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The Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design and Real Estate Company ADM have announced five finalists in an open international design compeitition for a new museum of architecture and design that will be built in Helsinki’s South Harbour. John Hill

The jury of the 5th edition of Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize 2024, a biennial initiative by Simon curated by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, has announced two winning films in two categories — Collective Places and Personal Places — as well as a Best Audiovisual Narrative... John Hill

Take a look back at 2024 — our 30th year! — as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last 12 months. Instead... John Hill

To Build Law is a new documentary and the second installment in “Groundwork,” a three-part film and exhibition series from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) that explores alternative modes of architectural practice. The film documents the conceptualization and development of... John Hill

The nominees in the second DIVIA Award — the biennial award promoting diversity in architecture — have been announced: 25 women architects in more than 20 countries.  John Hill

Two and a half years after Mexican architect Frida Escobedo was selected to design the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, renderings have been released of what is notably the first wing designed by a woman in The Met's 154-year... John Hill

Accor Hotels is set to open the Pullman Tokyo Ginza hotel on the site of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, the masterpiece of Metabolism that was designed by Kisho Kurokawa in 1972 and demolished fifty years later despite attempts to save the innovative structure. John Hill

Mattress Factory, the “artist-centered” museum housed in an early 20th-century Stearns & Foster mattress warehouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, recently opened REIFICATION, a site-specific installation by artist Eugene Macki that fuses sculpture and performance. Take a tour through... John Hill

The Vancouver Art Gallery is scrapping plans to build a new home designed by Herzog & de Meuron due to rising costs, and will seek a new architect. John Hill

To celebrate the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris five years after a devastating fire necessitated an extensive and speedy restoration and reconstruction, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is exhibiting an immersive, three-dimensional digital model of the Gothic landmark. A... John Hill

A year and a half after officials in the Chicago suburban of Oak Park were poised to consider the demolition of its own Village Hall, the Village Board voted to revitalize the building designed by Harry Weese in 1975. John Hill

The ten finalists of the fifth biennial Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize have been announced. An initiative from Simon curated by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, the prize aims to address global challenges of socio-environmental impact through videos that show architectural projects... John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Modulus Matrix: 85 Social Housing in Cornellà, Barcelona, designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes is the winner of the 2024 RIBA International Prize. John Hill

Spirit of Space takes a peak-fall-foliage visit to architect Steven Holl's off-grid Watercolor Hut on his ‘T’ Space campus in Rhinebeck, New York, to speak with the architect about his working process, the quiet focus the hut enables, and even the tools he paints with. John Hill

The recipients of the 35th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 23, 2024, during the 41st Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia. John Hill

One of the most formally striking buildings added to an office profile on World-Architects in recent weeks is Sun Tower, a waterfront cultural facility in Yantai, China, designed by OPEN Architecture, the Beijing firm of Huang Wenjing and Li Hu. Take a visual tour through a building “sculpted... John Hill

Take a tour through the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village via a new book from Dominique Perrault, A Village and its Double: Urban Planning Manual: Olympic and ParalympicGames, Paris 2024. Published by Actar, the 800-page book is an urban manual that is the antithesis of other... John Hill

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, working with Malcolm Reading Consultants, has announced the six finalists who will take part in second stage of the international design competition to expand the Kansas City, Missouri institution. John Hill

Longwood Reimagined, a 17-acre expansion of Longwood Gardens carried out by WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism in collaboration with Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture, opens to the public on Novemer 22, 2024. John Hill

The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features a 20-minute interview with Spanish architect Rafael Moneo at his studio in Madrid. John Hill

Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries is on display at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal from November 14, 2024 until March 16, 2025. Here we present a few of Erickson's photographs from the CCA archive that express how the Canadian... John Hill

One day after NEOM announced the design team that will be realizing the first phase of The Line, the anchor project for the larger $500 billion megaproject underway in Saudi Arabia, Nadhmi Al-Nasr stepped down as CEO of NEOM. John Hill

The first conference organized by Diversity in Architecture (DIVIA) brought together international experts, researchers, practicing women architects, and students to “explore diversity and discuss the unique challenges and opportunities women face in architecture.” A recording of the November... John Hill, Elias Baumgarten

World-Architects recently visited Making Home–Smithsonian Design Triennial, which opened at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City on November 2 and is on display until August 10, 2025. Take a visual tour through some of the 25 site-specific installation that... John Hill

The Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 (TAB24) opened to the public in Tallinn, Estonia, on October 10, with three components — curatorial exhibition, symposium, and installation competition program — addressing the overarching theme “Resources for a Future.” World-Architects asked... John Hill

The Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture in London has announced that, in response to climate change and the urgent need to “cultivate careful use and reuse of materials and space,” next year it will start offering a new post-professional program in Conservation and Reuse. John Hill

London's Royal Academy of Arts has released a 17-minute film presenting the collaborative social housing projects in Mallorca developed by Cris Ballester Parets, John Hill

Sotheby's has announced its completion of the purchase of 945 Madison Avenue, the former Whitney Museum of American Art designed by Marcel Breuer in 1966, and the hiring of Herzog & de Meuron to lead the renovation of the building into the auction house's global headquarters. John Hill

A lot of books make their way to the office of World-Architects, so many that coverage of all of them is impossible. Occasionally, the books we receive converge to paint a portrait of contemporary publishing, as do the nine books assembled here. They signal other ways of making books: via... John Hill

During a special event held at the Royal Academy of Arts on October 31, Livyj Bereh, the volunteer group that has been rebuilding roofs in Ukraine since May 2002, was awarded the 2024 Royal Academy Dorfman Prize, which aims “to celebrate new ideas and practices that highlight the future... John Hill

In the latest episode of Momentum, a new series from Bloomberg Originals, host Haslina Amin speaks with architects in Seoul to learn about architecture in Korea and explore how the country's contemporary architecture may be “its next big thing.” John Hill

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has announced that, four years after construction commenced, the scaffolding has been removed from the Peter Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries, which will become the home of LACMA's permanent collection when it opens in April 2026. John Hill

World-Architects got an exclusive peek at 520 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan ahead of its official topping out on Thursday, October 24. At 1,002 feet (305 m) tall, the mixed-use supertall designed by KPF for the development firm Rabina will be the tallest mixed-use tower on Fifth Avenue... John Hill

After being closed since 2021, following four suicides in just two years. Related Companies, the developer of Hudson Yards, reopened Heatherwick Studio's The Vessel with safety netting that allows visitors to access portions of the climbable sculpture's 150 stairs and 80 landings. John Hill

Reports indicate that the University of Illinois is scrapping its plan to build a headquarters for the Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) in The 78, a mixed-use development taking shape in Chicago's South Loop. John Hill

Joseph Rykwert, the esteemed architectural historian and recipient of the 2014 RIBA Royal Gold Medal, died on October 18, 2024 at the age of 98. Here we present two video interviews — one from 2020 and one from 2017 — in which Rkywert recounts certain formative events of his life. John Hill