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YCBA in a New Light
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 conservation is the replacement of 224 domed skylights over the museum's beautiful fourth-floor galleries. World-Architects got a peek ahead of the reopening.
John Hill | 25.03.2025
The winners of this year's Best Book Design from all over the World competition, organized by Stiftung Buchkunst (German Foundation for Book Design), have been announced. The five-member jury has selected Stéphanie Baechler's Forget Me Not, which explores 19th-century textile-drying towers in Eastern Switzerland, as recipient of the Goldene Letter (Golden Type), the competition's...
John Hill | 24.03.2025
Edwin Chan, a longtime design partner at Gehry Partners in Los Angeles, started his own firm, EC3, in 2013. It would take five years for EC3 to realize its first ground-up building: True North, a mixed-use development in Detroit for developer Prince Concepts. The first phase of EC3's second project for the developer, The...
EC3 | 24.03.2025
LIVING Modernity: Experiments in the Exceptional and Everyday 1920s–1970s, an exhibition that just opened at The National Art Center, Tokyo, presents fourteen masterpieces of modern residential architecture, plus a full-scale reproduction of one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's unbuilt courtyard houses from the 1930s. Take a look at some photos of the exhibition and the immersive Mies...
John Hill | 22.03.2025
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ISH Free Talks+Tours and Guided Tours with eight international architects, designers and engineers – In collaboration with Messe Frankfurt, World-Architects organizes two Talks+Tours with Chris Middleton and Klaus De Winder as well as six Guided Tours with Barbara Wiethoff, Sylvia Leydecker, Markus Pfeil, Elena Laschewitsch/Yordanka Rotta, Michael Burghaus and Alexander Brenner. Each of our...
17 de marzo hasta el 20 de marzo, 2025
The new presentation format at ISH 2025 brings architects and exhibitors together in a
meaningful, professional, and entertaining way. All important information about Architeller and
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18 de marzo hasta el 19 de marzo, 2025
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Architecture and Hospitality in Dialogue – Our recent event focused on the close collaboration between architects and hoteliers—a key factor in ensuring truly happy guests. In an engaging presentation, architect Sebastian Pajakowski and hotelier Björn Rapanis shared their perspectives through the example of lyf East Frankfurt (formerly Lindley Lindenberg). Designed by FRANKEN, this 100-room...
10 de febrero, 2025