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Massachusetts' Cape Cod is famous for, among other things, the namesake style of residential architecture that started hundreds of years ago but has persevered in suburban landscapes across the country. The traditional form and construction was a response to the cape's harsh natural...

While every four years the Summer Olympics brings attention to the host city and the architecture built to serve the games and the athletes, the impact of the Olympics is geographically much larger. Taking into account the trials that determine which athletes are sent to compete is one such...

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

Architecture may result in buildings, but it is as much process as stable forms. This fact is evident in this house in Upstate New York designed by New York City's Grzywinski + Pons; what looks to be a design strongly determined by its skin is actually a result of factors beyond the...

Gradually, housing developers are beginning to respond to demographic change. The complex called “generations : housing on the mühlgrund”, which Hermann Czech, Adolf Krischanitz and Werner Neuwirth have recently completed, does something more. It is an attempt, using various...

In May the Brooklyn Botanic Garden opened its new Visitor Center, designed by architects WEISS/MANFREDI. Partners Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi actually live nearby, and maybe that proximity allowed them to craft a building that appreciates the existing characteristics of the place while...

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

The Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is not alone in having to deal with a lack of land, symptomatic of development in American cities and suburbs. Yet this condition is balanced by the growing trend of cremation and other above-ground burials, which has pointed the way for...

Almost half of the pig production worldwide takes place in China today. Until the 1990s, many families in the villages surrounding the cities produced pigs for their own consumption or for the local market. With the rapid urbanisation and the transformation of the villages into residential...

Part rain shelter, sunshade, and weather vane, the Cotillion Pavilion is also a contemporary means of making a public park a distinctive place. As architect Mell Lawrence describes in his answers to our Q&A about the pavilion, it is just one of many structures that the city of Dallas is...

The Middlebrook Studios are four sleep/work cabins south of San Francisco that benefit from views of the Pacific Ocean. Architect Cass Calder Smith designed the cabins to go above and beyond the local green-building requirements; most notable is a prefabricated steel canopy that straddles the...

Pangyo Housing, located about an hour and a half by car from downtown Seoul in the city of Seongnam, is a low rise housing complex for 100 low income families.

Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital was founded in 1811, when the United States could boast of only two hospitals. Two centuries later that number exceeds 5,000, and medical facilities are one of the few building types booming during the economic slowdown. A small addition to Mass...

American artist Andrea Zittel has been named the winner of the 8th Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts. John Hill

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. John Hill

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. John Hill

Previously, World-Architects featured the Covington Farmers Market, designed and built by the design/buildLAB at Virginia Tech. That structure reused wood from a warehouse whose site...

Vancouver’s Patkau Architects submitted a poetic and serene solution to last years annual Winnipeg Skating Shelters design competition for the City of Winnipeg. Winnipeg is a city of 600,000 residents located on the Canadian prairie. It is the coldest city of its size outside of...

Stefano Boeri is one of the few practices of international renown that has managed to overcome the difficulties intrinsic to the situation Italy presents for architecture studios and to make of these a virtue. His career as an architect has gone hand in hand...

Cookie cutter retail environments may promote brand recognition, but often at the expense of spaces that respond to their contexts. Anthropologie, like another company that starts with A, opts for unique stores that nevertheless convey the character of the brand. Fifteen of the stores have...

Portland Community College (PCC) is the largest institute of higher learning in Oregon, with close to 100,000 students enrolling every year. Three campuses serve the various needs of the students, while seven smaller centers make up PCC's Extended Learning Campus. Newberg Center opened in...

This home for a couple with three children in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture enjoys a rich natural setting despite its location in a residential district. Architect Takeshi Hosaka based his design on an image of gradation from the woodland on the home’s south side, through the adjacent...

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... John Hill

On July 1, the 13th edition of the Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City opened to the public. John Hill

In 11 Monaten Bauzeit wurde die Probebühne für die Wiener Staatsoper von Kiskan-Kaufmann + Venturo fast kompromisslos umgesetzt. Der statisch optimierte, streckmetallverkleidete Zubau wird zum neuen Kopf eines Kulissendepots im Arsenal. Souverän überspannt er den Wendeplatz...

Time spent in high school chemistry class will no doubt make one realize that the name of this house refers to salt (Sodium Chloride). The white walls and cantilevered volumes certainly warrant the moniker, given that salt is marked by a cubic crystal structure. But it is not an arbitrary...

The Edge House marks itself in the mountains of Northwest Connecticut with two curved walls in vertical cedar boards, one gray and one red. The latter acts as the house's spine and its circulation, also sheltering the occupants from prevailing winds. The gray wall is broken by rectilinear...

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,... John Hill

At World-Architects.com, we are interested in the evolving nature of the workplace, especially in terms of technology's influence. Both the location of work and the design of its setting are changing as service-sector work relies increasingly on portable computing and wireless...

A wedding in China is an issue in which many aspects have to be considered. First one needs a lucky date, chosen by an expert, for the traditional family party. However, before the party takes place, the bride and groom need an official certificate issued by the Civil Affairs Department....

Seven rivers wend their way across Nebraska toward the Missouri River. Pollutants in the rivers have led the University of Nebraska at Omaha to construct research stations on their banks to monitor and study their contamination. The first station, designed by local architect Randy Brown, has...

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. John Hill

On May 22 the Tokyo Skytree Tower opened. The world's tallest free-standing broadcasting tower includes two observation decks open to the public. John Hill

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. John Hill

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. John Hill

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... John Hill