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The exhibition "drawing in space" by Sauerbruch Hutton provides an insight into the reflection and creative processes of their architecture. Falk Jaeger visited the exhibition and also found in it a journey through the development of architectural representation. Falk Jaeger

The new Álvaro Siza Wing at the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal, opens to the public on February 24, 2024, with two exhibitions: Improbable Anagrams, displaying pieces from the Serralves Foundation's permanent collection; and John Hill

The exhibition ‘POETIC IMAGINATIONS. Interweaving Architecture with Traditional Values’ by Beijing’s  Eduard Kögel

The latest installation in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, an awe-inducing subterranean space marked by hundreds of concrete columns reflected in a surface of water, is artist Rachel Rossin's Haha Real, which takes visitors on a voyage inspired by The Velveteen Rabbit. John Hill

Brooklyn Bridge Park is a new visual biography about the namesake, 1.3-mile (2-km) long park on the Brooklyn waterfront. Designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), the park is immensely popular for its views of Lower Manhattan, mix of active and passive uses, and beautiful... John Hill

The National Building Museum in Washington, DC, opened Building Stories on January 21. Six years in the making, the ambitious multigenerational exhibition curated by Leonard Marcus, an expert on children's literature, will be on display for ten years. John Hill

Mass Studies, the office of South Korean architect Minsuk Cho, has been selected to design the 23rd Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, set to open in London's Kensington Gardens in June. Archipelagic Void is inspired by small courtyards found in old Korean houses.  John Hill

Nine years after winning the competition to design a new shared learning building (BEM) at the École Polytechnique in Paris-Saclay, France, construction of the building designed by Sou Fujimoto Architects, OXO Architectes, Nicolas Laisné Architectes, and DREAM is complete. John Hill

In 2023 we presented just shy of 40 Buildings of the Week, featuring short Q&As with architects about recently completed buildings in the United States. It's your turn to help us crown a US Building of the Year by voting for your favorite. The winner will be announced at the end of... John Hill

As 2023 draws to a close and our thoughts linger on what transpired over the last twelve months, World-Architects is taking a month-by-month look at some of the stories we covered: awards, competitions, buildings, books, exhibitions, and passings. John Hill

A highlight of ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, the comprehensive retrospective on Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha now on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, is Chocolate Room, a gallery covered in more than 500 sheets of paper screen-printed with chocolate. John Hill

On display at DuSable Park as part of this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial, Parallel Histories is an installation that looks back to the Haitian-born immigrant the park is named for — and forward to the imminent creation of the park that has been more than 35 years in the making. John Hill

More than five years in the making, An Atlas of Es Devlin opened at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City on November 18, 2023. It is the first monographic exhibition on Es Devlin, the renowned artist and set designer from London, and is accompanied by a... John Hill

The tenth MPavilion, designed by Tadao Ando, opened to the public on November 16 in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens. The temporary concrete structure — notably the Japanese architect's first ever project in Australia — will host more than 150 events before it closes on March 28,... John Hill

Ma Yansong: Landscapes in Motion opened in late September at the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (MoCAUP) in Shenzhen, China, presenting a retrospective of MAD’s... John Hill

What significance does the work of the late Austrian architect Hans Hollein have for a younger generation of architects? The Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W) is juxtaposing Hollein's projects with the designs of fifteen European firms in Hollein Calling: Architectural Dialogues, a major... Elias Baumgarten

Generation Proxima: Emerging Environmental Practices in Portuguese Architecture, curated by Pedro Gadanho, is now on display at AIA New York's Center for Architecture. World-Architects stopped by recently to learn about the seven architecture studios that are “extending Earth's lifespan... John Hill

The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of 2023 DAM Architectural Book Award, selecting the ten best architecture books from 245 submissions from 102 publishers. John Hill

World-Architects packed a lunch and headed to Gansevoort Peninsula, the former sanitation facility that is now home to Manhattan's first public beach. Designed by a team led by Field Operations, the latest addition to Hudson River Park opened to the public on October 2. John Hill

A Permanent Nostalgia for Departure: A Rehearsal on Legacy with Zaha Hadid is on display at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, until January 28, 2024. The exhibition features artworks that engage directly with the 20-year-old building designed by Zaha Hadid, notably... John Hill

On display at Harvard University Graduate School of Design's Frances Loeb Library until October 15, The Book in the Age of … is an exhibition that came out of a research seminar at the GSD taught by architect Rem Koolhaas, graphic designer Irma Boom, and architectural historian Phillip... John Hill

Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism, the inaugural exhibition from the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), opened to the public on September 17. John Hill

Artist and architect Oscar Abraham Pabón has installed a terracotta wall on the pond of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. The temporary installation was inspired by the architecture of the pavilion but also the ink blots of the famous psychological tests created by Hermann... John Hill

The fourth iteration of the biennial Exhibit Columbus opened to the public on August 26, 2023, with a dozen installations spread across Columbus, Indiana, the small town that is famous as a Midwestern mecca of modern architecture. The three-month-long exhibition was shaped by a large... John Hill

Born in Munich, architect Florian Busch founded Florian Busch Architects in Tokyo in 2009, after working in the office of Toyo Ito. In the second part of a two-part interview, Busch talks with Ulf Meyer about the Nobori Building in Tokyo, the K8 building in Kyoto, and “Vertical Landscapes,”... Ulf Meyer

Born in Munich, architect Florian Busch founded Florian Busch Architects (FBA) in 2009, after working in the office of Toyo Ito. In the first part of a two-part interview, Busch talks with Ulf Meyer about his... Ulf Meyer

Recently, London-based architect John Pawson celebrated the release of his latest monograph, Making Life Simpler, authored by Deyan Sudjic and published by Phaidon. In Vladimir Belogolovsky’s interview with Pawson, he discusses key references and influences, his design process, what... Vladimir Belogolovsky

The sixth and final exhibition in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s “The Architect’s Studio” series presents the Kenyan architectural studio Cave Bureau (stylized as cave_bureau), founded by Kabage Karanja and... Ulf Meyer

As part of the World-Architects team that visited Venice for the vernissage in May, Italian photographer Flavia Rossi put the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale in the pictures. Her photos give an impression of the diverse interpretations of curator Lesley Lokko's theme Susanna Koeberle

Architects Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats have transported their studio on Carrer de Trafalgar in Barcelona to the Corderie building at the Arsenale, as part of the 2023 Venice Architecture... John Hill

One of the numerous exhibitions in Venice unrelated to the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale but taking place during its six-month run (see also: John Hill

A recent visit to the Fondazione Querini Stampalia — always a must while in Venice for the Biennale — yielded an unexpected find: models by the winner and finalists in the DoorScape international architecture contest displayed in the ground-floor spaces remodeled by Carlo Scarpa. John Hill

One of the most unexpected contributions to a national pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale is the figural sculptures Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza made for the Holy See Pavilion on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. John Hill

The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, opened to the public on May 20, 2023. Curated by Lesley Lokko, the ambitious exhibition shifted the focus of the Venice Architecture Biennale to Africa and many upstart practitioners. The exhibition offers... John Hill

Brazil won the Golden Lion and Great Britain received a special mention. What are a few other standout national pavilions in the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale that opened on... John Hill

The first Ukraine Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in nearly ten years consists of two pieces: an earthwork in the Giardini and a low, darkened space in the Arsenale. John Hill