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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...
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 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.
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...
For the first time in more than sixty years, Otto Wagner's work is being exhibited in Germany. The drawings by the architect and his colleagues, some of whom are well-known, bear witness to the great leap from historicism to modernism at the turn of the last century.
A new rendered animation gives a peek inside the new Concourse D at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. The project, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) with Ross Barney Architects, JGMA, and Arup, is now under construction and expected to be completed in late 2028.
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...
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,...
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.
Sitting on the banks of the Cumberland River in Nashville's Germantown neighborhood, Neuhoff is a large mixed-use development consisting of office, cultural spaces, residential units, and retail/dining establishments in a mix of new construction and converted old buildings that hark back to...
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.
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2025, selecting the ten best architecture books published between June 2024 and July 2025.
Curator Vyjayanthi Rao and associate curator Tau Tavengwa have revealed “Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures” as the theme for the 3rd Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT03), which will launch in November 2026.
The fourth European Conference on Architecture & the Media took place at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona on May 26 and 27. Videos of the two-day conference are now on YouTube, and here we highlight two of the roundtables that gathered journalists to speak about the role of...
The Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) has announced that anthropologist, writer, and artist Vyjayanthi Rao will serve as curator, with Tau Tavengwa as associate curator, for SAT's third edition set to take place in 2026.
Andreas Ruby built the Swiss Architecture Museum into a platform for discourse. An advocate of the Swiss architecture scene, he increased the number of visitors to the Basel museum by 33 percent. After ten years, he is stepping down as director.
First dreamed up by one of its residents more than twenty years ago, the National Public Housing Museum is finally opening next month inside the last remaining building from the Jane Addams Homes, the first public housing development in Chicago.
The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) in New Haven, Connecticut, designed by Louis I. Kahn and completed in 1977, three years after the architect's death, reopens on March 29, 2025, following a multi-year restoration. The most important work in this latest phase of the building's ongoing...
An empty one-story dentist's office in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, about five miles northwest of the Loop, has been transformed into the two-story home for a boutique furniture studio. A workshop and showroom for Nothing Design Company sits behind the screen-like brick facade, no...
A recent panel discussion at AIA New York's Center for Architecture explored the state of architectural criticism, “wrestling with questions of ethics, equity, and influence and the role that critics play in the public's perception of the built environment.” World-Architects was in attendance;...
At a recent event at the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, Mexico, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) announced the five finalists for the 2025 Americas Prize, which honors the best work of architecture completed in the Americas between June 2022 and December 2023.
Architecture, Not Architecture is the new career-spanning monograph on New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro, published this month by Phaidon. Befitting the name, the book is split into two parts — one half presenting buildings and other architecture projects, the other half showing...
The first film in the Canadian Centre for Architecture's three-part Groundwork series, which explores alternative modes of architectural practice that respond to the urgency of the climate crisis, is available to watch online: Into the Island follows architect Xu Tiantian of Beijing's...
The second installment in the two-part exhibition of Folios produced by the Architectural Association in London between 1983 and 1991 is now on display at Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. World-Architects stopped by and took some photos.
The second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale opened to the public on January 25 at the Western Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, where it will be on display until May. New for this edition is the AlMusalla Prize, an international competition for a small prayer...
Beatriz Ramo, architect at STAR strategies + architecture, gives Architectural Digest a tour of The Cabanon, the 74-square-foot (6.9-m2) apartment in Rotterdam she...
Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation is a new book by Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus that assembles 96 specially commissioned black-and-white, square-format drawings that show architectural drawing — albeit digitally produced — is alive and well in...
The needs of older people are often neglected in hospital architecture. Greater focus on age-appropriate design is essential to meet the needs of this growing patient group. Geriatrician Cornel Sieber talked to us about helpful approaches in architecture and the importance for clients to...
With the new year upon us, World-Architects is looking ahead to some of the exhibitions, grand openings, and book releases that should be taking place over the next twelve months. Here we present 25 things to look forward to in 2025 in four categories: events, openings, publications, and...
Take a look back at 2024 — our 30th year! — as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last 12 months. Instead...
To Build Law is a new documentary and the second installment in “Groundwork,” a three-part film and exhibition series from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) that explores alternative modes of architectural practice. The film documents the conceptualization and development of...
One of the most formally striking buildings added to an office profile on World-Architects in recent weeks is Sun Tower, a waterfront cultural facility in Yantai, China, designed by OPEN Architecture, the Beijing firm of Huang Wenjing and Li Hu. Take a visual tour through a building “sculpted...
With author Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Anna Heringer talks intelligently, open-heartedly, and captivatingly about her development as a person and what this means for her architecture. Form Follows Love is a monograph, biography, and manifesto all in one.
Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries is on display at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal from November 14, 2024 until March 16, 2025. Here we present a few of Erickson's photographs from the CCA archive that express how the Canadian...