Magazine

John Hill | 03.02.2015

Film

A short film from the National Trust for Historic Preservation laments the loss of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago through a time-lapse film of its 2014 demolition.


John Hill | 02.02.2015

Insight

Bjarke Ingels Group has followed up last year's successful BIG Maze at the National Building Museum by ringing the building's atrium with 60 of their projects to take visitors on "an odyssey of architectural adaptation" from hot to cold climates.


John Hill | 02.02.2015

Headlines

American-Architects presented 49 projects in our Building of the Week 2014 feature, and recently we asked you to vote for your favorite. The votes have been tallied and here we present the public vote winner, the editors' choice and two runners-up.


John Hill | 30.01.2015

Found

World-Architects toured Princeton University earlier today, taking in the campus's appealing mix of old and new buildings. A standout was Rafael Viñoly's Carl Icahn Laboratory from 2003, which contains a conference room designed by Frank Gehry.


John Hill | 29.01.2015

Headlines

Both the Centre Pompidou and the Smithsonian announced this week that they are considering building new venues in Libourne, France, and London, respectively.


John Hill | 28.01.2015

Found

Five local architecture firms have responded to Chicago magazine's challenge to design something – anything – for the site of Santiago Calatrava's failed Chicago Spire, what would have been the city's tallest building.


John Hill | 28.01.2015

Found

Hariri Pontarini Architects' competition-winning design for a temple for the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Chile is under construction on the outskirts of Santiago.


John Hill | 27.01.2015

Found

The Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art presents Sketch to Structure, an exhibition that promises to "lay out the architectural design process so that visitors can see with real clarity the ways in which buildings take shape."


John Hill | 27.01.2015

Found

Billed as Winnipeg's "winter fine dining experience," RAW:almond is a temporary restaurant located ON the frozen mouth of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers. The third annual installation is designed by UK's OS31.


John Hill | 27.01.2015

Headlines

The MIPIM Awards, which honor "the very best of the real estate industry," have shortlisted 40 finalist projects from 22 countries in 11 categories, including a Special Jury Award for the first time.


John Hill | 26.01.2015

Headlines

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation today announced that they have selected teacher, author, curator and critic Aaron Betsky to lead the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, effective immediately.


John Hill | 26.01.2015

Found

The curators of BLUEPRINT, which opened Friday at New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture, have wrapped the facade by Steven Holl and Vito Acconci in white plastic.


John Hill | 23.01.2015

Headlines

In August 2014 Zaha Hadid sued The New York Review of Books and architecture critic Martin Filler over comments in a book review, and now the two sides have settled with Hadid donating the settlement money to a labor rights charity.


John Hill | 23.01.2015

Headlines

News broke last weekend that the non-profit organization closed its San Francisco offices, and yesterday AFH issued an official statement announcing they will be filing for bankruptcy.


John Hill | 22.01.2015

Found

World-Architects got a sneek peek today of Bjarke Ingels Group's HOT TO COLD exhibition, opening Saturday at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.


John Hill | 21.01.2015

Headlines

Last week Snøhetta, with local architects SRA, were named the winner in a competition for Le Monde's new headquarters in Paris.


John Hill | 21.01.2015

Film

The documentary CONCRETE LOVE: The Böhm Family has its international premiere on the 26th of January at the Slamdance Festival in Park City, Utah, three days after architect Gottfried Böhm turns 95.


John Hill | 21.01.2015

Film

Artist John Edmark has created some hypnotic 3D printed sculptures that appear to move when spun under a strobe light.


John Hill | 20.01.2015

Products

Since 2012, Wolf-Gordon has created an annual site-specific installation for NeoCon as a means of highlighting the company’s products and adding an exclamation point to the “heart” of Chicago’s Merchandise Mart.


John Hill | 20.01.2015

Headlines

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has narrowed down the number of finalists vying for the Sydney Modern Project from twelve to five.


John Hill | 19.01.2015

Found

Antoni Gaudí's unrealized design for the Our Lady of the Angels chapel dates to 1915, nine years before the architect's death. A century later the chapel is set to be built in Rancagua, Chile, making it the first Gaudí building outside his native Spain.


John Hill | 19.01.2015

Insight

This week, building design and construction professionals head to Munich for BAU 2015, the "world's leading trade fair for architecture, materials, systems." Here we highlight a few of BAU Blog's "Team Building" and "Talks About Tomorrow" features.


John Hill | 16.01.2015

Film

Nearly ten years after the completion of Hearst Tower in Manhattan, Norman Foster – aided by a small camera-equipped drone – gives a tour of the tower, from the James Carpenter fountain and "piazza" above it to the offices of Good Housekeeping.


John Hill | 15.01.2015

Headlines

The 2015 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often considered architecture's highest honor, won't be known for a couple more months, but today we learned that British architect Richard Rogers will help decide the next recipient.


John Hill | 14.01.2015

Headlines

The jury for the fifth annual City of Dreams Pavilion Competition in New York has selected two winning designs to be erected on Governors Island for the summer 2015 season.


John Hill | 13.01.2015

Headlines

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston today previewed plans for the Fayez S. Sarofim Campus, which includes new buildings designed by Steven Holl Architects and Lake|Flato Architects.


John Hill | 13.01.2015

Film

Cool Spaces! The Best New Architecture, a documentary series on U.S. public television, has made its "Art Spaces" episode available online.


John Hill | 12.01.2015

Products

Two walls of Danish brand Vipp's new two-story Vipp Shelter feature large sliding windows, specifically the PanoramAH! sliding windows supplied by Malmö, Sweden's Architectural Solutions.


John Hill | 12.01.2015

Film

The construction of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Museum of Image & Sound overlooking Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is documented in a couple short films from MIS.


John Hill | 09.01.2015

Film

As part of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's "Louisiana Channel," which produces videos on art on a weekly basis, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels offers advice to aspiring architects.


John Hill | 09.01.2015

Headlines

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the 2015 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, 23 projects from approximately 500 submissions in three categories: architecture, interior architecture and regional & urban design.


John Hill | 08.01.2015

Headlines

Eight months after Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece was damaged in a fire, the Glasgow School of Art announced the names of the architects’ practices shortlisted to lead the building's restoration.


John Hill | 08.01.2015

Headlines

The Architect's Newspaper has announced four winners in its competition that "aimed to rethink one of the most iconic streets in the world—42nd street in Midtown Manhattan."


John Hill | 07.01.2015

Film

Premiering at the Maison des Arts de Créteil in November 2014, Pixel melded the real and the virtual, as this short film with excerpts from the one-hour performance illustrates.


John Hill | 07.01.2015

Headlines

On 2 January 2015, the Federal District Court upheld the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of Over The River, an art installation planned for the Arkansas River in Colorado that was originally proposed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1992.


John Hill | 06.01.2015

Film

In this twelve-minute film produced by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, architect Steven Holl speaks about his background and ideas on design.