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A Serpentine for the Serpentine Pavilion
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 references the nearby Serpentine lake in London’s Hyde Park from which the institution takes its name.
John Hill | 21.01.2026
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.
John Hill | 20.01.2026
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.
John Hill | 20.01.2026
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 its surfaces and spaces. Woods Bagot supplied us with some text and images on the Younghusband...
19.01.2026

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Light + Building Talks+Tours and Guided Tours with 12 international lighting designers and experts.
World-Architects organizes Talks + Tours with Carla Wilkins, Philip Rafael, Daniel Walden and Jan Nielsen, as well as Guided Tours with Lance Hollman, Jonas Godehardt, Sabine De
Schutter, Jule Leu, Iris and Michael Podgorschek, and Beatrice Seidt...
8 February to 11 March 2026

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Join our free Talks+Tours with renowned Architects and Designers – In collaboration with Messe Frankfurt, World-Architects is pleased to organize four engaging Talks+Tours at Heimtextil 2026. Mauro Brigham (ncbham, Brussels), Pitur Misiewicz (de Winder Architekten, Berlin), Robin Hepp (Kids Studios, Hamburg) and Elisabeth Ramm (Atelier Brückner, Stuttgart) will talk about various focal points...
13 January to 16 January 2026



