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The goal of embracing the Chicago River as a recreational amenity seemed impossible years ago given the river's high levels of pollution. But today that vision is becoming a reality.
The jury, composed of Todd Saunders of Saunders Architecture and Jenny Wu of Oyler Wu Collaborative, has chosen the design concept "The Wooden Tents" by Slovenian architect Srdan Nad as winning design in the Summit Powder Mountain design competition.
We wished to develop a calm, peaceful setting with this project, in counterpoint to the intensity of mass tourism. The animation does not come from the buildings themselves but from the manner in which they allow themselves to be penetrated by the life of the seaside, and their ability to react...
This project consists of a single-story addition and renovation to an existing mid-century ranch house in Menlo Park, California.
Our work for Open Source Experts Adyax’s Parisian headquarters aims to redefine the space planning concept, and new ways to live and work together in a 21st-century office building.
A research scientist with an eye for detail approached Studio VARA with a modest vision and a couple of basic practical needs: First, transform a 1908 Noe Valley cottage – with a history of subpar alterations – into a cohesive modern dwelling.
BIG is the new biennale for independent art spaces in Geneva. For its first edition BUREAU A was commissioned to design an open air venue for the event. Built with 50 shipping container, the settlement is based on the archeological plan of the Neolithic monument of Stonehenge, creating...
Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney has been named the recipient of the 2015 Gold Medal from the Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Last week fashion house Fendi moved into its new headquarters in the renovated Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome's EUR district, built under dictator Benito Mussolini and inaugurated in 1940.
Zürich's playze converted an existing building for Tony's Organic, wrapping the facade in two layers of differently colored strings that are twisted to provide solar shading while preserving views.
Vectorworks has announced the winners – sixteen students/teams from eight countries – in its second annual design scholarship for students in architecture, landscape, and entertainment degrees.
It's the last half of 2015 and the monograph – long bemoaned to be on the way out – is alive and well, as witnessed by these dozen recently published (or soon-to-be-published) monographs on World-Architects member firms.
Construction of Antoni Gaudi's Basïlica de la Sagrada Famïlia in Barcelona has entered its last phase with the erection of six towers that will make it the tallest church in Europe at 172.5 meters (566 feet).
Bat Bridge ready for habitation: The Vlotwateringbrug or popularly ‘batbridge’ has opened for the public in the beginning of October.
Waverly Residence, located just south of Jean-Talon Street in Alexandra-Marconi district is the result of the idea of creating a very modern living place for wealthy clients in this up and coming neighborhood.
The former Bomel slaughterhouse is now part of a cultural area with an extensive history and an exceptional character in a comic strip museum shall be to visit, a public park and another older house for a future occupation.
LEAF International has announced the winners of the 12th annual LEAF Awards, which "recognizes innovative architectural design projects and celebrates excellence in building design on an international basis."
As part of the FIAC art fair taking place in Paris, Kengo Kuma has installed a wooden folly in the Jardin des Tuileries for Galerie Philippe Gravier. The name of the piece, Yure, translates to "slowly moving in the wind."
Beijing's OPEN Architecture and Chicago's Spirit of Space have teamed up to present the cinematic installation OPEN ReAction as part of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha has transformed the Rice University Art Gallery into a space layered with light and shadow in dense geometric patterns.
For us this is a very special project not only because the design has been made in close dialogue with the owners, but also because it has been fully built by the owners themselves.
In their design for the very first children's museum in Bulgaria, New York's Lee H. Skolnick Architecture and Design Partnership (LHSA+DP) designed a simple, L-shaped glass volume that is pierced by three faceted objects, what they refer to as "mountains."...
In the technology center of Lünen, over a former coal mine factory, hovers a "UFO." Designed in 1985 by Luigi Colani, the "UFO" has become a well known landmark in the area. In 2007 LÜNTEC GmbH, the owner and operator, initiated a competition to the...
Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled their nature-inspired design for the Museum of Indigenous Knowledge in Manila, the Philippines.
Located in the Laurentian Mountains, 250 kilometers northwest of Montreal, Mont-Laurier is a small town where the forest industry still plays a central role despite a declining demand for lumber.
The shopping mall at Brookfield Place in New York's Battery Park City, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, features two new highly transparent entrance façades supported by glass fins supplied by Sedak.
Burntwood School, a girls’ school in Wandsworth, London designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, has won the 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize, the 20th annual award for the UK’s best new building.
Bayonne Marinadour is the first intervention to be completed in a complex of actions marking the new entrance to the city of Bayonne.
The year 2015 marks twenty-eight years since the publication of Tygodnik Powszechny magazine’s interview in which Andrzej Wajda announced his intention to create a Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Kraków – a permanent venue for exhibiting Feliks ‘Manggha’...
Photographer Hilla Becher, who famously documented industrial structures with her husband Bernd in and beyond their native Germany, has died at the age of 81.
The inaugural Hyundai Commission for the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall is Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas's Empty Lot, which consists of 240 triangular planters filled with soil collected from parks and gardens across London.
Designer and filmmaker Jamie Brightmore visited Banksy's much-hyped Dismaland "Bemusement Park" and put together what he calls the "official unofficial film" of the temporary art exhibition in Somerset, England.
The striking white bus drivers building on the bus station at Amsterdam Central houses a workspace, pantry and a canteen for bus drivers on the first floor. Because the canteen is located on this higher level the drivers have a lot of privacy, with 180 degree views of the bus platform, the river...
The Air Traffic Control Centre is a highly demanding and complex object due to the nature of the institution it hosts. It is designed to enable safety and high operational activity as well as consistent comfort for visitors and staff 24 hours a day all year around.
On October 9th the much-anticipated Grace Farms River Building designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning firm SANAA was inaugurated. The building is made up of five glass-enclosed volumes strung together along a sinuous covered walkway that follows the contours of its beautiful Connecticut site.
On October 9th the much-anticipated Grace Farms River Building designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning firm SANAA was inaugurated. The building is made up of five glass-enclosed volumes strung together along a sinuous covered walkway that follows the contours of its beautiful Connecticut...