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John Hill | 14.06.2017

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Architects and curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara have developed the theme Freespace for the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, which will take place in Venice from 26 May to 25 November 2018.


John Hill | 14.06.2017

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One of the numerous publications coinciding with the 150th anniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright's birth asks people to cut and fold the architect's creations using the kirigami technique.


John Hill | 13.06.2017

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The American Society of Landscape Architects has announced the recipients of its 2017 honors, which include the Landscape Architecture Firm Award and the ASLA Medal.


John Hill | 12.06.2017

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Vernissage TV heads inside Marta Minujín's The Parthenon of Books and Pierre Huyghe's After ALife Ahead on display in Kassel and Münster, respectively.


John Hill | 12.06.2017

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In a TED Talk from March, New York magazine architecture critic Justin Davidson argues for buildings in cities to be covered with more than just glass, today's default material.


John Hill | 09.06.2017

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A new office building designed by Brenac & Gonzalez et Associés, located on Paris's Left Bank not far from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, stands out with its narrow footprint and faceted facade made from aluminum tubes.


John Hill | 09.06.2017

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Projects by Steven Holl Architects and Adjaye Associates recently broke ground in Houston and San Antonio, respectively.


John Hill | 08.06.2017

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Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frank Lloyd Wright. Fascination with the architect and his buildings continues well after his death in 1959, as evidenced by numerous celebrations this year and a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that opens on Monday.


John Hill | 07.06.2017

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The Norman Foster Foundation, which "promotes interdisciplinary thinking and research to help new generations of architects, designers and urbanists to anticipate the future," opened on 1 June 2017.


John Hill | 07.06.2017

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The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art speaks with Hiroshi Sambuichi about The Water, an installation in the subterranean cisterns of Frederiksberg, Denmark, and the Japanese architect's first project outside of his native country.


John Hill | 06.06.2017

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Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have once again collaborated with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, devising Hansel & Gretel, an interactive installation at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.


John Hill | 05.06.2017

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On the first of June, Google submitted plans to build its new eleven-story headquarters designed by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studio, the team behind Google's East Charleston campus in Mountain View, California.


John Hill | 02.06.2017

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On Thursday President Donald Trump announced that the United States would be withdrawing from the Paris agreement on climate change that his predecessor – and 195 other nations – agreed to in 2015.


John Hill | 01.06.2017

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This morning World-Architects got a peek at the first completed phase of the Museum of Modern Art's multi-year expansion and renovation project designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler.


John Hill | 31.05.2017

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Entries for the 2017 World Architecture Festival are due Friday 2 June at Midnight BST.


John Hill | 31.05.2017

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NOWNESS presents a short film on Harpel House, a 1956 creation by architect John Lautner located high up in the Hollywood Hills.


John Hill | 31.05.2017

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One year after she died unexpectedly from a heart attack at the age of only 65, architect Zaha Hadid has been celebrated with a Google Doodle depicting her firm's Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan.


John Hill | 30.05.2017

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Projects in Australia, Canada, Denmark, and Japan make up the four finalists of the 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize, which was launched in 2014 to advance "architecture that transforms society by furthering humanistic values of social justice, respect, equality, inclusivity and...


John Hill | 26.05.2017

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P6PA+Architects' design of the Bieblova Apartments in Prague features a facade "written" with white HI-MACS® panels incised with letters that glow at night. 


John Hill | 25.05.2017

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Yesterday The Shed, a cultural facility under construction at New York's Hudson Yards development, celebrated the topping off of its steel structure and a $75 million gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies toward its $500 million capital campaign.


John Hill | 25.05.2017

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Architecturally trained designer Nathan Kiatkulpiboone – aka KXIV – has designed the Nest Adidas Ultraboost with a nod to Herzog & de Meuron's Bird's Nest and PTW Architect's Watercube, two of the main venues for the 2008 Olympics.


John Hill | 24.05.2017

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Here are a dozen photos from a hard hat tour of The Shed, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and the Rockwell Group as the cultural anchor of the large Hudson Yards development on Manhattan's West Side.


John Hill | 24.05.2017

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The team of Studio Weave and Architecture 00 has won an invited design competition to turn an old section of elevated railway in the London Borough of Camden into a temporary public park modeled on New Yorks' High Line.


John Hill | 23.05.2017

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On May 20th the nearly kilometer-long Seoullo 7017, the transformation of an old highway overpass into an elevated park designed by the Dutch firm MVRDV, opened to the public in South Korea's capital city.


John Hill | 22.05.2017

Film

Herzog & de Meuron designed 56 Leonard in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood as "a stack of individual houses, where each house is unique and identifiable within the overall stack." Watch the 30-month construction of the stacks in a one-minute timelapse.


John Hill | 22.05.2017

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El Helicoide de la Roca Tarpeya, a spiraling mall designed by Venezuelan architect Jorge Romero Gutiérrez in the late 1950s, is the subject of an exhibition and forthcoming book that trace its evolution into a current-day prison. World-Architects attended a tour by...


John Hill | 18.05.2017

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Artist Anish Kapoor, working with the Public Art Fund, has installed a version of Descension in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Initially realized at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India in 2014, the current iteration is the first time the artwork has been displayed in the United States.


John Hill | 18.05.2017

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The aptly named hotel from The Royal Portfolio opened recently in Thomas Heatherwick's conversion of a historic grain silo at the V&A Waterfront in the South African city. The Silo sits above the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), which will open later this year.


John Hill | 17.05.2017

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With each week bringing a new controversey to the administration of Donald Trump – the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the leaking of confidential information to Russia, most recently – it's not just Democrats, pundits, and late night talk show hosts taking aim at the...


John Hill | 15.05.2017

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Qatar Museums has announced that ELEMENTAL, the Chilean firm of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Alejandro Aravena, has won the Art Mill International Design Competition for a historic waterfront site in the center of Doha.


John Hill | 12.05.2017

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On April 2nd the Portland Japanese Garden opened its $33.5 million Cultural Village expansion designed by Kengo Kuma, the first public commission in the United States by the Japanese architect. Here we discuss the roofs that prominently wrap the village's multiple structures.


John Hill | 12.05.2017

Film

Nowness presents a short film by Andrew Margetson that features dancer Lil Buck visiting Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris and dancing with the building and some of the modern art on display.


John Hill | 12.05.2017

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Today in Brussels the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe announced the winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award: Amsterdam's DeFlat Kleiburg by NL Architects and XVW Architectuur wins the 2017 Prize, and the...


John Hill | 11.05.2017

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From May 6th to 9th the American Planning Association's National Planning Conference – "Planning in Motion NPC17" – was held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. World-Architects attended for the first time to gather some impressions.


John Hill | 11.05.2017

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Five projects – in Denmark, England, France, the Netherlands, and Poland – are in the running for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. One winner will be named during a press conference in Brussels tomorrow, May 12th.


John Hill | 08.05.2017

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Twenty years after the "Bilbao effect" was created with the opening of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the time appears to be ripe for books critiquing the plethora of architectural icons, the popularity of celebrity architects, and the changing face of cities...