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On Monday, April 14, Pope Francis declared Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí “venerable”—the second of four steps in canonizing the designer of Barcelona’s world-famous Sagrada Família—one year ahead of the basilica's expected completion and the centenary of Gaudí's death.
Concordia, a monumental wall of stained glass by artist Sir Brian Clarke, has been unveiled at Bahrain International Airport. Covering 578 square meters (6,220 square feet), the colorful installation featuring representations of plants and animals is intended to fuse Eastern and Western...
Open since April 3, Sergei Tchoban: Sections of the Mind is on display at the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture in New York City until June 7, 2025. The exhibition features a selection of Sergei Tchoban's fantastical drawings plus a half-hour interview between the Berlin...
Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture has won an international competition to design the permanent Qatar Pavilion in the Giardini of La Biennale di Venezia. When built, it will be just the third new national pavilion added to the Giardini in the last half-century.
American philosopher Donna Haraway, author of “A Cyborg Manifesto,” has been named the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by La Biennale di Venezia. She will receive the award at the inauguration of the Venice Architecture Biennale on May 10, 2025.
The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, a new exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum in Lower Manhattan, explores how concrete supplanted steel as the material of choice for structuring tall buildings around the world. World-Architects stopped by the museum soon after the exhibition opened in...
Architectural Digest visits Casa Orgánica, the home of artist and architect Javier Senosiain that he built into the earth overlooking Mexico City. The 12-minute film with commentary from Senosiain beautifully captures the colorful, cave-like spaces of a one-of-a-kind creation.
The Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma—notable as the only built skyscraper designed by Frank Lloyd Wright—is being auctioned in May through a Chapter 7 bankruptcy sale, a couple months after it was supposed to be sold to a developer for $1.4 million.
On March 26, the New York City Council passed a vote reforming the rules governing scaffolding and sidewalk sheds, the latter of which have become ubiquitous across Manhattan, with some of the structures in place for more than five years. The reforms target the sheds' appearances, frequency of...
David M. Childs, a longtime partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), and most famously the lead designer of One World Trade Center, the tallest tower at the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, died on March 26 at the age of 83.
First dreamed up by one of its residents more than twenty years ago, the National Public Housing Museum is finally opening next month inside the last remaining building from the Jane Addams Homes, the first public housing development in Chicago.
In a short film from The Dialogues Design Directory, architect Sanjay Puri explains—in words and drawings—his stepwell-inspired redesign of a 200-year-old Shiva temple in Nokha, Rajasthan, India.
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...
The Kistefos Museum, a sculpture park and post-industrial campus located about one hour north of Oslo, is planning a new site-specific gallery that will open in 2031. The museum, working with Malcolm Reading Consultants, has selected eight firms to advance to the next phase of an invited...
The Wolf Foundation, which “both celebrates and promotes exceptional achievements in the Sciences and the Arts worldwide,” is giving its 2025 Wolf Prize in Architecture to Xu Tiantian, founding principal of Beijing's DnA_Design and Architecture.
Ricardo Scofidio, the New York City architect, educator, and co-founder of the influential interdisciplinary practice Diller Scofidio + Renfro, died on March 6, 2025, at the age of 89.
Accompanying the announcement of Liu Jiakun as the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize are a handful of short films that find the Chengdu-based architect...
Architect Liu Jiakun, a native of Chengdu, China, has been named the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, long considered architecture's highest honor. Today's announcement describes Liu as an architect who continues to practice and reside in Chengdu, “prioritizing the everyday...
Visitors to World-Architects in January voted Nokha Village Community Centre by Sanjary Puri Architects as Building of the Year 2024. Located in the Indian state of...
The New Museum has announced it will reopen its expanded home on Manhattan's Bowery in fall 2025. The expansion, designed by OMA partners Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu, links to the museum's iconic 2007 building designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA.
The UK government has announced the teams on the shortlist in the two-stage competition for the design of a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II, to be located in London's St. James Park, just steps from The Mall, the ceremonial route to Buckingham Palace.
ROMEO Collection has just opened Hotel ROMEO Roma, the second location in the Italian capital for the proprietor of five-star hotels and, more importantly, one of the last designs by Zaha Hadid before her death in 2016. The 74-room boutique hotel is housed in a 16th-century palace just steps...
A recent panel discussion at AIA New York's Center for Architecture explored the state of architectural criticism, “wrestling with questions of ethics, equity, and influence and the role that critics play in the public's perception of the built environment.” World-Architects was in attendance;...
Three years after it opened to the public, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto finally visits the House of Music Hungary he designed for Budapests's City Park, as documented in a video just released by Liget Budapest.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City is a new exhibition that opened at The Shed on February 12. The celebration of the 20th anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installation of 7,503 saffron-colored gates in Central Park also features an...
In a press conference on February 11, Venice Architecture Biennale curator Carlo Ratti revealed some of the 762 participants in the upcoming 19th International Architecture Exhibition. With the Central Pavilion in the Giardini closed for renovations, the Corderie will host many of the projects...
Architecture, Not Architecture is the new career-spanning monograph on New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro, published this month by Phaidon. Befitting the name, the book is split into two parts — one half presenting buildings and other architecture projects, the other half showing...
Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto was named the 53rd laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in March 2024, and in May he received the medal during a ceremony held at the Art Institute of Chicago. World-Architects visited
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named SANAA, the Tokyo studio of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, as the 2025 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal, recognizing “SANAA’s work to reshape the global design landscape, creating spaces that bring simplicity, light and elegance to...
The Welsh association football club Wrexham AFC has unveiled plans for the new Kop Stand at STōK Cae Ras (STōK Racecourse), the club's longtime home. Designed by Populous, the new stand for 5,500 fans will be wrapped by a brick facade looking onto a new public plaza.
The first film in the Canadian Centre for Architecture's three-part Groundwork series, which explores alternative modes of architectural practice that respond to the urgency of the climate crisis, is available to watch online: Into the Island follows architect Xu Tiantian of Beijing's...
The Nokha Village Community Centre in the Indian state of Rajasthan received the most votes in our poll for World Building of the Year 2024. Designed by Mumbai's Sanjay Puri Architects, the rural building near the village of Nokha consists of a library and community space serving people in...
The second installment in the two-part exhibition of Folios produced by the Architectural Association in London between 1983 and 1991 is now on display at Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. World-Architects stopped by and took some photos.
The second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale opened to the public on January 25 at the Western Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, where it will be on display until May. New for this edition is the AlMusalla Prize, an international competition for a small prayer...
Open Space, the studio dedicated to “preserving and portraying the essence of architecture through the medium of film,” visits the Judy House in Kalamazoo, Michigan, designed by Norman F. Carver, Jr. more than fifty years ago. Tim and Vanessa Hills give viewers a tour of the Japanese-inspired...
Bangladesh's Marina Tabassum Architects has been selected to design the 24th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, set to open in London in June. Inspired by the light filtering through arched garden canopies, A Capsule in Time will be made of four wooden capsule forms covered in a translucent...