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John Hill | 13.04.2022

Film

Architectural photographer and filmmaker Hans Georg Esch (aka HGEsch) presents a short film with video footage of numerous buildings in Europe and Asia designed by Tadao Ando, from the UNESCO Meditation Space in Paris to the Chichu Art Museum in Naoshima, Japan.


John Hill | 12.04.2022

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Miami's Oolite Arts has unveiled architectural renderings of its new headquarters designed by Barcelona's Barozzi Veiga. It is set to open in 2024, coinciding with the organization's 40th anniversary.


John Hill | 12.04.2022

Found

Today, April 12, marks the start of the demolition of one of the most important works of postwar architecture in Japan: Nakagin Capsule Tower, designed by Kisho Kurokawa and completed exactly fifty years ago.


Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects | 11.04.2022

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Although San Diego recently surpassed San Francisco as the least affordable metro housing market in the United States, the City by the Bay has long been notorious for the expense of buying or renting a home. In turn, the Edwin M. Lee Apartments, providing housing for formerly homeless veterans...


René Ammann | 11.04.2022

Number

Factor by which the space per person in the Global North is greater than in the Global South: 6


John Hill | 08.04.2022

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The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), founded in 1980 as a community-based organization focused on sharing the stories of Chinese Americans, has revealed Maya Lin's design for their future, permanent home.


Katinka Corts | 08.04.2022

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Compared to their male colleagues, female architects still do not receive the recognition they deserve. Art historian Ursula Schwitalla and architect Christiane Fath are committed to increasing the visibility of women in the architectural profession, having founded the


John Hill | 07.04.2022

Products

MUNCH, the museum in Oslo dedicated to famed Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, opened to the public on October 22, 2021. Designed by Madrid's estudioHerreros, the towering museum is covered in perforated aluminum outside, with Munch's artworks carefully illuminated with LED spotlights inside.


John Hill | 06.04.2022

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Three influential voices in the world of architecture died in March: an Australian architect, a Swiss theorist, and an American publisher of architecture books.


John Hill | 06.04.2022

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Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism has unveiled plans for the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, a new museum designed by Mecanoo that is under construction in the UAE's Saadiyat Cultural District.


John Hill | 05.04.2022

Film

With construction wrapping up on 111 West 57th Street, the super-skinny supertall designed by SHoP Architects for JDS Development, we present some footage by The Dronalist that shows how it and its Billionaire's Row neighbors are reshaping the Manhattan skyline.


John Hill | 05.04.2022

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The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have announced that architectural critic and historian Kenneth Frampton is the recipient of the 2022 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.


Teeple Architects, GWWO Architects | 04.04.2022

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The large campus of Morgan State, a historically black public university (HBCU) in Baltimore, Maryland, is broken up into five distinct campus zones. Anchoring the Morgan Commons in the center of campus is the new Calvin & Tina Tyler Hall, which was completed in September 2020 but wasn't...


world-architects | 04.04.2022

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Before the pandemic, the team at HPP designed The Cradle office building for the INTERBODEN Group. Antonino Vultaggio is convinced that the flexibly usable timber hybrid building, which is designed to be recyclable and support a circular...


René Ammann | 04.04.2022

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Day the demolition of the iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa and completed in 1972,


world-architects.com | 04.04.2022

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The pandemic has turned our everyday working lives upside down. But that doesn’t mean the office as a workplace is obsolete, says Ina Nikolova from the Berlin-based architectural office Kinzo. What is needed are sustainable and flexible concepts.


MB

Studio Jean Verville architectes | 01.04.2022

Works

From fluid promenade to pragmatic functionality, MB offers a rehabilitation of a Montreal cottage orchestrating a sculptural experience with an architectural dimension. Interfering in the daily life of a couple of young professionals, a system, both simple and complex, multiplies geometric...


John Hill | 01.04.2022

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Folkestone 51 — or F51 — billed as the world's first multi-story skatepark, opens to the public on April 4 in Folkestone, a seaside town in Kent, England. Designed by Hollaway Studio, the building also includes a climbing wall and boxing ring.


