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René Ammann | 16.01.2023

Number

Rank of Migdal Nahum in the Israeli city of Bat Yam among the ugliest buildings in...


John Hill | 16.01.2023

Headlines

La Biennale di Venezia has announced the first-ever Biennale College Architecture, which will take place this summer during the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, curated by Lesley Lokko.


John Hill | 13.01.2023

Found

A trio of projects recently uploaded to World-Architects point to ceramic tile in shades of blue as a popular choice for covering the facades of residential buildings.


Snøhetta, WERK Arkitekter | 12.01.2023

Works

In the seaport town Esbjerg on the Danish west coast, a new maritime center has opened to the public. Developed by WERK Arkitekter and Snøhetta, following a design competition in 2019, the center is created as a shared space for watersport clubs and visitors along the port, providing the town...


John Hill | 11.01.2023

Film

In a new film by Akira Koyama, founder and owner of KEY OPERATION INC. / ARCHITECTS, the Tokyo architect gives an on-site tour of Ginza Extra Small Building, a five-story commercial building with a tiny footprint.


Ulf Meyer | 11.01.2023

Insight

Tokyu Corporation will open the Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, a large hotel and entertainment complex, on April 14. Designed by Yuko Nagayama & Associates, it is Japan’s...


John Hill | 10.01.2023

Headlines

Last month the Kunstmuseum Bern, one of Switzerland's oldest museums, revealed the 39 architectural teams selected for the two-stage competition to reimagine the "Museum of Fine Arts Bern of the Future."


The Architectural Team | 09.01.2023

Building of the Week

The Anne M. Lynch Homes at Old Colony is a multi-phase redevelopment of federal public housing in South Boston dating back to 1940. Boston's The Architectural Team has been responsible for the design of numerous buildings at Old Colony since 2011. The architects at TAT answered some questions...


John Hill | 09.01.2023

Headlines

MVRDV has won the competition to design the new central library for Wuhan, China, describing their winning design as a "three-faced flowing shape [that] celebrates the position of the 'city of 100 lakes' at the confluence of two rivers."


René Ammann | 09.01.2023

Number

Approximate number of buildings that collapsed in Nigeria in the year 2022 (according to a report of the Building Collapse Prevention Guild): 61


John Hill | 06.01.2023

Headlines

Artist Refik Anadol has filled the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art in New York with a large video wall displaying images of artworks from the MoMA collection mutated by artificial intelligence software. Obviously timely, the installation is also beautiful to behold.


Ulf Meyer | 05.01.2023

Headlines

The 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate was a great master builder as well as an astute thinker and gifted writer. His versatile architecture made him a mediator between Japan and the West.


Antonio La Gioia | 03.01.2023

Building of the Week

In the Encinar de los Reyes area of Madrid, the studio led by Andrés Jaque has designed a building that translates the pedagogical ideas of the Reggio Emilia school, as developed by Loris Malaguzzi and his followers, into architecture.


John Hill | 03.01.2023

Film

Filmmaker Mohamed El Zayat's "STRUCTURES" is a short film that was inspired by the Nasr City, the modernist desert city east of Downtown Cairo that was established in the late 1950s and is home to brutalist housing, stadiums, and other buildings.


John Hill | 01.01.2023

Building of the Week

In 2022 we presented 40 Buildings of the Week, featuring short Q&As with architects about recently completed buildings in the United States. It's your turn to help us crown a US Building of the Year by voting for your favorite. The winner will be announced at the end of January.


Ulf Meyer | 22.12.2022

Found

In the exhibition Translated Traditions – Public Courtyards and Urban Platforms at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin, Shanghai’s Scenic Architecture Office shows how it translates traditions.


Ulf Meyer | 21.12.2022

Insight

An international symposium recently held online as part of Encounters with Southeast Asian Modernism (SEAM) revealed interesting details about German-trained Indonesian Architects.


Thomas Geuder | 19.12.2022

Specials

Christina Dreesen, associate director at Arup and head of the Change Advisory department in Germany, has been accompanying office transformation processes for many years, also from a psychological perspective.


