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Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney has been named the recipient of the 2015 Gold Medal from the Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Bat Bridge ready for habitation: The Vlotwateringbrug or popularly ‘batbridge’ has opened for the public in the beginning of October.
The year 2015 marks twenty-eight years since the publication of Tygodnik Powszechny magazine’s interview in which Andrzej Wajda announced his intention to create a Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Kraków – a permanent venue for exhibiting Feliks ‘Manggha’...
Four architects/teams – MOS Architects, SelgaCano + Helloeverything, Tatiano Bilbao, and Vo Trong Nghia – have created full-scale dwellings inside the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Flanking the grand stairs near the main entrance to the Chicago Cultural Center is Studio Gang Architects' contribution to the Chicago Architecture Biennial: Polis Station, which proposes new ways of integrating police stations into their communities.
Most of the 100+ contributions to the Chicago Architecture Biennial take the form of displays that can only be looked at, but a few installations at the entrance to the Chicago Cultural Center, and one outside, invite people to sit for a while.
On the night of September 16, 2015, Toronto-based Quadrangle Architects won three awards for their renovation and expansion of 60 Atlantic Avenue, a 115-year old heritage property in Toronto’s Liberty Village neighborhood for client, Hullmark Developments Ltd: a Toronto Urban...
World-Architects is excited to announce the launch of Catalan-Architects, the seventeenth platform under the World-Architects umbrella. The regional Catalan-Architects platform recognizes the amazing quality of buildings and landscapes produced in the region anchored by Barcelona.
To parse just what it is that creates the distinctive architecture of Barcelona and the Catalan region, architect and Cities Connection Project co-director Xavier Bustos presents three snapshots in three categories of architectural production: education, cultural initiatives, and awards.
The Ontario-based museum has unveiled the designs of five architects/teams in a two-stage competition as part of their relocation to the Parks Canada Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site on the Trent-Severn Waterway.
Barcelona, now one of the world capitals of architecture, has been able to redefine itself over the years through architecture competitions, some of them bringing profound changes to the city. World-Architects curator Silvia Pujalte Toledo presents the recent competition for the Plaza de les...
Although the legacy of Antoni Gaudí dominates architectural histories of Barcelona, the great architect was not alone in developing a unique Catalonian strand of modernism. Miriam Giordano takes readers on a tour of Lluis Domenech i Montaner's Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital,...
Albert Moya, the young director who was born in Tarragona and lives in the United States, has gifted us with a powerful and extremely poetic portrait of Ricardo Bofill, an icon of Catalan architecture.
With the recent completion of Josep Lluís Mateo's renovation of the Ninot Market, Antonio La Gioia takes a look at the history of markets in Barcelona and other recent examples of these valuable parts of the Catalan capital.
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations has shortlisted 6 design firms from the 48 firms under consideration in the two-stage selection process for the New U.S. Embassy Compound in Brasilia, Brazil.
Nearly one year after initial designs by China's Ma Yansong were unveiled to the public, refinements to the museum that filmmaker George Lucas is planning for a lakefront site in Chicago have been released.
The Architect's Newspaper interviews Chicago architect Jeanne Gang in, of all places, the Chicago River, next to the boathouse her studio completed for a site on the river's north branch.
The new entrance hall at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum opened to the public on 5 September. "Work to move our main entrance to Museumplein has gone very well," says director Axel Rüger.
Five finalists have been named in the Finnish Association of Architects' (SAFA) 2015 Finlandia Prize for Architecture, with the winner to be selected by composer Kaija Saariaho.
Northerly Island, a park designed by Studio Gang Architects and SmithGroupJJR for the Chicago peninsula that formerly served as Meigs Field, opens to the public on Friday, twelve years after Mayor Richard M. Daley closed the airport.
With last week's announcement of the international search for an architect to design the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, we take a look at 20 libraries designed by World-Architects member firms since 2004, the year of the striking Clinton Presidential Library designed by ennead architects.
The Park Tower was finished in November 2014 and is situated in a unique location within walking distance from the new MAS museum, the harbor district "Eilandje," the waterfront beside the river Scheldt, and the historic city center.
The site is located next to a branch of the Min River. The aim of the masterplan is the exploit the proximity of water by connecting to as many buildings as possible.
NEXT realizes an apartment complex in the shape of Shouxi stone. The project is located on a complicated site, in the old city center of Fuzhou, the capital of the Fujian Province.
SET Architects (Onorato di Manno, Andrea Tanci, Lorenzo Catena, Gianluca Sist, and Chiara Cucina) have won first prize in the Bologna Shoah Memorial international competition.
PSA Publishers Ltd., the publisher of the World-Architects platform, announces a change of management as Renato Turri, Charles Ganz and Falk Romano accept, as part of a management buyout, the shares of majority shareholder and company founder Hans Demarmels.
The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in Flushing Meadows Corona Park has reopened its Great Hall designed by Wallace K. Harrison for the 1964 World's Fair and recently restored by Ennead Architects.
NEXT architects and Rudy Uytenhaak architects worked together to design a new town hall for Bloemendaal municipality. Their design builds on the history of the property, the Bloemenheuvel country estate.
In Münster, Germany, HPP Architects have realized, together with Duk-Kyu Ryang, an office building for LVM that adds character to the city's skyline. Inside, employees can look forward to seasonal moods of color that emanate from the flooring.
The Sailing Center, recently completed by Woodhouse Tinucci Architects, is Northwestern University's (NU) most direct connection between the campus and its advantageous location on the shoreline of Lake Michigan.
The Bridge at Cornell NYC Tech, designed by Weiss/Manfredi, breaks ground and the world's first Passive House high-rise, designed by Handel Architects, is unveiled, as Cornell moves forward with its new campus on Roosevelt Island in New York.
Krueck + Sexton Architects have completed a 375,000 square foot, highly sustainable Federal Office Building located at 2030 S.W. 145th Avenue in Miramar, Florida.
Kilimanjaro Women Information Exchange and Consultancy Organization (KWIECO) was founded in 1987 in Moshi, Tanzania. It provides advice on legal, health, social and economic issues to women.
After a very fast construction period of only two months a spectacular new pavilion shines in the heart of Rotterdam. Mei architects and planners designed this new McDonald's pavilion on Coolsingel Rotterdam.
New Museum MORE (Museum for Dutch Modern Realism), designed by Hans van Heeswijk Architects to showcase the Netherlands’ biggest collection of modern realist art, opened on 2 June 2015, with critics praising its light but exuberant minimalist architecture.
Unique bridge designed to house bats: "There is no other bridge like it that is specifically designed to house bats," claims Herman Limpens, international expert in the field of bats from the Mammal Society.