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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

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

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

The winding Cumberland River cuts the city of Nashville, Tennessee, roughly in half, a situation that necessitates a number of bridges to traverse the waterway. A density of bridges occurs near downtown, including the Shelby Street Bridge, whose distinctive truss structure originally carried...

Japan-Architects.com’s Yuna Yagi recently visited Horibe Associates Architect's Office in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture. Yuna’s conversation with Ms. Horibe touched on everything from what it’s like to be one of relatively few female architects in Japan and her approach... Yuna Yagi

Located on the 185,000-square-meter site of a former ranch in Taikicho, Hokkaido, Même Meadows is a unique research facility for studying design responses to the region’s harsh climate. The environmental technology research institute based at the Meadows focuses on the collaborative...

Ohio is home to enough starchitect-designed buildings—by the likes of Coop Himmelb(l)au, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and SANAA—to make the state a must on any archi-tourist's radar. But cultural icons alone, like Farshid Moussavi's MOCA Cleveland, do not a city make....

The town of Bethlehem in eastern Pennsylvania was home to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, which churned out steel for buildings, ships, and weapons for close to 150 years. The company went bankrupt in 2001 after decades of decline, selling its six plants two years later. This move led to...

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

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

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

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

Studio 804 is the final design studio for graduate students at the University of Kansas (KU) School of Architecture, Design and Planning in Lawrence, Kansas. While the design-build studio is typically focused on sustainable housing for disadvantaged communities, their latest undertaking is a...

Schwarze und weiße Rechtecke ergießen sich in einem regelmäßigen Muster über das Haus. Es erinnert an ein Schachbrett, hat aber auch etwas von den weiß verschneiten Bergen, die Innsbruck umringen.

Coinciding with the rise of digital tools that foster participatory systems, Hybrid Space Lab is an entity that exists in the realm between architect and client, the traditional shapers of space. Here Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar of Hybrid Space Lab share three of their projects... Elizabeth Sikiaridi, Frans Vogelaar

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

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

The E.J. Ourso College of Business's new Business Education Complex is comprised of four volumes: a circular commons, a semi-circular auditorium, and two rectangular classroom wings. Facades of wood, glass, and bronze look upon a landscaped courtyard at the project's center. Ikon.5...

With its complex of halls and meeting spaces, the Kanazawa Umimirai Library, designed by Coelecanth K&H, serves as the core of a new community in the castle district of Kanazawa. Twenty-five pillars support the 45-meter-square, 12-meter-high space, lending it a sense of presence fitting to a...

In contrast to the "existing Beverly Hills clichés," as architect Dan Brunn calls them, Yojisan's quiet facade of cedar, Cor-ten steel, and glass greets passersby along North Beverly Drive, just steps away from Wilshire Boulevard. Inside, the home for Yoji Tajima's haute...

In the German city of Mannheim an exhibition shows 100 contemporary architectural projects from China. The show was curated by Fang Zhenning for the Chinese cultural year in Germany, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Earlier the...

On the eve of the Orgatec modern office & facility fair in Cologne, World-Architects.com interviews Vitra CEO Hanns-Peter Cohn about today's work environment, Vitra's "Citizen Office" project, and what innovations they'll present at the fair (Oct. 23-27). Jenny Keller

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

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

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

Faced with a client that wanted to expand their existing house in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood, and limitations placed on formal expression through the block's historic designation, architects SFOSL built up the house vertically and covered it in a material typically used...

The form and construction of the Harvest Pavilion at Common Ground High School in New Haven, Connecticut, may be simple, but the result is a very appealing building whose character changes during the day and when open or closed. This responds to the pavilion's various uses: It serves to...

In what is common in many parts of the United States, Santa Monica, California's industrial buildings have been transformed into office spaces for replacement business, in this case for entertainment and tech companies. Many of these old industrial spaces near Los Angeles feature large...

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

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

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

Buildings for wineries have become one of the most unexpected typologies for high-profile architecture, resulting in designs by Frank Gehry, Santiago Calatrava, Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, and other household names. Yet flashy forms are not appropriate for all vitners. Studio B...

By digging into the terraced building site, architect Keisuke Maeda of UID created a living area that is protected from the elements yet strongly connected to the land. His “House on the Surface of the Earth” is not a pre-conceived structure simply set on the ground, but rather a...

For some time now Belgian architecture has been forging ahead as one of the most interesting in Europe. Following in the wake of more consolidated studios like Robrecht en Daem (2G N.55), Xaveer De Geyter or Stéphane Beel is a new generation of top-notch architects such as De Vylder...

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

A 19th-century barn in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhooed was originally used as a dairy distribution center and later as an artist's studio and gallery. It was recently transformed by Vinci | Hamp Architects into a house for a family of five. Forced with literally rebuilding the...