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In the third and final segment of our three-part survey of the major components of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, here are a seven of the Collateral Events and Special Projects that World-Architects visited in Venice.
The recovery of thermal allotments in Caldes de Montbui, Spain, and the new Solidarność Square in Szczecin, Poland, were announced as joint recipients of the 9th European Prize for Urban Public Space at an awards ceremony on Monday, July 4th.
Star Wars creator George Lucas has issued a statement announcing he is abandoning plans to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago, where lawsuits have delayed the project since it was unveiled in 2014.
Pop-up sensory garden and giant xylophone arrives in Greenwich for London Festival of Architecture.
The preliminary, approved design by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for the David M. Rubenstein Forum, a new hub for convening and scholarly collaboration, has been unveiled by the University of Chicago.
Aftermath_Catalonia in Venice. Architecture beyond architects is a collateral event presented by the Ramon Llull Institute within the framework of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition.
The fifth installment in an interview series that explores the philosophical concerns of architects exhibiting at "TIME - SPACE - EXISTENCE," a collateral event at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, features architects Curtis W. Fentress of the global design firm Fentress...
As part of the Vectorworks Design Summit that took place in Chicago from April 25th to 27th, Kyle Fiddelke, Principal at The Office of James Burnett (OJB), presented "Integrating Technology while Designing for the Public," focusing on the nearby Park at Lakeshore East.
Delays caused by an ongoing lawsuit have prompted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to propose tearing down McCormick Place's Lakeside Center in order to keep George Lucas's planned museum in the city.
A team of architects from Seattle's Olson Kundig have won Blank Space's third annual Fairy Tales storytelling competition. Their architectural narrative, "Welcome to the 5th Facade," takes readers to "a future that is similar enough to our own, yet ripe with new challenges,...
In a new video consisting of clips culled from the Louisiana Channel's numerous interviews with architects, Liz Diller, Craig Dykers, Bjarke Ingels, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, and Robert A.M. Stern discuss building in New York City.
With 20 percent of the votes, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's (AS+GG) FKI Tower in Seoul, South Korea, has won the Building of the Year 2015 on American-Architects.
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel has compiled clips from some of its excellent interviews with architects to "share their inspirational thoughts on what it is that makes global architecture work."
In 2013 and 2014, the Building of the Week on American-Architects took a state-by-state look at American architecture, but last year we went overseas to see how US architects design for other countries – and the inverse, to see how foreign architects build in North America. Now it's...
The Louisiana Museum of Art profiles Copenhagen's Henning Larsen Architects in "Building Ambitions for Soceity," a twenty-minute film from the Louisiana Channel.
The Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, visits Peter Zumthor at his studio in Haldenstein, Switzerland to present an illuminating, one-hour-long biographical video on the Pritzker Prize-winning architect.
On Wednesday Chicago's City Council approved the construction of filmmaker George Lucas's Museum of Narrative Art, designed by China's MAD Architects for a lakefront site between Soldier Field and McCormick Place.
Beijing's OPEN Architecture and Chicago's Spirit of Space have teamed up to present the cinematic installation OPEN ReAction as part of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Nearly one year after initial designs by China's Ma Yansong were unveiled to the public, refinements to the museum that filmmaker George Lucas is planning for a lakefront site in Chicago have been released.
In one of the latest films from the Louisiana Museum of Art's Louisiana Channel, Dan Stubbergaard of COBE takes viewers around Copenhagen "to show and discuss what motivates their exciting socially conscious and highly innovative projects."
The House of Music opened in Aalborg, Denmark, just over one year ago. Designed by Wolf Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au, the building looks complex, but it is based on a simple courtyard building, as explained in a couple short films from Spirt of Space.
A 2-1/2-minute film from Spirit of Space takes viewers inside the timber-framed Tamedia Office Building in Zurich, Switzerland, designed by Shigeru Ban Architects.
Marc-Christoph Wagner from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art interviews Norman Foster, who turned 80 on 1 June 2015, about his childhood, path to architecture, hobbies, and approach to designing buildings.
On 1 May 2015 the new home of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Cooper Robertson, opens its doors to the public right next to the southern tip of the High Line.
Learn a little bit about activity-based working (ABW) by taking a look inside the New York headquarters of GLG designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects.
The Glasgow School of Art has selected a team led by local architect Page\Park for the restoration of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece that was damaged in a fire last year.
THE PINCH is a library and community center in Shuanghe Village, Yunnan Province, China. The project is part of a government led reconstruction effort after an earthquake in September 2012.
American-Architects presented 49 projects in our Building of the Week 2014 feature, and recently we asked you to vote for your favorite. The votes have been tallied and here we present the public vote winner, the editors' choice and two runners-up.
Eight months after Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece was damaged in a fire, the Glasgow School of Art announced the names of the architects’ practices shortlisted to lead the building's restoration.
In this twelve-minute film produced by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, architect Steven Holl speaks about his background and ideas on design.
The National Library has unveiled Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron's preliminary design for the library's new home to be built on a government-allocated site in the National Precinct in Jerusalem.
Ma Yansong, founder of MAD Architects, has unveiled his design for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art proposed for a lakefront site in Chicago.
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced The Chapel, Vietnam, designed by a21studio, as the World Building of the Year in the finale of the event that took place in Singapore October 1 - 3, 2014.
In a short film from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, Diébédo Francis Kéré, an architect from Burkina Faso who is based in Berlin, speaks about how he designs and builds for the people of his native country.
China's MAD Architects and Chicago's Studio Gang Architects will design the building and landscape, respectively, for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (LMNA) in Chicago, according to an announcement released today.