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John Hill | 19.08.2013

Found

Open since June, the Museum of Architectural Graphics in Berlin houses the extensive architectural drawing collection of the Tchoban Foundation.


John Hill | 19.08.2013

Products

The first impression upon seeing Behnisch Architekten's John and Frances Angelos Law Center at the University of Baltimore is the way the boxy volumes are covered in different types of glass. There is a checkerboard frit that responds to the library and a rainscreen of structural glass and...


John Hill | 15.07.2013

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Pierre Cardin abandons the project amidst opposition to the 250-meter-high (820-feet) tower.


John Hill | 15.07.2013

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The Philadelphia-based landscape architect is one of 11 recipients of the prestigious award.


John Hill | 15.07.2013

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The Japanese architect is the winner of an international design competition for Seguin Island in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.


John Hill | 15.07.2013

Insight

Inspired by a recent Alvaro Siza lecture, in which the architect traced the design process of one of his buildings through a myriad of ever-more-refined sketches, we've combed through the profiles on World-Architects to find sketches and other hand drawings—not an easy feat, considering...


John Hill | 15.07.2013

Found

On July 1, Sokol Blosser Winery opened its new tasting room designed by Allied Works Architecture.


John Hill, Thomas Geuder | 08.07.2013

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Brooklyn's Barclays Center—home to the Nets basketball team as well as a venue for music and other events—presents a face to the neighborhood of predominantly one material: rusted steel. But against the urban grit can be found LED screens that extend inside where they are...


John Hill | 08.07.2013

Film

On the occasion of the exhibition A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architects from Southern California, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) has produced a trio of videos featuring interviews with 36 architects practicing in Los Angeles. It is a who's-who list of architects,...


John Hill | 08.07.2013

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The Japanese architect is the recipient of the biennial $100,000 prize from the Milwaukee-based Marcus Corporation Foundation.


John Hill | 08.07.2013

Found

United Nude, the fashion company of Rem D Koolhaas (no, that Rem's nephew), has announced the limited edition Nova Shoe, designed by Zaha Hadid. 


John Hill | 01.07.2013

Insight

June is the beginning of summer and also a month when a number of architecture and design events converge in the United States. The middle of the month saw the 2013 American Institute of Architects Convention, held in Denver, Colorado. Before and after those three days in the Mile-High City,...


John Hill | 01.07.2013

Found

On June 27 MoMA PS1 unveiled the 14th Young Architects Program installation in the courtyard of its Long Island City, Queens, home. Party Wall is designed by CODA and will be in place until the end of August. 


John Hill | 01.07.2013

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The Swedish furniture company teams with the United Nations to make refugee housing.


John Hill | 01.07.2013

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The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority selected the Swiss firm to design the new museum of visual culture in Hong Kong.


John Hill, Thomas Geuder | 24.06.2013

Products

Due to the dual nature of its program, the Daeyang Gallery and House in Seoul, designed by Steven Holl Architects, includes spaces for the display of art that do not want direct sunlight. To achieve this, Okalux's KAPILUX T insulating glass is incorporated into skylights capping the gallery...


John Hill | 24.06.2013

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In a letter to Harvard GSD's Women in Design, Pritzker Jury Chair Lord Palumbo denied their petitions requesting equal acknowledgment.


John Hill | 24.06.2013

Film

The question "what is architecture?" is one of the most basic—but also one of the most difficult—things architects ask themselves. It is a philosophical question that resists a definitive answer yet provokes intellectual exploration. Architects' answers also help define...


John Hill | 24.06.2013

Found

World-Architects attended the 2013 AIA National Convention in Denver, Colorado, and one of the definite highlights was the Clyfford Still Museum designed by Allied Works. 


John Hill | 17.06.2013

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro's inflatable pavilion planned for the museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC, has been canceled.


John Hill | 17.06.2013

Found

Diogenes of Sinope was an Ancient Greek philosopher who rejected the amenities of civilized life by living in a barrel in the Agora of Athens. Over 2,300 years later, his name is being used for a 6-square-meter (64-square-foot) living unit designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Vitra.


John Hill | 10.06.2013

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After backing out and thereby threatening the upcoming New Sculpturalism exhibition, Gehry changes his mind.


John Hill | 10.06.2013

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Bjarke Ingels Group's design for the Danish toy company's "experience center" aptly resembles a pile of LEGO blocks.


John Hill | 10.06.2013

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Since its 2007 completion, the Kolumba Art Museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne has sat atop the ruins of the Gothic St. Kolumba church, destroyed in World War II. In Peter Zumthor's design, materiality is of the utmost importance, so the Swiss architect worked with Danish company Petersen...


John Hill | 10.06.2013

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Peter Zumthor's preliminary plans for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are highlighted in a new exhibition.


John Hill | 10.06.2013

Found

The latest pavilion, designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, opened on 8 June and runs until 20 October.


John Hill | 03.06.2013

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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art closes for three years to realize the Snøhetta-designed expansion.


John Hill | 03.06.2013

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Four architects—Diller Scofio + Renfro, H3 Hardy, SHoP Architects, SOM—envision new futures for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden.


John Hill | 03.06.2013

Found

As part of the 55th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is exhibiting three large-scale works including Bang, which immerses visitors amongst hundreds of wooden stools balanced precariously.


John Hill | 03.06.2013

Headlines

Broad Sustainable Building's Sky City is set to start construction in June—with completion seven months later!


John Hill | 27.05.2013

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We've assembled some of our favorite products, designs, and booths from last week's International Contemporary Funiture Fair in NYC.


John Hill | 27.05.2013

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The bright pink "Dreamhouse Experience" opened on May 16 to smiling girls as well as protesters.


John Hill | 27.05.2013

Found

The rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece is transformed this summer into Aten Reign, one of artist James Turrell's signature Skyspaces. 


John Hill | 27.05.2013

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A European Museum of the Year Award, a new design gallery, and a new metro station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.


John Hill | 20.05.2013

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The Dutch architect has been appointed Director of the Berlage Center for Advanced studies in Architecture and Urban Design at the Delft University of Technology.


John Hill | 20.05.2013

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Workers in Belize partially destroyed a 2,300-year-old pyramid to use the crushed rock for road fill.