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Rome is starting again, redesigning its "eternity" and making itself attractive to national and international investors. The capital city is seeking solutions and proposals for new visions that point toward growth and urban development, to build a database of innovative projects on urban...
The exhibition Intelligens. Talent. EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025, a collateral event of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, opened to the public on May 9, revealing the finalists of the EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025 and Young Talent Open 2025,...
The Thaden School in Bentonville, Arkansas, designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects, EskewDumezRipple, and Andropogon Associates, has won the fifth cycle of the MCHAP Americas Prize.
One source of pride for Carlo Ratti is the so-called Space for Ideas being the first open call in the history of the Venice Architecture Biennale. One outcome of this bottom-up selection process was an incredibly long list of contributors. Additionally, most of their projects had to be fitted...
The Kingdom of Bahrain won the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, and special mentions were given to the Holy See and Great Britain—what about the other...
On top of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Golden Lion-winning Canal Café, the New York firm has two other contributions in this year's Venice Architecture Biennale: On Storage, a special project of the Applied Arts Pavilion, done with the V&A; and La Libreria, a temporary...
As co-founder of Tropical Space in Ho Chi Minh City, Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn designs residential, commercial, and cultural projects with a deep response to the tropical climate of Vietnam and an embrace of traditional materials and techniques. She has been named the winner of the DIVIA Award 2025.
On the morning of Saturday, May 10, the opening day of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, the international jury's choice for the exhibition's Golden Lions and other awards were announced.
Number of apartment buildings Estonia has set the goal to renovate by 2050, and which their national pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale addresses: 14,000
Louisiana Channel has followed architect Søren Pihlmann's restoration of the Danish Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale since its inception, documenting the process in a just-released 15-minute film. In Make Materials Matter, Pihlmann explains how materials drive the process, and...
Four days ahead of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition opening to the public, the Venice Architecture Biennale opened Margherissima, a Special Project at Forte Marghera in Mestre. The project, designed by Nigel Coates and students from the Architectural Association in London,...
World-Architects has a team in Venice covering the 19th International Architecture Exhibition curated by Carlo Ratti—Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.—and the other...
Ada – My Mother the Architect tells the life story of Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melmede, whose father and brother were architects, and whose daughter, the director of the documentary, was also an architect before she ventured into filmmaking. The feature-length film debuted in fall...
Located in Ennis, the largest town in County Clare, Ireland, the DeValera Library & Súil Art Gallery opened to the public last November on a site overlooking a small park on the edge of the town center. The building that also abuts an existing theater was designed by London's Keith...
Estimated number of saunas in Finland, the ancestral home of the sauna, for a population of 5.5 million: 3.5 million
The Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) has announced that anthropologist, writer, and artist Vyjayanthi Rao will serve as curator, with Tau Tavengwa as associate curator, for SAT's third edition set to take place in 2026.
Liliane Wong, an architect in Massachusetts and a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), is the author of two recent books on the architecture of adaptive reuse, both published by Birkhäuser. Here, we take a look inside the revised and expanded edition of Adaptive Reuse:...
The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) has announced that Dutch architect and educator Winka Dubbeldam has been appointed the next director and chief executive officer of SCI-Arc, a role she will assume in September.
A new video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles landscape architect Kate Orff, founding principal of SCAPE and professor at Columbia University. Speaking in SCAPE's Lower Manhattan studio, Orff discusses her background, what drew her to landscape architecture,...
Price to convert office buildings into flats—rearranging floor plans, plumbing, ventilation, and more: $250 to...
Three years ago, the New York City Building Code was updated to allow the use of cross-laminated timber as a low-carbon alternative to other construction materials. The first mass timber project approved and built under the code revision was just completed: Frame 122, a five-story apartment...
Her exhibitions launched architects' careers and built bridges between cultures. Few promoted the international architecture scene like Kristin Feireiss-Commerell. Her voice will be missed—but her legacy lives on in the hearts and minds of those she supported and inspired.
The textured masonry facades of Josep Lluís Sert’s nearly 50-year-old Eastwood apartment buildings—now The Landings—on Roosevelt Island are being covered with insulation to meet New York City’s recently implemented energy-efficiency requirements. World-Architects visited to see portions of the...
Following a two-stage competition, Kansas City, Missouri's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has selected WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism as the lead architect for the museum’s upcoming expansion and transformation project.
At the Garden's Pace is a film directed by Juan Benavides that documents the construction of a pavilion for a botanical garden in Hilversum, Netherlands. Uniquely, the pavilion was designed by architect Enzo Valerio, but also built by him with a small team of architects over the course...
A new video from Architectural Digest finds New York architect Michael Wyetzner delving into the Constructivist-inspired design process of Zaha Hadid—from her thesis at the Architectural Association and competition-winning entry for The Peak in Hong Kong, to MAXXI in Rome, the Contemporary...
In 2021, pihlmann architects won a competition organized by the Bikuben Foundation to transform a 1960s factory in Copenhagen into a community hub. The firm founded by Søren Thirup Pihlmann repurposed nearly every component from the existing building, making it a model of adaptive, cyclical...
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) will be leading the renovation of Penn Station, removing New York State's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) from the project.
Time an inhabitant of a “coffin apartment,” or “coffin cubicle,” of 2 square meters (21.5 sf) in Hong Kong, paying €260 ($270) per month,
The Japan-Architects curators were in Osaka ahead of the opening of Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai on April 13, taking lots of photos and shooting a few videos. Here we present some highlights from their documentation of the signature pavilions, domestic pavilions, national pavilions, and facilities...
In 2026, Barcelona will host the UIA World Architecture Congress. Under the title Becoming: Architectures for a Planet in Transition, the event seeks to connect the local with the global. It is shaping up as an open, collective, urban, and global process to rethink the role of...
In a new five-minute video, design principals Marianne Kwok and Brian Girard lead a walkthrough of KPF's recently renovated New York City office, which occupies a full floor in a 1920s commercial building across the street from Bryant Park and the firm's own
The Frick Collection, the beloved 90-year-old art museum housed in the historic Henry Clay Frick mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, has been closed since 2020 for a comprehensive renovation and enhancement carried out by
On Monday, April 14, Pope Francis declared Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí “venerable”—the second of four steps in canonizing the designer of Barcelona’s world-famous Sagrada Família—one year ahead of the basilica's expected completion and the centenary of Gaudí's death.
Estimated number of abandoned towns and villages in Spain, including those with just one inhabitant: 5,000
With its sculpted balconies in concrete, people walking by the apartment building at the southeast corner of Campeche and Culiacan in Mexico City's Condesa neighborhood would be forgiven for assuming it is new construction. In fact, it is an adaptive reuse of a run-down building from 1953,...