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John Hill | 24.06.2016

Insight

Three years after a 2013 visit to the Office for Metropolitan Architecture's (OMA) New York office to speak with partner Shohei Shigematsu, World-Architects editor John Hill returned to 180...


Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | 23.06.2016

Works

Anchoring Beijing’s Dawangjing business district, the mixed-use Beijing Greenland Center is a highly sustainable landmark building equidistant from Beijing’s bustling core and the airport.


John Hill | 23.06.2016

Headlines

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced the regional winners of the CTBUH 2016 Tall Building Awards culled from 132 submissions, the most entries to date.


John Hill | 22.06.2016

Film

In the latest installment in an interview series that explores the philosophical concerns of architects exhibiting at "TIME - SPACE - EXISTENCE," a collateral event at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, Peter Eisenman speaks about architectural education, history, drawing and meaning.


Manuelle Gautrand Architecture | 22.06.2016

Works

This development is in the 19th arrondissement on the northern edge of Paris, within an urban environment characterised by the brick buildings of low-cost housing units developed between the wars.


John Hill | 21.06.2016

Headlines

Docomomo US has announced the winners of the 2016 Modernism in America Awards program with ten projects that raise "awareness of the importance to advocate, restore and celebrate the architecture, landscapes and typologies of postwar society in the United States."


pH+ Architects | 21.06.2016

Works

Pop-up sensory garden and giant xylophone arrives in Greenwich for London Festival of Architecture.


John Hill | 21.06.2016

Found

For the first time the Venice Architecture Biennale includes three Special Projects, one focused on applied arts. A World of Fragile Parts, curated by Brendan Cormier of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, explores the production of copies in the 21st century.


20.06.2016

Avis

Text by Eduard Kögel


John Hill | 20.06.2016

Headlines

On Saturday The Floating Piers, the first project completed by Christo since his wife, Jeanne-Claude, died in 2009, opened to the public at Lake Iseo in northern Italy.


20.06.2016

Avis

Lawrence is a city of about 90,000 people in northeast Kansas, best known as the home of the University of Kansas (KU). The university's presence means Lawrence has a thriving downtown, one that stretches along Massachusetts Street. Near the north end of the street is the Lawrence Public...


rh+ architecture | 20.06.2016

Works

The project site is atypical for Paris : it is a very big unit, historically made up of 3 parcels, rather narrow, equivalent width and deep enough. The central plot was occupied by a small house to preserve, built in the 17th century ahead the other buildings of the street. This situation...


John Hill | 20.06.2016

Headlines

Iraq has issued new postage stamps honoring two of the country's late, great architects: Zaha Hadid, who died in March at the age of 65, and Mohamed Makiya, who died last year at the age of 101.


John Hill | 17.06.2016

Products

The Machado Silvetti-designed Center for Asian Art, an addition to the Ringling Museum of Art, is covered in more than 3,000 deep-green, glazed terra cotta tiles that boldy mark the entrance to the grand Florida institution.


HPP Architects | 17.06.2016

Works

The first HPP project in Turkey is complete. The split tower rises 110 meters into the sky above the Kozyatağı financial district.


ROGERSPARTNERS Architects+Urban Designers | 17.06.2016

Works

The new headquarters for international advertising superstar Droga5 occupy three building floors and a two-story penthouse in New York’s Financial District.


John Hill | 16.06.2016

Headlines

The team of Adjaye Associates and AB3D with Plan A, AKTII, BuroHappold, Turner & Townsend, and Martha Schwartz Partners has won the two-stage competition for the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art in the historic center of Riga.


John Hill | 16.06.2016

Headlines

The Tippet Rise Art Center opens tomorrow on an 11,500-acre (4,450-hectare) ranch just north of Yellowstone in Fishtail, Montana. Among its many artworks are a few pieces by architects Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa of Ensamble Studio.


Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes | 16.06.2016

Works

After four years of work, the recent inauguration of the Maison des Êtudiants de l’École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) unveiled a signature building which enhances an entire neighborhood in the Griffintown district.


John Hill | 16.06.2016

Film

As part of Art Basel (16-19 June), Swiss artist Zimoun has installed hundreds of paper bags and DC motors inside an elevated shipping container. A small opening in the base of the container allows one visitor at a time to immerse themselves in the sound of the slowly moving bags.


Sakaushi Taku Architects' Office/O.F.D.A. | 15.06.2016

Works

This former ice-making factory in Japan has been converted into an office and nursery by Taku Sakaushi / O.F.D.A. + Sakaushi Lab., Tokyo University of Science.


MASS Lab | 15.06.2016

Works

The building will take place in the plot of Civic Center of the city of Ryde, with 9,600 square meters.


Terry.Terry Architecture | 14.06.2016

Works

This project houses a growing graphic/product design office within an existing brick building located in the Jackson square historic district.


John Hill | 14.06.2016

Film

Watch the six-year construction of Herzog & de Meuron's extension of their 2000 Tate Modern on London's South Bank in this two-minute time-lapse film made by Lobster Pictures (via Wallpaper*). The "New Tate Modern" opens to the public on Friday.


Machado Silvetti | 13.06.2016

Works

A Renovation and Addition to a Historic Museum at Florida State University Sarasota, Florida: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is the legacy of circus entrepreneur and art collector John Ringling and his wife, Mable.


Wulff + Guirnaldos Arquitectos | 13.06.2016

Works

In the Historic Cemetery of St. Joseph of Granada, Spain, a pantheon is built for a family. The emotion at the time of the disappearance of a beloved one, the farewell and the evocative meditation of memory through the sensory experience are key elements of this work.


13.06.2016

Avis

This 55-square-foot (5.1-sm) backyard retreat in Brooklyn is a site of experimention for architect Nicholas Hunt, who covered the walls inside and out with salvaged fencing and salvaged cedar siding, respectively, and put a planted roof and skylight overhead. In his words, "It...


White arkitekter | 13.06.2016

Headlines

White Arkitekter has won an international design competition for Skellefteå’s cultural centre and hotel, which will be completed in 2019. The design was selected from over 55 entries from ten countries.


John Hill | 10.06.2016

Found

The colorful Weaving the Courtyard, Escobedo Solíz Studio's winning design in MoMA PS1's 17th annual Young Architects Program (YAP), recently opened to the public in Long Island City, Queens.


John Hill | 10.06.2016

Headlines

On 8 June, on Frank Lloyd Wright's 149th birthday, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, which will be on display next year from 12 June to 1 October.


John Hill | 10.06.2016

Headlines

An online gallery of the concept designs created by the shortlist for the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art International Design Competition has been unveiled by Malcolm Reading Consultants.


WXY architecture + urban design | 10.06.2016

Works

SeaGlass: A Ride to the Bottom of the Ocean, Battery Park transforms the traditional ride structure into an instrument of the future with digital projection and electrified glass technology, Smart Glass.


John Hill | 09.06.2016

Insight

In the second part of our three-part look at the major components of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, here are a dozen of our favorite National Pavilions from the 65 found in the Giardini, the Arsenale, and beyond.


Andre Espinho Arquitectura | 09.06.2016

Works

This kind of intervention stands for a new approach and vision on the built heritage of big cities which, most of time, are left to abandonment and abrasion of time for diferent reasons, either these are historical, social or economic.


DROO Projects | 08.06.2016

Works

This boutique apartment building tucked in behind a narrow listed Shop House building, in Melbourne’s inner suburb of Hawthorn.


John Hill | 08.06.2016

Headlines

The US Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Cynthia Davidson and Monice Ponce de Leon, sets its aim at Detroit to exhibit twelve speculative architectural projects for the post-industrial American city.