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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 Copenhagan 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,...
Concordia, a monumental wall of stained glass by artist Sir Brian Clarke, has been unveiled at Bahrain International Airport. Covering 578 square meters (6,220 square feet), the colorful installation featuring representations of plants and animals is intended to fuse Eastern and Western...
Open since April 3, Sergei Tchoban: Sections of the Mind is on display at the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture in New York City until June 7, 2025. The exhibition features a selection of Sergei Tchoban's fantastical drawings plus a half-hour interview between the Berlin...
Products in the sanitary, heating, and air-conditioning technology sector should be environmentally friendly and economical, but still offer a high level of comfort. At the ISH trade fair in March, manufacturers presented innovations that manage this balancing act.
Steven Holl is admired as much for his abundant drawings and watercolors as for his relatively few buildings. In the exhibition Steven Holl – Drawing as Thought, the Tchoban Foundation in Berlin is showing a selection of his most important and impressive graphic works.
Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture has won an international competition to design the permanent Qatar Pavilion in the Giardini of La Biennale di Venezia. When built, it will be just the third new national pavilion added to the Giardini in the last half-century.
Habitat is the debut novel of Catriona Shine, an architect who grew up in Ireland and now works in Oslo, and the latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's “Building Novels” series that looks at works of fiction with architectural themes. The novel follows seven neighbors living in an...
American philosopher Donna Haraway, author of “A Cyborg Manifesto,” has been named the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by La Biennale di Venezia. She will receive the award at the inauguration of the Venice Architecture Biennale on May 10, 2025.
Once the technical heart of the building, the atrium of the historic Imperial Spa in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, is now a modern, multifunctional hall featuring state-of-the-art technologies and adaptable acoustics, and hosting concerts, theatrical performances, film screenings, and other...
Number of English-language poems in the archive of the Poetry Foundation in Chicago containing the word “architect” or “architecture”: 146
The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, a new exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum in Lower Manhattan, explores how concrete supplanted steel as the material of choice for structuring tall buildings around the world. World-Architects stopped by the museum soon after the exhibition opened in...
Architectural Digest visits Casa Orgánica, the home of artist and architect Javier Senosiain that he built into the earth overlooking Mexico City. The 12-minute film with commentary from Senosiain beautifully captures the colorful, cave-like spaces of a one-of-a-kind creation.
The Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma—notable as the only built skyscraper designed by Frank Lloyd Wright—is being auctioned in May through a Chapter 7 bankruptcy sale, a couple months after it was supposed to be sold to a developer for $1.4 million.
On March 26, the New York City Council passed a vote reforming the rules governing scaffolding and sidewalk sheds, the latter of which have become ubiquitous across Manhattan, with some of the structures in place for more than five years. The reforms target the sheds' appearances, frequency of...
Fifteen years ago, Juri Troy built Austria's first CO2-neutral residential building. Now the Viennese architect and professor of architecture is showing what climate-positive architecture can look like with a hybrid wood-rammed earth building for the green energy supplier Windkraft...
Dating to the 19th century, Architecture Hall is the oldest building on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln campus. With the most recent renovations to the building home to the College of Architecture happening back in the 1980s, HDR and NADAAA teamed up for a much-needed renovation and...
The 2026 UIA World Congress in Barcelona (UIA2026BCN) has launched its Call for Participants, an international call open to professionals in architecture and related disciplines. With the theme “
Factor by which the number of unoccupied bedrooms in the United States has increased since 1970, reaching 31.9 million extra/guest bedrooms: 8