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Film
on 26.06.2024
Watch a trailer for Green Over Gray – Emilio Ambasz, a documentary that explores the revolution in green architecture through four projects designed by Emilio Ambasz, including the terraced ACROS Building in Fukuoka, Japan. The film is being shown at numerous film festivals this year. John Hill
Found
on 25.06.2024
I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture, the highly anticipated exhibition on influential, world-famous architect Ieoh Ming Pei (1917–2019), opens at M+ in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District on June 29. Here we take a visual tour through a smattering of the drawings, photographs, and... John Hill
Headlines
on 24.06.2024
Miss Dior: Stories of a Miss opened recently at Roppongi Museum in Tokyo. Designed by OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu, the exhibition unfolds through seven rooms, each revealing a different facet of the Miss Dior parfum. Japan-Architects got a preview of this latest stop for the touring... John Hill
Reviews
on 24.06.2024
Most of the structures that comprised the Domino Sugar Refinery on the East River in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, were demolished after operations ceased in 2004 and a masterplan for a mixed-use development was approved a decade later. The landmark refinery building from 1884 remains, effectively a... Practice for Architecture and Urbanism | PAU
Headlines
on 23.06.2024
The French office of architects Nicolas Moreau and Hiroko Kusunoki, in collaboration with Mexican architect Frida Escobedo and France's AIA Life Designers, have been selected to renovate the Centre Pompidou, the iconic Parisian building designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers in the 1970s.
Insight
on 23.06.2024
The Hessian state capital of Wiesbaden is celebrating the opening of a shining architectural icon. The museum of private collector Reinhard Ernst is architecture at its finest, designed by the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, the 1993 Pritzker Prize laureate Falk Jaeger
Film
on 19.06.2024
The latest video from Stewart Hicks takes a deep dive into 400 Lake Shore, a pair of skyscrapers that recently broke ground in Chicago, focusing on how the architects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill developed the form of the skyscrapers to address wind forces. John Hill
Found
on 18.06.2024
How long after an architecture firm is established should it release its first monograph? A number of variables come to play in determining an answer, but the notorious slowness of architecture means a firm might not put its project in print until it has reached drinking age. The four recently... John Hill
Reviews
on 17.06.2024
CIA Conad recently completed its new headquarters on the outskirts of Forlì, the city in Northern Italy where the retail cooperative was founded 65 years ago. The design by tissellistudioarchitetti, based in nearby Cesena, is a slender linear volume that is covered in glass and aluminum fins... tissellistudioarchitetti
Number
on 17.06.2024
Minimum number of pensioners living in Mirabella, a 20-story “university retirement community” on the campus of Arizona... René Ammann
Insight
on 14.06.2024
As in other fields, artificial intelligence is also playing an increasingly important role in architecture. How it will change the discipline depends on the people who use it. This became clear at the “AI – Architectural Intelligence” conference held at the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied... Elias Baumgarten
Headlines
on 13.06.2024
Two years ahead of Barcelona serving as World Capital of Architecture and hosting the UIA World Congress in 2026, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Barcelona City Council are launching an international ideas competition asking young architects to remodel ten party walls spread across the... John Hill
Film
on 12.06.2024
Les Matérialistes is a short documentary film produced by Architecture Without Borders Quebec, Dark Matter Labs, Les Interstices, and RECYC-QUÉBEC about the titular participatory futurist pilot project that is focused on the circular economy of construction materials in Quebec. John Hill
Headlines
on 12.06.2024
Fumihiko Maki, the celebrated Japanese architect who was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993, died of natural causes at his home in Tokyo on June 6. He was 95. John Hill
Headlines
on 10.06.2024
As announced at the annual AIA Conference on Architecture that recently took place in Washington, DC, Rafael Viñoly's Tokyo International Forum, completed in 1996, is the 2024 recipient of the AIA's Twenty-five Year Award. John Hill
Reviews
on 10.06.2024
Industrial buildings converted into cultural venues are nothing new, but recent years have seen some notable examples of an apparently inflexible type — grain silos — transformed into eye-catching places of culture. Adding to Thomas Heatherwick's MOCAA in South Africa and the... Prokš Přikryl architekti
