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VernissageTV visits the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Basel, taking its camera inside Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room – The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Universe, part of the first solo exhibition in Switzerland on the famed Japanese artist.
As part of their recently unveiled design for Birmingham City Football Club’s new stadium, Heatherwick Studio and MANICA, with filmmaker Steven Knight, have released a short film explaining their design that is anchored by twelve towering chimney-like structures visible from miles away.
Louisiana Channel has expanded Make Materials Matter, a 15-minute short film profiling Danish architect Søren Pihlmann, into a nearly one-hour film that presents Pihlmann's curation and restoration of the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale alongside other projects that embody his...
As part of the 2025 World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Miami, curator Vladimir Belogolovsky, of Curatorial Project, has mounted Out of Context, an exhibition presenting seven buildings by seven architects, ranging from a villa in Armenia to zoo pavilions in China.
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles Zhu Pei, the Chinese architect whose most famous building is the stunning five-year-old Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum.
A short film from OPEN Architecture captures the sun moving across the firm's Sun Tower, the cultural facility completed last year on an oceanfront site in the Yantai Yeda Development Zone, in China's Shandong Province.
A standout of the recent Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) held in New York City was a first-of-its-kind trivia night that dove into the dramatic intersection between brutalism and film. World-Architects partook in the fun event hosted by architect and filmmaker Jord den Hollander.
Washington, DC's The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) named Mario Schjetnan and Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU) as recipients of the 2025 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize. Watch a trio of videos made by TCLF in which Schjetnan speaks about the...
Sir John Soane's Museum visits the studio of Madelon Vriesendorp in a short film that announces the Dutch artist is the 2025 recipient of the Soane Medal. Vriesendorp expresses her surprise and pleasure at being named the winner, and the self-proclaimed “obsessive artist” explains why she...
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.
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.”
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,
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.
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...
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.
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:...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
Architecton, the film starring Italian architect Michele de Luchi that premiered at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival, is being released in the United States in August. A24 has released a trailer of Victor Kossakovsky's documentary, which has been described as “a poetic study...
A short film from Serpentine previews this year's Serpentine Pavilion, A Capsule in Time, designed by Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum. The pavilion opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on June 6 and will be on display until October 26, 2025.
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group's contribution to Carlo Ratti's Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective. at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale features four wooden beams with intricate carvings made from a collaboration between traditional craftsmen and robots. A short film...
ELEMENTAL, the Chilean practice of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Alejandro Araveno, has three pieces on display during the six-month run of the Venice Architecture Biennale: an installation in the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – Intelligens: Natural. Artificial....
Louisiana Channel has followed architect Søren Pihlmann's restoration of the Danish Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale since its inception, documenting the process in a just-released 15-minute film. In Make Materials Matter, Pihlmann explains how materials drive the process, and...
A new video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles landscape architect Kate Orff, founding principal of SCAPE and professor at Columbia University. Speaking in SCAPE's Lower Manhattan studio, Orff discusses her background, what drew her to landscape architecture,...
A new video from Architectural Digest finds New York architect Michael Wyetzner delving into the Constructivist-inspired design process of Zaha Hadid—from her thesis at the Architectural Association and competition-winning entry for The Peak in Hong Kong, to MAXXI in Rome, the Contemporary...
In a new five-minute video, design principals Marianne Kwok and Brian Girard lead a walkthrough of KPF's recently renovated New York City office, which occupies a full floor in a 1920s commercial building across the street from Bryant Park and the firm's own
Open since April 3, Sergei Tchoban: Sections of the Mind is on display at the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture in New York City until June 7, 2025. The exhibition features a selection of Sergei Tchoban's fantastical drawings plus a half-hour interview between the Berlin...
Architectural Digest visits Casa Orgánica, the home of artist and architect Javier Senosiain that he built into the earth overlooking Mexico City. The 12-minute film with commentary from Senosiain beautifully captures the colorful, cave-like spaces of a one-of-a-kind creation.
In a short film from The Dialogues Design Directory, architect Sanjay Puri explains—in words and drawings—his stepwell-inspired redesign of a 200-year-old Shiva temple in Nokha, Rajasthan, India.
The demolition of old buildings remains commonplace, but the European Citizens' Initiative HouseEurope has great potential to change this: If enough signatures are collected, legislation could be made more conversion-friendly across Europe.
Norman Foster speaks in a short film about his firm's design of a proposed 100,000-seat stadium for Manchester United — a huge tent-like structure that would enclose “arguably the largest public space in the world.”
Accompanying the announcement of Liu Jiakun as the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize are a handful of short films that find the Chengdu-based architect...
In its latest informative film focused on engineering and construction, The B1M heads inside International Congress Centre Berlin, the massive, 313-meter-long “spaceship,” designed by Ralf Schüler and Ursulina Schüler-Witte in the 1970s, that opened in 1979, has sat empty since 2014, was...