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John Hill | 18.02.2013

Headlines

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


John Hill | 18.02.2013

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


John Hill | 18.02.2013

Found

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 | 11.02.2013

Building

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 | 11.02.2013

Insight

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 | 11.02.2013

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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 | 11.02.2013

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


John Hill | 11.02.2013

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


John Hill | 04.02.2013

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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 | 28.01.2013

Found

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 | 28.01.2013

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


John Hill | 28.01.2013

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


John Hill | 28.01.2013

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


John Hill | 28.01.2013

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


John Hill | 21.01.2013

Products

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 | 21.01.2013

Film

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 | 21.01.2013

Headlines

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


John Hill | 21.01.2013

Found

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


John Hill | 14.01.2013

Headlines

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 | 07.01.2013

Film

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...


John Hill | 07.01.2013

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Voting for the 2012 Building of the Year is now open at American-Architects, German-Architects, and Swiss-Architects.


John Hill | 07.01.2013

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The New York Public Library has released Norman Foster's schematic design for transforming its main building into a circulating library.


John Hill | 03.12.2012

Products

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...


John Hill | 03.12.2012

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Is any end in sight in the dispute between the Nasher Sculpture Center and the 42-story Museum Tower nearing completion across the street?


John Hill | 19.11.2012

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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.


John Hill | 19.11.2012

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Germany's ingenhoven architects beat out Frank Gehry and other finalists to win the International Highrise Award 2012 for 1 Bligh Street in Sydney.


John Hill | 19.11.2012

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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.


John Hill | 05.11.2012

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The visionary architect, educator and delineator died in his sleep on October 30, one week after the completion of his first permanent construction.


John Hill | 05.11.2012

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The 104-year-old Brazilian architect was hospitalized for two weeks, then released just before his designs for Converse sneakers were launched.


John Hill | 22.10.2012

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Ulrich Franzen, an architect known for Brutalist building, died on October 6 in Sante Fe, New Mexico.


John Hill | 22.10.2012

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Almost four decades after his death, Louis I. Kahn's design for the FDR Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island has been completed.


John Hill | 22.10.2012

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The Royal Institute of British Architects has named the Sainsbury Laboratory, designed by Stanton Williams, this year's Stirling Prize winner.


John Hill | 08.10.2012

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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.


John Hill | 08.10.2012

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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.


John Hill | 08.10.2012

Film

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.


John Hill | 24.09.2012

Headlines

The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam reopened on September 23, after a renovation and expansion designed by Benthem Crouwel Architects.