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The State of Qatar has announced that Frida Escobedo Studio, with Buro Happold and Studio Zewde, won an invited competition to design a new headquarters complex for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Doha waterfront.
Architect and photographer Gillian Hopwood, who moved from England to Nigeria in 1954 and practiced architecture with her husband, John Godwin, in Lagos for around 60 years, died on November 6, 2025. She was 97.
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.
Robert A.M. Stern, the famed neotraditional architect, longtime dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and author of a series of definitive books on New York City architecture, died on November 27 at the age of 86.
La Biennale di Venezia has announced that architects Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, founders of Hangzhou's Amateur Architecture Studio, will direct the Venice Architecture Biennale's 20th International Architecture Exhibition, making them the first curators of the exhibition from China.
For the first time in its 65-year history, the house designed by Pierre Koenig as part of Arts & Architecture magazine's Case Study Houses program, made famous through photographs taken by Julius Shulman, is up for sale.
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.
The recipients of the 36th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 22, 2025, during the 42nd Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia.
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...
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,...
News has broke that Sperone Westwater, the 50-year-old art gallery based in New York City, is closing at the end of the year. This raises the question: What will become of the gallery's bespoke eight-story building on the Bowery designed by Norman Foster?
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has announced that it will open to the public on September 22, 2026—sixteen years after George Lucas first proposed such a museum, twelve years after he selected Ma Yansong and MAD Architects to design it, and eight years after construction began at Exposition...
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,...
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.
On November 8, Sotheby's New York opened its new home in the Breuer Building, the 1966 brutalist masterpiece designed by Marcel Breuer for the Whitney Museum of American Art. The renovation of the modern landmark was carried out by Switzerland's Herzog & de Meuron with New York's PBDW...
The Ismaili Center, Houston, designed by Farshid Moussavi Architecture and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in partnerhsip with AKT II DLR Group, was inaugurated on November 6 as the first Ismaili Center in the United States and the seventh worldwide.
A list of 410 works nominated for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards (EUmies Awards) has been released by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. The nominations showcase the most significant built works in the EU...
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.
Malcolm Reading Consultants has revealed the designs by the seven finalists in the Museum of Jesus’ Baptism at Bethany, Jordan – International Design Competition. The new museum will be located on the east bank of the Jordan River, adjacent to Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan,”...
Anchoring Harvard University's new Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston, Massachusetts, the David Rubenstein Treehouse is a new university-wide hub for convening and the first mass timber building on the Ivy League school's growing campus.
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.
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...
Six years after it opened to a mix of fanfare and controversy, the Hunters Point branch of the Queens Public Library in New York City has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought over the inaccessibility of portions of building for people with disabilities, after modifications to...
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...
Although it won't be 100% complete and fully occupied for some months, JPMorganChase opened its new 60-story global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, October 21, six years after the demolition of its predecessor, the 52-story Union Carbide Building, began.
Outrage has accompanied images of the East Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, being demolished to make way for US President Donald J. Trump's large addition of a 900-seat, $250 million ballroom.
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.
Grace Farms, the cultural and humanitarian center in New Canaan, Connecticut, that opened its SANAA-designed River building in October 2015, marked its tenth anniversary with a day-long celebration of art, design, music, and conversation on Saturday, October 11. World-Architects was in...
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...
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winner of the 29th RIBA Stirling Prize: Appleby Blue Almshouse, a social housing complex in London for people over 65, designed by Witherford Watson Mann Architects.
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2025, selecting the ten best architecture books published between June 2024 and July 2025.
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...
Mexican landscape architect Mario Schjetnan and Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU), the interdisciplinary design firm he founded in 1977, are recipients of the 2025 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, the biennial $100,000 award organized by The Cultural Landscape...
Later this month the Dallas City Council will debate the fate of Dallas City Hall, the brutalist building designed by I. M. Pei that has accumulated close to $100 million in deferred maintenance costs since its completion in 1978.
The Chicago-based nonprofit organization formerly known as the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has rebranded as the Council on Vertical Urbanism (CVU), a name the group contends “more clearly reflects our expanded global vision and the future we're helping to shape.”
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...