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In response to the anticipated closure of the Kennedy Center in July for a two-year renovation, eight cultural and architectural organizations—including the American Institute of Architects and the National Trust for Historic Preservation—have filed suit against the Trump administration so it...
The renovation of the Central Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, closed since late 2024, has been completed and will reopen for the Biennale Arte 2026 in May. The project's architectural design was carried out by Labics and architect Fabio Fumagalli.
Architecture Instagram was aghast over the weekend at the planned demolition of two of the four parking garages that Swiss architect Christian Kerez designed for the Pearling Path in Muharraq, Bahrain. The garages were completed just in 2023 and were beautifully captured two years later in a...
Ahead of its opening on March 21, World-Architects got a sneak peek of the newly expanded New Museum, which has added an OMA-designed structure next to its 2007 building designed by SANAA. Here we present a photographic tour through the 60,000-square-foot building, from top to bottom.
The centerpiece of the 2026 UIA World Congress of Architects, taking place in Barcelona in late June and early July, is the three-day conference that will find more than 250 speakers in over 100 sessions addressing the curatorial theme Becoming: Architectures for a Planet in Transition....
The latest piece in US President Donald Trump's transformation of the White House is a proposed security facility the US Secret Service would use to screen visitors to the White House for tours and events.
A short, six-minute film from Preservation Chicago presents the 2026 list of Chicago 7 Most Endangered, which ranges from the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room designed by Louis Sullivan to bridge infrastructure and labor union halls spread across the Windy City.
Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke has been named the 55th laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Here we take a photographic tour of seven of Radić's buildings, looking at them from the outside before heading inside to discover the often unexpected qualities of space and light that...
The Obama Foundation has announced that the Obama Presidential Center’s grand opening celebrations will take place from June 18 to June 21, with the campus and museum opening to the public on the 19th—aka Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
Construction of The Line, the 170-kilometer-long linear city unveiled in 2021 that was intended to house 9 million residents and be the centerpiece of Saudi Arabia's larger NEOM project, has stopped. In an 11-minute film, the team at MegaBuilds lays out why the project ended and ponders what...
Artist Michael Heizer is known for monumental artworks such as Double Negative, two massive trenches in a mesa near Overton, Nevada, and City, the magnum opus he started building north of Las Vegas in 1970 and opened to the public in 2022. The remoteness of such pieces make the...
The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), which was expected to approve plans for US President Donald Trump's ballroom at the East Wing of the White House on Thursday, March 5, has postponed the vote until April 2 “given the large amount of public input on the project.”
Designs by five teams led by big-name European architects have been unveiled in the competition for the €240 million “Shift Landmark” in Rotterdam's new Waterkant district.
Wes Anderson speaks with Gagosian about the jewel box-like recreation of artist Joseph Cornell's studio from the basement of his house on Utopia Parkway in Queens to the gallery's storefront windows at 9 rue de Castiglione in Paris.
Here we highlight four exhibitions in Manhattan and Brooklyn that opened recently or will open soon, ranging from a historical look at a swath of Midtown and alternative proposals for houses to monographic exhibitions on a late visionary architect and critic, and an architect from Austria.
The last vacant commercial parcel at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan will be filled by American Express, which announced that it will own and occupy 2 World Trade Center, a 55-story tower being designed by Foster + Partners.
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2026 National Design Awards, which “recognize the innovation and impact of individual designers and organizations across 10 categories,” including architecture and landscape architecture.
Watch curator James Taylor-Foster give a brief video introduction to Worldglimpsing: Roleplay and the Design of Alternate Realities, currently on display at ArkDes in Stockholm and the first installment in a two-exhibition series from ArkDes and Nieuwe Instituut that “[shines a] light...
Snøhetta has shared photos of the Shanghai Grand Opera House that is nearing completion on the banks of the Huangpu River. The building with publicly accessible rooftop is set to open in the second half of 2026.
The seven members of the US Commission of Fine Arts (CFA)—all of whom were appointed by President Donald Trump in January—have approved plans for a $400 million ballroom to replace the White House's East Wing that was demolished last fall. Approval by the National Capital Planning Commission...
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: Hidden Furniture Masterpieces 1950-1991 is on display at LuisaViaRoma's New York boutique through April. The exhibition presents dozens of pieces of 20th-century furniture designed by architects from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), alongside related...
The first episode of the new An Architect's Perspective series finds architect and host James Hamilton visiting Can Lis, the house Jørn Utzon built for his family on the island of Mallorca.
Here we touch on some recent headlines in the realm of architectural preservation, including awards, grants, and a passing of note.
As part of Bangkok Design Week, which took place in early February, Jenchieh Hung and Kulthida Songkittipakdee of HAS design and research designed High Line Bangkok, a temporary pavilion that “reinterprets public infrastructure for tropical living.” Here we present some photos and drawings of...
The Foundation for the Development of the Lands Adjacent to the Baptism Site has announced that the team led by Níall McLaughlin Architects (NMLA) has won the Museum of Jesus’ Baptism at Bethany, Jordan – International Design Competition, besting the six other finalists in the two-stage...
A new eleven-minute film from Foster + Partners explains the design, engineering, and functioning of 270 Park Avenue, the firm's new supertall skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, and takes viewers inside some of the spaces that serve as the headquarters of JPMorgan Chase.
Forestone Cabin is a prototypical shelter designed and built by the 2025 class of the Master in Ecological Architecture and Advanced Construction program at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). Located in the Pyrenees, the cabin resembles a boulder but is built from...
A new rendered animation gives a peek inside the new Concourse D at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. The project, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) with Ross Barney Architects, JGMA, and Arup, is now under construction and expected to be completed in late 2028.
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the seven works in the running for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award: five projects for the Architecture prize and two projects vying for the Emerging prize.
US President Donald Trump is continuing his reshaping of Washington, DC, with headlines in recent days indicating he will close the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for a two-year “reconstruction” and big-name firms are submitting designs to redesign Washington Dulles International...
The new Town Hall in Trofa, a small city north of Porto, has received the most votes in our poll for World Building of the Year 2025. Designed by Porto's NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira, Trofa Town Hall is a dark brick building that emerged from the transformation and expansion of an old...
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named Swiss-born Irish architect Níall McLaughlin the 2026 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal, which is given annually, on behalf of His Majesty the King, “to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence on the advancement...
The OBEL Award, the annual prize founded by the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation in 2019 to honor architectural contributions to human development all over the world, has announced the focus of its eighth cycle: “Systems' Hack.”
Tsuyoshi Tane, best known for the Estonian National Museum and the Tane Garden House at Vitra, is the subject of the latest architecture-related film from Louisiana Channel, which visited the architect's Paris studio and spoke with him about his unique archaeological approach he takes on each...
“The arts are not isolated,” John Cage shortly before his death in 1992, “but engage in dialogue.” He happened to be referring to music and architecture, the latter occasionally referred to as “frozen music.” Here we explore the relationship between these two arts, spurred by a forthcoming...
In 2025 we presented 50 Buildings of the Week on World-Architects, and now it's your turn to help us crown a Building of the Year by voting for your favorite project. The deadline is Saturday, January 31, with the winner announced in early February.