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MASS Lab has been named one of the four finalists in the Nordic Built Cities Challenge Competition in the Faroe Islands, for the construction of a masterplan in an area of over 45,000 square meters.
Giardini in Silence: Metamorphosis in between art and architecture
The plot is located in a green ring around the historic city center. The building occupies half of the plot, the other half being used as a park.
Like a flashback to America in the 1950s and 1960s, Chioco Design's design for Torchy's Tacos latest Austin outpost is unabashedly retro. Its angled columns, scalloped roofs and prominent signage harks back to the roadside architecture of those doo-wop decades. Chioco Design answered...
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena will receive the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize in an award ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City starting at 7:30pm EST tonight. Watch the ceremony here live.
The New York-based American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the five recipients of its 2016 Architecture Awards.
Mexico City's Productora has won the 2014/15 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) for emerging architecture for its Pavilion on the Zocalo in Mexico City.
With the sudden passing of Zaha Hadid yesterday at the age of 65, we look back at some of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's signifcant works through the unmistakable, dazzling, and often...
Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect who was the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize and was recently awarded RIBA's 2016 Royal Gold Medal, died from a heart attack today at the age of 65.
MoederscheimMoonen Architects recently presented the definite design for a new multi-tenant building next to Utrecht’s new Central Station. The building has been commissioned by Klépierre Retail Development. Part of the Hoog Catharijne shopping centre, the future building is commonly...
Nowness visits British architect Ian Simpson's Manchester home, a two-story penthouse in Beetham Tower, which he also designed. Standouts of the spacious, light-filled residence are the corner living room and the garden with 6-meter-high trees.
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, as part of the SPARK consortium, has won the competition to design a new educational facility at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands.
The first edition of the Durabilys Awards was held on Wednesday, March 23rd at the Palais des congrès and on this occasion Menkès Shooner Dagenais Letourneux Architectes won the Award of Excellence for theMaison du développement durable in the LEED...
Light+Building, the internationally most important trade fair for lighting and building services technologies is over. We have found many new things, discovered several unexpected products, missed expected solutions and, every now and then, we also learned something new. Our trade fair...
The Dutch architecture firm won with a proposal for a mixed-use development with offices, apartments, hotels, retail, restaurants and public open spaces.
The Obama Foundation has posted interviews with the seven finalists for the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) to be built on Chicago's South Side. Among other things, the architects were asked what their favorite Chicago building is and why.
A palette of brick, wood, glass and translucent wall panels defines the enclosure of Neumann Monson Architects' elegantly simple Career Academy of Pella in Iowa. The building is the first piece – and a very promising...
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced the four finalists of the fourth open international Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 grant awarded annually to a single architect to support travel-based architectural research.
Aeon Video presents a 10-minute film directed by Stella Kyriakopoulos that follows Bob Gardner, a retired engineer from Hampton, Illinois, who dreams of visiting the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece – despite the fact he is blind.
Benthem Crouwel Architects, working with designer Irma Boom, have created a cycling and pedestrian "slow traffic corridor" at Amsterdam's Central Station that is clad on one side by nearly 80,000 Delft Blue tiles.
The guiding principles of these student halls of residence were standardization, self-regulation and a maximization of internal space.
A team of architects from Seattle's Olson Kundig have won Blank Space's third annual Fairy Tales storytelling competition. Their architectural narrative, "Welcome to the 5th Facade," takes readers to "a future that is similar enough to our own, yet ripe with new challenges,...
Berlin-based photographer Malte Brandenburg's Stacked series of photographs presents frontal views of his city's post-war housing estates in order to show the variation found in the "fairly identical" buildings.
The residence was built on a site that looks up Himeji Castle in a historical district in Himeji, Hyogo.
eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of the 2016 Skyscraper Competition, which asked entrants to "challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments."
German artist Thorsten Brinkmann has filled the Rice University Art Gallery with his distincly odd self-portraits but also detritus from Houston that creates hidden spaces, including a cinema built inside a shipping crate and a small tunnel that leads to a secret bedroom.
The Titus brothers reached out to MH Architects to explore the concept of a new winery facility located in Napa Valley in 2012. The client’s stated goal was to express the spirit of Titus Vineyards wine through the architectural components of the winery design.
An intimate and cozy housing estate in Mikołów located on the quiet outskirts of the city. The project includes twelve houses.
The new Australian Embassy in Jakarta, designed by Australian architects Denton Corker Marshall, was opened on Monday by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
The new sports centre, La Taule, designed by the architectural firm Microclimat, embodies the vision of a former Olympic athlete and participates in the revitalization of Waterloo, in the Eastern Townships.
Steven Holl Architects has won the invited competition to design the new Rubenstein Commons at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey.
A precedent photo from LEVER Architecture shows a tree in the process of being felled, an angular chunk removed from its trunk. This image resonates with the section of the TreeHouse, which contends with a sharp drop from one side of the site to the other by a bridge and a glazed wrapping...
The MIPIM Awards, which bill themselves as "the world's property market," were announced on 17 March 2016 at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France.
This nursery school in Sakura, Chiba was planned to accommodate 60 pupils. Seiyu-Kai, a local social welfare firm specializing in elderly care facilities approached us for this project. The overarching concept for this plan started with an idea: "a nursery school is a large house."
A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond opened to the public at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on Sunday, March 13, running until Monday, July 4. World-Architects visited the exhibition to file this review.