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Japanese artist Takahiro Iwasaki has suspended an intricate wooden model of the Shinto shrine of Itsukushina in the National Gallery of Victoria as part of his Reflection Model series.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is celebrating Chinese New Year and more than four decades of working in China with the 12-year zodiac calendar illustrated by the firm's Graphics + Branding studio.
London's Design Museum has announced 76 nominees in 6 categories vying for the 8th annual Designs of the Year.
A trio of recent short films from BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group – on a residential tower, an urban design proposal, and the firm's overall approach to design – illustrates the potential of video as a tool of persuasion in architecture.
Design Within Reach has selected three winners in its annual Champagne Chair Contest, which asked entrants to "create a miniature chair using only the foil, label, cage and cork from no more than two champagne bottles."
Roman authorities are reportedly selling four buildings in the historic EUR district, including the Palazzo della Civiltà del Lavoro to fashion house Fendi, to help pay for "The Cloud" conference center designed by Massimiliano Fuksas.
A few years ago Architectural Record asked, "Is Vietnam the new frontier for architects?" The article referenced projects by large corporate offices underway at the time, but it also mentioned a couple buildings designed by Carlos Zapata Studio; its 2010 Bitexco Financial...
Although The Broad in downtown Los Angeles won't open until September 2015, the museum opened the doors of its Diller, Scofidio + Renfro building yesterday for the one-day Sky-Lit exhibit in its third floor space.
Located on one of the many islands dotting The Archipelago in Georgian Bay, Ontario, this private boathouse and docking facility designed by Kevin Weiss of Weiss Architecture & Urbanism Limited exemplifies a quiet and precise modernism.
Atelier Bow-Wow, Rice University professor Jesús Vassallo and students from Rice School of Architecture recently completed the "Learning from Houston" study of the city's vernacular shotgun houses, culminating in an exhibition in the university's art gallery.
For the 2015 Times Square Valentine Heart Design, an invited competition organized by the Times Square Arts and the Architectural League of New York, the winner Stereotank installed an urban drum in the form of a heart.
Some aerial drone footage from earlier this month reveals the construction progress on Apple's huge ring-shaped headquarters designed by Norman Foster and located in Cupertino, California.
In preparing the project, we underlined a list of priorities. Our first initiative was to create a clear and hitherto non-existent street frontage and plaza.
This project is as a minimalist "open-ended" event space for an avid maker-client and his creative partners to experiment and ideate.
Here is a roundup of some monographs of World-Architects member firms – a baker's dozen of those released in the U.S. in the first three months of 2015, at least.
BIG – Bjarke Ingel Group's W57 project, a residential "courtscraper" on Manhattan's West Side, recently topped off, so yesterday World-Architects headed over to snap some photos of the construction progress.
The project is located in a major and well connected industrial area on the east side of Rome with a focus on advanced research production. The building is a clear and compact volume that has an interesting relationship to its context.
Architect Jon Jerde, founder of the The Jerde Partnership, died Monday at his Los Angeles home after a long illness.
Less than a week after Morphosis was selected to design a 100-room luxury hotel in Vals, Switzerland, for Therme Vals owner 7132 Ltd, some of the jury members are distancing themselves from the decision.
The New York Post reports that The Related Companies "has hired Rem Koolhaas to design their new High Line project on West 18th Street."
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the 40 shortlisted works that will compete for the 2015 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.
The starting point for this design concept draws inspiration from the industrial heritage of the building, with its rich history of former occupancies.
University Town is a new campus for the National University of Singapore that recently opened near its Kent Ridge Campus. The large expansion consists of a number of components, including the university's Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise (CREATE), which...
Located in the city's up and coming Southwest neighborhood this 300-sm detached house hides a rich spatial complexity behind its tough working class façade.
One year after MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects won the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada's Architectural Firm Award, Brian MacKay-Lyons has been named the recipient of the Gold Medal, the organization's highest honor.
The spatial and administrative separation of Paris from its suburbs is one of the permanent problems that plagues the metropolis. An intelligent project that combines transport and leisure functions contributes to overcoming the barriers created by the ring motorway.
A. Zahner Co., the go-to engineering and fabrication company based in Kansas City, Missouri, has worked with Thom Mayne and Morphosis on a number of projects, including the L.A. outpost of Boston's Emerson College, completed last year.
Spanish duo Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano have won the Alvar Aalto Medal, conferred by the Museum of Finnish Architecture, the Finnish Association of Architects, the Architectural Society, the Alvar Aalto Foundation and the City of Helsinki.
Morphosis Architects, headed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, has been selected in a competition to design a luxury hotel for 7132 Ltd in Vals, Switzerland, home to Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals.
Office for Political Innovation, a Madrid- and New York-based practice directed by Andrés Jaque, has won the 16th edition of MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program with COSMO.
A single-family home located in a new forest development, the Veranda house is designed to be intimate and discreet.
The final form of the Cultural Center design was determined by two elements: the first, the situation and an urban context of the object, the second, its function defined by the program.
Los Angeles-based architect Greg Lynn directs a three-year Master of Architecture studio in the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Learn more about the program through a couple short films.
The Sant Gervasi-Joan Maragall Library, designed by BCQ arquitectura barcelona, has been awarded the 2014 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona of Architecture and Urbanism.
Santa Monica, California's Brooks + Scarpa headed south of the border to carry out an industrial building with the firm's signature emphasis on sustainability and bold design. Most striking are the perforated skin and jagged roofline, which filter light and views, bring in plenty of...
On Monday Frank Gehry's design for the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at the University of Technology, Sydney, home to the UTS Business School, opened its doors.