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Unlike fashion, publishing, and other fields, architecture doesn't have a “season.” But when it comes to exhibitions and other architectural events, autumn is a busy time. Here we highlight a half-dozen of the numerous architecture exhibitions opening in September and October. These are... John Hill

Ever since its founding in 1912, the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, has been unique for being not just an art museum, but also a science museum and a natural history museum. The museum's appeal is evident in its recent expansion, nearly a decade in the making, designed by... EskewDumezRipple

Number of rental units expected to be completed in the United States by the end of the year, marking new heights in apartment construction: 518,108 René Ammann

The British Museum has announces a shortlist of five architect-led teams for a major renovation of its Western Range Galleries, a project the museum contends is “one of the most significant cultural renovation projects in the world.” John Hill

A typed note by John Sainsbury, one of the donors for the 1991 addition to the National Gallery in London bearing the family's name, was recently found in a false column. The note explicitly criticizes the column as “a mistake of the architect,” Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. John Hill

Philippe Block heads the Institute for Technology in Architecture (ITA) at ETH Zurich. Together with the Professors Catherine De Wolf, Jacqueline Pauli and Walter Kaufmann, he has organised the IASS Symposium 2024, which is taking place at ETH Campus Hönggerberg. Philippe Block spoke with... Katinka Corts

Architectural Digest tours the 75.9 House in the Vancouver countryside with architect Omer Arbel, who devised a tent-like fabric formwork for the house's lily pad-shaped columns, in its latest “Unique Spaces” video. John Hill

China Merchants Group was founded in 1872 and will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2025. To mark the occasion, a new China Merchants History Museum tells the story of the (state-owned) enterprise. This specially commissioned museum is located in the Shekou district of Shenzhen and was... Eduard Kögel

Designed by Ayers Saint Gross, and following from a concept developed by Studio Gang in their strategic master plan for the National Aquarium a decade ago, the Harbor Wetland aims to educate the public and expand the natural habitat in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. John Hill

Newly released renderings show the Grand Stade Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco, the 115,000-capacity stadium projected to be the largest football stadium in the world. Designed by Populous in collaboration with Oualalou + Choi, the stadium's tented roof was inspired by moussem, an... John Hill

Reduction in the surface temperature of a building if its facade takes the shape of a zigzag: 3 °Celsius... René Ammann

Michael Maltzan is known for spatially adventurous buildings that, depending on where you start exploring them, are bold and subtle, erect and calm. Whether public or private and across all scales, they all share the impulse to gather an array of forces that ultimately inform and define their... Vladimir Belogolovsky

Architect and building tech innovator Doris Sung spoke at TED Salon: The Rockefeller Foundation in May about how building facades can be active contributors to urban life and public health, presenting proposals developed by her firm DOSU Studio Architecture. John Hill

Price Tower, the 19-story landmark building in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, that is the only skyscraper realized by Frank Lloyd Wright, will close on September 1, one year after its current owner purchased it for just $10, and go up for auction in October. John Hill

Interior designer Sylvia Leydecker from 100% interior has designed the interiors of a private acute care clinic specializing in psychodynamic psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics. A particular challenge was working with the listed building's historical fabric. Susanna Koeberle

Warsaw's WXCA has won the competition to design a new building for the 104-year-old Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań, Poland. John Hill

Cocoon is apt name for this extension of Bloomingdale International School's campus in Vijayawada, in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The undulating roof partly covered in turf recalls the form of cocoons, while the architects at andblack design studio thought of the building... andblack design studio

Sale price of a 23-floor Midtown Manhattan office building with 920,000 square feet (85,471 square meters), which sold for $332 million (€305m) in 2006:... René Ammann

Constructing Hope: Ukraine is an exhibition at the Center for Architecture in New York City that gathers the grassroots work of numerous multidisciplinary creatives who are applying architectural thinking to support Ukraine's ongoing reconstruction efforts. Take a visual tour through... John Hill

Multiple A-frame structures define IDIN Architects' design for the new Harudot café in Chonburi, Thailand. Undulations in the structure result in openings that bring light to the interior but also provide space for trees to grow from inside to outside, to eventually meld building and... IDIN Architects

Spanish architect Fernando Menis has been awarded the 2024 Frate Sole International Prize for Sacred Architecture for the Holy Redeemer Church of Las Chumberas in Tenerife, Spain. This prestigious award is given every four years and comes with a prize of 15,000 euros, plus prizes for second... Ana María Álvarez

New Bailey is part of The English Cities Fund's transformation of central Salford, part of Greater Manchester. For its third building at New Bailey, Make Architects created a standout: Eden, an office building covered in a living wall. The architects answered a few questions about the recently... Make Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings in the running for the 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize, considered “the UK’s most prestigious architecture award.” John Hill

The latest architecture-related film from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features an interview with Andrés Jaque, founder of the Office for Political Innovation and Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). John Hill

Cylindrical forms are atypical for residential towers — Bertrand Goldberg's iconic Marina City “corncobs” come to mind as one example — in part because the shape makes it difficult to lay out apartments of various sizes. Student accommodations, on the other hand, are a better fit, given... OODA

Founded in Adelaide, Australia, more than 150 years ago, Woods Bagot is one of the largest architectural offices in the world. Specializing in architecture, interiors, and master planning, it is a multi-authorship practice that does not adhere to a signature style. In Vladimir Belogolovsky’s... Vladimir Belogolovsky

Three tenants — a restaurant, bar, and beer garden — occupy a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces at Aruma Split Garden in Jakarta. The design by Indonesian firm RAD+ar stands out for its accessible sloped and terraced rooftop that overlooks an outdoor dining area. The architects... RAD+ar

Ma Yansong/MAD have revealed their latest installation, "Ephemeral Bubble," at the 2024 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale. This installation opens a dialogue with the ancient Japanese countryside. It is integrated into a century-old house in the Murono Village, resembling a bubble being gently... Ma Yansong/MAD

The Simone Veil Bridge, designed by OMA / Rem Koolhaas and Chris van Duijn, has opened. The project consists of a platform stretched across the River Garonne in Bordeaux that is 549 meters (1,800 feet) in length and 44 meters (144 feet) wide. OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture

A narrow trapezoidal lot pushed Paulo Merlini Architects to be creative with the floor plans and balconies in their design of Boavista 339, a residential building in Porto. The balconies and arched windows define the facade, which also expresses the building's mix of studio and one-bedroom... Paulo Merlini Architects

With summer break upon us, World-Architects has rummaged through some of the many recently published architecture books to find a dozen recommendations for summer reading, presented in alphabetical order by title — or clockwise per our sunny illustration. John Hill

A few years after the opening of MUNCH, the museum in Oslo dedicated to famed Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, Estudio Herreros has also completed Trosten, a floating sauna in the... Antonio La Gioia

The D-Day Museum in Arromanches, France, was inaugurated on June 6, 1954, on the tenth anniversary of the D-Day Landings. Fast forward 65 years and this first museum to commemorate the landings was in need of larger facilities, leading to a design competition. The winning scheme by...

World-Architects spoke recently with architect, engineer, author, and educator Carlo Ratti via Zoom, to discuss his plans for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and parse the theme — Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. — that he has defined for the exhibition. Our... John Hill

Purchase price for a one-room government house in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi: $3,800 (€3,500) René Ammann

The latest installment of The Architects Series, a project of The Plan Magazine and Iris Ceramica Group, presents a half-hour documentary on the architecture and interior design studio NOA... John Hill