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Marina Tabassum Architects: People Place Poiesis opened at TOTO GALLERY·MA on November 21. The exhibition showcases the Bangladeshi architect's projects that are rooted in climate, culture, and tradition, and which are also committed to supporting people affected by natural disasters...
If life gives you lemons, the saying goes, you make lemonade. And if Switzerland serves up some fog on a Saturday morning, you make the most of it, visiting a building whose overgrown concrete surfaces just look better bathed in gray. Look at some photos from a recent visit to Siedlung Halen,...
The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) opened to the public on October 31 with a 24-hour open house that included a number of free events in addition to a portion of the museum's 117,000 artworks being put on display. World-Architects visited during the open house and took some photos,...
The Inaugural RIBA Middle East Awards has recognized nine winning projects across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, celebrating the region’s best new architecture. Jumana Abdel-Razzaq reports on the winners from Dubai.
Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research program focused on transitioning to net zero and a green economy, has unveiled the Stone Demonstrator, a 1:1 scale pre-tensioned stone structure installed on the Earls Court development site in West London. The three-story installation...
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain opens its new premises at 2 Place du Palais-Royal in central Paris, across the street from the Louvre, on October 25. The institution is housed inside a Haussmannian building from 1855 that has been renovated by Jean Nouvel with five mobile...
Camouflage by Ai Weiwei is on display at FDR Four Freedoms Park on New York's Roosevelt Island from September 10 to November 10, 2025. Designed with the Brooklyn-based design firm Camber Studio, the installation explores the essence of Roosevelt’s four freedoms and aims to “spark a...
Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu was in Brazil making a documentary film when, on September 23, a small plane he was in with the filmmakers crashed, killing all on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower opened in MoMA’s street-level galleries on July 10. The small exhibition documents Kisho Kurokawa's groundbreaking residential project located in Tokyo’s Ginza District from 1972 until 2022, through dozens of artifacts, an interactive virtual...
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,...
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
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.
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...
Ahead of its opening, the Serpentine Galleries has released photographs of A Capsule in Time, Marina Tabassum's design for the 2025 Serpentine Pavilion, on display in London's Kensington Gardens from June 6 until October 26. [Post updated June 6 with additional photos.]
Ten years in the making, the V&A East Storehouse opens at East Bank, the new cultural quarter in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, on May 31. Take a look inside V&A's “working store and visitor attraction” designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
In addition to its attention-getting canopy designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects, the US Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale features 54 contributions from American architects addressing the theme PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity. World-Architects took photos of...
Georgian Artist Tolia Astakhishvili has transformed a 15th-century palazzetto in Venice for the exhibition to love and devour, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Following the exhibition's closure in November, the two-story building will be renovated into an exhibition space for the...
The Kingdom of Bahrain won the Golden Lion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, and special mentions were given to the Holy See and Great Britain—what about the other...
Four days ahead of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition opening to the public, the Venice Architecture Biennale opened Margherissima, a Special Project at Forte Marghera in Mestre. The project, designed by Nigel Coates and students from the Architectural Association in London,...
Liliane Wong, an architect in Massachusetts and a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), is the author of two recent books on the architecture of adaptive reuse, both published by Birkhäuser. Here, we take a look inside the revised and expanded edition of Adaptive Reuse:...
The textured masonry facades of Josep Lluís Sert’s nearly 50-year-old Eastwood apartment buildings—now The Landings—on Roosevelt Island are being covered with insulation to meet New York City’s recently implemented energy-efficiency requirements. World-Architects visited to see portions of the...
The Japan-Architects curators were in Osaka ahead of the opening of Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai on April 13, taking lots of photos and shooting a few videos. Here we present some highlights from their documentation of the signature pavilions, domestic pavilions, national pavilions, and facilities...
Concordia, a monumental wall of stained glass by artist Sir Brian Clarke, has been unveiled at Bahrain International Airport. Covering 578 square meters (6,220 square feet), the colorful installation featuring representations of plants and animals is intended to fuse Eastern and Western...
The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, a new exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum in Lower Manhattan, explores how concrete supplanted steel as the material of choice for structuring tall buildings around the world. World-Architects stopped by the museum soon after the exhibition opened in...
Stone in Landscape Architecture: A Sensory Journey is an exhibition at ABC Stone in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where five landscape architecture firms were tasked with creating immersive landscapes that explore the relationship between stone and the design of outdoor spaces. World-Architects...
LIVING Modernity: Experiments in the Exceptional and Everyday 1920s–1970s, an exhibition that just opened at The National Art Center, Tokyo, presents fourteen masterpieces of modern residential architecture, plus a full-scale reproduction of one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's unbuilt...
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, working with Malcolm Reading Consultants, has revealed concept designs by six finalists in its two-stage competition to expand the Kansas City, Missouri institution. Take a look at renderings showing how Kengo Kuma, Renzo Piano, Jeanne Gang, and others envision...
Liu Jiakun has radically modernized China's building tradition. Now he is being given the highest award for architects. His buildings offer space for individual development, and they show that China's architecture scene can be a source of ideas and a role model.
This house on John Lemley Lane in Christiansburg, a town in Virginia's Valley and Ridge region, would never be confused with its neotraditional neighbors. In lieu of dormers, vinyl siding, and asphalt shingles, the house designed by Ben Pennell has exposed trusses, fiber cement panels, and a...