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Eduard Kögel | 11.03.2025

Insight

Peter Cachola Schmal has been at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main since 2000, where the trained architect has been director since 2006. After 25 years and before his tenure ends in summer 2027, it is time to take stock of his work at the DAM.


Range Design & Architecture | 10.03.2025

Building of the Week

An empty one-story dentist's office in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, about five miles northwest of the Loop, has been transformed into the two-story home for a boutique furniture studio. A workshop and showroom for Nothing Design Company sits behind the screen-like brick facade, no...


René Ammann | 09.03.2025

Number

Footprint of the 30-story apartment building in Tirana designed by Swiss architect Davide Macullo in the shape of Albania's national symbol, the eagle: 1,900...


John Hill | 07.03.2025

Headlines

Ricardo Scofidio, the New York City architect, educator, and co-founder of the influential interdisciplinary practice Diller Scofidio + Renfro, died on March 6, 2025, at the age of 89. 


Eduard Kögel | 07.03.2025

Found

Liu Jiakun has radically modernized China's building tradition. Now he is being given the highest award for architects. His buildings offer space for individual development, and they show that China's architecture scene can be a source of ideas and a role model.


Antonio La Gioia | 06.03.2025

Headlines

For several years now, Albania has embarked on an ambitious process of urban transformation, with the aim of redefining its identity and projecting itself onto the international stage. This process, accelerated after the 2019 earthquake, has turned the capital, Tirana, into a laboratory of...


John Hill | 05.03.2025

Film

Accompanying the announcement of Liu Jiakun as the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize are a handful of short films that find the Chengdu-based architect...


John Hill | 04.03.2025

Headlines

Architect Liu Jiakun, a native of Chengdu, China, has been named the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, long considered architecture's highest honor. Today's announcement describes Liu as an architect who continues to practice and reside in Chengdu, “prioritizing the everyday...


John Hill | 04.03.2025

Insight

Visitors to World-Architects in January voted Nokha Village Community Centre by Sanjary Puri Architects as Building of the Year 2024. Located in the Indian state of...


Natalie Kreutzer | 03.03.2025

Specials

The Ambiente trade fair was once again a resounding success in 2025: From February 7 to 11, the international consumer goods industry gathered in Frankfurt. One of the highlights for visitors was the new Interior Looks format, a platform dedicated to interior design and the contract business.


René Ammann | 03.03.2025

Number

Repair bill to save Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Fallingwater house built in 1937 above a waterfall in...


Takuma Kawaguchi Architect & Associates | 03.03.2025

Building of the Week

In the forested hills of Kirishima, a city in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture, sits Kirishima-Jingu, one of the Shinto shrines that help attract visitors to the southern end of the island of Kyushu. The Kirishima-Jingu Station serving the shrine underwent a renovation that weaves wood columns,...


John Hill | 28.02.2025

Found

This house on John Lemley Lane in Christiansburg, a town in Virginia's Valley and Ridge region, would never be confused with its neotraditional neighbors. In lieu of dormers, vinyl siding, and asphalt shingles, the house designed by Ben Pennell has exposed trusses, fiber cement panels, and a...


Elias Baumgarten | 28.02.2025 Paid content

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The Griesser company manufactures solar shading products. In doing so, the Swiss-based family firm puts a particular emphasis on its sustainability credentials. Numerous improvements have been achieved on this front in the past few years, as CEO Urs Neuhauser explains. And the company’s new...


John Hill | 27.02.2025

Headlines

The New Museum has announced it will reopen its expanded home on Manhattan's Bowery in fall 2025. The expansion, designed by OMA partners Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu, links to the museum's iconic 2007 building designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA.


John Hill | 25.02.2025

Headlines

The UK government has announced the teams on the shortlist in the two-stage competition for the design of a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II, to be located in London's St. James Park, just steps from The Mall, the ceremonial route to Buckingham Palace.


John Hill | 25.02.2025

Film

In its latest informative film focused on engineering and construction, The B1M heads inside International Congress Centre Berlin, the massive, 313-meter-long “spaceship,” designed by Ralf Schüler and Ursulina Schüler-Witte in the 1970s, that opened in 1979, has sat empty since 2014, was...


John Hill | 25.02.2025

Found

ROMEO Collection has just opened Hotel ROMEO Roma, the second location in the Italian capital for the proprietor of five-star hotels and, more importantly, one of the last designs by Zaha Hadid before her death in 2016. The 74-room boutique hotel is housed in a 16th-century palace just steps...


