Magazine
Works
on 16.02.2015
Located on one of the many islands dotting The Archipelago in Georgian Bay, Ontario, this private boathouse and docking facility designed by Kevin Weiss of Weiss Architecture & Urbanism Limited exemplifies a quiet and precise modernism. Weiss Architecture & Urbanism Limited
Insight
on 16.02.2015
Atelier Bow-Wow, Rice University professor Jesús Vassallo and students from Rice School of Architecture recently completed the "Learning from Houston" study of the city's vernacular shotgun houses, culminating in an exhibition in the university's art gallery. John Hill
Found
on 14.02.2015
For the 2015 Times Square Valentine Heart Design, an invited competition organized by the Times Square Arts and the Architectural League of New York, the winner Stereotank installed an urban drum in the form of a heart. John Hill
Film
on 13.02.2015
Some aerial drone footage from earlier this month reveals the construction progress on Apple's huge ring-shaped headquarters designed by Norman Foster and located in Cupertino, California. John Hill
Works
on 13.02.2015
In preparing the project, we underlined a list of priorities. Our first initiative was to create a clear and hitherto non-existent street frontage and plaza. John Hill, FAAB Architektura
Works
on 12.02.2015
This project is as a minimalist "open-ended" event space for an avid maker-client and his creative partners to experiment and ideate. Interstice Architects
Found
on 12.02.2015
Here is a roundup of some monographs of World-Architects member firms – a baker's dozen of those released in the U.S. in the first three months of 2015, at least. John Hill
Found
on 12.02.2015
BIG – Bjarke Ingel Group's W57 project, a residential "courtscraper" on Manhattan's West Side, recently topped off, so yesterday World-Architects headed over to snap some photos of the construction progress. John Hill
Works
on 11.02.2015
The project is located in a major and well connected industrial area on the east side of Rome with a focus on advanced research production. The building is a clear and compact volume that has an interesting relationship to its context. Modostudio + Sofia Cattinari Studio
Headlines
on 11.02.2015
Architect Jon Jerde, founder of the The Jerde Partnership, died Monday at his Los Angeles home after a long illness. John Hill
Headlines
on 11.02.2015
Less than a week after Morphosis was selected to design a 100-room luxury hotel in Vals, Switzerland, for Therme Vals owner 7132 Ltd, some of the jury members are distancing themselves from the decision. John Hill
Headlines
on 10.02.2015
The New York Post reports that The Related Companies "has hired Rem Koolhaas to design their new High Line project on West 18th Street." John Hill
Headlines
on 10.02.2015
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the 40 shortlisted works that will compete for the 2015 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. John Hill
Works
on 10.02.2015
The starting point for this design concept draws inspiration from the industrial heritage of the building, with its rich history of former occupancies. CBA / Clemens Bachmann Architekten
Reviews
on 09.02.2015
University Town is a new campus for the National University of Singapore that recently opened near its Kent Ridge Campus. The large expansion consists of a number of components, including the university's Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise (CREATE), which...
Works
on 09.02.2015
Located in the city's up and coming Southwest neighborhood this 300-sm detached house hides a rich spatial complexity behind its tough working class façade. TBA / Thomas Balaban Architecte
Headlines
on 09.02.2015
One year after MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Architectural Firm Award, Brian MacKay-Lyons has been named the recipient of the Gold Medal, the organization's highest honor. John Hill
Reviews
on 09.02.2015
The spatial and administrative separation of Paris from its suburbs is one of the permanent problems that plagues the metropolis. An intelligent project that combines transport and leisure functions contributes to overcoming the barriers created by the ring motorway.
Products
on 09.02.2015
A. Zahner Co., the go-to engineering and fabrication company based in Kansas City, Missouri, has worked with Thom Mayne and Morphosis on a number of projects, including the L.A. outpost of Boston's Emerson College, completed last year. John Hill
Headlines
on 06.02.2015
Spanish duo Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano have won the Alvar Aalto Medal, conferred by the Museum of Finnish Architecture, the Finnish Association of Architects, the Architectural Society, the Alvar Aalto Foundation and the City of Helsinki. John Hill
Headlines
on 06.02.2015
Morphosis Architects, headed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, has been selected in a competition to design a luxury hotel for 7132 Ltd in Vals, Switzerland, home to Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals. John Hill
Headlines
on 06.02.2015
Office for Political Innovation, a Madrid- and New York-based practice directed by Andrés Jaque, has won the 16th edition of MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program with COSMO. John Hill
Works
on 05.02.2015
A single-family home located in a new forest development, the Veranda house is designed to be intimate and discreet. Blouin Tardif Architecture-Environnement
Works
on 05.02.2015
The final form of the Cultural Center design was determined by two elements: the first, the situation and an urban context of the object, the second, its function defined by the program. 307 Kilo + WWAA design
Film
on 05.02.2015
Los Angeles-based architect Greg Lynn directs a three-year Master of Architecture studio in the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Learn more about the program through a couple short films. John Hill
Headlines
on 04.02.2015
The Sant Gervasi-Joan Maragall Library, designed by BCQ arquitectura barcelona, has been awarded the 2014 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona of Architecture and Urbanism. John Hill
Reviews
on 04.02.2015
Santa Monica, California's Brooks + Scarpa headed south of the border to carry out an industrial building with the firm's signature emphasis on sustainability and bold design. Most striking are the perforated skin and jagged roofline, which filter light and views, bring in plenty of...
Headlines
on 04.02.2015
On Monday Frank Gehry's design for the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at the University of Technology, Sydney, home to the UTS Business School, opened its doors. John Hill
Headlines
on 04.02.2015
A group of 10 buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright have become the first works of modern architecture nominated by the United States to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List. John Hill
Film
on 03.02.2015
Artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have taken over the Menil's Byzantine Fresco Chapel, three years after the namesake frescoes were returned to Cyprus. John Hill
Film
on 03.02.2015
A short film from the National Trust for Historic Preservation laments the loss of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago through a time-lapse film of its 2014 demolition. John Hill
Works
on 03.02.2015
Located on the outskirts of a Dutch village and close to the sea, the W.I.N.D. House is backed by a sheltered wooded area and fronted by a large, open expanse of polder landscape. UNStudio
Works
on 03.02.2015
"The owners brief was to design a flexible contemporary family residence. The site was spectacular requiring a design that could respond to a challenging slopped corner site and its aspects" says Thaabe Ramabina of SAOTA. SAOTA
Insight
on 02.02.2015
Bjarke Ingels Group has followed up last year's successful BIG Maze at the National Building Museum by ringing the building's atrium with 60 of their projects to take visitors on "an odyssey of architectural adaptation" from hot to cold climates. John Hill
Headlines
on 02.02.2015
American-Architects presented 49 projects in our Building of the Week 2014 feature, and recently we asked you to vote for your favorite. The votes have been tallied and here we present the public vote winner, the editors' choice and two runners-up. John Hill
Reviews
on 01.02.2015
Kanagawa-based architecture team Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato/F.A.D.S designed this home for an art appreciator and amateur artist who wanted a “house like an art museum.” Planned with careful consideration for air circulation as well as for the harsh, snowy climate of the Japan Sea...