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KHOA VU | 07.07.2025

Building of the Week

The aptly named Ts VEIL is a social dining space in Ho Chi Minh City spread across three floors behind a draped metal mesh facade. Sitting on a corner parcel in a dense neighborhood, the facade veils a structure that is an assemblage of new and old. Architect Khoa Vu answered a few questions...


René Ammann | 05.07.2025

Number

Estimated annual costs for fuel, crew salaries, maintenance and upkeep for Koru—the world’s largest sailing yacht, at 417 feet (127m)—owned by Amazon...


John Hill | 04.07.2025

Found

The Architecture of Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest is on display at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo until November. It is the first major survey of Fujimoto's work. The Japan-Architects curators visited the exhibition, sending us photos of some of the many models, videos, sketches,...


John Hill | 02.07.2025

Headlines

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced the FBI will be moving its headquarters from the brutalist J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, DC to the neoclassical Ronald Reagan Building, also in DC, the former home of the shuttered USAID.


Vladimir Belogolovsky | 02.07.2025

Insight

Ma Yansong, who runs his global studio, MAD Architects, out of offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, and Rome, is one of the most distinctive artistic voices in China. He spoke to Vladimir Belogolovsky about his just-opened Fenix Museum in Rotterdam, the under-construction Lucas Museum of Narrative...


John Hill | 02.07.2025

Film

Last month, the nineteen shortlisted projects competing for the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were revealed. The Aga Khan Trust Development Network (AKDN) has uploaded...


John Hill | 01.07.2025

Headlines

Curator Vyjayanthi Rao and associate curator Tau Tavengwa have revealed “Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures” as the theme for the 3rd Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT03), which will launch in November 2026.


John Hill | 30.06.2025

Found

The Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 (TAB24) was held at the Estonian Museum of Architecture last October and November under the theme “Resources for a Future,” as developed by head curator


Katinka Corts | 30.06.2025

Specials

In our “Healing Architecture” series, we examine the quality of stay in healthcare buildings, focusing on the creation of spaces that actively support recovery. 


Eduard Kögel | 30.06.2025

Building of the Week

Zhaoyang Architects from Dali, the provincial capital of Yunnan, has been building in rural areas for many years. The project presented here was created for the...


René Ammann | 30.06.2025

Number

Number of nights fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) stayed in his 600-m2 (6,450-sf) “Villa Louveciennes”...


John Hill | 29.06.2025

Headlines

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) invited the public into its new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Peter Zumthor in collaboration with SOM, for a summer preview of the building that is set to open in April 2026.


Elias Baumgarten | 27.06.2025

Headlines

A staunch opponent of modern architecture, Léon Krier designed mixed-use urban neighborhoods where everything was within walking distance. The traditionalist was a leading figure of postmodernism, but a lavish book on Albert Speer's architecture brought him into disrepute.


John Hill | 26.06.2025

Headlines

A number of parks and other public spaces in New York City have made headlines in recent weeks. Here we highlight four of them: a beloved community green space, a waterfront park, an informal skate park, and a piece of pedestrian infrastructure.


John Hill | 26.06.2025

Film

Jim Cutler, principal at Bainbridge, Washington's Cutler Anderson Architects, gives Architectural Digest a tour of a now 12-year-old house in Newberg, Oregon, that he designed so it is one with the old pond that it straddles.


Madeline Beach Carey | 25.06.2025

Insight

Although “summer reads” have been a thing for a long time, books about architecture don’t tend to populate lists of books to be taken on holiday. Most architecture books are big and heavy, academic rather than narrative. Novels with strong architectural elements strike a good balance, and in...


John Hill | 24.06.2025

Headlines

Foster + Partners has been selected to design the National Memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’ Park, London, beating out Heatherwick Studio, WilkinsonEyre, and other shortlisted firms.


Jumana Abdel-Razzaq | 24.06.2025

Insight

Dubai-based journalist Jumana Abdel-Razzaq dropped by the minimalist studio of T.ZED Architects in Dubai for a tour with founder Tarik Zaharna, getting a closer look at the practice ahead of what’s shaping up to be a busy few years.