Number
on 10.06.2024
Years the Michigan Central Station Detroit stood vacant before more than 3,100 skilled tradespeople worked 1.7 million hours to restore the iconic building that... René Ammann
Headlines
on 06.06.2024
The Obel Award, the annual prize founded by the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation in 2019 to honor architectural contributions to human development all over the world, has announced the focus of its sixth cycle: “Architectures WITH.” John Hill
Found
on 05.06.2024
The 23rd Serpentine Pavilion opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on June 7. Designed by Korean architect Minsuk Cho and his firm Mass Studies, the pavilion is titled Archipelagic Void, referring to the five “islands” radiating from a central open space and referenceing... John Hill
Headlines
on 05.06.2024
Since it is so far from the city center, the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Siegen does not play a major role in the town of Siegen, Germany. The competition for the relocation of the faculty, which has now been decided, marks the start of a change. The aim: bring more life to... Katinka Corts
Film
on 04.06.2024
The fifth edition of Living Places - Simon Architecture Prize launched at the end of May at Simon Company's headquarters in Barcelona. The event was accompanied by a new short film, “El Luchador,” that features a professional wrestler inside Agustín Hernández's famous Taller de Arquitectura in... John Hill
Insight
on 04.06.2024
Site Specific, Surface/Subsurface, Public Natures, Evolutionary Infrastructures — the titles of the books by and about Weiss/Manfredi, the... Vladimir Belogolovsky
Headlines
on 03.06.2024
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, which last expanded in 2007 with the Bloch Building designed by Steven Holl Architects, will hold a design competition later this year to select the architect for its next expansion. John Hill
Number
on 02.06.2024
Number of years the Interdesign Building, a brutalist concrete structure in Beirut designed by the late architectural designer Khalil Khouri, René Ammann
Reviews
on 02.06.2024
“For Everyone a Garden” is the title of a 1974 book by architect Moshe Safdie but also a statement of belief that started with the Habitat 67 in Montreal and has found its greatest fruition in the projects Safdie's firm has designed in Singapore. Safdie Architects answered a few questions... Safdie Architects
Headlines
on 31.05.2024
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Aviation have released renderings for the design of Satellite Concourse One at O’Hare International Airport, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ( John Hill
Found
on 30.05.2024
A recent issue of Architectural Design (AD) delves into the early archive of Lebbeus Woods, the visionary architect, celebrated delineator, and influential educator who died in 2012. Focusing on the Black Notebooks he filled from the late 1960s to 1985, the publication offers something... John Hill
Products
on 30.05.2024
To express the fluid, soft shapes of their design of the Hainan Science Museum, now under construction in Haikou, China, Ma Yansong and MAD Architects opted for panels made from fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP). John Hill
Film
on 28.05.2024
Seven and a half years after it opened to the public, Snøhetta co-founder Kjetil Trædal Thorsen speaks about the Lascaux IV International Centre for Cave Art in Montignac, France, in a new six-minute video. John Hill
Reviews
on 27.05.2024
Kunstsilo is the transformation of a former grain silo on Odderøya in Kristiansand, Norway, into a museum housing three art collections: the Sørlandet Art Collection, the Tangen Collection, and the Christianssands Picture Gallery. Similiary triptych in nature, the museum was designed by three... Mestres Wåge, Mendoza Partida and BAX studio
Number
on 26.05.2024
Amount the Los Angeles City Council has approved to set up barriers, install an all-encompassing fence, enlist private on-site security, and... René Ammann
Headlines
on 24.05.2024
For this year's State Garden Show in Wangen im Allgäu, in Southern Germany, researchers from institutes in Stuttgart and dedicated craftsmen have planned and realized an accessible observation tower. The shape is familiar, but the height achieved is new. Katinka Corts
Headlines
on 23.05.2024
Architecture Exchange, a platform “dedicated to catalyzing ideas and debate within architecture,” recently put out a call soliciting nominations “for the most significant architectural theory texts in the period between 2008 and 2024.” John Hill
Found
on 23.05.2024
Unzoomed is a daily online game that asks people to guess the city they are looking at in an aerial view; each incorrect guess reveals more context as the view zooms out. The game by Benjamin Td is fun and addictive, especially for architects and planners. John Hill