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The New York Times Style - T Magazine takes a look behind the creation of the seasonal "Architecture" display at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City.
The Presidio Trust has announced that James Corner Field Operations has been selected from among five finalists to design thirteen acres of new parkland overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
For a site in the Resonant Sand Bay in the Gobi Desert near the city of Baotou in Inner Mongolia PLaT architects from Beijing designed a hotel that reflects, in plan, the shape of a lotus flower. However, the inspiration of the design developed from the idea of creating a construction on top of...
Steven Holl Architects has bested seven finalists, including Zaha Hadid Architects and OMA, to design a new wing for the Mumbai City Museum, also known as Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum.
PAR recently completed two galleries for IBID. Projects, directed by Magnus Edensvard, one in Los Angeles and one in London.
Squeezed into what was once a driveway, this slim standing-room-only cafe in Sydney’s Surry Hills has exactly the dark industrial atmosphere its comic-character-loving owner was after for his new "caffeine laboratory."
The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership aims to bring social justice topics up from the basement – a traditionally informal setting in convening for social justice – and squarely into public consciousness.
For our last Insight feature of 2014, World-Architects takes a look back at some of the headlines, projects, competitions, features and products of the last 12 months while we look ahead to some projects to be completed in 2015.
Designed for an engineer and an artist, the Topo House is an apt name, given the way it peels up gently from the Wisconsin landscape, melding itself with the site's topography. Johnsen Schmaling Architects' low-slung design can also be seen as a response to the state's cold...
This project involved the expansion of a spacious single-story Outremont residence built in the 1960s. Situated on a site with a steep incline and majestic view, the two-floor expansion was designed to offer a generous window on the horizon.
Design Miami/, now in its tenth year, may be overshadowed by the larger and slightly older Art Basel – Miami Beach, but the five-day design show offers its share of delights as well as a hint of the city's architectural evolution.
FleaFollyArchitects built "Grimm City," a minituare Cityscape based on the imagination of the Brothers Grimm as portrayed in their Fairy Tales, which turned 200 in 2012.
Serpentine Galleries has announced that Spanish architecture practice SelgasCano, founded in 1998 by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, will design the 15th Serpentine Pavilion.
Granted, the computer game "Monument Valley" isn't new, but it's worth highlighting now since until 7 December 2014 all proceeds from the game's latest chapter, "Ida's (RED) Dream," benefit the (RED) charity and its fight against AIDS.
The Westminster City Council has granted planning approval for a pedestrian bridge designed by Thomas Heatherwick that would span the River Thames and connect Temple and Southbank in London.
The architectural practice Kjellander + Sjöberg has, along with Diligentia, won a land transfer competition in Rosendal with the proposal Woodhouse.
The deal is to restructure and extend a former police station that imposes on the Square des Fusillés et des Déportés but is disconnected from its urban environment.
Over four nights in October, Chicago-based Luftwerk applied their distinctive blend of video, light and architecture to Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House for the multimedia exhibition INsite.
The traditional boundaries between architecture, landscape, scenography and lighting are blurred as the visitor experiences an immersive universe which resembles the exploratory trip of the naturalist.
The jury for the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition has selected six finalists from the 1,715 anonymous submissions submitted in October for the open competition's first stage. The finalists will develop their designs for the second stage.
Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg Municipality, Metroselskabet and Realdania have announced that the C.F. Møller entry has won the contest to design the upcoming extension of CBS.
MVSA designed Shoebaloo’s newest store on 5 Koningsplein, Amsterdam. Shoebaloo is renowned for its high-end designer shoes and accessories, and has various branches in the city. The women’s store is located beside the men’s store at 7 Koningsplein.
The Prime Minister of Malaysia and the Mayor of London have unveiled the design by Bjarke Ingels Group for Malaysia Square at the mixed-use Battersea Power Station development in London.
Located in Nakanoshima, Osaka’s business district, Mitsui Garden Hotel Osaka Premier was designed around the concept of stimulating all five senses of its cultured clientele. Kanagawa Prefecture-based landscape design firm STGK (Studio Gen Kumagai) created the hotel’s gardens with an...
Ten years after AWP was shortlisted for the final stage of the Architecture Foundation new building in London, Igloo-Carillon has selected the Office for territorial reconfiguration to deliver a design vision for a cycle hub building in Malmo Quay.
Street art, industrial influence and minimalism combine to form Wood & Grieve Engineers (WGE) new Melbourne CBD office, designed by Gray Puksand.
At the end of 2013 the Mariners Harbor Library, a branch of the New York Public Library system, opened its doors to the public on Staten Island. A key feature of A*PT Architecture's design is a long glass skylight over the central circulation spine.
At the close of the Media Architecture Biennale 2014 in Aarhus, Denmark, five projects in as many categories were acknowledged as "the world’s most outstanding accomplishments in the intersection between architecture and technology."
Aiguablava is a small beach on the Catalonian Costa Brava, embraced by low mountains, where houses overlook the sea between the pine tree forests.
Every four years thousands of Boy Scouts, leaders and staff converge for the 10-day National Scout Jamboree. Held in various locations since its 1937 beginning, the Jamboree has a permanent base at the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in Mount Hope, West Virginia. Connecting...
The recipients of the 26th Piranesi Awards were announced last week at the conclusion of the Piran Days of Architecture in Slovenia.
The Harvard Art Museums – consisting of the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum – opened their new Renzo Piano-designed home on 16 November 2014. Take a look at the 4-year construction in a 4-minute time-lapse.
Situated on the outskirts of a village, an existing house was demolished to allow for a new build in order to maximize the relationship between the architecture and surrounding landscapes.
The Kolla School is a playful, inspiring and sustainable school environment centered around the students, with a building volume that is well suited to its purpose and context.
The vertical garden, covering front and side elevations, is a tool which allows to integrate the building with its green context.
World-Architects recently visited the Manhattan office of James Corner Field Operations to get a tour of their office space, speak with Mr. Corner about the firm's philosophy, and see where the landscape architecture and urban design firm is heading.