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The Brutalist is a sweeping tale about the immigrant experience, architecture, power, and legacy. Premiering at the Venice International Film Festival in September and released in the US in December, the film has already won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama and will most...
Number of households being formed every year in Spain, while fewer than 90,000 new homes are built there annually: 250,000
Late last year Serie Architects completed the Raj Sabahgruh, the new Satsang and Meditation Complex that is the centerpiece in the 100-hectare (250-acre) masterplan development for the Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram, Dharampur, Gujarat, India. The architects sent us some text and images on the...
Two sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen are on display in the plaza of Lever House at 390 Park Avenue in New York City until November. World-Architects stopped by to take a closer look at Architect’s Handkerchief, which was inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose...
A settlement has been reached between artist Mary Miss and the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) over Greenwood Pond: Double Site, which opened in a city-owned park in 1996 as part of the museum's permanent collection. Although it will be demolished, DMAC will pay the artist $900,000, and...
Beatriz Ramo, architect at STAR strategies + architecture, gives Architectural Digest a tour of The Cabanon, the 74-square-foot (6.9-m2) apartment in Rotterdam she...
Vector Architects from Beijing has realized several special cultural buildings for the development company Aranya. The most recent, in Wulingshan 2.5 hours northeast of Beijing, is a small spa and bathhouse embedded...
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Bureau Cube Partners have won an anonymous design competition for the new home of the Nikola Tesla Museum, which will be housed in Belgrade, Serbia's historic Milan Vapa Paper Mill.
The Palisades Fire that broke out on Tuesday, January 7, has expanded to more than 15,000 acres over the course of two days, growing closer to Case Study House #8, the masterpiece of modern residential architecture designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1949.
The needs of older people are often neglected in hospital architecture. Greater focus on age-appropriate design is essential to meet the needs of this growing patient group. Geriatrician Cornel Sieber talked to us about helpful approaches in architecture and the importance for clients to...
The Małopolska Science Center Cogiteon held its grand opening on June 21, 2024, six years after a competition was held for the design of the new institution. The winning design by the Wrocław office of heinlewischer placed the interactive exhibitions below a sloped green roof that is open to...
In 2023 we presented 40 projects on World-Architects in our inaugural World Building of the Week feature. Now it's your turn to help us crown a Building of the Year by voting for your favorite project between now and the end of January. The winner will be announced in early February.
Yoshio Taniguchi, the celebrated Japanese architect best known for the design of museums, including the 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, died on December 16, 2024, at the age of 87.
The new Museum of Modern Art Warsaw revealed itself during an inauguration in October, but the Thomas Phifer-designed building won't have its official grand opening until February 2025. In between, Ulf Meyer visited to see the results of an institution nearly two decades in the making.
Size of the main building of the “People’s Palace” in the Syrian capital of Damascus, where the ruling Assad family lived until the beginning of December 2024, while tens of...
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...
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...
The latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's “Building Novels” series, which looks at works of fiction where buildings and architecture play integral roles, is Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows by Anna Kostreva, an architectural designer and urban researcher at Plural Studio in Berlin....
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.
At the start of the year, Munich becomes the hub for the international construction industry. From January 13 to 17, the world's leading trade fair BAU focuses on building of tomorrow. The five key themes address the urgent transformations required.
Share of the 100 tallest buildings currently under construction worldwide that are in China: 61
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...
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.
The Centre des Cultures et Spiritualités Ewés (CCSE) is a project initiated by the Kothor Foundation, whose aim is to promote the culture and historical heritage of the Ewé people through the construction of a multi-faceted site. The project also aims to change the way visitors and the general...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
Amount the tenant of a 2-bedroom apartment in a low-energy property in West Kirby, England, pays monthly in energy costs in the winter: £10 ($12.50)
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.
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.
In the Malaga region of the Serranía de Ronda, Philippe Starck has designed a unique and surrealist oil mill that fuses tradition, art, and architecture in homage to olive oil and local culture. An intense red concrete cube, like the earth of the landscape on which it stands, represents “the...
With author Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Anna Heringer talks intelligently, open-heartedly, and captivatingly about her development as a person and what this means for her architecture. Form Follows Love is a monograph, biography, and manifesto all in one.
Age of the Stirling Prize-winning Centenary Building at England's University of Salford, set to be demolished after standing empty for eight years and be replaced by about 900 homes amid a...