Magazine

Jean Verville architecte | 06.07.2016

Works

Nestled in the privacy of a hemlock forest, FAHOUSE presents an amazing building that seems to emerge from a children's story.


John Hill | 05.07.2016

Found

Over the weekend the National Building Museum (NBM) in Washington, DC, opened ICEBERGS, an installation designed by James Corner Field Operations for the museum's huge Great Hall.


John Hill | 05.07.2016

Headlines

Yesterday the LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction launched the $2 million Lafarge Holcim Awards 2016/2017, which "identifies the ideas with the highest potential to tackle today’s challenges to increasing urbanization and to improve quality of life."


John Hill | 05.07.2016

Headlines

The World Architecture Festival has announced the finalists in the 17 completed buildings categories that will be vying for Building of the Year at the 2016 festival taking place in Berlin from 16-18 November.


05.07.2016

Building of the Week

Responding to the need for contemporary buildings "to protect and temper with as little energy and resources as possible," Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects covered the facade of the 8 Octavia residential building with louvers that each occupant operates. Primarily facing west...


John Hill | 01.07.2016

Headlines

On June 17 at Toronto’s historic Evergreen Brick Works, Azure Magazine revealed the 18 winners of its 6th annual AZ Awards.


Atelier Zündel Cristea | 01.07.2016

Works

The project consists of the renovation of an existing building in Boulogne Billancourt, the redesign of the facades, taking into account the overall structure, the renovation of the technical premises, and the optimization of office spaces.


John Hill | 30.06.2016

Headlines

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA), with local architecture firm Interactive Design Architects (IDEA), have been selected by the Obama Foundation to design the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in Chicago.


John Hill, Thomas Geuder | 30.06.2016

Products

The much anticipated extension of the Kunstmuseum Basel opened to the public in April. Architects Emanuel Christ and Chrisoph Gantenbein have crafted a building that interprets the classical elements of architecture found in the museum's main building. A dynamic Light Frieze across the facade...


John Hill | 30.06.2016

Headlines

World-Architects got a sneak peek of The Hills, the second phase of West 8's design for Governors Island Park in New York City, which is opening to the public on 19 July 2016.


Avanto Architects | 29.06.2016

Works

Avanto Architects and Joanna Laajisto Creative Studio have completed Löyly, a unique combination of a public sauna and a restaurant in Helsinki.


Gerry Judah | 29.06.2016

Works

Gerry Judah was asked by BMW to come up with a sculpture, bigger and better than anything done before, to commemorate their centenary at Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester, West Sussex.


John Hill | 28.06.2016

Film

Visitors to Anish Kapoor's ArcelorMittal Orbit in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park now have the option of descending the 76-meter-tall tower via Carsten Höller's newly opened Tunnel Slide – the world's longest at 178 meters.


Hal Ingberg architecte | 28.06.2016

Works

Chromazone is about the creation of memorable perceptual experience. It explores optical complexity, ambiguity and mutability within an outline of formal austerity. It operates with the knowledge that perceptually equivocal conditions can situate experience in enigmatic places that...


Oliver Pohlisch | 27.06.2016

Insight

The shock over the unexpected outcome of the EU Referendum sits deep in the British architecture scene. This can be seen in first reactions from different British offices, which also employ a large number of nationals from other EU countries. Now their future is uncertain.


John Hill | 27.06.2016

Found

World-Architects stopped by the New York Public Library's new 53rd Street Library this morning for its opening. Designed by Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos, the library is highlighted by an amphitheater visible from the street.


John Hill | 26.06.2016

Headlines

The seven finalists of the second biennial Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), which recognizes the best built works of architecture in the Americas realized from January 2014 through December 2015, have been announced.


John Hill | 24.06.2016

Headlines

Star Wars creator George Lucas has issued a statement announcing he is abandoning plans to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago, where lawsuits have delayed the project since it was unveiled in 2014.


John Hill | 24.06.2016

Insight

Three years after a 2013 visit to the Office for Metropolitan Architecture's (OMA) New York office to speak with partner Shohei Shigematsu, World-Architects editor John Hill returned to 180...


Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | 23.06.2016

Works

Anchoring Beijing’s Dawangjing business district, the mixed-use Beijing Greenland Center is a highly sustainable landmark building equidistant from Beijing’s bustling core and the airport.


John Hill | 23.06.2016

Headlines

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced the regional winners of the CTBUH 2016 Tall Building Awards culled from 132 submissions, the most entries to date.


John Hill | 22.06.2016

Film

In the latest installment in an interview series that explores the philosophical concerns of architects exhibiting at "TIME - SPACE - EXISTENCE," a collateral event at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, Peter Eisenman speaks about architectural education, history, drawing and meaning.


Manuelle Gautrand Architecture | 22.06.2016

Works

This development is in the 19th arrondissement on the northern edge of Paris, within an urban environment characterised by the brick buildings of low-cost housing units developed between the wars.


John Hill | 21.06.2016

Headlines

Docomomo US has announced the winners of the 2016 Modernism in America Awards program with ten projects that raise "awareness of the importance to advocate, restore and celebrate the architecture, landscapes and typologies of postwar society in the United States."


pH+ Architects | 21.06.2016

Works

Pop-up sensory garden and giant xylophone arrives in Greenwich for London Festival of Architecture.


John Hill | 21.06.2016

Found

For the first time the Venice Architecture Biennale includes three Special Projects, one focused on applied arts. A World of Fragile Parts, curated by Brendan Cormier of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, explores the production of copies in the 21st century.


20.06.2016

Building of the Week

Text by Eduard Kögel


John Hill | 20.06.2016

Headlines

On Saturday The Floating Piers, the first project completed by Christo since his wife, Jeanne-Claude, died in 2009, opened to the public at Lake Iseo in northern Italy.


20.06.2016

Building of the Week

Lawrence is a city of about 90,000 people in northeast Kansas, best known as the home of the University of Kansas (KU). The university's presence means Lawrence has a thriving downtown, one that stretches along Massachusetts Street. Near the north end of the street is the Lawrence Public...


rh+ architecture | 20.06.2016

Works

The project site is atypical for Paris : it is a very big unit, historically made up of 3 parcels, rather narrow, equivalent width and deep enough. The central plot was occupied by a small house to preserve, built in the 17th century ahead the other buildings of the street. This situation...


John Hill | 20.06.2016

Headlines

Iraq has issued new postage stamps honoring two of the country's late, great architects: Zaha Hadid, who died in March at the age of 65, and Mohamed Makiya, who died last year at the age of 101.


John Hill | 17.06.2016

Products

The Machado Silvetti-designed Center for Asian Art, an addition to the Ringling Museum of Art, is covered in more than 3,000 deep-green, glazed terra cotta tiles that boldy mark the entrance to the grand Florida institution.


HPP Architects | 17.06.2016

Works

The first HPP project in Turkey is complete. The split tower rises 110 meters into the sky above the Kozyatağı financial district.


ROGERSPARTNERS Architects+Urban Designers | 17.06.2016

Works

The new headquarters for international advertising superstar Droga5 occupy three building floors and a two-story penthouse in New York’s Financial District.


John Hill | 16.06.2016

Headlines

The team of Adjaye Associates and AB3D with Plan A, AKTII, BuroHappold, Turner & Townsend, and Martha Schwartz Partners has won the two-stage competition for the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art in the historic center of Riga.


John Hill | 16.06.2016

Headlines

The Tippet Rise Art Center opens tomorrow on an 11,500-acre (4,450-hectare) ranch just north of Yellowstone in Fishtail, Montana. Among its many artworks are a few pieces by architects Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa of Ensamble Studio.