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John Hill | 11.03.2016

Products

A combination of horizontal shelves, vertical fins and hidden LEDs dramatically illuminates the glasses within Bolon Eyewear's first flagship store, designed by Ippolito Fleitz Group with Pfarré Lighting Design.


John Hill | 11.03.2016

Film

A student team from TU Delft has developed and built a fully functional 3D-printed stainless steel bicycle. Watch its construction and assembly in a short film.


John Hill | 10.03.2016

Found

On Sunday the exhibition A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City opens to the public. World-Architects got an early look and presents photos of just a few of the numerous models that make up the show.


John Hill | 10.03.2016

Film

Nowness presents a short look at Piet Oudolf, the planting designer of the High Line and one of the most influential landscape designers working today, and his "simple yet complex" garden in Hummelo, Netherlands.


John Hill | 09.03.2016

Headlines

The National Building Museum (NBM) in Washington, DC, has unveiled ICEBERGS, James Corner Field Operations' installation that will occupy the museum's huge Great Hall this summer.


09.03.2016

Comentários

The Orthopedic Clinic located in Ushiku city, Ibaraki prefecture, was designed by Matsuyama Architect and Associates. We asked design principle Masakatsu Matsuyama about the project.


Camarim Arquitectos | 09.03.2016

Works

Gateira is a hamlet placed on a beautiful hill planted with vineyards, pines and olive trees with splendid views over the southern tip of Serra da Estrela, the highest point in mainland Portugal.


John Hill | 09.03.2016

Headlines

FC Barcelona has announced that the Espai Barça jury has unanimously selected Nikken Sekkei + Pascual i Ausió Arquitectes  as the winning team for the design of the new Camp Nou.


John Hill | 08.03.2016

Headlines

Jeanne Gang has been named "Architect of the Year" by The Architectural Review, and her firm Studio Gang Architects has been selected to design the new U.S. Embassy Compound in Brasilia, Brazil.


ANA architecten | 08.03.2016

Works

Commissioned by Huis&, ANA designed a series of four dwellings with workspaces. The environment will transform from an industrial are into a combined living and working area in the next years and possesses no prototypical living qualities yet. Therefore focus was put particularly on internal...


HPP Architects | 08.03.2016

Works

Extensively restored by HPP and added with new halls, the Kongresshalle am Zoo Leipzig (Congress Hall Leipzig) reopened last year.


Maître Carré, Architecture Open Form | 08.03.2016

Works

The François-René project, on Châteaubriand Avenue in Montreal’s Rosemont-Petite-Patrie neighbourhood, boasts six exceptional, thoroughly contemporary residences.


John Hill | 07.03.2016

Headlines

Last week New York's $4 billion Transit Hub at the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan partially opened to the public devoid of any fanfare.


07.03.2016

Comentários

A parking lot in the center of Stanford University's campus has been admirably transformed into a place of calm for students, faculty and the larger community. Aidlin darling design describes the Windhover Contemplation Center as "a unification of art,...


John Hill | 03.03.2016

Headlines

The competition-winning proposal by architects from VOA Architecture and engineers from Werner Sobek New York envisions the Pan Am Building (now the MetLife Building) at 200 Park Avenue in New York City covered in a patterned, double-glazed curtain wall.


John Hill | 03.03.2016

Insight

In her new book, The Inspired Lansdcape, landscape architect Susan Cohen explores the creative process of 21 leading international landscape architects. Here we present an excerpt from the book and highlight just a few of the projects found in its pages.


Regina Dahmen Ingenhoven | 03.03.2016

Works

Swarovski’s first company daycare center for children has been completed in cooperation with Regina Dahmen Ingenhoven. The building is located in Wattens, Austria, the main location of the traditional company and joins it’s premises in direct extension of the already existing Veil...


Visioarq Arquitectos | 02.03.2016

Works

Built in 1881, in Vermoim – Vila Nova de Famalicão, the Igreja Velha Palace was for many decades the mansion of an important farm, baroque style with two castellated towers and an attached chapel, the neo-gothic style S. Francisco de Assis chapel.


