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Citizens of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, are being asked to vote on one of two designs — by David Hotson Architect and Wilmotte & Associés — for the modernization and completion of the Cascade Complex that was started in the 1970s but never finished. John Hill

The American Hardwood Export Council's (AHEC) contribution to this year's London Design Festival is Vert, a timber structure designed by Diez Office with OMCºC as a cooling space for visitors and a means of increasing biodiversity in urban environments. Vert is installed at the Parade Ground... John Hill

Brazilian artist Ciao Reisewitz is the latest artist to take over the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. Suspendre el cel fills the pavilion with palm trees, ferns, and other plants that recall the Amazon rainforests and draw attention to their destruction and that of indigenous... John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the shortlisted projects for its awards focused on affordable housing and adaptive reuse: the 2024 Neave Brown Award for Housing and the 2024 Reinvention Award. John Hill

The Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain has announced that, in celebration of its 40th anniversary this year, it will be moving into a historic building on Place du Palais-Royal by the end of 2025. Interior renovations will be carried out by Jean Nouvel, the architect of its current... John Hill

Energies, the new exhibition that opened at the Swiss Institute in Manhattan's East Village on September 11, invites visitors to explore other parts of the neighborhood related to the exhibition's themes of “ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political... John Hill

The Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design and Real Estate Company ADM have revealed the 623 entries that were submitted in the first stage of an open international design competition for a new museum of architecture in Helsinki’s South Harbour. All 623 proposals are... John Hill

The latest addition to Tippet Rise Art Center — a sprawling ranch in Montana that has been home to artworks, pavilions, and performance spaces since opening in 2016 — is Geode, an open-air acoustical structure and performance venue designed by Arup to create an intimate sonic environment... John Hill

Back in May, on the UNESCO International Day of Light, the 2024 Daylight Awards were awarded to Alberto Camp Baeza and Till Roenneber, respectively in the architecture and research categories. The Daylight Award has released videos of their ten-minute award lectures. John Hill

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has been named a recipient of Japan Art Association’s 2024 Praemium Imperiale, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists. John Hill

AA Folios: 1983–1985 is a small but dense exhibition now on display at The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. Open to the public for just three weeks, the exhibition presents seven of the fourteen Folios produced by the Architectural Association in... John Hill

Details have been announced for the proposed Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA), the first major art museum for the “City of Lights.” Planned for a site in Symphony Park, the museum is being designed by Francis Kéré, recipient of the John Hill

Pixel, the mixed-use complex designed by MVRDV for the new Makers District on Al Reem Island in Abu Dhabi, is made up of seven towers whose terraces seem to tumble down toward a central courtyard. The terraces and bay windows are shaded by pixelated screens made with glazed brick panels from... John Hill

Seven years after 72 people were killed in a fire that, due to highly flammable facade retrofit, quickly spread through the 24-story Grenfell Tower... John Hill

As part of the the Kunsttage Basel event in late August, Nicolas Krupp Gallery invited Swiss visual artist Eric Hatten to play around with the materials in the gallery's new exhibition space currently under construction. VernissageTV walked through the exhibition in one of its latest videos. John Hill

Unlike fashion, publishing, and other fields, architecture doesn't have a “season.” But when it comes to exhibitions and other architectural events, autumn is a busy time. Here we highlight a half-dozen of the numerous architecture exhibitions opening in September and October. These are... John Hill

The British Museum has announces a shortlist of five architect-led teams for a major renovation of its Western Range Galleries, a project the museum contends is “one of the most significant cultural renovation projects in the world.” John Hill

A typed note by John Sainsbury, one of the donors for the 1991 addition to the National Gallery in London bearing the family's name, was recently found in a false column. The note explicitly criticizes the column as “a mistake of the architect,” Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. John Hill

Architectural Digest tours the 75.9 House in the Vancouver countryside with architect Omer Arbel, who devised a tent-like fabric formwork for the house's lily pad-shaped columns, in its latest “Unique Spaces” video. John Hill

Designed by Ayers Saint Gross, and following from a concept developed by Studio Gang in their strategic master plan for the National Aquarium a decade ago, the Harbor Wetland aims to educate the public and expand the natural habitat in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. John Hill

Newly released renderings show the Grand Stade Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco, the 115,000-capacity stadium projected to be the largest football stadium in the world. Designed by Populous in collaboration with Oualalou + Choi, the stadium's tented roof was inspired by moussem, an... John Hill

Architect and building tech innovator Doris Sung spoke at TED Salon: The Rockefeller Foundation in May about how building facades can be active contributors to urban life and public health, presenting proposals developed by her firm DOSU Studio Architecture. John Hill

Price Tower, the 19-story landmark building in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, that is the only skyscraper realized by Frank Lloyd Wright, will close on September 1, one year after its current owner purchased it for just $10, and go up for auction in October. John Hill

Warsaw's WXCA has won the competition to design a new building for the 104-year-old Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, Poland. John Hill

Constructing Hope: Ukraine is an exhibition at the Center for Architecture in New York City that gathers the grassroots work of numerous multidisciplinary creatives who are applying architectural thinking to support Ukraine's ongoing reconstruction efforts. Take a visual tour through... John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings in the running for the 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize, considered “the UK’s most prestigious architecture award.” John Hill

The latest architecture-related film from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features an interview with Andrés Jaque, founder of the Office for Political Innovation and Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). John Hill

With summer break upon us, World-Architects has rummaged through some of the many recently published architecture books to find a dozen recommendations for summer reading, presented in alphabetical order by title — or clockwise per our sunny illustration. John Hill

World-Architects spoke recently with architect, engineer, author, and educator Carlo Ratti via Zoom, to discuss his plans for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and parse the theme — Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. — that he has defined for the exhibition. Our... John Hill

The latest installment of The Architects Series, a project of The Plan Magazine and Iris Ceramica Group, presents a half-hour documentary on the architecture and interior design studio NOA... John Hill

What would have been the first Pompidou outpost in North America, the “Centre Pompidou x Jersey City” paroject has been put on hold indefinitely, with New Jersey lawmakers pulling funding for the project that would have adaptively reused the city-owned Pathside Building. John Hill

The Architects' Journal is reporting that among the numerous firms that have pulled out of The Line, the flagship project of the $1.5 trillion NEOM development in Saudi Arabia, is Morphosis, the Los Angeles firm of Thom Mayne that was leading the 170-kilometer-long project and designing its... John Hill

Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Buildings is a new book published by Prestel that sees architectural photographer Cemal Emden visiting all of the completed works of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978). The book presents such famous works as the Brion Tomb and Castelvecchio as well as... John Hill

Alexandros Tombazis, who was considered the father of bioclimatic architecture in Greece and espoused a “less is beautiful” approach to architecture, died on June 24 at the age of 85 following a long illness.  John Hill

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

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