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Bookstores may be a dying breed, but they are integral to universities, where they provide more than just textbooks to students. But when a national chain runs the bookstore there is the risk of inserting a standard big-box into the context of the school and town. Thankfully for the...

The recently departed Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute will serve as Creative Director of the 2013 Shenzhen Biennale. John Hill

A few months short of its completion, Russians are calling for the "Mariinsky 2"—the most expensive theater building in the world—to be demolished. John Hill

Five finalists have been chosen from 335 works for the 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. John Hill

Oak and Laurel Halls serve the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at the University of Connecticut. Leers Weinzapfel Associates carefully inserted the contextual yet contemporary buildings into the school's Storrs campus. Although separated from each other...

Paul Rudolph's Orange County Government Center is saved, but Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital will face the wrecking ball. John Hill

On March 1 the Storefront for Art and Architecture is holding its 30th Anniversary Gala in the magnificent 9-story atrium space of Temple Court at 5 Beekman Street in Lower Manhattan. John Hill

Theatre Aspen opened its new facilities last June, just in time for a summer of concerts in the city's beautiful Rio Grande Park. The new structure consists of a demountable black box theatre that is removed after the summer season and a permanent pavilion that houses the lobby,...

The 2012 Building of the Year on American-Architects is the Masonic Amphitheatre Project in Clifton Forge, Virginia, designed and consructed by the design/buildLAB at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design. John Hill

World-Architects visited the New York office of OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture, headed by partner Shohei Shigematsu. We talked with Mr. Shigematsu about his background and experience with OMA, got a tour of the SoHo office space, and looked at some in-progress projects. John Hill

The world’s first re-locatable research facility opened on February 5, one hundred years after Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic Antarctic expeditions. John Hill

The Spanish architect is the recipient of an award created in 1963 in honor of German architect Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950). John Hill

The 1912 Cass Gilbert-design library has reopened after a $70 million renovation oversaw by Cannon Design. John Hill

Concrete is traditionally considered to be heavy and monolithic, but the addition of glass fibers changes concrete to something lightweight and even porous. The sculptural potential of this increasingly common method can be seen in the application of Rieder's Sculptural fibreC panels... John Hill

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, has selected Steven Holl Architects to design an expansion to its Edward Durell Stone-designed building. John Hill

If one state embodies the merits of modern, single-family residential architecture it is California, the land of Eichlers, the Case Study Houses, and now Dwell magazine. The influence of the latter and the broader "tyranny of consumerism" can be found in the "fresh voice and...

Foster + Partners, working with the European Space Agency, is exploring the possibility of using 3D printing to build a lunar base from the moon's soil. John Hill

Voting for Building of the Year 2012 on American-Architects is closed. The winner will be announced in eMagazine #7/13 on February 11. John Hill

As architects Osamu Nishida and Erika Nakagawa designed this residence in Kanagawa Prefecture, they conceived of the architectural plan as a map. The pair strewed elements of the residence across the lot, and by doing so created a unique home structured similarly to a village. The...

This urban infill project in Fayetteville is a house and studio for a painter who is also a professor at the University of Arkansas. The house is situated on the south to take advantage of the sun, and the studio is on the north for that side's ever-important indirect light; a carport...

Is this a bird's eye view of Midtown Manhattan? Or a model of a planned city in China? No, it's actually a sculpture made entirely of scrap wood by James McNabb. John Hill

Voting for the 2012 Building of the Year at American-Architects, German-Architects, and Swiss-Architects ends on Thursday, January 31. John Hill

Janjaap Ruijssenaars is designing the "Landscape House" as a Möbius strip to be built from blocks made from a 3-D printer. John Hill

The team of Monadnock Development, Actors Fund Housing Development, and nARCHITECTS has won a competition for mirco-units in Manhattan. John Hill

Two weeks after his appointment, 2014 Venice Biennale curator Rem Koolhaas has chosen the title for the exhibition: Fundamentals. John Hill

Phoenix is a sprawling desert city that encompasses and is surrounded by a number of mountains. One within the city limits is South Mountain, home to the largest municipal park in the United States. About one mile north of its namesake mountain is the South Mountain Community Library, serving...

The American Institute of Architects has selected 28 recipients from over 700 submissions for its honor awards in architecture, interior architecture, and regional & urban design. John Hill

Ziba's Portland, Oregon, office may be blessed with a 200-seat auditorium, but it one that is too compact for traditional folding chairs. So like any decent design and innovation consultancy, Ziba designed their own seats, the slender and aptly named JumpSeat, now manufactured by Sedia... John Hill

It's hard to not be charmed by this short animated film by Andrea Stinga and Federico Gonzalez that runs through 26 great architects and their most well known buildings, one for each letter of the alphabet. John Hill

CODA wins the MoMA PS1 Young Architect's Program, and Situ Studio is chosen by the Times Square Alliance for Heartwalk. John Hill

United Visual Artists' Always/Never is the result of their "recent investigations of the perception of time." John Hill

For years Portugal has captured the attention of the international architecture scene, but has also proven to be a breeding ground for architects beyond the great masters such as Fernando Távora, Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura. The famous Porto School has given way to a...

World-Architects visited the office of Studio Gang Architects in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood for a tour of the studio and a chance to talk with Jeanne Gang about her exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, the state of architecture in her hometown, and some in-progress projects in... John Hill

Zaha Hadid Architects' third project for SOHO China is in a race to finish before a copycat in Chongqing is completed. John Hill

A quick glance at the aptly named Snowhaus would lead one to think the building is covered in snow. In reality the white exterior is a bit more conventional, but it is also less dependent on the weather; even in Alaska the snow melts in the summer. The mixed-use project in Anchorage is...

On January 7 the great architecture critic died at the age of 91, less than one week after her last article was published. John Hill