Sadar+Vuga | 02.03.2016

Works

The concept design for the Cultural Center of European Space Technologies (KSEVT) derives from the habitation wheel of the first geostationary space station described in Noordung's 1929 book.


John Hill | 01.03.2016

Headlines

Alejandro Aravena, director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice and recipient of the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize, hit the press circuit recently to discuss his Biennale theme, Reporting from the Front, and explain what exactly is going on in that photo...


Waechter Architecture | 01.03.2016

Works

Construction has completed on Sawtooth in Lake Oswego. Waechter Architecture (WA) was given the task of designing a compact 8-unit apartment complex whereby each individual unit would have optimum privacy, as well as natural light and a view. 


John Hill | 01.03.2016

Headlines

Last night the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANY) announced the winners of the 2016 Design Awards in four categories: Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design.


29.02.2016

Comentários

"Dead malls" are an unfortunate side effect of the United States' mix of sprawl, auto dependence and short-lived retail trends. They are also opportunities for developers and architects to create new places built upon the malls' old bones. In Glastonbury, Connecticut, this...


John Hill | 29.02.2016

Products

Twenty-five years after an anonymous water tower in Milan's Porto Garibaldi was covered with a colorful palette of ceramic tiles, the team behind Torre Arcobaleno (Rainbow Tower) returned to refurbish the local landmark.


John Hill | 28.02.2016

Film

Rock Print, a collaborative installation of Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich, and MIT's Self-Assembly Lab, was one of the highlights of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Beinnial. A short film presents its dusty deinstallation.


John Hill | 26.02.2016

Headlines

About a year and a half after Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for an end to "weird architecture" in China, the country's State Council issued an official directive that says no to "oversized, xenocentric, weird" architecture devoid of cultural tradition.


John Hill | 25.02.2016

Headlines

French architect Odile Decq has won The Architectural Review's Jane Drew Prize, which "recognizes an architectural designer who through their work and commitment to design excellence has raised the profile of women in architecture."


Eduard Kögel | 25.02.2016

Works

On 12 May 2008 the devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province of China destroyed thousands of lives within minutes. Among the buildings that collapsed was the Beichuan Middle School in which more than 1000 pupils and teachers died. The government decided to build the National Earthquake...


John Hill | 25.02.2016

Film

In a new video consisting of clips culled from the Louisiana Channel's numerous interviews with architects, Liz Diller, Craig Dykers, Bjarke Ingels, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, and Robert A.M. Stern discuss building in New York City.


John Hill | 24.02.2016

Headlines

Alejandro Aravena, director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition has unveiled the list of national participations in the Venice Architecture Biennale as well as the participants in his "Reporting from the Front" exhibition.


John Hill | 24.02.2016

Headlines

Two weeks after being named the architect of the 2016 Serpentine Pavilion, the design by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group has been unveiled by London's Serpentine Galleries.


PLP Architecture | 23.02.2016

Works

PLP has unveiled a masterplan and architectural design for a large complex at the heart of a metropolitan centre in the Pearl River Delta. Located at a very prominent junction within the central business district, the project comprises four buildings.


Lichtvision | 23.02.2016

Works

The Fashion Gallery has been remodeled by Kuehn Malvezzi and the architectural and lighting installations by Lichtvision represent the perfect stage for this extraordinary fashion collection.


Paolo Venturella, Cosimo Scotucci | 23.02.2016

Works

Paolo Venturella & Cosimo Scotucci propose a glacial glazed museum. The museum takes shape by the deformation of the classic courtyard typology, according to functions and context.


22.02.2016

Comentários

A series of one-story volumes covered in a varied material palette gives this one-story house near the Pacific Ocean its distinct, village-like character. The design takes advantage of its natural setting through large openings and numerous terraces. The architects at Wnuk Spurlock answered a...


FUSO atelier d’architectures | 22.02.2016

Works

Located on the outskirts of Paris, the conversion of this 1800m2 former storage facility completes a long term reflection with management and users on the complete redevelopment of the premises allowing the company to welcome its subsidiaries on a site location strategically situated nearby the...