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Three high-profile museum projects nearing completion in New York and New Jersey—New Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, and Studio Museum in Harlem—have one architecture firm in common: Cooper Robertson. World-Architects recently stopped by Cooper Robertson’s Lower Manhattan office to...
The Cooper Union in New York City has pulled John Hejduk's 1969 publication Three Projects from its archive and is displaying its drawings and related photographs and documents in the third-floor corridor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. World-Architects stopped by and...
Helsinki's JKMM Architects has won a high-profile international competition to design a new Museum of Architecture and Design on a prominent waterfront site in the Finnish capital.
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.
Innovation QNS, the proposed five-block mixed-use development with apartments, office space, retail, open space, and an arts and culture hub next to the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, has been scrapped in favor of smaller developments.
Since the inaugural Exhibit Columbus in 2017, the Landmark Columbus Foundation has invited people to visit the Indiana city every two years to experience installations spread across downtown and other parts of the “small-town architectural mecca.” A highlight of this year's exhibition—the...
More than fifty architectural drawings from the collection of Susan Grant Lewin are on display at the Modulightor Building, the Midtown Manhattan home of the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture, until September 20. World-Architects visited
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings in the running for the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize, considered “the UK’s most prestigious architecture award.”
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...
Seven projects have been announced as winners of the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The winners, ranging from an X in Y to a Z in ZZ, will split the $1 million USD prize.
In an anticipated move, US President Donald J. Trump has issued an executive order that calls for classical and traditional architecture to be the preferred styles of federal public buildings in the United States. “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again” echoes a similar executive order...
Temporary Tecture: Structures of Necessity is a new book from KOSMOS, an architectural practice with offices in Zurich and Graz, that is filled with photographs that “[offer] a fresh and compelling perspective on the often-overlooked world of temporary infrastructure.” Take a look...
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.
On a recent visit to the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, World-Architects discovered the George L. Mosse Humanities Building, a lesser-known, endangered Brutalist building designed by Chicago architect Harry Weese that opened in 1969. With millions of dollars of deferred...
Michael Benedikt, the celebrated University of Texas at Austin professor and author of numerous books of architectural theory, died on August 13 at the age of 78.
Despite the widespread attention given to the efforts of preservationists to convert the former Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, designed by Kenzo Tange, into a hotel, the governor of the prefecture is standing firm on plans to demolish the distinctive boat-shaped building built in 1964.
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:...
One component of the 2026 UIA World Congress taking place in Barcelona next summer is the UIA International Student Competition, Catalysts of Resilience, which launched in July and “invites students to design spatial interventions that enable resistance and adaptation to predictable...
First he added gold trim to the Oval Office. Then he added two large flagpoles to the White House grounds and paved over the lawn of the famous Rose Garden. Now US President Donald Trump is set to build a 90,000-square foot, $200 million ballroom where the East Wing now stands.
Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron will transform the historic Birkenstock Campus in Marin County, California, into “a world-class art and design museum” for the nonprofit Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity, which advances the legacy of famed husband-and-wife designers...
Architecton is the third installment in Victor Kossakovsky's “A” trilogy—following Vivan las Antipodas! (2011) and Aquarela (2018)—which finds the Russian filmmaker exploring humanity's place on the Earth. The 2024 documentary oscillates between hypnotic slow-motion...
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.
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been named a recipient of Japan Art Association’s 2025 Praemium Imperiale, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists.
The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower opened in MoMA’s street-level galleries on July 10. The small exhibition documents Kisho Kurokawa's groundbreaking residential project located in Tokyo’s Ginza District from 1972 until 2022, through dozens of artifacts, an interactive virtual...
The Architecture of Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest is on display at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo until November. It is the first major survey of Fujimoto's work. The Japan-Architects curators visited the exhibition, sending us photos of some of the many models, videos, sketches,...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced the FBI will be moving its headquarters from the brutalist J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, DC to the neoclassical Ronald Reagan Building, also in DC, the former home of the shuttered USAID.
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...
Curator Vyjayanthi Rao and associate curator Tau Tavengwa have revealed “Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures” as the theme for the 3rd Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT03), which will launch in November 2026.
The Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 (TAB24) was held at the Estonian Museum of Architecture last October and November under the theme “Resources for a Future,” as developed by head curator
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) invited the public into its new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Peter Zumthor in collaboration with SOM, for a summer preview of the building that is set to open in April 2026.
A number of parks and other public spaces in New York City have made headlines in recent weeks. Here we highlight four of them: a beloved community green space, a waterfront park, an informal skate park, and a piece of pedestrian infrastructure.
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.
Foster + Partners has been selected to design the National Memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’ Park, London, beating out Heatherwick Studio, WilkinsonEyre, and other shortlisted firms.
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...
During a ceremony in Venice on EUmies Awards Day for Young Talent, June 19, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announced the three winners of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards in the Young Talent category, and the recipient of the Young...
One year after the tenth MPavilion, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, extended its run in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens for an additional year, the Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced that the structure will remain in place for five more years—until 2030.