René Ammann | 24.02.2025

Number

Target year green-building features like making use of natural materials such as cellulose, natural fiber for insulation, fiber cement for excellent durability, and natural clay plaster as an alternative for gypsum-based plasters,


Mecanoo | 24.02.2025

Building of the Week

The Heerlen City Hall and Municipal Offices opened in August 2023, coinciding with the Dutch city's Cultura Nova festivities and coming 75 years after the landmark City Hall designed by Frits Peutz was inaugurated. As designed by Mecanoo, the two buildings are now fused by a transparent...


John Hill | 21.02.2025

Headlines

The British Museum in London has announced Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture (LG—A) as the winner of the international architectural competition to redesign its Western Range Galleries, which the museum contends is “one of the biggest cultural renovations undertaken anywhere in the world.”


John Hill | 20.02.2025

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A recent panel discussion at AIA New York's Center for Architecture explored the state of architectural criticism, “wrestling with questions of ethics, equity, and influence and the role that critics play in the public's perception of the built environment.” World-Architects was in attendance;...


Natalie Kreutzer | 19.02.2025

Specials

The ISH trade fair in Frankfurt is about to begin, featuring a new thematic structure and an extensive supporting program. From March 17 to 21, 2025, the world’s leading trade fair for HVAC and water serves as a platform for discussion and a hub for the sanitation, heating, and...


Eduard Kögel | 19.02.2025

Insight

Similar to his earlier book on Hong Kong, Walter Koditek has trained his camera on the facades of modernist buildings in Bangkok, compiling them into the recently published Bangkok Modern: Architecture of the 1950s–1970s. Architectural eye candy, or serious scholarship on overlooked...


John Hill | 18.02.2025

Film

Three years after it opened to the public, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto finally visits the House of Music Hungary he designed for Budapests's City Park, as documented in a video just released by Liget Budapest.


René Ammann | 17.02.2025

Number

Height of the impressive cupola of the Great Moscow State Circus in Russia, which opened on April 30, 1971, and is now facing demolition: 31 meters...


SO? | 17.02.2025

Building of the Week

The 2024 Suseong International Biennale took place in Suseong, South Korea, in October, featuring numerous pavilions and other installations integrating architecture and landscape under the exhibition's theme, Relational Field. A standout contribution was SUPRA, by Istanbul's SO?, who answered...


Natalie Kreutzer | 14.02.2025

Specials

Resilient architecture, affordable housing, climate protection, and the future urban development—these topics and more were addressed at BAU from January 13 to 17 in Munich. In times of upheaval and significant challenges, the world’s largest construction trade fair brought a sense of...


John Hill | 14.02.2025

Found

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City is a new exhibition that opened at The Shed on February 12. The celebration of the 20th anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installation of 7,503 saffron-colored gates in Central Park also features an...


Vladimir Belogolovsky | 13.02.2025

Insight

Following the success of the much-publicized inaugural 2023 Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, its second edition, which commenced on January 25, continues to serve as an impressive visionary platform showcasing artistic traditions from antiquity to the present day. Titled And...


John Hill | 12.02.2025

Headlines

In a press conference on February 11, Venice Architecture Biennale curator Carlo Ratti revealed some of the 762 participants in the upcoming 19th International Architecture Exhibition. With the Central Pavilion in the Giardini closed for renovations, the Corderie will host many of the projects...


John Hill | 12.02.2025

Film

Lotte Scheder-Bieschin, a structural engineer and doctoral researcher in the Block Research Group at ETH Zurich, has developed Unfold Form, a formwork system that enables the construction of thin, fan-shaped vaulted floors in unreinforced concrete. Scheder-Bieschin and BRG shared some...


John Hill | 11.02.2025

Headlines

At a recent event at the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, Mexico, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) announced the five finalists for the 2025 Americas Prize, which honors the best work of architecture completed in the Americas between June 2022 and December 2023.


John Hill | 11.02.2025

Found

Architecture, Not Architecture is the new career-spanning monograph on New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro, published this month by Phaidon. Befitting the name, the book is split into two parts — one half presenting buildings and other architecture projects, the other half showing...


NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira | 10.02.2025

Building of the Week

The new town hall of Trofa, a small city located about 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Porto, consisted of the renovation and expansion of an old industrial building. Completed in 2023, Trofa Town Hall was designed by NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira, who answered a few questions about...


René Ammann | 09.02.2025

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Years it took to turn the 24-story Piraeus Tower, one of the first skyscrapers in Piraeus, the port city neighboring Athens,