Montgomery Sisam Architects | 23.06.2025

Building of the Week

As its name indicates, this affordable housing project in Beaverton—a community within the the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario—was built with modular, prefabricated systems. Built by NRB, a Canadian company that specialized in modular construction, Durham Modular Transitional Housing...


René Ammann | 23.06.2025

Number

Number of flats in China that stood dormant at the end of last year, even as the problem faced in the “tier-one” cities of Beijing, Shanghai,...


John Hill | 20.06.2025

Film

The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto, the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate. Speaking in his Tokyo studio, Yamamoto speaks about his upbringing, education, influences, travels, and...


John Hill | 19.06.2025

Headlines

During a ceremony in Venice on EUmies Awards Day for Young Talent, June 19, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announced the three winners of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards in the Young Talent category, and the recipient of the Young...


John Hill | 18.06.2025

Headlines

One year after the tenth MPavilion, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, extended its run in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens for an additional year, the Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced that the structure will remain in place for five more years—until 2030.


John Hill | 18.06.2025

Found

Although the winner of the design competition for Finland’s New Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki won't be announced until September, the public can weigh in on the developed proposals from the five anonymous finalists.


John Hill | 17.06.2025

Headlines

Under the thematic focus “Ready Made,” the 2025 OBEL Award has been awarded to HouseEurope!, a registered nonprofit and European Citizens’ Initiative aimed at incentivizing renovation over demolition and new...


John Hill | 17.06.2025

Insight

The second edition of Neil Leach’s Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects is being released this month by Bloomsbury Publishing. What lessons does the book offer architects? World-Architects dove in to find out.


ikon.5 architects | 16.06.2025

Building of the Week

Portsmouth Abbey School, a Benedictine boarding school in Rhode Island, will turn 100 next year. The latest addition to the school's campus on Narragansett Bay is a student center designed by ikon.5 architects. The firm answered a few questions about the recently completed project,...


René Ammann | 14.06.2025

Number

Minimum number of flats built in Lagos every year that are worth $1 million (€900,000) or more: 600


John Hill | 13.06.2025

Found

Encounters is a new book that celebrates the photography of architect and planner Denise Scott Brown, featuring hundreds of images taken with her Alpa camera between the 1950s and 1970s. Here we take a look inside the book edited by Izzy Kornblatt and published by Lars Müller...


Antonio La Gioia | 11.06.2025

Headlines

On June 6, the European Award for Architectural Heritage Intervention (AHI) ceremony was held at the Paranimf of the Escola Industrial de Barcelona. This seventh edition has consolidated the award as a benchmark in Europe for the conservation, rehabilitation, and revitalization of...


Antonio La Gioia | 11.06.2025

Headlines

The Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE; Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain) has awarded the 2025 Gold Medal for Architecture to, ex aequo, Joan Busquets and Fernando de Terán, two fundamental figures in the theory, practice, and...


John Hill | 10.06.2025

Film

The fourth European Conference on Architecture & the Media took place at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona on May 26 and 27. Videos of the two-day conference are now on YouTube, and here we highlight two of the roundtables that gathered journalists to speak about the role of...


John Hill | 10.06.2025

Headlines

Coinciding with the AIA Conference on Architecture & Design that was held in Boston last week, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the winners of its 2025 awards, including the ten winners of its Architecture Awards.


Robert Konieczny KWK Promes | 09.06.2025

Building of the Week

Gambit Systems supplies pipes for construction, and it is in that product where KWK Promes found inspiration in its design of the company's new building in Gliwice, Poland. KWK Promes founder Robert Konieczny answered a few questions about the project.


René Ammann | 09.06.2025

Number

Asking price of a three-bedroom Boston-area International Style home designed by Bauhaus pioneers Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer: $1,050,000 (€922,000)


John Hill | 05.06.2025

Headlines

Nineteen projects in fifteen countries have been shortlisted for the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, culled from 369 projects nominated for the 16th cycle of the prestigious $1 million award.