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In response to the anticipated closure of the Kennedy Center in July for a two-year renovation, eight cultural and architectural organizations—including the American Institute of Architects and the National Trust for Historic Preservation—have filed suit against the Trump administration so it...
The renovation of the Central Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, closed since late 2024, has been completed and will reopen for the Biennale Arte 2026 in May. The project's architectural design was carried out by Labics and architect Fabio Fumagalli.
The Van Nelle Factory in Rotterdam is a masterpiece of modern architecture. As a successful symbiosis of function and aesthetics, it remains a model for students from all over the world. Cornelia Ganitta recently visited the complex, which now serves as a hub for creative industries.
The University of Málaga’s Faculty of Tourism, designed by Vaillo + Architects, is located on the outskirts of the Spanish city—a low-rise complex organized around courtyards and a central atrium. The building features an austere design of exposed concrete, integrating structure, climate, and...
Architecture Instagram was aghast over the weekend at the planned demolition of two of the four parking garages that Swiss architect Christian Kerez designed for the Pearling Path in Muharraq, Bahrain. The garages were completed just in 2023 and were beautifully captured two years later in a...
Required minimum floor area of a “subdivided unit” in Hong Kong, where the elderly, the infirm, students, refugees, and poorly paid workers find shelter,
Light + Building, the trade fair for lighting and building technology, took place in mid-March. As it became clear, continued collaboration across all sectors is essential to creating sustainable, connected, and livable (lighting) spaces. The expert presentations by World-Architects as part of...
Ahead of its opening on March 21, World-Architects got a sneak peek of the newly expanded New Museum, which has added an OMA-designed structure next to its 2007 building designed by SANAA. Here we present a photographic tour through the 60,000-square-foot building, from top to bottom.
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,...