Thomas Geuder | 19.12.2022

Specials

Claudia and Klaus de Winder from the Berlin-based office de Winder Architekten are convinced that the office will continue to exist, albeit in a changed form. So the question is what interaction models the office must stand for in the future and what the interior design should be like...


John Hill | 19.12.2022

Found

As 2022 draws to a close and our thoughts go to what transpired over the last twelve months, World-Architects is taking a month-by-month look at some of the stories we covered: awards, competitions, buildings, books, exhibitions, and passings.


René Ammann | 16.12.2022

Number

Net worth of Africa’s richest person, Aliko Dangote, founder and chair of Nigeria’s Dangote Cement, the continent’s largest cement producer, who says: "A lot of foreigners are not investing...


John Hill | 16.12.2022

Headlines

Vectorworks has announced the winners – 22 projects by 30 students from 11 countries – in this year's scholarships for students in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and entertainment.


Eduard Kögel | 16.12.2022

Building of the Week

In recent years, new residential quarters, office buildings and businesses have been built on the Pudong side of Shanghai. Now the Culture Community Complex follows, with three large buildings: the Pudong Library planned by Nihon Sekkei, already completed in 2010 at the northern end of the...


Katinka Corts | 15.12.2022

Headlines

The goal of the Diversity in Architecture (DIVIA) association is to give female architects more visibility. An international architecture award is intended to help. The 27 nominees have now been presented.


Katinka Corts | 14.12.2022

Found

Natural materials are at the top of the list at Atelier Schmidt when it comes to new buildings and renovations. We talked to Paul Schmidt about the sense and benefits of...


Elias Baumgarten | 13.12.2022

Insight

A critical exploration of architecture is needed today more than ever, but architectural criticism is in a crisis. A new book, edited by Wilfried Wang, could bring momentum back to the discipline.


John Hill | 13.12.2022

Film

Two new short films see the Japanese design firm Nendo reimagining a pair of iconic holiday elements: the Christmas tree and the snow globe.


John Hill | 13.12.2022

Headlines

The ninth MPavilion, designed by (all)zone, the Bangkok studio founded by Rachaporn Choochuey, opened on December 8 in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens, where it will host free events until April 6, 2023.


Shakespeare, Gordon, Vlado: Architects | 12.12.2022

Building of the Week

As the demand for housing, especially of the affordable variety, in New York City outpaces the supply of new units, infill and other approaches are being used to create housing without the timely and costly need for demolition. Tres Puentes consists of two buildings built on previously empty...


René Ammann | 12.12.2022

Number

Number of trees the developer of the proposed 72 Upper Ground complex on London's South Bank, with a floor area of nearly 1 million sf (93,000 m2) — 20%...


John Hill | 09.12.2022

Headlines

The Jencks Foundation and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have announced that Forensic Architecture is the 2022 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award, named for the influential architecture critic and landscape designer. 


John Hill | 08.12.2022

Headlines

The American Institute of Architects has announced that Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney is the winner of the 2023 AIA Gold Medal, which "honors an individual whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture."


John Hill | 08.12.2022

Found

World-Architects got a tour of Eagle + West, the just-completed residential development on the waterfront of Greenpoint, Brooklyn,


BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group | 08.12.2022

Works

IQON is designed as a vertical community, and an extension of the neighboring La Carolina Park, which continues up onto the building facade. The building features a notable curved corner, wrapped by terraces that continue around the building's perimeter with views of the park, city and over...


Antonio La Gioia | 07.12.2022

Film

From November 10 to 12, the municipality of Olot, Spain, hosted the latest Lluèrnia, which since 2012 has paid tribute to the volcanoes whose fire gave rise to the landscape of Garrotxa.


John Hill | 07.12.2022

Headlines

Consecrated this Fourth of July, the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center finally opened to the public on Tuesday, December 6, for the Feast of Saint Nicholas.