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The 22nd Serpentine Pavilion opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on June 9, where it will host live music and other events until October 29, 2023.
With its stepped silhouette, courtyards, and open-air circulation, there is something village-like about 450 Warren, a collection of eighteen condominium residences in Brooklyn designed by SO-IL for Tankhouse. Metal mesh “walls,” pulled taut, line the exterior corridors to further give the...
On June 25, Álvaro Siza will celebrate his 90th birthday. The Portuguese architect is still active, designing and constructing projects in various locations around the world. An exhibition titled Two Towers is on display in Berlin until early July, showcasing two of his projects that...
The famous jeweler's flagship store at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street reopened at the end of April following the building's first comprehensive renovation since it opened in 1940.
The Whitney Museum of American Art is selling its landmark Marcel Breuer-designed building on Manhattan's Upper East Side to auction house Sotheby's for its new global headquarters.
Rankings of Ghana, Syria and Argentina among the 107 countries indexed Serbian databank numbeo.com, where mortgages are more than 1000 percent of income: 1, 2 & 3
One of the most unexpected contributions to a national pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale is the figural sculptures Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza made for the Holy See Pavilion on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore.
Documentary filmmaker Nathan Eddy's sequel to Starship Chicago, his 2017 film on Helmut Jahn's James R. Thompson Center, is available to stream on the MAS Context website from June 1 to 18, 2023.
Paolo Portoghesi died on May 30 at his home in Calcata, a medieval village north of Rome, at the age of 91. Though a prolific architect, historian and educator, Portoghesi will forever be known as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale who created the Strada Novissima.
Richard Hassell and Wong Mun Summ first met at the Singapore office of Kerry Hill Architects, where they worked as designers for five years, predominantly on resorts in Bali, Indonesia. Working well together led them to start their own independent practice in Singapore in 1994:
The Stanley Museum of Art opened on the University of Iowa campus in August 2022, fourteen years after rising waters from the Iowa River flooded the original museum building. The new building designed by BNIM is marked by its dark brick exterior and a lightwell bringing natural light inside...
With its stacked landscapes, MVRDV's Dutch Pavilion was a symbol of Expo 2000 in Hanover and one for the future of architecture par excellence. Now, after a long period of neglect, it is being given a second life.
The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, opened to the public on May 20, 2023. Curated by Lesley Lokko, the ambitious exhibition shifted the focus of the Venice Architecture Biennale to Africa and many upstart practitioners. The exhibition offers...
Price celebrities Beyoncé and Jay-Z paid — in cash — for a 40,000-square-foot (3700 m2) mansion on eight acres (3.2 ha) in Malibu, California, designed by...
In 2019, after more twenty years living together, Toni Casamor and Anna Codina, two well-known, experienced architects in Catalonia, started working together. Codina and Casamor had worked at their own offices for many years. Each had taught, won competitions and awards, and practiced...
VernissageTV, which covers exhibitions and events in the fields of contemporary art, design and architecture, tours the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Designs by Morphosis and other big-name architects for The Line, the flagship project of NEOM in Saudi Arabia, are on display in Venice as part of Zero Gravity Urbanism—Principles for a New Livability.
The City of New York is suing Steven Holl Architects over the additional costs needed to make parts of the Hunters Point Library, which the NYC firm designed and which opened in Long Island City, Queens, in 2019, fully accessible.
Increases in the prices of building materials between January 2022 and May 2023 in Nigeria, Africas biggest country: 70%
Brazil won the Golden Lion and Great Britain received a special mention. What are a few other standout national pavilions in the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale that opened on...
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announced the twelve finalists of the EUmies Awards Young Talent 2023 on May 19. The winners will be announced on June 29 during EUmies Awards Day.
Is the future of humanitarian housing in concrete? A prototype of the Essential Homes Research Project, devised by the Norman Foster Foundation (NFF) and covered with rollable concrete sheets from Holcim, is on display at the Time Space Existence exhibition in Venice.
On the morning of Saturday, May 20, the opening day of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, the international jury's choice for the exhibition's Golden Lions and other awards were announced.
In a press conference two days ahead of Saturday's opening of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, curator Lesley Lokko addressed recent controversies over the Italian government's denial of visas to members of her team from Ghana.
The first Ukraine Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in nearly ten years consists of two pieces: an earthwork in the Giardini and a low, darkened space in the Arsenale.
An exhibition at Werkraum Bregenzerwald in the Austrian village of Andelsbuch presents some 40 architectural models from the Atelier Peter Zumthor. Through the models exhibited and the building itself, this show gives a tangible impression of his architectural approach.
World-Architects has a team in Venice covering the 18th International Architecture Exhibition curated by Lesley Lokko, The Laboratory of the Future, and the other pieces of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, which opens to the public on Saturday, May 20.
As the name implies Church Hill North Community Hybrid has a diverse program that combines numerous community functions: housing, a culinary school, a community office space, and a destination restaurant. O'Neill McVoy Architects answered a few questions about the project.
To publish, or self-publish, that is the question. Well, that is one question for architects to consider these days, as publishers cut back on the number of architecture titles they release, and technologies make it easier than ever to independently publish books in print. World-Architects...
Share of materials in the renovation of the American Geophysical Union Headquarters in Washington, DC that was reused: 96%
Vienna's AllesWirdGut has completed the Račianska Residential High-Rise Complex (aka GUTHAUS) in nearby Bratislava, Slovakia.
A couple months after the Naomi Milgrom Foundation announced Tadao Ando would design the next iteration of the MPavilion, renderings of Ando's design have been revealed.
The Upper Cloister is a modern-day interpretation of an ancient temple-complex, where the urban middle class from Beijing can find rest and relaxation within a grandiose natural and cultural landscape with a view of The Great Wall. It is located halfway between the Chinese capital and Chengde,...
The Golden Lions and other awards of the Venice Biennale's 18th International Architecture Exhibition will be decided by these five individuals and given on opening day, May 20, 2023.
In the 1960s, a number of Indonesian architects graduated in Germany and set out on their careers — many in their home country, but some also in Europe. An exciting new book sheds light on the buildings they designed and the lives they lived.
South Korean artist Kimsooja, whose Weaving the Light occupies the underground Cisternerne in Frederiksberg, Denmark, until November 30, spoke with Louisiana Channel about the meaning of light, color, and space in the site-specific installation.