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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the Boston Landmarks Commission have announced the local landmark designation of Boston City Hall, the brutalist building that has been loved and hated in equal measure since even before the building designed by Kallmann McKinnell and Knowles opened in 1969.
Five months after it closed, Price Tower, the 19-story landmark building in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, that is the only skyscraper realized by Frank Lloyd Wright, is being sold for $1.4 million to Tulsa property developer McFarlin Building Company.
Outpost Office, the practice founded by architects and educators Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann, have installed Color Block No. 2 at various in-between spaces both outside and within the Wexner...
Despite digital connectivity and efficiency orientation, trade fairs remain more popular than ever as places for physical encounters. This was confirmed by the outstanding results of this year’s Heimtextil, which took place from 14 to 17 January in Frankfurt.
Minimum number of earthquakes of up to magnitude 6.5 on the Richter scale that “The Immortal,” a precarious-looking building in the Ecuadorian...
A seemingly unbuildable slice of land in Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco colonia, not far from Museo Soumaya and other cultural offerings, is now home to a skinny 13-story office building. Taking its name from the railroad tracks that created its fragmented site, Ferrocarril de Cuernavaca...
Safdie Architects and Kerry Properties have announced the completion of the second phase of Habitat Qinhuangdao, a complex on the coast of the Bohai Sea, 200 miles (320 km) east of Beijing, China, that consists of 1,800 residences spread across 40 acres (16 hectares).
Vladimir Belogolovsky met Iranian architects Kamran Heirati and Tallan Khosravizadeh during last year’s World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Singapore, where they presented their Shoupé Mixed-Use...
Every two years The Daylight Award honors and supports daylight research and daylight in architecture through two awards: one in architecture and one in research. A one-hour conversation between architect and writer Juhani Pallasmaa and neuroscientist Selma Tir, presented by The Daylight...
Donald J. Trump, during his first day in office as the 47th President of the United States, signed dozens of executive orders, one requiring “that Federal public buildings should be visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and classical architectural heritage...
The Brutalist is a sweeping tale about the immigrant experience, architecture, power, and legacy. Premiering at the Venice International Film Festival in September and released in the US in December, the film has already won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama and will most...
Number of households being formed every year in Spain, while fewer than 90,000 new homes are built there annually: 250,000
Late last year Serie Architects completed the Raj Sabahgruh, the new Satsang and Meditation Complex that is the centerpiece in the 100-hectare (250-acre) masterplan development for the Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram, Dharampur, Gujarat, India. The architects sent us some text and images on the...
Two editorial projects by two famous architects: BIG's Barjke Ingels is helming Domus for 2025, and Morphosis's Thom Mayne has “instigated” Of The Moment, a new broadsheet journal that highlights architects and architecture in Los Angeles.
A settlement has been reached between artist Mary Miss and the Des Moines Art Center (DMAC) over Greenwood Pond: Double Site, which opened in a city-owned park in 1996 as part of the museum's permanent collection. Although it will be demolished, DMAC will pay the artist $900,000, and...
Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation is a new book by Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus that assembles 96 specially commissioned black-and-white, square-format drawings that show architectural drawing — albeit digitally produced — is alive and well in...
Vector Architects from Beijing has realized several special cultural buildings for the development company Aranya. The most recent, in Wulingshan 2.5 hours northeast of Beijing, is a small spa and bathhouse embedded...
Starting price for the Sustainable Alternative Modular House — or SAM House — which can sustain hurricane winds up to 200 mph (322 kmh) and is...
Owen Hatherley’s Walking the Streets, Walking the Projects proposes the theory that, “in the 1960s, a new ideology emerged in New York. It held that cities thrived through the spontaneous ‘ballet of the streets’ and died when the state erected sterile projects.” This premise is then...
The consumer goods industry is getting together in Frankfurt. From 7 to 11 February, Ambiente, the world’s leading trade fair, will once again set the stage for trends and lifestyles. This year marks the debut of the Interior Looks area with a high-caliber interior design...
The Palisades Fire that broke out on Tuesday, January 7, has expanded to more than 15,000 acres over the course of two days, growing closer to Case Study House #8, the masterpiece of modern residential architecture designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1949.
As part of a recent TEDx event in Fargo, North Dakota, Craig Dykers presents Snøhetta's design process for the competition-winning design of the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library now under construction in the Dakota Badlands.
Japanese architect Hiroshi Hara, best known for two buildings completed in the 1990s — the JR Kyoto Station Building and the Umeda Sky Building in Osaka — died on January 3, 2025, at the age of 88.
With the new year upon us, World-Architects is looking ahead to some of the exhibitions, grand openings, and book releases that should be taking place over the next twelve months. Here we present 25 things to look forward to in 2025 in four categories: events, openings, publications, and...
The Małopolska Science Center Cogiteon held its grand opening on June 21, 2024, six years after a competition was held for the design of the new institution. The winning design by the Wrocław office of heinlewischer placed the interactive exhibitions below a sloped green roof that is open to...
Minimum number of times the rationalist Casa del Fascio, or House of Fascism, designed in 1932 by Italian architect Giuseppe Terragni, then 28, and completed in 1936,
A new video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles architectural designer Jenny Sabin, whose eponymous design studio and design lab at Cornell University investigate the intersections of architecture, science, and the fine arts.
In 2023 we presented 40 projects on World-Architects in our inaugural World Building of the Week feature. Now it's your turn to help us crown a Building of the Year by voting for your favorite project between now and the end of January. The winner will be announced in early February.
The Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design and Real Estate Company ADM have announced five finalists in an open international design compeitition for a new museum of architecture and design that will be built in Helsinki’s South Harbour.
The jury of the 5th edition of Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize 2024, a biennial initiative by Simon curated by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, has announced two winning films in two categories — Collective Places and Personal Places — as well as a Best Audiovisual Narrative...
Take a look back at 2024 — our 30th year! — as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last 12 months. Instead...
The new Museum of Modern Art Warsaw revealed itself during an inauguration in October, but the Thomas Phifer-designed building won't have its official grand opening until February 2025. In between, Ulf Meyer visited to see the results of an institution nearly two decades in the making.
To Build Law is a new documentary and the second installment in “Groundwork,” a three-part film and exhibition series from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) that explores alternative modes of architectural practice. The film documents the conceptualization and development of...
The nominees in the second DIVIA Award — the biennial award promoting diversity in architecture — have been announced: 25 women architects in more than 20 countries.
Two and a half years after Mexican architect Frida Escobedo was selected to design the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, renderings have been released of what is notably the first wing designed by a woman in The Met's 154-year...
The latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's “Building Novels” series, which looks at works of fiction where buildings and architecture play integral roles, is Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows by Anna Kostreva, an architectural designer and urban researcher at Plural Studio in Berlin....