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World-Architects got an exclusive peek at 520 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan ahead of its official topping out on Thursday, October 24. At 1,002 feet (305 m) tall, the mixed-use supertall designed by KPF for the development firm Rabina will be the tallest mixed-use tower on Fifth Avenue... John Hill
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October is a busy month in New York City, with exhibitions opening, numerous lectures and book launches taking place, and otherwise inaccessible buildings opening to the public for the Archtober Buildings of the Day and Open House New York Weekend. World-Architects visited two John Hill
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2 weeks ago
The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) has announced the four winners of its Missing Middle Infill Housing Design Competition, which challenged entrants to reimagine designs for “missing middle density” homes in four categories: six-flats, two- and three-flats, rowhouses, and single-family... John Hill
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4 weeks ago
SD Review 2024 – The 42nd Exhibition of Winning Architectural Drawings and Models was displayed last month at Hillside Terrace in Tokyo and now moves to the Kyoto Institute of Technology Museum and Archives. The Japan-Architects editors visited the exhibition in Tokyo and John Hill
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1 month ago
Earlier this year Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza was named an honorary member of the International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA), “in recognition of his exceptional contribution to global architecture.” Next month he will give a keynote at the CICA 2024 International Conference. John Hill
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1 month ago
Brazilian artist Ciao Reisewitz is the latest artist to take over the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. Suspendre el cel fills the pavilion with palm trees, ferns, and other plants that recall the Amazon rainforests and draw attention to their destruction and that of indigenous... John Hill
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1 month ago
The latest addition to Tippet Rise Art Center — a sprawling ranch in Montana that has been home to artworks, pavilions, and performance spaces since opening in 2016 — is Geode, an open-air acoustical structure and performance venue designed by Arup to create an intimate sonic environment... John Hill
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1 month ago
AA Folios: 1983–1985 is a small but dense exhibition now on display at The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. Open to the public for just three weeks, the exhibition presents seven of the fourteen Folios produced by the Architectural Association in... John Hill
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1 month ago
Unlike fashion, publishing, and other fields, architecture doesn't have a “season.” But when it comes to exhibitions and other architectural events, autumn is a busy time. Here we highlight a half-dozen of the numerous architecture exhibitions opening in September and October. These are... John Hill
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2 months ago
Newly released renderings show the Grand Stade Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco, the 115,000-capacity stadium projected to be the largest football stadium in the world. Designed by Populous in collaboration with Oualalou + Choi, the stadium's tented roof was inspired by moussem, an... John Hill
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2 months ago
Constructing Hope: Ukraine is an exhibition at the Center for Architecture in New York City that gathers the grassroots work of numerous multidisciplinary creatives who are applying architectural thinking to support Ukraine's ongoing reconstruction efforts. Take a visual tour through... John Hill
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on 09/07/24
With summer break upon us, World-Architects has rummaged through some of the many recently published architecture books to find a dozen recommendations for summer reading, presented in alphabetical order by title — or clockwise per our sunny illustration. John Hill
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on 28/06/24
Carlo Scarpa: The Complete Buildings is a new book published by Prestel that sees architectural photographer Cemal Emden visiting all of the completed works of Venetian architect Carlo Scarpa (1906–1978). The book presents such famous works as the Brion Tomb and Castelvecchio as well as... John Hill
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on 25/06/24
I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture, the highly anticipated exhibition on influential, world-famous architect Ieoh Ming Pei (1917–2019), opens at M+ in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District on June 29. Here we take a visual tour through a smattering of the drawings, photographs, and... John Hill
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on 18/06/24
How long after an architecture firm is established should it release its first monograph? A number of variables come to play in determining an answer, but the notorious slowness of architecture means a firm might not put its project in print until it has reached drinking age. The four recently... John Hill
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on 05/06/24
The 23rd Serpentine Pavilion opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on June 7. Designed by Korean architect Minsuk Cho and his firm Mass Studies, the pavilion is titled Archipelagic Void, referring to the five “islands” radiating from a central open space and referenceing... John Hill
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on 30/05/24
A recent issue of Architectural Design (AD) delves into the early archive of Lebbeus Woods, the visionary architect, celebrated delineator, and influential educator who died in 2012. Focusing on the Black Notebooks he filled from the late 1960s to 1985, the publication offers something... John Hill
