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The small market town of Baumgartenberg in the Machland in Upper Austria is a fine example of maximum ambivalence: due to the economic price of land and the good transport connections to the conurbation around Linz a number of industries and businesses of considerable size have settled here, the...

The award will be presented to the architect on Tuesday 19 November at a lecture she will give at RIBA in London. John Hill

Maryn Hekker is the recipient of the Best Overall Submission award in the Nemetschek Vectorworks competition. John Hill

Tennessee is a state with diverse natural features as—from west to east—fertile plantations give way to rolling hills and then the rugged landscape of the Appalachian Mountains. Sanders Pace Architecture designed a house within the latter for a young couple's first home. The...

While in Singapore for the 2013 World Architecture Festival, World-Architects visited local firm WOHA to check out their five-story office, chat about some of their projects in the city, and look at some in-progress projects. Here is our report. John Hill

On Saturday the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that Team Austria, made up of students from the Vienna Institute of Technology, is the winner of the 2013 Solar Decathlon, held at Orange County Great Park in Irvine, California.  John Hill

Modern architecture is a rarity in what Knowles Blunck Architecture describes as the "McMansions, strip malls, and the occasional ‘western’ themed buildings" of South Dakota. The development where this house sits even has a form-based code that prefers...

No, this short film—one of five made by Architectuul for the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Close, Closer—is not about architects falling in love with each other. It's about an architect and the building he loves, in this case Robert Slinger of Kapok Architects and John... John Hill

Preservationists have successfully halted demolition of M. Paul Friedberg's modernist landscape in Minneapolis. John Hill

The proliferation of building façades covered in apparently random rectangles of color should be called "the Swisspearl effect," due to the colorful spectrum offered by the Swiss company for its fiber cement rainscreen panels. Yet some architects use the colors more selectively... John Hill

Chinese investors are helping to resurrect Joseph Paxton's famous 1851 creation in its namesake park in London. John Hill

In a recent Insight feature in our eMagazine we looked at a selection of "spaces for learning," specifically architecture schools around the world with distinctive buildings and environments. A...

On September 28 the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens opened the Sackler Gallery, a new exhibition space and restaurant in a former gunpowder depot about a five-minute walk from the main gallery. Zaha Hadid designed a signature swooping appendage to the 1805 brick building,... John Hill

The Aukland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki in New Zealand by Frances-Jones Morehen Thorp and Archimedia took the top honor at WAF. John Hill

Antoni Gaudi's masterpiece in Barcelona is on track to be completed 100 years after his death. John Hill

World-Architects traveled to Singapore for the sixth World Architecture Festival (WAF), held at Marina Bay Sands from October 4-6. Architects from all over the world converged on the city-state to present their shortlisted projects, listen to other architects do the same, and find out what... John Hill

The American Society of Landscape Architects announces the winners of its 2013 Professional Awards. John Hill

From 27 September to 13 October the Lucerne Festival Ark Nova 2013 Music Festival is taking place in Matsushima, Japan, what organizers call "a city left with memories of the unforgettable earthquakes and tsunamis that struck Japan on March 11, 2011." John Hill

Collective-LOK's "Screen Play" is selected for the Van Alen Institute's new street-level space. John Hill

Emirates Glass and Arena International have announced the winners of the 10th annual international architecture awards. John Hill

Photographs of the "Mark's House" in Flint, Michigan, have drawn criticism for their representation of the installation's reflective wrapper. John Hill

For the design of the Health Sciences Education Building at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in Phoenix, CO Architects found inspiration in Arizona's iconic canyon formations, splitting the building into two six-story wings and wrapping the exterior in a rainscreen of copper panels. Chandler,... John Hill

Rhode Island, tucked between Connecticut and Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean, is easily the smallest state in the United States, with only 1,000 square miles of land. Its proximity to New York City makes it a desirable location for weekend houses, such as the Watch Hill House for a family...

The Center for Sustainable Landscapes houses administrative and classroom functions for the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, while furthering the institution's mission "to advance sustainability and promote human and environmental well-being through action and...

The fifth Oslo Architecture Triennale, which opened 19 September, is curated by Rotor and built around the theme Behind the Green Door – Architecture and the desire for sustainability. Rotor asks if architecture is up to the task of building the sustainable society and addresses it... John Hill

Historian Joseph Rykwert will be awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects' Royal Gold Medal, in recognition of a lifetime's work. John Hill

At least since Herzog & de Meuron's Dominus Winery in Napa Valley, California, wineries have been great clients for architects, resulting in many notable buildings that are strongly connected to the surrounding cultivated landscapes. Brad Cloepfil, who has wanted to design a winery...

One of the highlights of the weeklong London Design Festivalnbsp;(14-22 September) is the Endless Stair, which occupies the lawn in front of the Tate Modern until 10 October. London's dRMM was obviously inspired by M.C. Escher in their design, which entices people to move up and down... John Hill

Circles at various scales predominate in the new Fletcher Hotel situated near the A2 highway southeast of central Amsterdam. Octatube worked with Benthem Crouwel Architects to realize the outer glass skin but also its structure and the inner layer, creating an integrated façade system. John Hill

Five winners were selected from the twenty projects shortlisted for the 2013 cycle of the triennial Aga Khan Award for Architecture. John Hill

Light reflecting off the London tower designed by Rafael Viñoly is blamed for damaging automobile plastic. John Hill

Oklahoma sits atop some of the largest petroleum fields in the United States, so it's no surprise that the drilling and production of oil and natural gas is a major industry in the state. Kirkpatrick Oil is one of many companies making up the industry. Their headquarters is in Oklahoma...

architecten de vylder vinck taillieu have a solid body of work, which ranges from renovations of homes and single family houses to public and institutional buildings. The studio, made up by Jan De Vylder (1968), Inge Vinck (1973) and Jo Taillieu (1971), belongs to the new generation of...

Montreal’s Saucier + Perrotte Architects turn to roots, trunks and trees for a new pharmaceutical building on the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver.

A chiller plant consists of myriad mechanical equipment situated behind an enclosure, meaning that the architecture can be just about anything. One example is Helmut Jahn's glassy enclosure (

The HomeWise campaign argues for larger homes and windows in new houses in the UK. John Hill