Magazine

John Hill | 13.05.2016

Found

Twenty works by teamLab, a group of "ultra-technologists" from Tokyo, are on display until July 21st at PACE Art + Technology in Menlo Park, California, including the immersive, constantly changing Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – A...


John Hill | 05.05.2016

Headlines

Tel Aviv University has selected the design of French studio Atelier d’Architecture Michel Remon as the winning project in the open international competition for its new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center.


John Hill | 02.05.2016

Insight

Last week Eva Franch i Gilabert, Chief Curator and Executive Director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, gave the keynote address at the Vectorworks Design...


John Hill | 28.04.2016

Found

Through the simplest of means, Barcelona-based street artist Pejac has been leaving his distinctive imprint on the buildings of Al Hussein, a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan.


John Hill | 21.04.2016

Headlines

Eight architecture firms have been selected from the 26-strong long-list (announced in August 2015) in the three-stage competition to design the one-million-square-foot Art Mill in...


John Hill | 18.04.2016

Headlines

Delays caused by an ongoing lawsuit have prompted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to propose tearing down McCormick Place's Lakeside Center in order to keep George Lucas's planned museum in the city.


John Hill | 06.04.2016

Headlines

Strelka KB has announced the three finalists and unveiled their concept designs in the international architectural competition for the new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University.


John Hill | 23.03.2016

Film

German artist Thorsten Brinkmann has filled the Rice University Art Gallery with his distincly odd self-portraits but also detritus from Houston that creates hidden spaces, including a cinema built inside a shipping crate and a small tunnel that leads to a secret bedroom.


John Hill | 16.03.2016

Found

Photographer and street artist JR will transform the Louvre's iconic glass Pyramid in Paris this summer, effectively making I.M. Pei's 1989 creation disappear through anamorphosis.


John Hill | 25.02.2016

Film

In a new video consisting of clips culled from the Louisiana Channel's numerous interviews with architects, Liz Diller, Craig Dykers, Bjarke Ingels, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, and Robert A.M. Stern discuss building in New York City.


John Hill | 10.02.2016

Headlines

London's Serpentine Gallery has announced the selection of Denmark's BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group to design the 16th pavilion in Kensington Gardens, to be accompanied by four summer houses designed by architects from Europe and Africa.


John Hill | 28.01.2016

Film

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel has compiled clips from some of its excellent interviews with architects to "share their inspirational thoughts on what it is that makes global architecture work."


John Hill | 04.01.2016

Film

The Louisiana Museum of Art profiles Copenhagen's Henning Larsen Architects in "Building Ambitions for Soceity," a twenty-minute film from the Louisiana Channel.


John Hill | 01.12.2015

Headlines

Strelka KB has announced a shortlist of six design teams that will take part in the second phase of the the international architectural competition for the new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University.


John Hill | 30.11.2015

Film

The Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, visits Peter Zumthor at his studio in Haldenstein, Switzerland to present an illuminating, one-hour-long biographical video on the Pritzker Prize-winning architect.


John Hill | 05.11.2015

Found

As part of their Finite Format exhibition at the House of Art České Budějovice in the Czech Republic, Chilean architects Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen, working with students from the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University of...


John Hill | 30.10.2015

Headlines

On Wednesday Chicago's City Council approved the construction of filmmaker George Lucas's Museum of Narrative Art, designed by China's MAD Architects for a lakefront site between Soldier Field and McCormick Place.


John Hill | 20.10.2015

Film

Pakistani-American artist Anila Quayyum Agha has transformed the Rice University Art Gallery into a space layered with light and shadow in dense geometric patterns.


John Hill | 15.10.2015

Film

The inaugural Hyundai Commission for the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall is Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas's Empty Lot, which consists of 240 triangular planters filled with soil collected from parks and gardens across London.


John Hill | 14.10.2015

Film

Designer and filmmaker Jamie Brightmore visited Banksy's much-hyped Dismaland "Bemusement Park" and put together what he calls the "official unofficial film" of the temporary art exhibition in Somerset, England.


Diller Scofidio + Renfro | 05.10.2015

Works

As promised in last month's "first look" at Diller Scofidio + Renfro's recently completed McMurtry Building for the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University, here are completed photos of the building taken by Iwan Baan.


John Hill | 01.10.2015

Headlines

The Vancouver Art Gallery has unveiled Herzog & de Meuron’s conceptual design for a new 310,000-square-foot (28,800-sm) museum to be built out of wood in downtown Vancouver.


John Hill | 18.09.2015

Headlines

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.


Fred Bernstein | 11.09.2015

Insight

Diller Scofidio + Renfro recently completed the McMurtry Building for the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. Writer Fred Bernstein got a tour of the building from Charles Renfro and filed this report for World-Architects.


John Hill | 17.08.2015

Headlines

Qatar Museums has announced the long-list of 26 architects selected from 489 submissions in the international search for the architect who will design the one-million-square-foot Art Mill in Doha.


John Hill | 17.08.2015

Insight

At World-Architects we are big fans of art with an architectural twist, so we decided to focus on some artists who look to architecture and building as subjects for their paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and films.


John Hill | 13.08.2015

Found

A stainless steel sculpture nearing completion in China's Xianjing region bears a striking resemblance to Anish Kapoor's famous Cloud Gate sculpture installed in Chicago's Millennium Park in 2006.


John Hill | 11.08.2015

Found

It's hard not to be charmed by the once-a-day paper buildings that Charles Young of Edinburgh has been creating since August 2014.


John Hill | 30.06.2015

Film

In one of the latest films from the Louisiana Museum of Art's Louisiana Channel, Dan Stubbergaard of COBE takes viewers around Copenhagen "to show and discuss what motivates their exciting socially conscious and highly innovative projects."


John Hill | 22.06.2015

Found

The 15th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, designed by Spain's SelgasCano, opens to the public on Thursday in London's Kensington Gardens.


John Hill | 02.06.2015

Film

Marc-Christoph Wagner from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art interviews Norman Foster, who turned 80 on 1 June 2015, about his childhood, path to architecture, hobbies, and approach to designing buildings.


John Hill | 27.05.2015

Found

In commemoration of the Vienna Ringstrasse's 150th anniversary, Parabol Art Magazine has published a special edition with photos of Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank taken by Hagen Stier and a companion exhibition in the building.


John Hill, Katinka Corts | 21.05.2015

Found

Steve Messam, a British artist, has created a self-supporting, walkable bridge from 20,000 sheets of brigh red paper in the green countryside of the Lake District, about midway between Glasgow and Manchester.


John Hill | 13.05.2015

Found

SecondMedia's Foamspace submission is the winner of Storefront for Art and Architecture’s 2015 Street Architecture Prize Competition, to be displayed as part of the IDEAS CITY Festival in New York City at the end of May.


John Hill | 12.05.2015

Found

Artist Daan Roosegaarde has virtually flooded the Museum Square in Amsterdam with his Waterlicht installation, which "lets you experience how the Netherlands would look like without waterworks."


John Hill | 24.04.2015

Found

On 1 May 2015 the new home of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Cooper Robertson, opens its doors to the public right next to the southern tip of the High Line.