Magazine

A project recently designed and built by graduate students at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) in Barcelona is called FLORA, or Forest Lab for Observational Research and Analysis, and it enables researchers to observe the forest canopy of Collserola Natural Park. John Hill

At the heart of the the new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), opening to the public on May 4, is a five-story atrium made from shotcrete, or sprayed concrete. John Hill

Mass Support: Flexibility and Resident Agency in Housing is an exhibition now on display at the City College of New York that “examine[s] the promise and pitfalls of overlooked knowledge from the recent past,” specifically the Stichting Architecten Research (SAR) think tank in the... John Hill

The winner of Metals in Construction Magazine's 2023 Design Challenge, which asked entrants to envision concepts for redeveloping a Midtown Manhattan office tower for residential use, cuts up a modern skyscraper to create a Vertical Village with “neighborhoods in the sky.” John Hill

The latest monograph on Thom Mayne and Morphosis, M³: modeled works [archive] 1972-2022, is a 1000-page tome that presents their entire 50-year oeuvre exclusively in photographs of the physical models that have helped make the Southern California studio so influential. John Hill

Elyn Zimmerman's Marabar, a site-specific installation on the plaza of the National Geographic Society (NGS) in Washington, DC, has been relocated to the campus of the American University (AU) in DC. Zimmerman reworked the 450,000-pound artwork and gave it a new name: Sudama. John Hill

The third edition of The Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Nahargarh Fort in Jaipur, India, is on display within the courtyard and apartments of the 19th-century palace until December 1, 2023. Among the fourteen contributors is John Hill

As part of the 2022 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB2022) that ran from December 10, 2022 until March 12, 2023, Studio Link-Arc hung an inverted pyramid of 400 bricks made from mushrooms from the ceiling of a converted old brewery in Shenzhen. John Hill

Forty-two architects/teams have been shortlisted in the Missing Middle Infill Housing competition, part of the Chicago Architecture Center's (CAC) Come Home Initiative, which “aims to reverse decades of disinvestment and depopulation and transform the urban fabric of Chicago’s South and West... John Hill

Juha Leiviskä 2000–2022 is a new monograph on the Finnish architect best known for the creation of churches with jaw-dropping interiors. The new book, published by the Museum of Finnish Architecture, collects churches and other projects designed by Leiviskä this century. John Hill

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York is launching the new exhibition series “Architecture Now” with New York, New Publics, which showcases a dozen buildings, landscapes, interiors, artworks, and other proposals “that critically engage with their material and social contexts to... John Hill

Anish Kapoor's bean-like sculpture at 56 Leonard Street wrapped up construction this week, more than five years after the completion of the slender 57-story apartment tower designed by Herzog & de Meuron. World-Architects stopped by on a chilly February morning to see it in person and take... John Hill

Saint Sarkis Armenian Church, located in the north Dallas suburb of Carrollton, has received the most votes in our poll for US Building of the Year 2022. Designed by David Hotson Architect, the church reaches far back in time and thousands of miles across the globe to link itself with Armenian... John Hill

Mies fans rejoice: A new book documents 36 built and unbuilt collective housing projects designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe over a 40-year period — from low-rise ensembles built in Germany in the mid-1920s to a pair of mid-rise slabs completed in Montreal two years before his death in 1969 —... John Hill

A trio of projects recently uploaded to World-Architects point to ceramic tile in shades of blue as a popular choice for covering the facades of residential buildings. John Hill

As 2022 draws to a close and our thoughts go to what transpired over the last twelve months, World-Architects is taking a month-by-month look at some of the stories we covered: awards, competitions, buildings, books, exhibitions, and passings. John Hill

World-Architects got a tour of Eagle + West, the just-completed residential development on the waterfront of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, John Hill

3XN's Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney, which just a month ago was named the "world’s most innovative high-rise," took home the top honor at the 15th World Architecture Festival (WAF), held in Lisbon. John Hill

Architects Adam Newman and Kelvin Tsang of Melbourne's NWMN have created the 2022 NGV Architecture Commission, Temple of Boom, a one-third-scale version of the Parthenon that will be transformed by artists over its nine-month duration. John Hill

A new book published by Thames & Hudson and an exhibition now on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) respectively map the interactive worlds of video games and investigate how people conceive of space and time through interactive design. Take a brief tour through Videogame... John Hill

Three floors of the New Museum in New York City are devoted to artist Theaster Gates. Young Lords and Their Traces is the first American museum survey exhibition on an artist known for a diverse output that embraces sculpture, painting, video, performance, historical archives, and even... John Hill

On display on the campus of Rice University in Houston until December 17, 2022, Rana Begum's No.1187 Mesh and No. 1193 Mesh are colorful mesh sculptures meant to "push the material and conceptual possibilities of public artwork." John Hill

This year's iteration of The Cultural Landscape Foundation's annual Landslide report and exhibition focuses on threatened and at-risk landscapes designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., and his successor firms, not coincidentally on the bicentennial of his birth. John Hill

In Praise of Caves, now on display at The Noguchi Museum in New York City, presents projects by four Mexican artist–architects that explore "how humanity might reconnect with the essential happiness of living in concert with nature." Serpents, not just caves, are in abundance. John Hill

Photographer Ivo Tavares sent us photographs of Escadinhas Footpaths, a network of pedestrian paths linking the the neighborhood of Monte Xisto with the Leça River in Matosinhos, Portugal. Paulo Moreira Architectures and the art collective Verkron have enlivened the paths with bright colors. John Hill

Model Behavior is an exhibition of models — architectural and otherwise — on display at The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. Curated by Anyone Corporation, the exhibition of 55... John Hill

The City of Frankfurt, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), and DekaBank have announced the five finalists for the 2022/23 Internationale Hochhaus Preis (International High-Rise Award). The winner will be announced in November. John Hill

Six projects have been announced as winners of the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The winners, ranging from an international airport in Indonesia to a riverfront landscape in Bangladesh, will split the $1 million USD prize. John Hill

Out of the Clouds is a new book that presents more than one thousand sketches by Wolf dPrix, head of Vienna's Coop Himmelb(l)au. The big book traces five decades of the studio's projects through the loose sketches born from Prix's brain and drawn by his hand. John Hill

World-Architects spent the morning of World Photography Day (August 19) watching the sunrise from SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, a three-story immersive experience more than 1,000 feet above the sidewalks of Midtown Manhattan. John Hill

The Donum Estate in Sonoma, California, has inaugurated Vertical Panorama Pavilion, a colorful canopy designed by John Hill

With summer break upon us, World-Architects has rummaged through some of the many architecture books published this year to find fifteen recommendations for summer reading, presented from small to extra-large — from a book that fits in your pocket to a two-volume title for your coffee table. John Hill

More than a decade in the making, the new home for the Istanbul Painting and Sculpture Museum opened to the public in December. Photographs taken by Thomas Mayer capture the design by EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture, whose most striking features are the boxes bathed in red light that cantilever... John Hill

One of the latest titles in Detail's "Architecture and Construction Details" series is devoted to BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, the 17-year-old firm that was founded in Copenhagen but now has 500 employees in five offices around the world. World-Architects takes a look inside its pages. John Hill

The Rotterdam Rooftop Walk is a temporary installation designed by MVRDV for Rotterdam Rooftop Days, giving visitors a different experience of the city from an "orange carpet" at a height of 30 meters. John Hill, Katinka Corts

The Novartis Pavillon, a new exhibition, meeting and event center designed by the firm of Michele De Lucchi, recently opened on the Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland. A highlight of the campus's first publicly accessible building is its zero-energy media facade. John Hill