John Hill | 31.03.2022

Insight

Two books and two exhibitions celebrate two decades of the Flemish government in Belgium commissioning architects for building projects through the Open Call, a unique "more-than-a-competition" process that has resulted in more than 300 completed buildings, landscapes, and infrastructural...


Eduard Kögel | 31.03.2022

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Under the direction of Ma Yansong, the office MAD Architects has realised its first social housing project. MAD Architects, known for spectacular forms and spaces in their projects, in...


John Hill | 30.03.2022

Found

The 2022 Whitney Biennial, titled Quiet as It's Kept, opens to the public on April 6 at the Whitney Museum of American Art's Renzo Piano-designed building in New York's Meatpacking District. World-Architects got an early look, finding a half-dozen contributions with architectural...


John Hill | 30.03.2022

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The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City will open its Studio Gang-designed expansion, the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, next winter.


John Hill | 29.03.2022

Film

Spirit of Space visits the Bay Area Discovery Museum in Sausalito, California, to speak with Olson Kundig partner Alan Maskin about the design of the play spaces inside and outside the museum.


Tres Birds | 28.03.2022

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Accessory dwelling units in the form of carriage houses, granny flats and the like were common in the United States for centuries, but the rise of the suburbs after World War II, accompanied by restrictive single-family zoning, meant ADUs were no longer built — or even legal. But demographic...


John Hill | 28.03.2022

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At the 2022 Doha Forum taking place over the weekend, Qatar Museums announced the development of three major museums, each one designed by a Pritzker Prize-winning architect.


René Ammann | 27.03.2022

Number

Median age for first-time home buyers in the United States: 32


John Hill | 25.03.2022

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Just over a year after Blair Kamin left his post at the Chicago Tribune, leaving the architecturally significant city with no architecture critics, the Chicago Sun-Times has announced Lee Bey...


John Hill | 24.03.2022

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The Pritzker Military Museum & Library has selected Orbits, the entry by Oyler Wu Collaborative, as the winner of the design competition for the Cold War Veterans Memorial, to be built at the Pritzker Archives & Memorial Park Center (PAMPC) in Somers, Wisconsin.


Ulf Meyer | 23.03.2022

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Two new initiatives are aiming to add more modern architecture to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Ulf Meyer reports on a recent symposium focused on the built heritage of Erich Mendelsohn.


Ulf Meyer | 23.03.2022

Insight

On March 15, Francis Kéré was named the 2022 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered by many as architecture's highest honor. Ulf Meyer visited Kéré in his Berlin office to speak with the architect about the Pritzker, his career, and some of the buildings his firm is working...


John Hill | 22.03.2022

Found

The 23rd Biennale of Sydney, rīvus, opened earlier this month with more than 330 artworks by over 80 participants spread across various venues in the Australian city. Photogenic highlights are the large-scale artworks on display at The Cutaway, a subterranean space at Barangaroo...


John Hill | 22.03.2022

Film

The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) has released two more short videos made as part of its Find and Tell program, in which scholars in residence at the CCA discuss some of their discoveries in the CCA's extensive archive.


Marble Fairbanks | 21.03.2022

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Located in a Brooklyn neighborhood scarred by years of industrial pollution, the Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center was designed as a demonstration project for innovative approaches to sustainable design. Marble Fairbanks answered a few questions about the project that is on...


René Ammann | 21.03.2022

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Base price for a one-night stay in the two-person Biosphere, designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group with a facade made from 340 bird nests: 12,000 SEK ($1300/€1150)


John Hill | 19.03.2022

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Christopher Alexander, the enormously influential architect and theorist best known for authoring the seminal A Pattern Language, died on March 17 after a long illness.


Ulf Meyer | 18.03.2022

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A team led by the firm of Australian architect Angelo Candalepas was selected by the Victorian Government and the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in a competition to design the NGV Contemporary.