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John Hill | 28.01.2013

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Voting for the 2012 Building of the Year at American-Architects, German-Architects, and Swiss-Architects ends on Thursday, January 31.


John Hill | 28.01.2013

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Janjaap Ruijssenaars is designing the "Landscape House" as a Möbius strip to be built from blocks made from a 3-D printer.


John Hill | 28.01.2013

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The team of Monadnock Development, Actors Fund Housing Development, and nARCHITECTS has won a competition for mirco-units in Manhattan.


John Hill | 28.01.2013

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Two weeks after his appointment, 2014 Venice Biennale curator Rem Koolhaas has chosen the title for the exhibition: Fundamentals.


John Hill | 21.01.2013

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The American Institute of Architects has selected 28 recipients from over 700 submissions for its honor awards in architecture, interior architecture, and regional & urban design.


John Hill | 21.01.2013

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Ziba's Portland, Oregon, office may be blessed with a 200-seat auditorium, but it one that is too compact for traditional folding chairs. So like any decent design and innovation consultancy, Ziba designed their own seats, the slender and aptly named JumpSeat, now manufactured by Sedia...


John Hill | 21.01.2013

Film

It's hard to not be charmed by this short animated film by Andrea Stinga and Federico Gonzalez that runs through 26 great architects and their most well known buildings, one for each letter of the alphabet.


John Hill | 21.01.2013

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CODA wins the MoMA PS1 Young Architect's Program, and Situ Studio is chosen by the Times Square Alliance for Heartwalk.


John Hill | 21.01.2013

Found

United Visual Artists' Always/Never is the result of their "recent investigations of the perception of time."


John Hill | 14.01.2013

Insight

World-Architects visited the office of Studio Gang Architects in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood for a tour of the studio and a chance to talk with Jeanne Gang about her exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, the state of architecture in her hometown, and some in-progress projects in...


John Hill | 14.01.2013

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Zaha Hadid Architects' third project for SOHO China is in a race to finish before a copycat in Chongqing is completed.


John Hill | 14.01.2013

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On January 7 the great architecture critic died at the age of 91, less than one week after her last article was published.


John Hill | 07.01.2013

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The British architect, educator and writer died in December at the age of 91.


John Hill | 07.01.2013

Film

New York's Central Library Plan, which involves the demolition of seven stories of stacks in its main library to make way for a circulating collection from two nearby branches, has been controversial since being announced four years ago. The plan and Norman Foster's recently released...


John Hill | 07.01.2013

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Voting for the 2012 Building of the Year is now open at American-Architects, German-Architects, and Swiss-Architects.


John Hill | 07.01.2013

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The New York Public Library has released Norman Foster's schematic design for transforming its main building into a circulating library.


John Hill | 17.12.2012

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The world-renowned Brazilian architect died at the Hospital Samaritano in Rio just shy of his 105th birthday.


John Hill | 03.12.2012

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On December 12 the world-famous Louvre opens a branch museum in Lens, hoping to spur the development in the region of northern France.


John Hill | 03.12.2012

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One of the ways that architecture can help create more sustainable cities is by designing buildings that use less energy. Controlling how much direct sunlight enters a building can reduce the energy required for air conditioning and electrical lighting. Hunter Douglas Contract: Solar Control is...


John Hill | 03.12.2012

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Is any end in sight in the dispute between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the 42-story Museum Tower nearing completion across the street?


John Hill | 19.11.2012

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The distinctive folds that cover the exterior of Zaha Hadid Architects' recently completed Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, Michigan, were a challenge to construct, but A. Zahner Company pulled it off with their usual attention to detail.


John Hill | 19.11.2012

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On November 16 the Japan Sports Council selected Zaha Hadid's fluid design for a stadium that will be part of Tokyo's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.


John Hill | 19.11.2012

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Germany's ingenhoven architects beat out Frank Gehry and other finalists to win the International Highrise Award 2012 for 1 Bligh Street in Sydney.


John Hill | 19.11.2012

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The future of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago is still unclear, but the winner of a competition creatively points toward its reuse.


John Hill | 05.11.2012

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The visionary architect, educator and delineator died in his sleep on October 30, one week after the completion of his first permanent construction.


John Hill | 05.11.2012

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The 104-year-old Brazilian architect was hospitalized for two weeks, then released just before his designs for Converse sneakers were launched.


John Hill | 22.10.2012

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Ulrich Franzen, an architect known for Brutalist building, died on October 6 in Sante Fe, New Mexico.


John Hill | 22.10.2012

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Almost four decades after his death, Louis I. Kahn's design for the FDR Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island has been completed.


John Hill | 22.10.2012

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The Royal Institute of British Architects has named the Sainsbury Laboratory, designed by Stanton Williams, this year's Stirling Prize winner.


John Hill | 08.10.2012

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The New Canaan, Connecticut-based Foundation has hired SANAA, with landscape architect OLIN, for their first U.S. project since winning the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2010.


John Hill | 08.10.2012

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Norman Foster bested three other Pritzker Prize winners in an invited competition for a new office building at 425 Park Avenue for L&L Holdings and Lehman Brothers Holdings.


John Hill | 08.10.2012

Film

Andrew Grant of UK landscape architects Grant Associates gives a tour of Gardens by the Bay, a 21st-century botanic garden in Singapore that is marked by 18 Supertrees, Cooled Conservatories, and Themed Gardens.


John Hill | 24.09.2012

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The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam reopened on September 23, after a renovation and expansion designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects.


John Hill | 05.09.2012

Insight

World-Architects.com is in Venice for the 13th International Architecture Biennale, directed by English architect David Chipperfield and titled "Common Ground."


John Hill | 28.08.2012

Film

Southend-on-Sea is an area east of London that boasts the longest pleasure pier in the world, which is now home to a Cultural Centre designed by White Architekter. This film documents the 170-ton building being delivered to the pier from the Tilbury Docks in Essex, where it was fabricated.


John Hill | 16.07.2012

Insight

World-Architects visited the office of WEISS/MANFREDI in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood for a tour of the studio and a chance to talk with partners Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi about their past, present, and future.