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John Hill | 20.09.2024

Products

The American Hardwood Export Council's (AHEC) contribution to this year's London Design Festival is Vert, a timber structure designed by Diez Office with OMCºC as a cooling space for visitors and a means of increasing biodiversity in urban environments. Vert is installed at the Parade Ground...


John Hill | 19.09.2024

Headlines

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the shortlisted projects for its awards focused on affordable housing and adaptive reuse: the 2024 Neave Brown Award for Housing and the 2024 Reinvention Award.


Ana María Álvarez | 12.08.2024

Headlines

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...


Editors of Swiss-Architects | 04.07.2024

Insight

The long-established Swiss company Jansen has been one of the sponsors of the EUmies Awards for many years. For Ron Jacobs, Project Sales Manager International at the company specialising in steel systems, architects are...


Katinka Corts | 08.05.2024

Insight

The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig, designed jointly by Berlin-based architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke, has been honored with the


Makoto Yamaguchi Design | 29.04.2024

Reviews

The slanted walls of this eight-story office building in Tokyo appear anti-social, even aggressive at first glance, but they are a logical response to an adjacent elevated railway line, the need for acoustic privacy in the offices, and the desire for natural air and light. Makoto Yamaguchi...


John Hill | 25.04.2024

Headlines

The European Commission and Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the two winners of the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award: the Study Pavilion at TU Braunschweig by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke is the Architecture Winner, and SUMA...


John Hill | 06.02.2024

Film

As we await the announcement of the finalists for the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, watch a half-hour video on the selection of the winners of the EUmies Awards 2022.


John Hill | 04.12.2023

Headlines

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) returned to Singapore last week, crowning the Huizhen High School in Ningbo, China, designed by Approach Design Studio and the Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group, as World Building of the Year 2023.


John Hill | 20.11.2023

Headlines

The Reggio School in Madrid by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation and the Gabriela García Márquez Library in Barcelona by SUMA Arquitectura are the joint winners of the FAD Architecture Award 2023.


John Hill | 01.08.2023

Headlines

The European office of Oppenheim Architecture, based in Basel, has won the competition to turn the Toptani Residence in Tirna, the capital of Albania, into the Besa Museum.


Birdseye | 17.07.2023

Reviews

A diminutive new studio for artist Richard Erdman is clad in corrugated Cor-ten steel, a reference to the older structures on the artist's working farm in Vermont. The material is also a pleasing contrast to the white Carrara marble pieces Erdman is known for. Birdseye answered a few questions...


John Hill | 04.07.2023

Headlines

The Royal Academy of Arts in London has announced that Irish architect Shane de Blacam is the recipient of the 2023 Royal Academy Architecture Prize, which recognizes architects who have made "a significant impact on society."


Eduard Kögel | 12.10.2022

Insight

At the beginning of October, Xu Tiantian and Tei Carpenter were in Berlin at ANCB, The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, for a workshop with their students from Yale University School of...


John Hill | 13.09.2022

Headlines

Inspireli Awards, the international contest for students of architecture, has announced the winners of its Beirut Port Competition, which asked students to develop innovative solutions for rebuilding the site of the August 4, 2020 explosion in Beirut.


John Hill | 07.09.2022

Headlines

New York's Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2022 National Design Awards, which recognizes design excellence and innovation in nine categories.


John Hill | 01.09.2022

Headlines

The City of Helsinki and Helsinki Design Week have announced that Päivi Raivio is the recipient of the 2022 Helsinki Design Award, which recognizes "a designer or a design team for making Helsinki a better place to live in."


Martina Metzner | 01.08.2022

Specials

Paolo Cocconi and Carla Wilkins are designers at Lichtvision, an international office for lighting design. In this interview they speak about upcoming trends, the importance of sustainability, and what visitors can expect on their tour at Light + Building.


TEF Design | 18.07.2022

Reviews

A faceted facade and lush green wall make this extension to an electrical substation a good neighbor in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. The architects at TEF Design answered a few questions about the project.


John Hill | 07.07.2022

Headlines

Azure Magazine has revealed the 24 winners of its twelfth annual AZ Awards competition.


John Hill | 16.05.2022

Insight

World-Architects editor John Hill was in Barcelona for EUmies Awards Day last week, sitting down with Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Grafton Architects in the Mies van der Rohe...


John Hill | 15.05.2022

Headlines

World-Architects was in attendance at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion on Thursday, May 12, for EUmies Awards Day, a series of talks and an award ceremony for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award; a recap.


John Hill | 14.05.2022

Found

The award ceremony for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award was held at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion on Thursday, May 12, the same day an exhibition of the 40 shortlisted projects ended. Take a tour through the EUmies Awards 2022 Exhibition...


Eduard Kögel | 11.03.2022

Reviews

In April 2021, Xu Tiantian and her office DnA_Design and Architecture were invited by the local authority of Jinyun County to develop ideas for the conversion of former quarries. Those...


John Hill | 26.01.2022

Headlines

Five architecture and design fellows are among the 63 recipients of fellowships for 2022 from United States Artists (USA), an arts funding organization based in Chicago. Each receives a $50,000 cash award.


Rocco Design Architects Associates Ltd | 11.01.2022

Works

Rocco Design Architects Associates’ Performing Arts Centre, flagship of the Bao’an Cultural Complex, opened on 17 September 2021 in Shenzhen, China. Overlooking Quanhai Bay and the South China Sea, the building anchors the southern end of the cultural complex.


John Hill | 07.01.2022

Found

Parallect Design's LIM Café at Suzhou Bay Sports Park in Suzhou, China, has traditional gabled forms that recall the wooden structure originally in its location and modern mirrored glass facades that reflect its setting on the edge of Taihu Lake.


John Hill | 10.12.2021

Headlines

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced that Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa of California's Brooks + Scarpa Architects are winners of the 2022 Gold Medal, while Boston's MASS Design Group wins the 2022 Architecture Firm Award.


John Hill | 16.11.2021

Headlines

During an award ceremony held in Venice on November 13, the Holcim Foundation announced the four winners and four commendations in the Global Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction. 


René Ammann | 08.11.2021

Number

Share of time Americans stay inside of buildings: 90%


Eduard Kögel | 15.10.2021

Reviews

Songyang has a new poetry museum. The Beijing-based architect Xu Tiantian received the commission for this. With her office DnA_Design and Architecture, she has already completed many small interventions in...


John Hill | 17.09.2021

Headlines

Design District, billed as "London's landmark new creativity hub," has opened on the Greenwich Peninsula, with a campus of sixteen buildings designed by half as many architects, including Barozzi Veiga, David Kohn Architects, and SelgasCano.


DnA Design and Architecture | 15.09.2021

Works

The Huiming Tea Workshop serves as a facility for visitors to the Chimu Mountain Scenic District and a place for the daily activities of the surrounding villagers, showcasing the traditional Huiming tea production process and integrating the local She culture with Buddhist culture.


John Hill | 01.09.2021

Headlines

New York's Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2021 National Design Awards, which recognizes design excellence and innovation in nine categories.


Ulf Meyer | 31.08.2021

Insight

The 15th International Alvar Aalto Symposium took place online on August 12th and 13th with the theme "Future of Industry" approached from perspectives of art, industry, and technology. Ulf Meyer attended the two days of talks to see how the participants responded to the theme, filing this...


John Hill | 23.08.2021

Found

NEBULOSUS is a "pavilion" of vapor clouds created by AUTHOS.ch and Stella Speziali for the third iteration of Design Biennale Zurich, taking place at the Old Botanical Garden until September 5th. The ephemeral installation will host a special augmented reality display during the Lange...