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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.
Spanish-Architects visited the shared Barcelona studio of architects Mariona Benedito and Bayona Valero Architects Associates ahead of them hosting the second installment of Architecture Studio...
This multifaceted project consists of the adaptive reuse of an old railway depot, designed by Nikola Raičković in 1927, and a new office building wrapped in a bamboo forest facade. The architects at AKVS, who won the design competition in 2021, answered a few questions about the project.
Approximate number of listed buildings in Glasgow, Scotland—“the finest Victorian city in the world”—that have gone up in smoke since the year 2000:...
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 Catalysts of Resilience international student competition, organized as part of the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona, generated 587 proposals from around the world addressing an urgent question: how can architecture anticipate the ecological, social, and territorial...
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...
The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona has announced the 66 contributions selected through the Call for Participants—launched in March 2025—that stand out for their innovative perspectives, interdisciplinary approaches, and transformative ideas for addressing contemporary...
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...
More than a dozen years in the making, Les Jardins de Médongaule, a so-called humanities garden in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, opened to the public last September. The garden's many acres are split into the historical Korean Gardens and the Contemporary Gardens, the latter consisting of...
Travel time for the modernized 350-kilometer (220-mile), $2.89 billion (€2.46 billion) railroad between the capital cities of Belgrade, Serbia and Budapest, Hungary, which was built as part of China's Belt and Road Initiative
Madeline Beach Carey, in the latest installment of her “Building Novels” series focused on works of fiction with architectural themes, delves into Sympathy Tower Tokyo, Rie Qudan’s award-winning novel whose main character is an architect, and which was partly inspired by “conversations...
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.
Height of the 77-story F Tower in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, designed by Pierre Fakhoury with a symmetrical, chamfered geometry that evokes the power of an African mask: 421...
In addition to the replacement of a five-story parking garage, the recently completed Springfield Civic Center and CarPark in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, also encompasses a new civic plaza and a pedestrian lane that was created by closing a street between the garage and the convention...
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.
Egypt's new National Museum is impressive: Dublin's heneghan peng architects has found its own architectural language, and Stuttgart's Atelier Brückner captivates with its scenographic design of the Tutankhamun gallery.
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.
Lemay describes their approach to the design of the Saint Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal Welcome Pavilion as one of “humility rather than assertion.” Situated at the base of the highest building in Montreal, the new building embeds itself into the landscape and signals its presence via an...
Estimated future turnover of the Wynn Al Marjan casino resort under construction on an artificial island in Ras Al Khaimah,...
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...
Mitsubishi Jisho Design Inc. recently presented the Marunouchi Architecture Tour. The tour introduced the company's "Inheritance Design" philosophy via visits to actual buildings in Tokyo's Marunouchi district, and included a report on the Marunouchi Architectural Materials Preservation...
Interior design is increasingly seen as a fundamental tool in having a positive attitude towards life. The discourse on this topic was stimulated in mid-February at the Ambiente trade fair and the expert presentations in the event program organized by World-Architects.
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.
How can resources be used responsibly in construction? Young architects Ronan Crippa and Timothy Allen discuss this with architecture educator Andreas Ruby and researcher Daria Kovaleva, while Basel Grand Council member Salome Bessenich assesses which ideas are likely to gain majority...
For the first time in more than sixty years, Otto Wagner's work is being exhibited in Germany. The drawings by the architect and his colleagues, some of whom are well-known, bear witness to the great leap from historicism to modernism at the turn of the last century.
Here we touch on some recent headlines in the realm of architectural preservation, including awards, grants, and a passing of note.