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On 10 December 2022, the 9th Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale for Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) curated by Lu Andong, Prince Gong, and Aric Chen, opened at the newly converted Kingway Brewery, in the Luohu District in Shenzhen. The conversion of the brewery... Eduard Kögel

Bonus on top of the commission to any agent who can bring a buyer for a seven-bedroom estate in Bel Air, California, priced at $27,995,000, before the city’s “mansion... René Ammann

Due to the pandemic, the last "real" BAU trade fair took place in 2019. Regardless of whether we are talking about BIM, energy, technology or simply standardization and legislation: the transformation of the building sector is in full swing and a four-year break is no mere trifle in... Thomas Geuder

Number of high-rise office buildings in the United States that sit on seismic base isolators, apart from the (W)rapper by... René Ammann

Testbeds, a design research project by New Affiliates and Samuel Stewart-Halevy, is one of twelve projects in MoMA's New York, New Publics exhibition that opened last month. A pilot project,... New Affiliates, Samuel Stewart-Halevy

World-Architects visited the New York studio of David Hotson Architect after the Saint Sarkis Armenian Church was voted by readers of American-Architects as John Hill

ISH, the world's leading trade fair for HVAC and water, which will take place in Frankfurt from 13 to 17 March 2023, will focus on sustainable bathrooms and energy-efficient technologies. Martina Metzner

MAD Architects has revealed it competition-winning design for Terminal 3 at Changchun Airport, which Ma Yansong's firm has designed in collaboration with China Airport Planning & Design Institute and Beijing Institute of Architectural Design. John Hill

Aldo Rossi: Insulae, a new exhibition at the Tchoban Foundation – Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin, focuses on Italian architect Aldo Rossi’s drawings from the 1980s. Ulf Meyer visited and sent us his... Ulf Meyer

Tokyu Corporation will open the Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, a large hotel and entertainment complex, on April 14. Designed by Yuko Nagayama & Associates, it is Japan’s... Ulf Meyer

In 2022 we presented 40 Buildings of the Week, featuring short Q&As with architects about recently completed buildings in the United States. It's your turn to help us crown a US Building of the Year by voting for your favorite. The winner will be announced at the end of January. John Hill

In recent years, new residential quarters, office buildings and businesses have been built on the Pudong side of Shanghai. Now the Culture Community Complex follows, with three large buildings: the Pudong Library planned by Nihon Sekkei, already completed in 2010 at the northern end of the... Eduard Kögel

Estimated share of US architecture firm billings so far this year that have come from renovation projects, not new construction: 52% René Ammann

Number of homeless people Karen Bass, the new mayor of Los Angeles, a city of 4 million people, wants to "find housing for" in her first year:... René Ammann

Reflective Nostalgia is an exhibition at Aedes Architecture Forum that presents the work of Neri&Hu, the Shanghai firm (with studios in London, Paris, and Milan) of Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu. Ulf Meyer visited the Berlin gallery and sent us his impressions. Ulf Meyer

Psyche and Aeon Video have shared Dream City: More, Better, Sooner, the 2016 short film by artist Alice May Williams, coinciding with the completion of the transformation of the Battersea Power... John Hill

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has designed a hotel for watch enthusiasts in the canton of Vaud in western Switzerland, adjacent to the museum BIG previously built for watchmaker Audemars Piguet. Ulf Meyer... Ulf Meyer

Number of illegally built swimming pools that AI technology helped to find in 9 of 101 departments in France, which has an estimated... René Ammann

Amount of CO2 the planned demolition of London’s flagship Marks & Spencer store will... René Ammann

World-Architects stopped by the atelier of Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats on Carrer de Trafalgar in Barcelona in May, a couple of days after the EU Mies Awards were handed out at the Barcelona... John Hill

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced that the Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle, Washington, designed by Steven Holl Architects and completed in 1997, has been awarded the 2022 Twenty-five... John Hill

The Bubble, a documentary by Austrian filmmaker Valerie Blankenbyl, was the big winner at the BARQ Festival in May, winning Best Documentary Feature Film. World-Architects editor John Hill... John Hill

Minimum number of buildings of architectural significance damaged or destroyed by Russian strikes on the eastern... René Ammann

Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao just wrapped up a mentorship with Luísa Sol as part of Germany’s Forecast Festival. Now Bilbao is the subject of an exhibition opening on May 14 at Aedes Forum and her practice is designing a monastery outside Berlin. Ulf Meyer spoke with Bilbao about these... Ulf Meyer

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. John Hill

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... Eduard Kögel

Discount the owner of a Los Angeles hilltop mega-mansion featuring 21 bedrooms, 49 baths, and 5 swimming pools had to grant: $154 million (€141m) René Ammann

Visitors to the American-Architects platform of World-Architects last month voted Mecanoo’s renovation of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC as US Building of the Year, picking it from dozens of adaptive reuse and renovation projects. Following... John Hill

On December 11, 2021, the City of Winter Park, just north of Orlando, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Winter Park Library and Events Center. Designed by the firm of Sir David Adjaye, the complex made up of three pavilions is marked by arching rose-pigmented concrete facades that... Adjaye Associates

In 2021 we presented 44 Buildings of the Week, featuring short Q&As with architects about recently completed buildings in the United States, most of them renovations and adaptive reuse projects. It's your turn to help us crown a US Building of the Year by voting for your favorite — the... John Hill

Expo 2020 opened to the public in Dubai on October 1, 2021, one year behind schedule. Carrying the theme “Connecting Minds and Creating the Future,” Expo 2020 is the first world’s fair to take place in the Middle East. Ulf Meyer visited the Expo ahead of opening day and sent us his impressions... Ulf Meyer

He lived his life with a natural cosmopolitan attitude and open-mindedness into his old age. Jörg Schlaich was a quiet and modest man, yet self-confident and without the airs and graces of many of the stars acting on the architecture stage worldwide. Jörg Schlaich died on September 4. Falk Jaeger

The Park Union Bridge opened in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on July 1st, one year after the US Olympic Museum opened to the public. The bridge and building are designed by New... John Hill

Richard Meier & Partners Architects, the firm started by its namesake in 1963, is now Meier Partners, coinciding with the 86-year-old architect's retirement and reflecting the firm's effort to move past the sexual... John Hill

"In designing the Neilson Library, I envisioned a dance between old and new," Maya Lin writes in her artist's statement on the recently completed project. "The design... Maya Lin Studio

Estimated number of villages across China: 940,000 René Ammann