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Years it took the former Norwich Sports Village, or “Hanging Cloths” sports site in Hellesdon, a village in Norfolk, England, to be granted listed status: 38
The Packer Collegiate Institute is a private school in Brooklyn Heights that has occupied a Gothic-style building since the mid-1800s, though it has seen expansions and modernizations over the years. The latest expansion is the Garden House, designed by WXY architecture + urban as a four-story...
On a recent trip to Denmark, Eduard Kögel ventured to Humlebæk to see Memoryscapes, the second exhibition in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s “Architecture Connecting” series, on view at the museum until May 17, 2026.
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...
At the Laje Football Field in Oeiras, Portugal, a red portal cut into the landscape leads to the locker rooms and pitch, itself defined by matching perpendicular concrete walls. Architect Miguel Marcelino sent us some text and images on the project that last year was nominated for the most...
Girth of the walls at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire, England, an exceptional manor built in the late 15th century—in what we now know as the Little Ice Age, when soldiers froze to death in the middle of the European summer—
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.
As part of its monographic exhibition on architect Bruce Goff that opened in December, the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) has released “Bruce Goff: Unbounded Design,” a short film with commentary from curators Alison Fisher and Craig Lee about the American architect they say “escaped...
LANZA atelier, the Mexico City studio of Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo, has been selected to design the 2026 Serpentine Pavilion. Their design, titled a serpentine, appropriately features an undulating brick wall that was inspired by traditional serpentine walls and subtly...
Eight years after David Chipperfield Architects' competition-winning design for the Nobel Center in Stockholm was halted by a Swedish court, a revised design on a different waterfront site, also designed by Chipperfield, has been unveiled. Construction is expected to start next year.
On a chilly January afternoon, World-Architects stopped by Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park in Battery Park City to look at the recently completed pavilion designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners. As the sun set, we took some photographs.
The transformation of Younghusband Woolstore in Kensington from “an underutilized industrial landscape into a vibrant, mixed-use community precinct” is being billed as one of Australia’s most ambitious adaptive reuse projects. Nevertheless, its architects adopted a “light touch” methodology to...
The OMA-designed expansion of the New Museum, which opened on New York's Bowery in a building designed by SANAA in 2007, will finally open to the public on March 21—ten years after the project was announced.
Number of people who currently live in the metropolitan areas of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital; Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh; and Tokyo: 112...
Two recent books co-published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König with Accattone and Architecture Curating Practice present the Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture and the ideas of its architect, Francesca Torzo. Here, we take a look inside the two books.
January 31 is the deadline for HouseEurope!, a registered nonprofit aimed at incentivizing renovation over demolition and new construction, to gain one million signatures as a European Citizens’ Initiative. If successful, the initiative will advance to the European Commission and be considered...
Dutch artist Madelon Vriesendorp, the 2025 recipient of the Soane Medal from the Sir John Soane's Museum in London, received her medal and gave a talk Royal Academy of Arts in November. In the lecture, the self-proclaimed “obsessive artist” discusses her upbringing, education, and long...
World-Architects is promoting a new way of experiencing architecture in Barcelona through Architecture Studio Sessions, a series of events that, as part of the official program of Barcelona 2026 World Capital of Architecture, will open architecture studios in the city to the public and turn...
Translated as “sea otter house” in hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the Down River language of local First Nations, təməsew̓txʷ is a combined aquatic and community center in New Westminster, British Columbia, that was designed by Vancouver's hcma. The architects answered a few questions about the project.
Share of the coastline of Jamaica that is accessible to the island's residents, as the state sold most of the 1,022-kilometer (635-mile)...
Three months after the East Wing of the White House was bulldozed by US President Donald J. Trump to make way for a new ballroom, and two months after Shalom Barnes replaced James C. McCrery as architect of the addition, the “East Wing Modernization Project” was presented to the National...
Japanese architect Shin Takamatsu gained fame in and beyond Japan in the 1980s with a “function follows form” approach expressed in stunning graphite drawings and realized in a number of commercial buildings in Kyoto. The architect remains active to this day and has numerous projects on the...
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the 40 shortlisted works selected by the jury for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.
Architect Steven Holl takes viewers on a tour of the Architectural Archive and Research Building in Rhinebeck, New York. The “brachiating” building, home to the Steven Myron Holl Foundation, contains five decades worth of physical models, drawings, and daily watercolors from Holl's practice,...
One hundred years ago, a unique construction program was launched in Frankfurt: Over 12,000 new apartments were built within just a few years. What can Das Neue Frankfurt (The New Frankfurt) teach us about solving the current housing crisis?
Two recently released architecture videos from Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel look at architecture in Mexico and Africa, respectively speaking with Mexico City architect Carlos H. Matos and architect Omar Degan, founder and curator of the first Pan-African Architecture...
Located in Jodhpur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Facets is a brick-clad mixed-use building housing a workplace, warehouse, and experience center for an electric switch company. The architects at Studio UF+O answered a few questions about the building.
Years since the world’s longest running construction project, the Sagrada Família by Antoni Gaudí—now nearing completion, “in a sense,” in Barcelona—broke ground:...
In 2025 we presented 50 projects as Buildings of the Week on World-Architects. Now it's your turn to help us crown a Building of the Year by voting for your favorite project between now and the end of January. The winner will be announced in early February.
With the new year upon us, World-Architects is looking ahead to some of the events, grand openings, and book releases that are planned to unfold over the next twelve months. Here we present 26 things to look forward to in 2026 in four categories: biennials and triennials, exhibitions, museum...
As part of the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona, the Catalan capital will host the International Emerging Workshop, a creative laboratory for students and young professionals led by twelve leading emerging architecture studios, which will take place one week before the...
Take a look back at 2025 as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last twelve months. Instead of a chronological presentation, here we link to 35 articles in 9 categories: Awards, Books, Brutalism, Exhibitions, Films, Interviews,...
In China, things usually happen quickly—including in architecture. But the Xiao Feng Art Museum in Hangzhou took its time: the planning, coordination, and outfitting stretched over thirteen years before the museum doors were finally opened. Beijing-based architect Zhang Ke and his team...