Revista

Brooks + Scarpa | 16.05.2017

Works

The SIX is a 52-unit LEED Platinum affordable housing project that provides a home, support services and rehabilitation for previously homeless and/or disabled veterans. It is located in the MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles.


John Hill | 15.05.2017

Headlines

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.


ELLENA MEHL Architects | 15.05.2017

Works

The house is located on the French Riviera, at the very end of a small road, in a old hamlet built around a local spring that has been known since before the XIXth century.


Berg Design Architecture | 15.05.2017

Building of the Week

Although Hurricane Sandy, which hit the coast of the US Northeast in October 2012, has had a lasting impact on the lives of people in its path and the future of coastal areas, it hasn't made much of a dent in the desire for waterfront living. A couple whose house was devastated by the...


John Hill | 12.05.2017

Products

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

Headlines

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

Headlines

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.


Eray Carbajo | 11.05.2017

Works

Eray Carbajo announces Urban Rural, a new dwelling typology for a sustainable transformation strategy that will become exemplar for Istanbul's future redevelopment, with construction completion in 2019.


John Hill | 11.05.2017

Headlines

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.


Artelabo | 10.05.2017

Works

Located in a village in the south of France, the project of "quiet villa" meets a very particular context.


Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects | 10.05.2017

Works

Kannikegården in Ribe, Denmark, is one of five finalists for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The winner will be announced in Brussels on May 12th.


Alison Brooks Architects | 10.05.2017

Works

Ely Court in London, England, is one of five finalists for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The winner will be announced in Brussels on May 12th.


CHYBIK + KRISTOF Architects & Urban Designers | 09.05.2017

Works

The transformation of a former car show room on the outskirts of a housing estate into a site of the MY DVA group, focusing on the production of office, school and metal furniture, represents another finished structure of the young architecture firm CHYBIK + KRISTOF Architects & Urban...


civiliti | 09.05.2017

Works

In forthcoming years, the University of Montréal, one of the city’s major institutions, will be opening a second campus located on a former railway yard.


10 DESIGN | 09.05.2017

Works

10 DESIGN has been appointed as Lead Design Architect, following an international design competition for this landmark mixed use development in Hengqin.


Kennedy & Violich Architecture | 08.05.2017

Building of the Week

This year the building housing Harvard University's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, turns 140. A few years ago Boston's Kennedy & Violich Architecture designed a brick-and-copper addition for the Department of Anthropology that is contemporary...


NL Architects, XVW Architectuur | 08.05.2017

Works

De Flat Kleiburg in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is one of five finalists for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The winner will be announced in Brussels on May 12th. UPDATE: De Flat Kleiburg has won the 2017 EU Mies Award;


John Hill | 08.05.2017

Insight

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...


John Hill | 05.05.2017

Headlines

On Thursday Swiss architect Peter Zumthor presented his design for the extension to the Renzo Piano-designed Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel. The extension is sited in the adjoining Iselin-Weber Park, which Fondation Beyeler recently acquired.


John Hill | 05.05.2017

Headlines

Documents filed with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning for the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in LA's Exposition Park include updated renderings by architect Ma Yansong of MAD Architects.


John Hill | 05.05.2017

Headlines

New York's Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2017 National Design Awards, which recognizes design excellence and innovation in eleven categories.


BBGK Architekci, Jerzy Kalina, Maksa | 04.05.2017

Works

The Katyn Museum in Warsaw, Poland, is one of five finalists for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The winner will be announced in Brussels on May 12th.


Rudy Ricciotti | 04.05.2017

Works

The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum in Rivesaltes/Ribesaltes, France, is one of five finalists for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The winner will be announced in Brussels on May 12th.


John Hill | 03.05.2017

Headlines

The Obama Foundation has released a couple teaser images for the Obama Presidential Center, designed by New York's Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners with Chicago's Interactive Design Architects for a site on Chicago's South Side.


John Hill | 03.05.2017

Headlines

New York architect and educator Diane Lewis, a stalwart of The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, where she was the first woman architect to be appointed to their full-time faculty, died yesterday at the age of 65.


John Hill | 03.05.2017

Headlines

Starbucks is taking over the Crate & Barrel flagship on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile to open the coffee company’s sixth and largest Reserve® Roastery.


Chris Pardo Design Elemental Architecture | 03.05.2017

Building of the Week

ARRIVE Hotel opened last year in Palm Springs, the California city home to the world's largest concentration of mid-century modern architecture. The firm of Chris Pardo Design Elemental Architecture looked to this history in its design of the hotel, which is arranged about a central pool and...


John Hill | 02.05.2017

Headlines

The New York artist known for designing, with Steven Holl, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, died last week at the age of 77.


John Hill | 02.05.2017

Headlines

In a letter to the Garden Bridge Trust, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan indicated he would pull the necessary financial guarantees for the controversial pedestrian bridge with trees designed by Thomas Heatherwick.


John Hill | 26.04.2017

Found

Amsterdam's Attika Architekten designed a mixed-use building in Amersfoort decorated with 22 emojis in cast concrete. Completed last year, the photographs from last month have been making a splash on mainstream websites and social media.


Goettsch Partners | 26.04.2017

Works

Chicago-based developer Riverside Investment & Development celebrated the debut of the 150 North Riverside office tower, which opened for business in February, with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony on 20 April 2017.


John Hill | 25.04.2017

Headlines

Wednesday, 26 April 2017, is the 100th birthday of the great architect Ieoh Ming Pei, whose Louvre Pyramid is this year's recipient of the American Institute of Architects' Twenty-five Year Award.


John-Pierre Lott | 25.04.2017

Works

The architect Jean-Pierre Lott has just delivered the new media library of Vitrolles. Located in the heart of the district of Les Pins, it symbolizes the renewal of the town center.


John Hill | 25.04.2017

Film

Dirk Koy's "Zurich 2.0" is an immersive, 360-degree voyage through a digitally manipulated Zurich – the city World-Architects calls home – that moves from the mountains to the Old Town, glimpsing sites like MFO Park along the way.


AAVP Architecture | 24.04.2017

Works

In 1891 the city of Paris registered this 100-meter passageway, open two years prior on the property of sieur Delessert, between the Rue Pierre Dupont and the Quai de Valmy.