Magazine

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel has posted a series of videos with architects talking about the the world-renowned Danish architect who would have turned 100 in April 2018. John Hill

Montreal's Chevalier Morales Architectes, an "architectural firm that reflects the positive impact of the architectural competition process in Quebec," is the recipient of the 2018 Emerging Architectural Practice Award given out by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada... John Hill

The Vatican has released some details on the inaugural Holy See pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which will consist of ten chapels by ten architects and a pavilion inspired by Gunnar Asplund's famous Woodland Chapel in Stockholm. John Hill

The Paris office of OPUS 5 has delivered the third and final phase of the rehabilitation of the Abbey d'Ardenne in Normandy, France. To complete an investment of over 25 years, the former stables of this Gothic abbey are now home to an exhibition gallery. OPUS 5 Architectes

L’Accostée House is located in the Adstock area, on the shores of Lac St-François. The clients have lived on this beautiful site for a few years and enjoy aquatic activities on the lake. Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes

A largest possible square floor plan was first drawn within the almost square lot of the house. Then a slightly smaller square plan was drawn inside the outer square, then it was rotated around the center of the square clock-wise by 32.4 degrees creating four right triangles inside the outer... Naf Architect & Design

The Voxman Music Building is one of three recently completed arts buildings at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Of the three, it is the only one situated downtown rather than on campus. This situation gives the building a public face, and the architects responded with a design that links the... LMN Architects

As part of the renovation of 22 Parkside, the 50-year-old "flexible machine for living" that Richard Rogers designed for his parents and is now used by Harvard University as a fellowship residence and event space, renovation architect Philip Gumuchdjian lined its two wet rooms with... John Hill

The bow tie-shaped National Theatre of Albania designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and Theatre Projects is a 3-in-1 cultural venue tailored to Tirana’s thriving theatre and performance art scene. BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

Luftwerk, the artistic collaboration of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero, is more than adept at manipulating light and color. A new solo show at Volume Gallery in Chicago is the impressive result of a decade of the duo's research, experimentation, and installations. John Hill

Akira Sakamoto Architect & Associates' House in Gein, Osaka, is a composition of concrete surfaces and protruding boxes, anchored by a raised patio reached from an elevated yard. Akira Sakamoto Architect & Associates

A bold cantilever​ is the standout feature of The Clearwater, a vacation home on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido designed by Seshimo Architects + Peter Hahn Associates. The architects answered a few questions about the project. Seshimo Architects + Peter Hahn Associates

Ahead of its groundbreaking on Wednesday, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has released new renderings of the building designed by MAD Architects for Exposition Park in Los Angeles. John Hill

Ben van Berkel and UNStudio have launched UNSense, a new "arch tech" startup that "explores and develops new integrated tech solutions specifically designed for cities, buildings and indoor environments." John Hill

Five women, including four former employees of Richard Meier & Partners Architects, have accused the famed New York architect of sexual harassment, according to a New York Times article published Tuesday afternoon. John Hill

Moshe Safdie, the AIA Gold Medal-winning architect best known for Habitat 67 in Montreal, spoke with PLANE—SITE in the sixth video of a series leading up to the GAA Foundation's Time-Space-Existence exhibition, planned as a collateral exhibition of the 2018 Venice... John Hill

Located next to an expressway, the Technical Center of Blagnac was built in the middle of a neighborhood characterized by a highly industrialized program. Nevertheless, a classified forest and a cemetery are located just next to the site. NBJ Architectes

Located in an area of neighborhoods called Jardins, with single-family houses and green areas listed as heritage, this house has 550m2 of built area divided into two levels, the ground and upper floors. The original land had a four-meter slope height in relation to the level of the street. Drucker Architecture

The Murphy Arts District is a multi-phase project that includes a number of performance venues, outdoor spaces, and renovations of old buildings for the small town of El Dorado, Arkansas. The first phase was completed in September 2017, the same month DLR Group acquired Westlake Reed Leskosky.... DLR Group|Westlake Reed Leskosky

Last week, 90-year-old Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi was named the 2018 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the profession’s highest honor. Here we highlight three of Doshi’s masterpieces: a university realized over five decades; low-cost housing; and his own... John Hill

The party wall office adapts an aging, dingy row house to create a narrow new work space full of light. banduk*smith*studio

The Arch for Arch stands as a tribute to the human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, affectionally known as “Arch” by fellow South Africans, as well as a monument to peace and democracy. Snøhetta, Local Studio

Discovering Taiwan is a permanent exhibition dedicated to the History of the collections of the National Taiwan Museum, the History of the Natural and Aboriginal Treasures of Taiwan, and the History of Japanese Researchers who built this institution one century ago. Studio TING

Coinciding with International Women's Day, Architectural Review/Architects' Journal has posted videos from last week's Women in Architecture luncheon, when Amanda Levete and Madelon Vriesendorp received their Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable Prizes, respectively. John Hill

Tom Pritzker, Chairman of Hyatt Foundation, has announced that Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi is the 2018 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. John Hill

Songyang is a county dominated by mountains and the Songyin River, with more than 400 villages in the southeast of Zhejiang Province. Circa 240,000 inhabitants live here and the provincial capital of Hangzhou is located 270 kilometres away. Eduard Kögel

The Jianliju theatre company, in an interesting examination of typology, offers a unique spectator experience where the audience plays an integral part of the performances and productions. As such the brief for their new premises in Shanghai demands a careful architectural approach to the... More Design Office (MDO)

The Chicago Architecture Biennial and Mayor Rahm Emanuel have announced that Yesomi Umolu, Exhibitions Curator at the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, will serve as the Artistic Director of the third Chicago Architecture Biennial, taking place in late 2019. John Hill

Dream the Combine has been named the 2018 winner of The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1’s annual Young Architects Program with Hide & Seek, which will be on display at the museum's Long Island City, Queens, location this summer. John Hill

The Oignies coal mine closed in 1990, leaving a whole population and its industrial mining heritage (pithead buildings, industrial buildings, head frames) in disarray. The project to reinstate this territory marked by decades of mining operations, began in 2005 with the competition mounted by the... Herault Arnod Architectes

The fourth MPavilion, designed by OMA partners Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten, has found a permanent home at Monash University in Melbourne. John Hill

Brick outside and wood inside, the Filson Historical Society's Owsley Brown II History Center narrates the history of the Ohio River Valley in a manner that is local yet contemporary. Nominated recently for the de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop

Sou Fujimoto Architects has won an invited competition to design the HSG Learning Center on the Rosenberg estate for the University of St.Gallen. John Hill, Jenny Keller

The Architectural Association Search Committee has announced its selection of Eva Franch i Gilabert, the Chief Curator and Executive Director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture, as the next Director of the AA School. John Hill

As part of their 2018 Women in Architecture awards, The Architectural Review and The Architects’ Journal have announced Sandra Barclay as Architect of the Year and Gloria Cabral as the winner of the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture. John Hill

Stadthaus am Markt is the construction of a museum in the historic center of Frankfurt integrating archeological excavations, as well as an architectural re-interpretation of old town houses. Christian Bauer & Associés