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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.
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.
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...
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.”
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 Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) has announced that anthropologist, writer, and artist Vyjayanthi Rao will serve as curator, with Tau Tavengwa as associate curator, for SAT's third edition set to take place in 2026.
Andreas Ruby built the Swiss Architecture Museum into a platform for discourse. An advocate of the Swiss architecture scene, he increased the number of visitors to the Basel museum by 33 percent. After ten years, he is stepping down as director.
The Wolf Foundation, which “both celebrates and promotes exceptional achievements in the Sciences and the Arts worldwide,” is giving its 2025 Wolf Prize in Architecture to Xu Tiantian, founding principal of Beijing's DnA_Design and Architecture.
At a recent event at the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, Mexico, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) announced the five finalists for the 2025 Americas Prize, which honors the best work of architecture completed in the Americas between June 2022 and December 2023.
The jury of the 5th edition of Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize 2024, a biennial initiative by Simon curated by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, has announced two winning films in two categories — Collective Places and Personal Places — as well as a Best Audiovisual Narrative...
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Modulus Matrix: 85 Social Housing in Cornellà, Barcelona, designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes is the winner of the 2024 RIBA International Prize.
The Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture in London has announced that, in response to climate change and the urgent need to “cultivate careful use and reuse of materials and space,” next year it will start offering a new post-professional program in Conservation and Reuse.
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2024, selecting the ten best architecture books from 170 submissions from 74 publishers.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winner of the 28th RIBA Stirling Prize: The Elizabeth Line, a new transport network for London — “a monumental achievement” designed by Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation, and AtkinsRéalis.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings in the running for the 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize, considered “the UK’s most prestigious architecture award.”
Architecture Exchange, a platform “dedicated to catalyzing ideas and debate within architecture,” recently put out a call soliciting nominations “for the most significant architectural theory texts in the period between 2008 and 2024.”
The traditional annual exhibition of the Academy of Architecture in the Swiss canton of Ticino is running in Mendrisio until the end of June. This year's exhibition, which is well worth seeing, also provides an insight into the development of architectural education over the decades.
Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has been named the 2024 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, long considered architecture's highest honor. Today's announcement says that Yamamoto, an “architect and social advocate,” is being given the Pritzker Prize “for reminding us that in...
The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced that Casa sobre el Arroyo, the house bridging a stream in Mar del Plata, Argentina, designed by Amancio Williams in the 1940s, is the recipient of the 2024 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize.
Japanese architect Toyo Ito is donating a portion of his archive, documenting projects spanning the years 1971 and 1995, to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal.
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) returned to Singapore last week, crowning the Huizhen High School in Ningbo, China, designed by Approach Design Studio and the Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group, as World Building of the Year 2023.
The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the winner of the 27th RIBA Stirling Prize: Mæ's John Morden Centre, which provides social and medical facilities for residents of Morgan College, a 300-year-old residential and nursing facility in Blackheath, London.
Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu is the winner of the 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, the biennial $100,000 award organized by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF).
Landscape architect Alan Ward, a partner at the Boston interdisciplinary firm Sasaki, has donated approximately 2,500 photographs of landscapes he shot in thirteen countries to The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF).
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings in the running for the 2023 RIBA Stirling Prize, considered "the UK’s most prestigious architecture award."
The European office of Oppenheim Architecture, based in Basel, has won the competition to turn the Toptani Residence in Tirna, the capital of Albania, into the Besa Museum.
The Whitney Museum of American Art is selling its landmark Marcel Breuer-designed building on Manhattan's Upper East Side to auction house Sotheby's for its new global headquarters.
Portland's Waechter Architecture has completed Mississippi, a three-story commercial building that serves, in part, as the firm's own headquarters and is billed as the Pacific Northwest’s first “all-wood” mixed-use mass timber project.
British architect David Chipperfield has been named the laureate of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize. He is the 52nd recipient of the award that is considered architecture’s highest honor.
SANAA's Kazuyo Sejima and CCA founder Phyllis Lambert are this year’s recipients of the Jane Drew Prize and Ada Louise Huxtable Prize, respectively, part of the W Awards given out by The Architectural Review and Architects’ Journal.
The Jencks Foundation and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have announced that Forensic Architecture is the 2022 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award, named for the influential architecture critic and landscape designer.
World-Architects stopped by Beyond Territories – Made . Make . Making, the traveling exhibition that celebrates the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced that The New Library, Magdalene College, located in Cambridge and designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects, is the winner of the 26th RIBA Stirling Prize, making it "the UK’s best new building."
The Getty Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced Conserving Black Modernism, a grant program that will award $3.1 million over two years to preserve historic modern architecture designed by Black architects.
The Montreal Holocaust Museum (MHM) has revealed that the team of KPMB Architects and Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker Architecture has been selected to design the museum's new downtown home following an international competition.