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on 23/05/24
Unzoomed is a daily online game that asks people to guess the city they are looking at in an aerial view; each incorrect guess reveals more context as the view zooms out. The game by Benjamin Td is fun and addictive, especially for architects and planners. John Hill
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on 17/05/24
Jenny Holzer: Light Line is on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City from May 17 until September 29, 2024. The major exhibition features a selection of artworks created by the artist from the 1970s to the present and, at its center, a new manifestation of Installation for... John Hill
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on 13/05/24
Film director Steve McQueen's Bass is an immersive light-and-sound installation in the lower-level gallery of Dia Beacon in New York's Hudson River Valley. World-Architects visited ahead of the artwork's opening on May 12. John Hill
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on 03/05/24
For Le Grand Soir, which opened last month and is on display for two years in the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada stacked colored concrete blocks into towers inspired by the tradition of constructing human pyramids in Morocco as well... John Hill
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on 29/04/24
Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj has installed Abetare on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the museum's 2024 Roof Garden Commission. The exhibition, opening on April 30, consists of sculptures inspired by children's doodles, drawings, and scribbles found on... John Hill
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on 22/04/24
Ride: Antoine Predock: 65 Years of Architecture is a new monograph from Rizzoli released this week on famed American architect Antoine Predock, who died last month at the age of 87. The hefty, nearly 700-page “memoirograph” traces Predock's highly active life and prolific career. Here... John Hill
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on 15/04/24
The 23rd Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is taking place over two weekends in April at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, near Palm Springs. As in previous years, the grassy expanse between the mountains is the setting for colorful large-scale artworks that serve as backdrops... John Hill
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on 03/04/24
A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey's experimental Aluminaire House, which was built in New York City in 1931, subsequently moved to Long Island, but then faced an uncertain future in recent decades, is now on permanent display at the Palm Springs Art Museum in California. The iconic,... John Hill
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on 01/04/24
Although the name Piero Portaluppi was unknown to me when I came across two old monographs on the architect in a used bookstore recently, images of the architect's project for a Futurist-looking villa in Formazza, Italy, made them irresistible. A discovery to me, turns out Portaluppi is also... John Hill
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on 25/03/24
Kolektiv Cité Radieuse is presenting the work of Czech illustrator Jan Šrámek at Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseille from April 6 until May 15, 2024. Endangered Species: Unclaimed Brutalism pays tribute to Czechoslovakian architecture from the 1960s to 1980s as well as,... John Hill
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on 14/03/24
Occupying two full floors and multiple terraces of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Renzo Piano-designed building in New York's Meatpacking District, the 81st edition of the Whitney Biennial, subtitled Even Better Than the Real Thing, aims to provide a space where difficult... John Hill
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on 11/03/24
Designing Decades: Architectural Poster Art (1972-1982) is on display at the Modulightor Building, the New York City home of the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture, until April 7, 2024. Drawn from the collection of architect Judith York Newman, owner of SPACED Gallery of... John Hill
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on 01/03/24
The exhibition "drawing in space" by Sauerbruch Hutton provides an insight into the reflection and creative processes of their architecture. Falk Jaeger visited the exhibition and also found in it a journey through the development of architectural representation. Falk Jaeger
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on 22/02/24
The new Álvaro Siza Wing at the Serralves Museum in Porto, Portugal, opens to the public on February 24, 2024, with two exhibitions: Improbable Anagrams, displaying pieces from the Serralves Foundation's permanent collection; and John Hill
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on 13/02/24
The exhibition ‘POETIC IMAGINATIONS. Interweaving Architecture with Traditional Values’ by Beijing’s Eduard Kögel
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on 06/02/24
The latest installation in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, an awe-inducing subterranean space marked by hundreds of concrete columns reflected in a surface of water, is artist Rachel Rossin's Haha Real, which takes visitors on a voyage inspired by The Velveteen Rabbit. John Hill
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on 01/02/24
Brooklyn Bridge Park is a new visual biography about the namesake, 1.3-mile (2-km) long park on the Brooklyn waterfront. Designed by Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), the park is immensely popular for its views of Lower Manhattan, mix of active and passive uses, and beautiful... John Hill
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on 23/01/24
The National Building Museum in Washington, DC, opened Building Stories on January 21. Six years in the making, the ambitious multigenerational exhibition curated by Leonard Marcus, an expert on children's literature, will be on display for ten years. John Hill