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on 03/06/2013
Four architects—Diller Scofio + Renfro, H3 Hardy, SHoP Architects, SOM—envision new futures for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. John Hill
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on 03/06/2013
As part of the 55th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is exhibiting three large-scale works including Bang, which immerses visitors amongst hundreds of wooden stools balanced precariously. John Hill
Headlines
on 03/06/2013
Broad Sustainable Building's Sky City is set to start construction in June—with completion seven months later! John Hill
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on 01/06/2013
This vacation home designed by Kiyotoshi Mori and Natsuko Kawamura of MDS Co. Ltd sits in the foothills of Yamanashi Prefecture’s Yatsugatake Mountains. The team aims to help keep Japan’s cultural heritage alive by taking a fresh look at traditional crafts and culture,...
Insight
on 27/05/2013
The Zurich office of Dutch firm KCAP Architects & Planners could hardly be in a better location: The Limmat River and the public baths are right out the front door; one is surrounded by greenery; and one is right in the middle of the city with Zurich Main Station only a 10-minute walk.... Jenny Keller
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on 27/05/2013
The defining characteristic of the campus at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is the Brutalist architecture by Paul Rudolph. He realized a dozen buildings from 1963 to 1989, following from his master plan for what was then the Southeastern Massechusetts Technological Institute. The...
Headlines
on 27/05/2013
We've assembled some of our favorite products, designs, and booths from last week's International Contemporary Funiture Fair in NYC. John Hill
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on 27/05/2013
The bright pink "Dreamhouse Experience" opened on May 16 to smiling girls as well as protesters. John Hill
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on 27/05/2013
The rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece is transformed this summer into Aten Reign, one of artist James Turrell's signature Skyspaces. John Hill
Headlines
on 27/05/2013
A European Museum of the Year Award, a new design gallery, and a new metro station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. John Hill
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on 20/05/2013
As we were putting together the awards, competitions, completed buildings, exhibition, and monographs for our biannual Selected News from Selected Architects, one of the projects that stood out is Min | Day's design for the Bemis InfoShop in Nebraska. John Hill
Headlines
on 20/05/2013
The Dutch architect has been appointed Director of the Berlage Center for Advanced studies in Architecture and Urban Design at the Delft University of Technology. John Hill
Headlines
on 20/05/2013
Workers in Belize partially destroyed a 2,300-year-old pyramid to use the crushed rock for road fill. John Hill
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on 20/05/2013
Nature centers are a fairly specific building type that allow architects to enrich people's experiences of architecture, the natural environment, and their interaction. Nature centers also call for sustainable architecture of the utmost, due to their purpose and proximity to...
Headlines
on 20/05/2013
A major RIBA exhibition in London presents the architect's five-decade-long career. John Hill
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on 20/05/2013
To recognize the achievements of firms profiled on World-Architects.com, we present the second biannual roundup of Awards, Competitions, Completed Buildings, Exhibitions, and Monographs; carefully selected, just like the profiles. John Hill
Headlines
on 20/05/2013
Brooklyn's Gia Wolff is the recipient of the first traveling fellowship open to architects outside of Harvard GSD since 1935. John Hill
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on 13/05/2013
Kennebunkport is a popular summer vacation spot overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the southeastern corner of Maine—its most famous seasonal resident is the family of former President George H.W. Bush. As architect Carol A. Wilson describes it, a defining characteristic of the area is...
Film
on 13/05/2013
Switzerland's Studio Zimoun are masters at manipulating space and sound through the use of repetitive elements and kinetic devices. Three recent installations in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland, documented through short films, really convey the sensory qualities that result from... John Hill
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on 13/05/2013
The Museum of Modern Art has selected Diller Scofidio + Renfro to design its expansion, potentially incorporating the former Folk Art Museum. John Hill
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on 13/05/2013
The Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum has announced the recipients of its 2013 National Design Awards. John Hill
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on 13/05/2013
Soo Sunny Park's Unwoven Light, on display until August 30 at Rice University Art Gallery in Houston, bathes the gallery in brilliant colors via artificial and natural light refracted through the Plexiglas pieces. John Hill
Headlines
on 13/05/2013
Daniel Libeskind beat out Ann Hamilton and Jaume Plensa for a Holocaust memorial at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. John Hill
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on 13/05/2013
On April 25, the new Messe Basel building opened its doors for Baselworld, the World Watch and Jewelry Show, what is the driving force behind the new three-story addition designed by Herzog & de Meuron. With its top two floors perched above a glass base and straddling a roadway, the... John Hill
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on 06/05/2013
Eight years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still dealing with the destruction wrought on its neighborhoods, infrastructure, and buildings. This library and community center in the hard-hit Broadmoor neighborhood involved the demolition and reconstruction of the former, and the...
Headlines
on 06/05/2013
Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall & Conference Centre in Iceland wins 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award. John Hill
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on 06/05/2013
Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's sculptures aim to bring a smile to anybody's face. His Rubber Duck is docked in Hong Kong's Harbour City from May 2 to June 9, 2013. John Hill
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on 01/05/2013
Geo Metria was designed by Mount Fuji Architects Studio, a Tokyo-based “creator’s collective” committed to developing quality living environments through architectural and other design work. The residence sits on a hillside where the plains of Odawara meet the mountains of...
Headlines
on 29/04/2013
The American-born architect based in London died on April 20 after a short illness. John Hill
Headlines
on 29/04/2013
Architecture and other undergraduate students at the longtime tuition-free school will pay up to $20,000 in yearly tuition. John Hill
Film
on 29/04/2013
This short film, edited by ViaViLi (Khaled Morgan and Elnaz Anzalchi), pieces together 20 clips of famous architects talking about architecture. It is a who's who of architects from the dawn of the television to our age of the Internet, spanning from the boastings of Frank Lloyd Wright to a... John Hill
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on 29/04/2013
Located on the banks of the Ohio River southwest of downtown Louisville, Riverbank Park is 70 acres envisioned by De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop in their master plan "as a new recreational venue for the community." The first component in the park's master...
Products
on 29/04/2013
On September 19, 2012, the new Folkwang Library opened on the Essen-Werden campus of the Folkwang University of the Arts. The boxy building, designed in a 2006 competition by Max Dudler, holds a 200,000-strong musicological collection behind a translucent skin that looks like stone but is in fact... John Hill
Headlines
on 29/04/2013
Not surprisingly the library, museum, and policy institute for the 43rd U.S. President is designed by Robert A.M. Stern. John Hill