Magazine

John Hill | 23.08.2017

Headlines

After repeated delays, some new photos posted to Twitter show that Jean Nouvel's Louvre Abu Dhabi is finally nearing completion.


Denis Esakov, Karina Diemer | 23.08.2017

Insight

Spying on Moscow is a new "winged guide" by photographer Denis Esakov and author Karina Diemer that portrays Russia's largest city from above to reveal the "fifth façades" of its important buildings.


John Hill | 22.08.2017

Found

Two recent architectural interventions making the rounds on architecture blogs – one on a rooftop and one underneath a bridge – call attention to the potential of leftover spaces in cities.


John Hill | 22.08.2017

Found

Work stopped yesterday for much of the United States and other parts of North America as the first total solar eclipse in 99 years passed from the West Coast to the East Coast.


John Hill | 22.08.2017

Headlines

Six design teams have been shortlisted in an international design competition for the future restoration, reimagining and rebuilding of Clandon Park, an 18th-century Palladian house in Surrey.


Morphogenesis | 21.08.2017

Works

Through the Artisan House project, Morphogenesis looks to revive and re-establish a patronage for traditional Indian artisanal skills.


Tim Cuppett Architects | 21.08.2017

Building of the Week

Shou Sugi Ban – the traditional Japanese technique that translates to "burnt cedar board" – covers the exterior of this house in Austin's Travis Heights neighborhood. Selected in response to the clients wishes and the unique characteristics of the sloped site, the wood...


John Hill | 18.08.2017

Products

A new restaurant designed by RCR Arquitectes, the recipients of the 2017 Pritzker Archtecture Prize, with Pau Llimona features flooring and other sintered stone surfaces that immerse diners in an "enigmatic" environment derived from a watercolor.


Qatar Foundation, AECOM | 17.08.2017

Works

Taking the elemental life-force of oxygen as its inspiration, Oxygen Park is a unique public space designed for health and wellbeing in a desert environment. It has been created with the local community in mind, providing an open space in which to exercise, rest, and play.


Wild Bär Heule Architekten | 16.08.2017

Building of the Week

Wild Bär Heule Architekten recently completed a residential tower in Winterthur. Architect Ivar Heule answers our questions.


John Hill | 15.08.2017

Headlines

On October first, the Yayoi Kusama Museum of Art will be opening to the public in a five-story building designed by Kume Sekkei in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district.


Coates Design Architects | 14.08.2017

Building of the Week

Cle Elum is a small town located about a 90-minute drive east of Seattle. The Ellis family, having earlier commissioned Coates Design Architects to design their house on Bainbridge Island, hired the firm...


John Hill | 14.08.2017

Headlines

Four months after Mayor of London Sadiq Khan pulled funding for Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge, the Garden Bridge Trust has announced the controversial project's closure.


John Hill | 11.08.2017

Found

The latest children's book by author and illustrator Jeanette Winter is about the life of Zaha Hadid and the famed architect's "triumph over adversity."


SHAU | 10.08.2017

Works

With high illiteracy rate in Indonesia and lack of reading facilities, SHAU started a mission: to rekindle interest in books by offering a designed place for reading paired with multiple community activities.


John Hill | 09.08.2017

Film

The feature film debut of director Kogonada not only finds inspiration in the architectural mecca of Columbus, Indiana – it makes the city an integral character in ​Columbus.


John Hill | 02.08.2017

Headlines

An international collaboration led by California's wHY has won the two-stage competition for the £25m Ross Pavilion and West Princes Street Gardens project in Edinburgh, Scotland.


John Hill | 02.08.2017

Headlines

Buildings designed by Lina Bo Bardi, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Kenzo Tange, Frank Lloyd Wright and others are among the dozen recipients of The Getty Foundation's 2017 Keeping It Modern grants.


John Hill | 01.08.2017

Headlines

Two years after receiving the Gold Medal from the Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney has been named the recipient of AIA Chicago’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award.


Concrete | 31.07.2017

Building of the Week

One of the most distinctive new towers visible from the west side of Manhattan across the Hudson River is Jersey City Urby, which looks like a number of blocks stacked slighly askew. More than just a new residential tower, it is one of the first so-called Urby projects, which combine residences...


John Hill | 26.07.2017

Film

NOWNESS presents ØDE, a collaboration between Eliot Lee Hazel and Petecia Le Fawnhawk that was originally exhibited on digital billboards in Downtown Los Angeles last November.


SPACECUTTER | 25.07.2017

Building of the Week

Narrow residential lots are par for the course in such Chicago neighborhoods as East Village, where SPACECUTTER's Cut Triplex is located. The site of this particular house is special, though, since it abuts an east-west alley. Architect Alex Gil of SPACECUTTER took advantage of this...


John Hill | 21.07.2017

Found

Late last month Jenny Sabin Studio's Lumen opened at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. World-Architects visited today to get some impressions of the 2017 YAP installation.


John Hill | 20.07.2017

Headlines

The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the six shortlisted buildings for the 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize, aka "the UK's best new building."


John Hill | 14.07.2017

Headlines

Today the UK's Royal Mail released a special issue of ten stamps that feature "some of the finest public buildings erected in the last 20 years."


BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group | 13.07.2017

Works

Varde Museums, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, and Tinker Imagineers celebrate the opening of TIRPITZ – a sanctuary in the sand that acts as a gentle counterbalance to the dramatic war history of the site in Blåvand on the west coast of Denmark.


Büro Koray Duman Architects | 13.07.2017

Works

The ASMA (American Society for Muslim Advancement) and Büro Koray Duman are working on a new cultural center prototype that aims for the full integration of American Muslims into society while promoting and enriching their religious identity. The new center will be in New York City and is...


Carsten Sauerbrei | 12.07.2017

Insight

Parametric design, building information modeling, computer-aided manufacturing – these terms represent the digital change in architecture and the building industry. Such architects as Jürgen Mayer H. and Tobias Wallisser, as well as engineers like Werner Sobek, are carrying out...


John Hill | 12.07.2017

Headlines

In a letter to The New York Review of Books, cellist Yo-Yo Ma makes a plea to save Point Counterpoint II, a floating concert hall designed by Louis I. Kahn in the 1960s.


Ateliers 2/3/4/ | 11.07.2017

Works

A high school is like a small estate made up of work, recreation, leisure, encounter and shared places. The access as streets, squares provides perspectives that give life to the estate.


John Hill | 11.07.2017

Found

In celebration of Prospect Park's 150th anniversary, the famous Brooklyn park's Rose Garden has been taken over by 7,000 yellow pinwheels per a design by Reddymade Architecture and Design with AREA4.


John Hill | 10.07.2017

Headlines

The Barbican, London Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall School of Music & Drama have announced the shortlist for the planned Centre for Music in the City of London.


ODA New York | 10.07.2017

Building of the Week

One of the most enticing amenities for residents buying or renting an apartment in a big city is outdoor space, yet in far too many cases the balconies hung off of buildings are too shallow to be of much use. Such is definitely not the case with ODA's new rental apartment building at 2222...


John Hill | 07.07.2017

Headlines

The Architectural League of New York has announced the two recipients of the Deborah J. Norden Fund travel grants: Kevin Malawski and Indian-Architects curator Priyanka Shah.


John Hill | 07.07.2017

Headlines

The World Architecture Festival has announced the shortlisted projects for the 2017 awards taking place in Berlin in November.


Mecanoo | 06.07.2017

Works

Château St. Gerlach is an estate near Maastricht, situated in the middle of the hilly Limburg countryside: a unique complex with a luxury hotel, restaurant and spa. Mecanoo architecten designed an elegant pavilion which balances the historic buildings on the site.