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Five finalists have been chosen from 335 works for the 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.
Paul Rudolph's Orange County Government Center is saved, but Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital will face the wrecking ball.
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.
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.
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.
The world’s first re-locatable research facility opened on February 5, one hundred years after Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic Antarctic expeditions.
The Spanish architect is the recipient of an award created in 1963 in honor of German architect Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950).
The 1912 Cass Gilbert-design library has reopened after a $70 million renovation oversaw by Cannon Design.
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.
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.
Voting for the 2012 Building of the Year at American-Architects, German-Architects, and Swiss-Architects ends on Thursday, January 31.
Janjaap Ruijssenaars is designing the "Landscape House" as a Möbius strip to be built from blocks made from a 3-D printer.
The team of Monadnock Development, Actors Fund Housing Development, and nARCHITECTS has won a competition for mirco-units in Manhattan.
Two weeks after his appointment, 2014 Venice Biennale curator Rem Koolhaas has chosen the title for the exhibition: Fundamentals.
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...
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.
CODA wins the MoMA PS1 Young Architect's Program, and Situ Studio is chosen by the Times Square Alliance for Heartwalk.
United Visual Artists' Always/Never is the result of their "recent investigations of the perception of time."
On January 7 the great architecture critic died at the age of 91, less than one week after her last article was published.
New York's Central Library Plan, which involves the demolition of seven stories of stacks in its main library to make way for a circulating collection from two nearby branches, has been controversial since being announced four years ago. The plan and Norman Foster's recently released...
Voting for the 2012 Building of the Year is now open at American-Architects, German-Architects, and Swiss-Architects.
The New York Public Library has released Norman Foster's schematic design for transforming its main building into a circulating library.
One of the ways that architecture can help create more sustainable cities is by designing buildings that use less energy. Controlling how much direct sunlight enters a building can reduce the energy required for air conditioning and electrical lighting. Hunter Douglas Contract: Solar Control is...
Is any end in sight in the dispute between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the 42-story Museum Tower nearing completion across the street?
On November 16 the Japan Sports Council selected Zaha Hadid's fluid design for a stadium that will be part of Tokyo's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Germany's ingenhoven architects beat out Frank Gehry and other finalists to win the International Highrise Award 2012 for 1 Bligh Street in Sydney.
The future of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago is still unclear, but the winner of a competition creatively points toward its reuse.
The visionary architect, educator and delineator died in his sleep on October 30, one week after the completion of his first permanent construction.
The 104-year-old Brazilian architect was hospitalized for two weeks, then released just before his designs for Converse sneakers were launched.
Ulrich Franzen, an architect known for Brutalist building, died on October 6 in Sante Fe, New Mexico.
Almost four decades after his death, Louis I. Kahn's design for the FDR Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island has been completed.
The Royal Institute of British Architects has named the Sainsbury Laboratory, designed by Stanton Williams, this year's Stirling Prize winner.
The New Canaan, Connecticut-based Foundation has hired SANAA, with landscape architect OLIN, for their first U.S. project since winning the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2010.
Norman Foster bested three other Pritzker Prize winners in an invited competition for a new office building at 425 Park Avenue for L&L Holdings and Lehman Brothers Holdings.
Andrew Grant of UK landscape architects Grant Associates gives a tour of Gardens by the Bay, a 21st-century botanic garden in Singapore that is marked by 18 Supertrees, Cooled Conservatories, and Themed Gardens.
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam reopened on September 23, after a renovation and expansion designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects.