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The New York City institution is moving ahead with a design competition for a Helsinki branch.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA are the recipients of the fourth Velux Stiftung Daylight Award for their design of the Rolex Learning Center EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. In this short film the duo speaks about the importance of daylight in their buildings.
Rem Koolhaas and company beat out former OMA employees Bjarke Ingels and Ole Scheeren for Berlin media center.
The New York-based honor society announced the five recipients of the 2014 awards.
Photographer Jordi Bernadó responds to the fact Mies van der Rohe ordered the Barcelona Pavilion to be photographed without doors in his intervention Second Reconstruction.
Most of the news on 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient Shigeru Ban focuses on his humanitarian efforts made from paper tubes. We look at how his material innovation extends to other structures built with paper tubes, complex wood structures, buildings made from prefabricated components,...
The architecture medal from the University of Virginia goes to Japanese architect Toyo Ito.
Timber structures are increasingly applauded as a sustainable alternative to the carbon-heavy production of concrete and steel. No longer the domain of houses and other small-scale buildings, wood now frames mid-sized buildings of various types and potentially high-rises in the near future....
On March 11 the 2014 Venice Biennale curator Rem Koolhaas expanded upon the theme of Fundamentals and its three interlocking exhibitions: Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014, Elements of Architecture and Monditalia.
The Chilean architect's design for the 14th pavilion in London's Kensington Gardens opens in June.
Curator Rem Koolhaas explains Fundamentals and its three interlocking exhibitions.
Canadian artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett have created installations, most notably CLOUD, from old incandescent bulbs. In a similar vein the duo realized NEW MOON for an arts festival in Lexington, Kentucky. NEW MOON is an interactive sculpture that exhibits the moon's phases,...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art appoints Beatrice Galilee as Daniel Brodsky Associate Curator of Architecture and Design.
On February 28, the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) was scheduled to wrap up its three-month run at the renovated Value Factory in Shenzhen, China (the exhibition was extended to March 14). We highlight some of the award-winning exhibits from the UABB.
Russian government officials are pushing for dismantling the famous 1920s tower designed by engineer Vladimir Shukhov.
Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg's proposal is chosen to memorialize the 2011 attacks on Osla and Utøya, Norway.
Herzog & de Meuron's Parrish Art Museum on Long Island exhibits artwork in generous galleries capped by north- and south-facing skylight, bringing natural daylight to the artworks on display. Panelite's ClearShade IGU (Insulated Glazing...
Photographer Fong Qi Wei's articulated goal is to "'make special' via the medium of photography."
Julien De Smedt Architects receives the International Award from the Belgian Building Awards 2014.
China's ZhongRong Group announces the six architects shortlisted for the 21st century Crystal Palace
If architectural creativity is an indicator, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet should be a favorite in the upcoming Paris municipal election, since she wants to turn a number of "phantom" Metro stations below the streets of Paris into concert halls, nightclubs, swimming pools, and even gardens.
The deal between the Port Authority and André Balazs Properties to transform Eero Saarinen's icon fizzles.
The Menil Institute released the plans by California's Johnson Marklee for the newest building on its 30-acre Houston campus.
Situated between the busy Bahnhofstrasse and the new railway station in the center of Aarau, Switzerland, is a cushioned canopy that seems to float like a cloud. Designed by Vehovar & Jauslin Architektur, the bus terminal's ETFE membrane creates a striking entry to the region.
For the sixth year in a row, Times Square Alliance has installed a three-dimensional heart in New York City's busiest public space for Valentine's Day. Brooklyn's Young Projects won the competition for the 2014 installation with Match-Maker.
New financing may enable the developer to realize the Santiago Calatrava-designed building that's been on hold since 2008.
Plans, elevations, sections and details comprise the typically hundreds of drawings needed to make a design understood so it can be built, so it can move from idea to reality. At a time when these drawings are evolving thanks to software and digital fabrication, Annette Spiro and David Ganzoni...
David Benjamin's Hy-Fi entry wins this year's Young Architects Program in New York City.
The late architect's contribution to Museum Island Hombroich near Düsseldorf, Germany, sits atop an unused NATO missile base.
An integral feature of the brand new Terminal 2 at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), is the ceiling, which is made of 4,000 coffers manufactured by Formglas.
The results of the public voting for the Building of the Year 2013 on American-Architects are in, and the winner is the Glen Oaks Branch Library in New York, designed by Marble Fairbanks.
In 2011 a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit near Christchurch, New Zealand, killing nearly 200 people and resulting in a residential "Red Zone" containing 16,000 homes slated for demolition. In response, Australian artist Ian Strange (aka Kid Zoom) created "Final Act," a multimedia...
Hiroshi Sugimoto designs his Odawara Art Foundation in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture.
MoMA and DS+R, its expansion architects, justify the demolition of Williams Tsien's Folk Art Museum at a public forum.