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John Hill | 20.02.2025

Headlines

A recent panel discussion at AIA New York's Center for Architecture explored the state of architectural criticism, “wrestling with questions of ethics, equity, and influence and the role that critics play in the public's perception of the built environment.” World-Architects was in attendance;...


Natalie Kreutzer | 19.02.2025

Specials

The ISH trade fair in Frankfurt is about to begin, featuring a new thematic structure and an extensive supporting program. From March 17 to 21, 2025, the world’s leading trade fair for HVAC and water serves as a platform for discussion and a hub for the sanitation, heating, and...


Eduard Kögel | 19.02.2025

Insight

Similar to his earlier book on Hong Kong, Walter Koditek has trained his camera on the facades of modernist buildings in Bangkok, compiling them into the recently published Bangkok Modern: Architecture of the 1950s–1970s. Architectural eye candy, or serious scholarship on overlooked...


John Hill | 18.02.2025

Film

Three years after it opened to the public, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto finally visits the House of Music Hungary he designed for Budapests's City Park, as documented in a video just released by Liget Budapest.


René Ammann | 17.02.2025

Number

Height of the impressive cupola of the Great Moscow State Circus in Russia, which opened on April 30, 1971, and is now facing demolition: 31 meters...


SO? | 17.02.2025

Building of the Week

The 2024 Suseong International Biennale took place in Suseong, South Korea, in October, featuring numerous pavilions and other installations integrating architecture and landscape under the exhibition's theme, Relational Field. A standout contribution was SUPRA, by Istanbul's SO?, who answered...


Natalie Kreutzer | 14.02.2025

Specials

Resilient architecture, affordable housing, climate protection, and the future urban development—these topics and more were addressed at BAU from January 13 to 17 in Munich. In times of upheaval and significant challenges, the world’s largest construction trade fair brought a sense of...


John Hill | 14.02.2025

Found

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City is a new exhibition that opened at The Shed on February 12. The celebration of the 20th anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installation of 7,503 saffron-colored gates in Central Park also features an...


Vladimir Belogolovsky | 13.02.2025

Insight

Following the success of the much-publicized inaugural 2023 Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, its second edition, which commenced on January 25, continues to serve as an impressive visionary platform showcasing artistic traditions from antiquity to the present day. Titled And...


John Hill | 12.02.2025

Headlines

In a press conference on February 11, Venice Architecture Biennale curator Carlo Ratti revealed some of the 762 participants in the upcoming 19th International Architecture Exhibition. With the Central Pavilion in the Giardini closed for renovations, the Corderie will host many of the projects...


John Hill | 12.02.2025

Film

Lotte Scheder-Bieschin, a structural engineer and doctoral researcher in the Block Research Group at ETH Zurich, has developed Unfold Form, a formwork system that enables the construction of thin, fan-shaped vaulted floors in unreinforced concrete. Scheder-Bieschin and BRG shared some...


John Hill | 11.02.2025

Headlines

At a recent event at the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, Mexico, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) announced the five finalists for the 2025 Americas Prize, which honors the best work of architecture completed in the Americas between June 2022 and December 2023.


John Hill | 11.02.2025

Found

Architecture, Not Architecture is the new career-spanning monograph on New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro, published this month by Phaidon. Befitting the name, the book is split into two parts — one half presenting buildings and other architecture projects, the other half showing...


NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira | 10.02.2025

Building of the Week

The new town hall of Trofa, a small city located about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Porto, consisted of the renovation and expansion of an old industrial building. Completed in 2023, Trofa Town Hall was designed by NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira, who answered a few questions about...


René Ammann | 09.02.2025

Number

Years it took to turn the 24-story Piraeus Tower, one of the first skyscrapers in Piraeus, the port city neighboring Athens,


Elias Baumgarten | 07.02.2025

Headlines

Professor Miroslav Šik, the spokesperson for analogue architecture and shaper of generations of young architects at ETH Zurich, is one of the recipients of the prestigious Prix Meret Oppenheim, alongside Felix Lehner, founder of the Kunstgiesserei art foundry, and the innovative artist Pamela...


John Hill | 07.02.2025

Insight

Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto was named the 53rd laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in March 2024, and in May he received the medal during a ceremony held at the Art Institute of Chicago. World-Architects visited


John Hill | 06.02.2025

Headlines

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named SANAA, the Tokyo studio of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, as the 2025 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal, recognizing “SANAA’s work to reshape the global design landscape, creating spaces that bring simplicity, light and elegance to...


