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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?
Set against the wild limestone cliffs and dense coastal forest of Punakaiki, Punangairi redefines what a visitor center can be. Designed by Sheppard & Rout Architects, in collaboration with Ngāti Waewae, the project moves beyond tourism infrastructure to become an act of cultural and...
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...
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...
Although it won't be 100% complete and fully occupied for some months, JPMorganChase opened its new 60-story global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, October 21, six years after the demolition of its predecessor, the 52-story Union Carbide Building, began.
Of the ten proposals hoping to secure three coveted casino licenses for downstate New York, five of the teams have withdrawn their bids or had them voted down by so-called Community Advisory Committees. Of the five remaining bids, none are in Manhattan.
Three high-profile museum projects nearing completion in New York and New Jersey—New Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, and Studio Museum in Harlem—have one architecture firm in common: Cooper Robertson. World-Architects recently stopped by Cooper Robertson’s Lower Manhattan office to...
Innovation QNS, the proposed five-block mixed-use development with apartments, office space, retail, open space, and an arts and culture hub next to the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, has been scrapped in favor of smaller developments.
Located in the northeast corner of Central Park, just steps from New York City's Harlem neighborhood, the Davis Center at the Harlem Meer opened to the public in April. Replacing the former Lasker Rink and Pool that was built in the 1960s, the new Davis Center provides year-round recreation in...
The aptly named Ts VEIL is a social dining space in Ho Chi Minh City spread across three floors behind a draped metal mesh facade. Sitting on a corner parcel in a dense neighborhood, the facade veils a structure that is an assemblage of new and old. Architect Khoa Vu answered a few questions...
A number of parks and other public spaces in New York City have made headlines in recent weeks. Here we highlight four of them: a beloved community green space, a waterfront park, an informal skate park, and a piece of pedestrian infrastructure.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is reopening its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, with galleries dedicated to the arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania, following a nearly decade-long transformation by Kulapat Yantrasast of WHY Architecture.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has revealed the preliminary design for the Amsterdam Avenue side of its famed campus on New York's Upper West Side. The plaza and streetscape improvements are designed by Hood Design Studio, WEISS/MANFREDI, and Moody Nolan.
Three years ago, the New York City Building Code was updated to allow the use of cross-laminated timber as a low-carbon alternative to other construction materials. The first mass timber project approved and built under the code revision was just completed: Frame 122, a five-story apartment...
The textured masonry facades of Josep Lluís Sert’s nearly 50-year-old Eastwood apartment buildings—now The Landings—on Roosevelt Island are being covered with insulation to meet New York City’s recently implemented energy-efficiency requirements. World-Architects visited to see portions of the...
Following a two-stage competition, Kansas City, Missouri's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has selected WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism as the lead architect for the museum’s upcoming expansion and transformation project.
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) will be leading the renovation of Penn Station, removing New York State's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) from the project.
With its sculpted balconies in concrete, people walking by the apartment building at the southeast corner of Campeche and Culiacan in Mexico City's Condesa neighborhood would be forgiven for assuming it is new construction. In fact, it is an adaptive reuse of a run-down building from 1953,...
Architectural Digest visits Casa Orgánica, the home of artist and architect Javier Senosiain that he built into the earth overlooking Mexico City. The 12-minute film with commentary from Senosiain beautifully captures the colorful, cave-like spaces of a one-of-a-kind creation.
On March 26, the New York City Council passed a vote reforming the rules governing scaffolding and sidewalk sheds, the latter of which have become ubiquitous across Manhattan, with some of the structures in place for more than five years. The reforms target the sheds' appearances, frequency of...
The New Museum has announced it will reopen its expanded home on Manhattan's Bowery in fall 2025. The expansion, designed by OMA partners Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu, links to the museum's iconic 2007 building designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City is a new exhibition that opened at The Shed on February 12. The celebration of the 20th anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installation of 7,503 saffron-colored gates in Central Park also features an...
A seemingly unbuildable slice of land in Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco colonia, not far from Museo Soumaya and other cultural offerings, is now home to a skinny 13-story office building. Taking its name from the railroad tracks that created its fragmented site, Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca...
Owen Hatherley’s Walking the Streets, Walking the Projects proposes the theory that, “in the 1960s, a new ideology emerged in New York. It held that cities thrived through the spontaneous ‘ballet of the streets’ and died when the state erected sterile projects.” This premise is then...
Two and a half years after Mexican architect Frida Escobedo was selected to design the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, renderings have been released of what is notably the first wing designed by a woman in The Met's 154-year...
Sotheby's has announced its completion of the purchase of 945 Madison Avenue, the former Whitney Museum of American Art designed by Marcel Breuer in 1966, and the hiring of Herzog & de Meuron to lead the renovation of the building into the auction house's global headquarters.
World-Architects got an exclusive peek at 520 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan ahead of its official topping out on Thursday, October 24. At 1,002 feet (305 m) tall, the mixed-use supertall designed by KPF for the development firm Rabina will be the tallest mixed-use tower on Fifth Avenue...
After being closed since 2021, following four suicides in just two years. Related Companies, the developer of Hudson Yards, reopened Heatherwick Studio's The Vessel with safety netting that allows visitors to access portions of the climbable sculpture's 150 stairs and 80 landings.
October is a busy month in New York City, with exhibitions opening, numerous lectures and book launches taking place, and otherwise inaccessible buildings opening to the public for the Archtober Buildings of the Day and Open House New York Weekend. World-Architects visited two
Notable as the largest public project in Wellington, the capital of New Zealand, since the completion of the Wellington Regional Stadium in early 2000, Tākina – Wellington Convention and Exhibition Centre features a shimmering glass facade facing Wellington Harbour. The architects at Studio...
Fifteen years in the making, the New York Korea Center opened its doors in June as the new home of the Korean Cultural Center New York. Located on East 32nd Street, just east of Manhattan's busy Koreatown, the eight-story building features a figural volume that rises behind a clear glass...
Energies, the new exhibition that opened at the Swiss Institute in Manhattan's East Village on September 11, invites visitors to explore other parts of the neighborhood related to the exhibition's themes of “ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political...
What would have been the first Pompidou outpost in North America, the “Centre Pompidou x Jersey City” paroject has been put on hold indefinitely, with New Jersey lawmakers pulling funding for the project that would have adaptively reused the city-owned Pathside Building.
The fifth edition of Living Places - Simon Architecture Prize launched at the end of May at Simon Company's headquarters in Barcelona. The event was accompanied by a new short film, “El Luchador,” that features a professional wrestler inside Agustín Hernández's famous Taller de Arquitectura in...
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, which last expanded in 2007 with the Bloch Building designed by Steven Holl Architects, will hold a design competition later this year to select the architect for its next expansion.
The Glass House — Philip Johnson's estate in New Canaan, Connecticut, that is open to the public through the National Trust for Historic Preservation — is celebrating its 75th anniversary with the reopening of the Brick House, which was built in 1949 alongside the more famous Glass...