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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.
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.
American artist Andrea Zittel has been named the winner of the 8th Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts.
The recently completed Daeyang Gallery and House in the hills of the Kangbuk section of Seoul, Korea, is documented in two videos by Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with Spirit of Space.
In December, 2011, the Museumof Modern Art(MoMA) appointed Portuguese architect Pedro Gadanho as its Curator of Contemporary Architecture. World-Architects met with Mr. Gadanho to talk about his new responsibilities at MoMA, how his background informs his curatorial post, and his ideas on...
On July 1, the 13th edition of the Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City opened to the public.
World-Architects spoke with Scott Marble, director of C-BIP’s Integrated Design Studios, about how the Columbia University GSAPP program is attempting to transform architectural education. The interview, which took place at the Brooklyn office of Marble Fairbanks, is transcribed here,...
In responses to criticisms from the Eisenhower family, architect Frank Gehry has revised his design for the memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington, D.C.
On May 22 the Tokyo Skytree Tower opened. The world's tallest free-standing broadcasting tower includes two observation decks open to the public.
Two ovoid forms atop a square base define the new Hospital Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, Spain. Wrapping the curved surfaces is a diagonal grid of Cricursa's Cridecor® glass panels that further give the objects their distinctive appearance.
On May 19 The Barnes Foundation opened its new Philadelphia home, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, moving its artwork from the nearby Merion residence of Albert C. Barnes.
May is a month when architecture and design events converge in the United States. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Convention, held in Washington, D.C. this year, was followed immediately by the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York City. World-Architects was on...
The Guardian's Jonathan Jones takes viewers on a video tour of the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower in East London's Olympic Village. The red-steel maelstrom is the product of artist Anish Kapoor and engineer Cecil Balmond.
The Serpentine Gallery has unveiled the design of its 2012 Pavilion, designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei.
The Orange County (New York) Legislature defeated a bond that would have funded the demolition of the Orange County Government Center, designed by Paul Rudolph and completed in 1970.
On May 16, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden opened its new Visitor Center, designed by Weiss/Manfredi.
Schollglas provided glass for the aptly named "Crystal", the headquarters for Nykredit Bank in Copenhagen, Denmark designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. The double-walled façade of insulated and patterned-laminated glass gives the building its distinctive, layered...
Artist Tomás Saraceno completed the installation of his "Cloud City" on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
A studio visit to Cannon Design's St. Louis, Missouri, office, housed in an old power station. Principal George Nikolajevich gave World-Architects a tour.
Developer L&L Holding Co. is holding an invited design competition for a skyscaper to replace a 1950s tiered glass box at 425 Park Avenue in New York City.
OMA has unveiled its design for the new Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow's Gorky Park. The project is a renovation of the 1960s-era Vremena Goda (Seasons of the Year) restaurant.
An exhibition and conference focusing on artists Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger will take place the second week of May in Switzerland.
In memory of Swiss artist David Weiss, who died on April 27, 2012: Der Lauf der Dinge (The Way Things Go), an artwork done with longtime collaborator Peter Fischli.
