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Town Hall in Portugal Wins Building of the Year
The new Town Hall in Trofa, a small city north of Porto, has received the most votes in our poll for World Building of the Year 2025. Designed by Porto's NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira, Trofa Town Hall is a dark brick building that emerged from the transformation and expansion of an old industrial building into what the architect describes as a “House of Everyone.”
John Hill | 03.02.2026
The Packer Collegiate Institute is a private school in Brooklyn Heights that has occupied a Gothic-style building since the mid-1800s, though it has seen expansions and modernizations over the years. The latest expansion is the Garden House, designed by WXY architecture + urban as a four-story mass-timber building and renovation of an adjacent 19th-century brownstone. The architects answered...
WXY architecture + urban design | 02.02.2026
On a recent trip to Denmark, Eduard Kögel ventured to Humlebæk to see Memoryscapes, the second exhibition in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s “Architecture Connecting” series, on view at the museum until May 17, 2026.
Eduard Kögel | 31.01.2026
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named Swiss-born Irish architect Níall McLaughlin the 2026 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal, which is given annually, on behalf of His Majesty the King, “to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence on the advancement of architecture.”
John Hill | 29.01.2026
The Architecture Studio Sessions is a captivating series of ten events that is part of the official UNESCO-UIA World Capital of Architecture 2026 program in Barcelona.
Curated and coordinated by Miriam Giordano, Gaia Pellegrini, and John Hill, leading architecture studios will open their doors to share their workspaces,...
25 February to 2 December 2026
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Light + Building Talks+Tours and Guided Tours with 12 international lighting designers and experts.
World-Architects organizes Talks + Tours with Carla Wilkins, Philip Rafael, Daniel Walden and Jan Nielsen, as well as Guided Tours with Lance Hollman, Jonas Godehardt, Sabine De
Schutter, Jule Leu, Iris and Michael Podgorschek, and Beatrice Seidt...
8 February to 11 March 2026
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Die Interior Design & Architecture Academy widmet sich dem Thema Hospitality und lädt die Besuchenden der Ambiente ein, neue Perspektiven auf Hotel-, Gastronomie- und Erlebniswelten zu entdecken.
6 February to 10 February 2026