John Hill | 05.02.2025

Headlines

The Welsh association football club Wrexham AFC has unveiled plans for the new Kop Stand at STōK Cae Ras (STōK Racecourse), the club's longtime home. Designed by Populous, the new stand for 5,500 fans will be wrapped by a brick facade looking onto a new public plaza.


John Hill | 04.02.2025

Film

The first film in the Canadian Centre for Architecture's three-part Groundwork series, which explores alternative modes of architectural practice that respond to the urgency of the climate crisis, is available to watch online: Into the Island follows architect Xu Tiantian of Beijing's...


John Hill | 04.02.2025

Found

The Nokha Village Community Centre in the Indian state of Rajasthan received the most votes in our poll for World Building of the Year 2024. Designed by Mumbai's Sanjay Puri Architects, the rural building near the village of Nokha consists of a library and community space serving people in...


John Hill | 03.02.2025

Insight

The second installment in the two-part exhibition of Folios produced by the Architectural Association in London between 1983 and 1991 is now on display at Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. World-Architects stopped by and took some photos.


John Hill | 03.02.2025

Building of the Week

The second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale opened to the public on January 25 at the Western Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, where it will be on display until May. New for this edition is the AlMusalla Prize, an international competition for a small prayer...


René Ammann | 02.02.2025

Number

Number of triangular panels on the roof of the new timber-structured Sydney Fish Market, designed by Danish firm 3XN with BVN and Aspect Studios, fitted with solar panels: 350


John Hill | 30.01.2025

Headlines

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston Landmarks Commission have announced the local landmark designation of Boston City Hall, the brutalist building that has been loved and hated in equal measure since even before the building designed by Kallmann McKinnell and Knowles opened in 1969.


John Hill | 29.01.2025

Film

Open Space, the studio dedicated to “preserving and portraying the essence of architecture through the medium of film,” visits the Judy House in Kalamazoo, Michigan, designed by Norman F. Carver, Jr. more than fifty years ago. Tim and Vanessa Hills give viewers a tour of the Japanese-inspired...


John Hill | 28.01.2025

Headlines

Bangladesh's Marina Tabassum Architects has been selected to design the 24th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, set to open in London in June. Inspired by the light filtering through arched garden canopies, A Capsule in Time will be made of four wooden capsule forms covered in a translucent...


John Hill | 28.01.2025

Headlines

Five months after it closed, Price Tower, the 19-story landmark building in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, that is the only skyscraper realized by Frank Lloyd Wright, is being sold for $1.4 million to Tulsa property developer McFarlin Building Company.


John Hill | 28.01.2025

Found

Outpost Office, the practice founded by architects and educators Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann, have installed Color Block No. 2 at various in-between spaces both outside and within the Wexner...


Silke Bücker | 27.01.2025

Specials

Despite digital connectivity and efficiency orientation, trade fairs remain more popular than ever as places for physical encounters. This was confirmed by the outstanding results of this year’s Heimtextil, which took place from 14 to 17 January in Frankfurt. 


René Ammann | 27.01.2025

Number

Minimum number of earthquakes of up to magnitude 6.5 on the Richter scale that “The Immortal,” a precarious-looking building in the Ecuadorian...


HEMAA | 27.01.2025

Building of the Week

A seemingly unbuildable slice of land in Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco colonia, not far from Museo Soumaya and other cultural offerings, is now home to a skinny 13-story office building. Taking its name from the railroad tracks that created its fragmented site, Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca...


John Hill | 24.01.2025

Headlines

Safdie Architects and Kerry Properties have announced the completion of the second phase of Habitat Qinhuangdao, a complex on the coast of the Bohai Sea, 200 miles (320 km) east of Beijing, China, that consists of 1,800 residences spread across 40 acres (16 hectares).


Vladimir Belogolovsky | 22.01.2025

Insight

Vladimir Belogolovsky met Iranian architects Kamran Heirati and Tallan Khosravizadeh during last year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Singapore, where they presented their Shoupé Mixed-Use...


John Hill | 21.01.2025

Film

Every two years The Daylight Award honors and supports daylight research and daylight in architecture through two awards: one in architecture and one in research. A one-hour conversation between architect and writer Juhani Pallasmaa and neuroscientist Selma Tir, presented by The Daylight...


John Hill | 21.01.2025

Headlines

Donald J. Trump, during his first day in office as the 47th President of the United States, signed dozens of executive orders, one requiring “that Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage...