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As the school year winds down for architecture students around the world, we highlight 10 design/build programs that are making a difference by developing experience and skills in the future architects, by contributing to local communities through their efforts, and by exploring the integral...
Bertrand Goldberg's cantilevered concrete cloverleaf is coming down to make way for a glass tower.
Zaha Hadid Architects' Heydar Aliyev Center is the winner in the architecture category.
Fujiko Nakaya: Veil, guarantees to make a strong – if fleeting – impact on the iconic heart of the 47-acre Philip Johnson Glass House campus in New Canaan.
Bremen, Germany's URBANSCREEN is using more than 20 high-end video projectors to transform the 100-meter-high, 24-sided Gasometer Oberhausen into what they call "an imaginary, ever-changing room."
The first phase of the design by Grimshaw, Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic Architects will open in 2018.
The Museum of Modern Art has started the demolition of the museum designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.
Neolith is a brand of durable surfacing material created by parent company TheSize for façades, countertops, flooring, interior walls and other architectural applications. Two building façades – in Doha, Qatar, and in Seoul, South Korea – show some possibilities of the...
The Philadelphia Inquirer architecture critic wins the 2014 prize for distinguished criticism.
BPS Development Company has unveiled phase-three designs by Frank Gehry and Norman Foster.
David Chipperfield Architects has been unanimously selected as architect for the Nobel Foundation's new building in Stockholm.
The National Capital Planning Commission rejects Frank Gehry’s design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial.
Cassina's stand at the Salone Internazionale de Mobile in the Rho Fiera was billed as "a sensorial natural habitat" and designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, the creator of last year's Serpentine Gallery.
The new InerContinental Davos Hotel stands out in its mountain setting thanks to its oval form and the flowing gold façade. Munich's OIKIOS looked to the natural setting, particularly pine cones, in their design of the building, which was realized with Seele.
Despite record-setting attendance, the 3XN-designed aquarium in Denmark will undergo a major renovation.
For the third year in a row, The Architectural League of New York and Socrates Sculpture Park have held the Folly competition "that invites emerging architects and designers to propose contemporary interpretations of the architectural folly." This year's winner is SuralArk, a...
The New York City institution is moving ahead with a design competition for a Helsinki branch.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA are the recipients of the fourth Velux Stiftung Daylight Award for their design of the Rolex Learning Center EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. In this short film the duo speaks about the importance of daylight in their buildings.
Rem Koolhaas and company beat out former OMA employees Bjarke Ingels and Ole Scheeren for Berlin media center.
The New York-based honor society announced the five recipients of the 2014 awards.
Photographer Jordi Bernadó responds to the fact Mies van der Rohe ordered the Barcelona Pavilion to be photographed without doors in his intervention Second Reconstruction.
Most of the news on 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient Shigeru Ban focuses on his humanitarian efforts made from paper tubes. We look at how his material innovation extends to other structures built with paper tubes, complex wood structures, buildings made from prefabricated components,...
The architecture medal from the University of Virginia goes to Japanese architect Toyo Ito.
Timber structures are increasingly applauded as a sustainable alternative to the carbon-heavy production of concrete and steel. No longer the domain of houses and other small-scale buildings, wood now frames mid-sized buildings of various types and potentially high-rises in the near future....
On March 11 the 2014 Venice Biennale curator Rem Koolhaas expanded upon the theme of Fundamentals and its three interlocking exhibitions: Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014, Elements of Architecture and Monditalia.
The Chilean architect's design for the 14th pavilion in London's Kensington Gardens opens in June.
Curator Rem Koolhaas explains Fundamentals and its three interlocking exhibitions.
Canadian artists Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett have created installations, most notably CLOUD, from old incandescent bulbs. In a similar vein the duo realized NEW MOON for an arts festival in Lexington, Kentucky. NEW MOON is an interactive sculpture that exhibits the moon's phases,...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art appoints Beatrice Galilee as Daniel Brodsky Associate Curator of Architecture and Design.
On February 28, the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) was scheduled to wrap up its three-month run at the renovated Value Factory in Shenzhen, China (the exhibition was extended to March 14). We highlight some of the award-winning exhibits from the UABB.
Russian government officials are pushing for dismantling the famous 1920s tower designed by engineer Vladimir Shukhov.
Swedish artist Jonas Dahlberg's proposal is chosen to memorialize the 2011 attacks on Osla and Utøya, Norway.
Herzog & de Meuron's Parrish Art Museum on Long Island exhibits artwork in generous galleries capped by north- and south-facing skylight, bringing natural daylight to the artworks on display. Panelite's ClearShade IGU (Insulated Glazing...
Photographer Fong Qi Wei's articulated goal is to "'make special' via the medium of photography."
