Revista

John Hill | 21.01.2015

Film

The documentary CONCRETE LOVE: The Böhm Family has its international premiere on the 26th of January at the Slamdance Festival in Park City, Utah, three days after architect Gottfried Böhm turns 95.


John Hill | 21.01.2015

Film

Artist John Edmark has created some hypnotic 3D printed sculptures that appear to move when spun under a strobe light.


John Hill | 20.01.2015

Products

Since 2012, Wolf-Gordon has created an annual site-specific installation for NeoCon as a means of highlighting the company’s products and adding an exclamation point to the “heart” of Chicago’s Merchandise Mart.


John Hill | 20.01.2015

Headlines

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has narrowed down the number of finalists vying for the Sydney Modern Project from twelve to five.


19.01.2015

Building of the Week

Resembling a simple glass-box office building from a distance, up close the 50-story FKI Tower reveals a simple yet ingenious wall section that incorporates solar panels angled to absorb more of the sun's rays than a strictly vertical surface. Further, a number of atriums and a rooftop...


Angel Rico Painceiras, Manuel Vazquez Muiño | 19.01.2015

Works

The building is a part of the technological park of Coruña University. This technological park is formed by another six buildings interconnected among them.


John Hill | 19.01.2015

Found

Antoni Gaudí's unrealized design for the Our Lady of the Angels chapel dates to 1915, nine years before the architect's death. A century later the chapel is set to be built in Rancagua, Chile, making it the first Gaudí building outside his native Spain.


John Hill | 19.01.2015

Insight

This week, building design and construction professionals head to Munich for BAU 2015, the "world's leading trade fair for architecture, materials, systems." Here we highlight a few of BAU Blog's "Team Building" and "Talks About Tomorrow" features.


John Hill | 16.01.2015

Film

Nearly ten years after the completion of Hearst Tower in Manhattan, Norman Foster – aided by a small camera-equipped drone – gives a tour of the tower, from the James Carpenter fountain and "piazza" above it to the offices of Good Housekeeping.


Studio Archohm | 16.01.2015

Works

To rebel with a cause: The big blank concrete central library of the Shoolini University in Solan, overlooks a beautiful green valley.


John Hill | 15.01.2015

Headlines

The 2015 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often considered architecture's highest honor, won't be known for a couple more months, but today we learned that British architect Richard Rogers will help decide the next recipient.


Saraiva + Associados, Arquitectura e Urbanismo, S.A | 15.01.2015

Works

The Tagus Gás Headquarters, built in Parque de Negócios do Cartaxo, stands out as one of most innovative buildings in Portugal by its bold design based on sustainability characteristics, being the first office building certified by BREEAM in Portugal.


David Baker Architects | 14.01.2015

Works

This mixed-use development of urban market-rate homes, restaurants and shops continues the repair of the neighborhood fabric damaged by the removal of the Central Freeway.


John Hill | 14.01.2015

Headlines

The jury for the fifth annual City of Dreams Pavilion Competition in New York has selected two winning designs to be erected on Governors Island for the summer 2015 season.


BUREAU A | 14.01.2015

Works

The Spirulina Fountain displaces the culture of landscape architecture and gardening towards contemporary issues of land and urban farming in restrained areas.


John Hill | 13.01.2015

Headlines

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston today previewed plans for the Fayez S. Sarofim Campus, which includes new buildings designed by Steven Holl Architects and Lake|Flato Architects.


John Hill | 13.01.2015

Film

Cool Spaces! The Best New Architecture, a documentary series on U.S. public television, has made its "Art Spaces" episode available online.


Erik Giudice Architects | 13.01.2015

Works

The Helsinki Guggenheim is open to the world, to the city and the sea; it will become an active cultural hub, a dynamic platform for experimentation and innovation.


12.01.2015

Building of the Week

For the last two years the Buildings of the Week on the U.S. platforms of World-Architects looked at one building in each state over the course of fifty weeks. For 2015 we are going a different route and looking at buildings overseas designed by architects based in the United States...


John Hill | 12.01.2015

Products

Two walls of Danish brand Vipp's new two-story Vipp Shelter feature large sliding windows, specifically the PanoramAH! sliding windows supplied by Malmö, Sweden's Architectural Solutions.


John Hill | 12.01.2015

Film

The construction of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Museum of Image & Sound overlooking Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is documented in a couple short films from MIS.


AEC Krymow & Partners Architects | 12.01.2015

Works

The international architectural design competition of the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park in Gdynia was won by AEC Krymow & Partners, an architectural office from Warsaw.


John Hill | 09.01.2015

Film

As part of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's "Louisiana Channel," which produces videos on art on a weekly basis, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels offers advice to aspiring architects.


09.01.2015

Works

The new Israel's Square consists of a folded surface floating above the ground – like a flying carpet. The square, or surface, hovers between two worlds: the city and the neighboring Ørsted Park.


John Hill | 09.01.2015

Headlines

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the 2015 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, 23 projects from approximately 500 submissions in three categories: architecture, interior architecture and regional & urban design.


John Hill | 08.01.2015

Headlines

Eight months after Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece was damaged in a fire, the Glasgow School of Art announced the names of the architects’ practices shortlisted to lead the building's restoration.


John Hill | 08.01.2015

Headlines

The Architect's Newspaper has announced four winners in its competition that "aimed to rethink one of the most iconic streets in the world—42nd street in Midtown Manhattan."


Engel Architecten | 08.01.2015

Works

Amsterdam based studio Engel Architecten has recently completed this residence in the wooded surroundings of Zeist, a small town in the center of the Netherlands.


.PSLAB | 07.01.2015

Works

.PSLAB and Aesop have collaborated with Melbourne based studio KTA on the lighting design of the newly opened Aesop store in the Melbourne Emporium, a precinct featuring a mix of local and international fashion, culture, food and art.


John Hill | 07.01.2015

Film

Premiering at the Maison des Arts de Créteil in November 2014, Pixel melded the real and the virtual, as this short film with excerpts from the one-hour performance illustrates.


John Hill | 07.01.2015

Headlines

On 2 January 2015, the Federal District Court upheld the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of Over The River, an art installation planned for the Arkansas River in Colorado that was originally proposed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1992.


chartier dalix architectes | 07.01.2015

Works

The project presents a mixed program to build a school, a gymnasium, but also incorporate a third element: encouraging biodiversity.


John Hill | 06.01.2015

Film

In this twelve-minute film produced by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, architect Steven Holl speaks about his background and ideas on design.


John Hill | 06.01.2015

Film

Yes, we're finding this Christmas short a bit late, but it's too funny to resist posting. In it, a husband and wife architect redesign Christmas for their family, with presents stacked like Habitat 67 and a gingerbread house based on the Guggenheim.


06.01.2015

Works

This compact residence is nestled within the dense expanse of Tokyo, in a neighborhood characterized by narrow streets and traditional low-rise houses and which borders a park heavily visited during the spring, when the city’s cherry trees bloom.


John Hill | 05.01.2015

Headlines

Polls are now open to vote for your favorite Building of the Week on three of our national platforms: American-Architects, German-Architects and Swiss-Architects.