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on 3.11.2022
OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture has released renderings of Harajuku Quest, a commercial and cultural center that just started construction on Tokyo's fashionable Omotesando, not far... John Hill
Found
on 2.11.2022
On display on the campus of Rice University in Houston until December 17, 2022, Rana Begum's No.1187 Mesh and No. 1193 Mesh are colorful mesh sculptures meant to "push the material and conceptual possibilities of public artwork." John Hill
Headlines
on 2.11.2022
Ennead Architects has released renderings of its competition-winning design for Wuxi Art Museum, proposed for Shangxianhe Wetland Park in the port city of Wuxi, China. John Hill
Headlines
on 1.11.2022
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, has announced that Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Selldorf Architects will modernize the building's interior and plaza. John Hill
Film
on 1.11.2022
Psyche and Aeon Video have shared Dream City: More, Better, Sooner, the 2016 short film by artist Alice May Williams, coinciding with the completion of the transformation of the Battersea Power... John Hill
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on 27.10.2022
This year's iteration of The Cultural Landscape Foundation's annual Landslide report and exhibition focuses on threatened and at-risk landscapes designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., and his successor firms, not coincidentally on the bicentennial of his birth. John Hill
Headlines
on 26.10.2022
Social critic Mike Davis, best known for chronicling the dark side of sunny Los Angeles, died on October 25 at his home in San Diego from complications related to esophageal cancer. He was 76. John Hill
Headlines
on 25.10.2022
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has revealed renderings of its competition-winning design for a large sports complex for Hangzhou's Future Science and Technology Cultural District. John Hill
Film
on 25.10.2022
N*thing is Possible has been on display at the National Design Centre since Singapore Design Week in September. The asterisk in the title invites visitors to take "a journey to zero waste" with hospitality brand Potato Head, who curated the exhibition with OMA and Shinji Takagi. A short... John Hill
Headlines
on 24.10.2022
University of California Santa Barbara has released updated visuals of the proposed Munger Hall, the dormitory unveiled in November 2021 to protests over the lack of windows in most bedrooms. John Hill
Headlines
on 21.10.2022
The transformation of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA), designed by Chicago's Studio Gang with Little Rock's Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects, is nearly complete, with an opening date of April 22, 2023, recently announced. John Hill
Headlines
on 20.10.2022
Ten winners have been announced in the 14th iteration of the International DAM Architectural Book Award, given jointly by the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM). John Hill
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on 20.10.2022
In Praise of Caves, now on display at The Noguchi Museum in New York City, presents projects by four Mexican artist–architects that explore "how humanity might reconnect with the essential happiness of living in concert with nature." Serpents, not just caves, are in abundance. John Hill
Film
on 19.10.2022
Museum of Modern Art curator Martino Stierli has pulled Amie Siegel's The Architects from the museum's archive, putting the 33-minute film on display in the third-floor architecture gallery until January 2, 2023. John Hill
Insight
on 18.10.2022
World-Architects editor John Hill recently visited the studio of Dattner Architects in Midtown Manhattan, talking with partner Daniel Heuberger about some projects the firm is working on and looking around the office they moved in to earlier this year. John Hill
Headlines
on 17.10.2022
World-Architects stopped by Beyond Territories – Made . Make . Making, the traveling exhibition that celebrates the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. John Hill
Headlines
on 13.10.2022
The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced that The New Library, Magdalene College, located in Cambridge and designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects, is the winner of the 26th RIBA Stirling Prize, making it "the UK’s best new building." John Hill
Film
on 13.10.2022
Chicago-based architect and artist Amanda Williams is one of 25 recipients of 2022 MacArthur "Genius" Fellowships, as announced on Wednesday, October 12. Learn about how her "works visualize the ways urban planning, zoning, development, and disinvestment impact the lives of everyday residents"... John Hill
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on 13.10.2022
Photographer Ivo Tavares sent us photographs of Escadinhas Footpaths, a network of pedestrian paths linking the the neighborhood of Monte Xisto with the Leça River in Matosinhos, Portugal. Paulo Moreira Architectures and the art collective Verkron have enlivened the paths with bright colors. John Hill
Headlines
on 12.10.2022
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe has announced that "Anna Bofill Levi. La arquitectura como contracanto: 1977-1996" by a quartet of Spanish architects is the recipient of the latest Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture. John Hill
Headlines
on 10.10.2022
David Geffen Hall, home to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, opened its doors on October 8. World-Architects got a tour of the building's public spaces and acoustically improved theater. John Hill
Film
on 10.10.2022
Architect, author and curator Pedro Gadanho speaks about his new book Climax Change! How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency in a short film by urbanNext. John Hill
Headlines
on 7.10.2022
Designed by Morphosis Architects, the firm of Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne, the Orange County Museum of Art's new home in Costa Mesa, California, opens to the public on October 8, 2022. John Hill
Found
on 5.10.2022
Model Behavior is an exhibition of models — architectural and otherwise — on display at The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. Curated by Anyone Corporation, the exhibition of 55... John Hill
Headlines
on 4.10.2022
Radio Hotel and Tower, described by Rotterdam's MVRDV as a "colorful vertical village," opened in September in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. John Hill
Found
on 29.9.2022
The City of Frankfurt, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), and DekaBank have announced the five finalists for the 2022/23 Internationale Hochhaus Preis (International High-Rise Award). The winner will be announced in November. John Hill
Headlines
on 28.9.2022
Chicago architecture firm Brininstool + Lynch announced on their website and social media channels that founding partner Brad Lynch died on Monday, September 26. He was just 64. John Hill
Headlines
on 27.9.2022
OMA New York and Jacobs have unveiled their design for the headquarters of Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) in The 78, a large development underway on Chicago's Near South Side. John Hill
Film
on 27.9.2022
The Culvert Guesthouse is a storage facility for furniture, artworks, and other artifacts sitting in a thick pine forest in Japan's Nagano Prefecture. The design by Nendo is pure minimalism made with prefabricated concrete box culverts that are typically used in infrastructure projects. John Hill
Products
on 23.9.2022
Developed by a team of students and researchers at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), TOVA is a 3D-printed prototype for housing that can be built with local materials, local labor, and zero waste. John Hill
Headlines
on 22.9.2022
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has announced that the Colosio Embankment Dam designed by by Loreta Castro Reguera and José Pablo Ambrosi of Taller Capital is winner of the 2022 MCHAP.emerge award. John Hill
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on 22.9.2022
Six projects have been announced as winners of the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The winners, ranging from an international airport in Indonesia to a riverfront landscape in Bangladesh, will split the $1 million USD prize. John Hill
Film
on 21.9.2022
The public can vote on their favorite among the 32 short films in the running for the AIA Film Challenge 2022. Deadline is October 14, with the winners to be announced on October 25. John Hill
Headlines
on 21.9.2022
The Piranesi Award recognizes the best Central European buildings realized in the last two years. The call for proposals for the 2022 edition is now open, with a deadline of October 18. John Hill
Headlines
on 20.9.2022
The Getty Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced Conserving Black Modernism, a grant program that will award $3.1 million over two years to preserve historic modern architecture designed by Black architects. John Hill