortlisted six architects/teams in a two-stage competition as part of their relocation to the Parks Canada Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site on the Trent-Severn Waterway.
Last year saw the most supertall (300 meters or higher) skyscrapers built than in any year (11 of them), most significantly One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. World-Architects is taking a look at it and nine other supertalls under construction.
Two side-by-side buildings – the CUNY Advanced Science & Research Center and the City College Center for Discovery & Innovation – recently opened on City College's Harlem campus. Bendheim's channel and dichroic glass defines much of the interiors.