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For fifteen years, the Dutch architectural office cepezed resided in a self-designed, clean-lined office building on the western fringes of the historical Delft city center.
Sou Fujimoto Architects, Manal Rachdi OXO Architectes, and Nicolas Laisné Associés have won the first prize for the new Learning Centre of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris-Saclay.
KWR Watercycle Research Institute is a renowned research institute in the field of water and water cycles, which develops expertise and makes it accessible to various national and international organizations such as drinking water companies, regional water boards, local governments and trade and...
Walters & Cohen have announced the successful completion of Regent High School (formerly called South Camden Community School), a co-educational secondary school on a tight urban site in Somers Town in the London Borough of Camden.
Performance artist Reggie Watts, accompanied by actor Carolina Ravassa, gives viewers a bizarre 7-minute tour through Brasilia, "City of the Future."
Velenje was designed as a garden city and, as such, it had a lot of unoccupied ground-level surfaces. With the increase in the number of vehicles, these surfaces began to turn into car parks.
eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of the 2015 Skyscraper Competition, which asked entrants to "challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments."
The residents of Vals, Switzerland, have unanimously approved the 381-meter-tall luxury hotel proposed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis for 7132 Ltd.
Tokyo-based Komada Architects Office designed this two-story wood-frame residence in a new residential development in Chiba Prefecture. By including a narrow band of windows between the top of the walls and the roof on both the first and second stories, the architects gave the building a feeling...
The Glasgow School of Art has selected a team led by local architect Page\Park for the restoration of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece that was damaged in a fire last year.
Doboz Bar is situated in the heart of Budapest’s entertainment district at the World Heritage site of the Old Jewish Quarter.
Yesterday Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Faceboook that "we moved into our new Facebook building in Menlo Park, California," accompanied by a photo of the building's green roof.
Located near the north side of Chicago, Kids Science Labs is a learning and discovery center for children ages 2-12 built on the premise that learning science should be fun.
Harumi is an artificial island built on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay that saw the development of office and residential towers starting in the 1990s. That development will no doubt continue as the island is the site of the Olypmic Village for the 2020 Olympic Games. The announcement of...
Brussels Environment is the government authority in the field of environment and habitat in the Belgian Capital Region and is currently settling in one of the capital’s largest and most important urban renewal districts, the Tour&Taxis site on the Havenlaan.
Situated on the waterfront promenade of Tokyo Bay, this project is a focal point for the Harumi district.
Early in March, architect Frei Otto died at the age of 89. He was announced posthumously as the winner of the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize – only the second German architect, after Gottfried Böhm, to receive this honor. Ulf Meyer looks back at the life of a visionary.
Artist Tomás Saraceno explores social and biological complexity through the manipulation of spider webs in a new exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York.
A finely designed and crafted personal environment is not only an expression of aesthetic sensibility – it enhances and restores wellbeing, clarity and harmony.
The NL*A Agency in Paris, working in partnership with property developer PITCH PROMOTION, has won a competition to build an office block in Nice.
The IVB Operational Service Building is designed as a simple building that reacts to its environment.
Developer Remo Stoffel has unveiled Morphosis Architects' design for an 82-story, 381-meter-high (1,250 feet) tower for the Swiss town of Vals that would become Europe's tallest building.
The latest design by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for the $600 million expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art sees a simplification of its form and other changes.
The Serpentine Gallery has released renderings of SelgasCano's chrysalis-like design for the 15th Pavilion, to be erected in London's Kensington Gardens this summer.
Paris is cautiously allowing tall buildings back into the city. The French agencies Hamonic+Masson and Comte et Vollenweider have just completed the first housing operation of 50 meters to be built in Paris since the 1970s.
World-Architects got a sneak peek of the exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980, opening at the Museum of Modern Art on the 29th of March.
The metal "stealth emergency house," developed by Christ.Christ, is an art project. The architect sees it as a "discussion machine" in times of a raging economic crisis.
Al Maryah Island (formerly known as Sowwah Island) is a 114-hectare mixed-use development that serves as Abu Dhabi's International Financial Center. A key portion of the development is the five-building Abu Dhabi Global Market Square designed by Chicago's Goettsch Partners. The...
The facade of SEHW Architektur's design for the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) in Darmstadt, Germany, appears to form some kind of secret code, appropriate given the site's history.
The Bazaar in Beverwijk, The Netherlands, the biggest indoor market of Europe, is our client. The Goud souk ("Gold souk") will be the new building for the gold dealers and goldsmiths, who now gather each week-end along the Goudstraat ("Goldstreet") at the Eastern Market of the...
Chilean architect Smiljan Radić's design for the 2014 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion has been relocated to Hauser & Wirth's Durslade Farm in Somerset, England.
World-Architects organized and conducted the Guided Tours at the ISH 2015 in Frankfurt.
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture has launched the online publication Schindler Lab, which documents their "initiative that prompts artists and architects to develop installations highlighting Rudolph M. Schindler's domestic experiment."
Havre is the largest of eleven public art commissions spread throughout the new MUHC (McGill University Health Centre) and the largest commission of the Quebec government’s Integration of art to architecture 1% policy realized to date.
A multi-facility municipal building with a primary school, an adult education center and a two-story underground public car park. The underground car park’s structural grid outlines the buildings above.
The first installment in the Storefront for Art and Architecture's second season of Storefront TV features a one-hour "variety show" by Jimenez Lai and Michael Messner.