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To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Spiral building and the 60th anniversary of its architect, Maki and Associates, the cultural center in Tokyo's Aoyama neighborhood is exhibiting Maki Fumihiko and Spiral – A Place Where Art Lives for the first two weeks of October. The...
Design Will Save The World visits Gary's Place, the 235-acre property in Silay, Philippines, that architect Edward “Ed” Ledesma has turned from a working fish pond into a forested landscape with casitas for his family and an event center for weddings and concerts.
Ten months after scrapping plans by Switzerland's Herzog & de Meuron, the Vancouver Art Gallery has announced that two Canadian firms—Formline Architecture + Urbanism and KPMB Architects—have been selected to design the institution's new home.
Sir Terry Farrell, best known for designing the MI6 Building, the London headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service (and which made frequent appearances in James Bond films), died on September 28th at the age of 87.
The latest book by Herman Hertzberger—and “most likely my last,” in his words—is Herman Hertzberger, Shaping Freedom: Architecture 1959–2025, published earlier this year by Rotterdam- and Montreal-based Maas Lawrence. World-Architects delves into the career-spanning book that is part...
Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, founder of the large Beijing firm Turenscape, was among four people killed in a plane crash in Brazil on Tuesday. The crash happened during the making of a documentary about Yu and his pioneering Sponge City Concept.
Riken Yamamoto Exhibition: Community and Architecture is on display until November 3rd at Yokosuka Museum of Art, which Riken Yamamoto designed in 2006 and is considered one of his masterpieces. The Japan-Architects curators visited the exhibition when it opened in July and took...
Nowness presents a short film on Japanese architect Suzuko Yamada’s own house in suburban Tokyo. Shrouded by trees, the six-year-old “steel-and-timber Tokyo home sits in dialogue with the trees that envelop it.”
Of the ten proposals hoping to secure three coveted casino licenses for downstate New York, five of the teams have withdrawn their bids or had them voted down by so-called Community Advisory Committees. Of the five remaining bids, none are in Manhattan.
The Piranesi Award recognizes the best Central European buildings realized in the last two years. The call for proposals for the 2025 edition is now open, with a deadline of October 7.
The long-awaited grand opening of Calder Gardens—the new arts institution dedicated to the world-famous 20th-century artist Alexander Calder—takes place in Philadelphia on September 21, 2025. World-Architects got a peek of the Herzog & de Meuron-designed building and gardens by Piet Oudolf...
Richard Serra's Running Arcs (For John Cage) opened at Gagosian's gallery on West 21st Street in New York City on September 12—exactly thirty years to the day after it opened, on September 12, 1992, at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, Germany. World-Architects stopped by...
Grimshaw, the firm Sir Nicholas Grimshaw founded in 1980 and now comprises more than 550 employees in offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Dubai, Melbourne, Sydney, and Auckland, has created a 20-minute film celebrating the legacy of its founder,
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, the English architect best known for designing such high-tech buildings as the International Terminal Waterloo in London and the Eden Project in Cornwall, and the recipient of the 2019 RIBA Royal Gold Medal, died on September 14 at the age of 85.
Three high-profile museum projects nearing completion in New York and New Jersey—New Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, and Studio Museum in Harlem—have one architecture firm in common: Cooper Robertson. World-Architects recently stopped by Cooper Robertson’s Lower Manhattan office to...
The Cooper Union in New York City has pulled John Hejduk's 1969 publication Three Projects from its archive and is displaying its drawings and related photographs and documents in the third-floor corridor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. World-Architects stopped by and...
Helsinki's JKMM Architects has won a high-profile international competition to design a new Museum of Architecture and Design on a prominent waterfront site in the Finnish capital.
Last month, sixty years after he died while taking a dip in the Mediterranean, France 24 shined a spotlight on Le Corbusier, the Swiss-French architect considered by many to be the father of modernist architecture, but whose legacy has been reconsidered in recent years.
Innovation QNS, the proposed five-block mixed-use development with apartments, office space, retail, open space, and an arts and culture hub next to the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, has been scrapped in favor of smaller developments.
Since the inaugural Exhibit Columbus in 2017, the Landmark Columbus Foundation has invited people to visit the Indiana city every two years to experience installations spread across downtown and other parts of the “small-town architectural mecca.” A highlight of this year's exhibition—the...
More than fifty architectural drawings from the collection of Susan Grant Lewin are on display at the Modulightor Building, the Midtown Manhattan home of the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture, until September 20. World-Architects visited
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings in the running for the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize, considered “the UK’s most prestigious architecture award.”
Accompanying its announcement of the shortlist for the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has released short films for the six...
Seven projects have been announced as winners of the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The winners, ranging from an X in Y to a Z in ZZ, will split the $1 million USD prize.
In an anticipated move, US President Donald J. Trump has issued an executive order that calls for classical and traditional architecture to be the preferred styles of federal public buildings in the United States. “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again” echoes a similar executive order...
Temporary Tecture: Structures of Necessity is a new book from KOSMOS, an architectural practice with offices in Zurich and Graz, that is filled with photographs that “[offer] a fresh and compelling perspective on the often-overlooked world of temporary infrastructure.” Take a look...
One year after the European Commission and Fundació Mies van der Rohe announced the two winners of the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, the EUmies Awards has uploaded videos of the winners and finalists to YouTube.
On a recent visit to the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, World-Architects discovered the George L. Mosse Humanities Building, a lesser-known, endangered Brutalist building designed by Chicago architect Harry Weese that opened in 1969. With millions of dollars of deferred...
Michael Benedikt, the celebrated University of Texas at Austin professor and author of numerous books of architectural theory, died on August 13 at the age of 78.
Despite the widespread attention given to the efforts of preservationists to convert the former Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, designed by Kenzo Tange, into a hotel, the governor of the prefecture is standing firm on plans to demolish the distinctive boat-shaped building built in 1964.
Among the numerous events that took place during the vernissage of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale back in May was a panel discussion organized by The World Around and the San Marco Art Centre (SMAC). The World Around recently uploaded a one-hour video of “The World Around On Site:...
One component of the 2026 UIA World Congress taking place in Barcelona next summer is the UIA International Student Competition, Catalysts of Resilience, which launched in July and “invites students to design spatial interventions that enable resistance and adaptation to predictable...
First he added gold trim to the Oval Office. Then he added two large flagpoles to the White House grounds and paved over the lawn of the famous Rose Garden. Now US President Donald Trump is set to build a 90,000-square foot, $200 million ballroom where the East Wing now stands.
Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron will transform the historic Birkenstock Campus in Marin County, California, into “a world-class art and design museum” for the nonprofit Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity, which advances the legacy of famed husband-and-wife designers...
Architecton is the third installment in Victor Kossakovsky's “A” trilogy—following Vivan las Antipodas! (2011) and Aquarela (2018)—which finds the Russian filmmaker exploring humanity's place on the Earth. The 2024 documentary oscillates between hypnotic slow-motion...
The first episode of Rebel Architects: From Venice to the World Stage, a 12-part documentary series by FORT: LA (Friends Of Residential Treasures: LA) “about seven architects who defined the freewheeling West Coast aesthetic,” is now free to watch online.