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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.
Janjaap Ruijssenaars is designing the "Landscape House" as a Möbius strip to be built from blocks made from a 3-D printer.
The team of Monadnock Development, Actors Fund Housing Development, and nARCHITECTS has won a competition for mirco-units in Manhattan.
Two weeks after his appointment, 2014 Venice Biennale curator Rem Koolhaas has chosen the title for the exhibition: Fundamentals.
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.
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...
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.
CODA wins the MoMA PS1 Young Architect's Program, and Situ Studio is chosen by the Times Square Alliance for Heartwalk.
United Visual Artists' Always/Never is the result of their "recent investigations of the perception of time."
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...
Zaha Hadid Architects' third project for SOHO China is in a race to finish before a copycat in Chongqing is completed.
On January 7 the great architecture critic died at the age of 91, less than one week after her last article was published.
The British architect, educator and writer died in December at the age of 91.
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...
Voting for the 2012 Building of the Year is now open at American-Architects, German-Architects, and Swiss-Architects.
The New York Public Library has released Norman Foster's schematic design for transforming its main building into a circulating library.
The world-renowned Brazilian architect died at the Hospital Samaritano in Rio just shy of his 105th birthday.
On December 12 the world-famous Louvre opens a branch museum in Lens, hoping to spur the development in the region of northern France.
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...
Is any end in sight in the dispute between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the 42-story Museum Tower nearing completion across the street?
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.
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.
Germany's ingenhoven architects beat out Frank Gehry and other finalists to win the International Highrise Award 2012 for 1 Bligh Street in Sydney.
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.
The visionary architect, educator and delineator died in his sleep on October 30, one week after the completion of his first permanent construction.
The 104-year-old Brazilian architect was hospitalized for two weeks, then released just before his designs for Converse sneakers were launched.
Ulrich Franzen, an architect known for Brutalist building, died on October 6 in Sante Fe, New Mexico.
Almost four decades after his death, Louis I. Kahn's design for the FDR Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island has been completed.
The Royal Institute of British Architects has named the Sainsbury Laboratory, designed by Stanton Williams, this year's Stirling Prize winner.
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.
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.
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.
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam reopened on September 23, after a renovation and expansion designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects.
World-Architects.com is in Venice for the 13th International Architecture Biennale, directed by English architect David Chipperfield and titled "Common Ground."
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.
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.