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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...
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,...
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...
In 2025 we presented 50 projects as Buildings of the Weeks 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...
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,...
The winners of the SHARE Architecture Awards 2025 were announced at a two-day event at at the Zumtobel Light Forum in Dornbirn, Austria, in early December. The jury deemed the National Star Observatory of Cyprus, designed by Kyriakos Tsolakis Architects, as the overall winner.
The Taichung Green Museumbrary—its name referring to the fact it is home to the both new Taichung Art Museum and the Taichung Public Library—opened to the public on December 13, 2025. It is the largest cultural project to date designed by SANAA, the Japanese firm of Pritzker Prize-winning...
The latest architecture-themed video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles Philip Beesley, an artist and designer known for forest-like sculptures and installations.
As its subtitle makes clear, Melnikov: An Investigation Through Architectural Models is a new book that examines the built and unbuilt architectural projects of Russian architect and artist Konstantin Melnikov through models. The topic was also the subject of a recent exhibition at...
Frank Owen Gehry, the most famous architect in the world since the opening of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain in 1997, died on Friday, December 5, 2025. He was 96.
The American Institute of Architects has announced that Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is the winner of the 2026 AIA Gold Medal, and Jackson, Mississippi's Duval Decker is recipient of the 2026 Firm Award.
The State of Qatar has announced that Frida Escobedo Studio, with Buro Happold and Studio Zewde, won an invited competition to design a new headquarters complex for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Doha waterfront.
Architect and photographer Gillian Hopwood, who moved from England to Nigeria in 1954 and practiced architecture with her husband, John Godwin, in Lagos for around 60 years, died on November 6, 2025. She was 97.
VernissageTV visits the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Basel, taking its camera inside Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room – The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Universe, part of the first solo exhibition in Switzerland on the famed Japanese artist.
Robert A.M. Stern, the famed neotraditional architect, longtime dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and author of a series of definitive books on New York City architecture, died on November 27 at the age of 86.
La Biennale di Venezia has announced that architects Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, founders of Hangzhou's Amateur Architecture Studio, will direct the Venice Architecture Biennale's 20th International Architecture Exhibition, making them the first curators of the exhibition from China.
For the first time in its 65-year history, the house designed by Pierre Koenig as part of Arts & Architecture magazine's Case Study Houses program, made famous through photographs taken by Julius Shulman, is up for sale.
As part of their recently unveiled design for Birmingham City Football Club’s new stadium, Heatherwick Studio and MANICA, with filmmaker Steven Knight, have released a short film explaining their design that is anchored by twelve towering chimney-like structures visible from miles away.
The recipients of the 36th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 22, 2025, during the 42nd Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia.
Louisiana Channel has expanded Make Materials Matter, a 15-minute short film profiling Danish architect Søren Pihlmann, into a nearly one-hour film that presents Pihlmann's curation and restoration of the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale alongside other projects that embody his...
If life gives you lemons, the saying goes, you make lemonade. And if Switzerland serves up some fog on a Saturday morning, you make the most of it, visiting a building whose overgrown concrete surfaces just look better bathed in gray. Look at some photos from a recent visit to Siedlung Halen,...
News has broke that Sperone Westwater, the 50-year-old art gallery based in New York City, is closing at the end of the year. This raises the question: What will become of the gallery's bespoke eight-story building on the Bowery designed by Norman Foster?
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has announced that it will open to the public on September 22, 2026—sixteen years after George Lucas first proposed such a museum, twelve years after he selected Ma Yansong and MAD Architects to design it, and eight years after construction began at Exposition...
The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) opened to the public on October 31 with a 24-hour open house that included a number of free events in addition to a portion of the museum's 117,000 artworks being put on display. World-Architects visited during the open house and took some photos,...
As part of the 2025 World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Miami, curator Vladimir Belogolovsky, of Curatorial Project, has mounted Out of Context, an exhibition presenting seven buildings by seven architects, ranging from a villa in Armenia to zoo pavilions in China.
On November 8, Sotheby's New York opened its new home in the Breuer Building, the 1966 brutalist masterpiece designed by Marcel Breuer for the Whitney Museum of American Art. The renovation of the modern landmark was carried out by Switzerland's Herzog & de Meuron with New York's PBDW...
The Ismaili Center, Houston, designed by Farshid Moussavi Architecture and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in partnerhsip with AKT II DLR Group, was inaugurated on November 6 as the first Ismaili Center in the United States and the seventh worldwide.
A list of 410 works nominated for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards (EUmies Awards) has been released by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. The nominations showcase the most significant built works in the EU...
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles Zhu Pei, the Chinese architect whose most famous building is the stunning five-year-old Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum.
Malcolm Reading Consultants has revealed the designs by the seven finalists in the Museum of Jesus’ Baptism at Bethany, Jordan – International Design Competition. The new museum will be located on the east bank of the Jordan River, adjacent to Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan,”...
Anchoring Harvard University's new Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston, Massachusetts, the David Rubenstein Treehouse is a new university-wide hub for convening and the first mass timber building on the Ivy League school's growing campus.
A short film from OPEN Architecture captures the sun moving across the firm's Sun Tower, the cultural facility completed last year on an oceanfront site in the Yantai Yeda Development Zone, in China's Shandong Province.
Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research program focused on transitioning to net zero and a green economy, has unveiled the Stone Demonstrator, a 1:1 scale pre-tensioned stone structure installed on the Earls Court development site in West London. The three-story installation...
Six years after it opened to a mix of fanfare and controversy, the Hunters Point branch of the Queens Public Library in New York City has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought over the inaccessibility of portions of building for people with disabilities, after modifications to...