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Increase in per-square-meter price of a flat in the heart of Dubai, in US dollar terms over the past five years: 122%
The latest book by Herman Hertzberger—and “most likely my last,” in his words—is Herman Hertzberger, Shaping Freedom: Architecture 1959–2025, published earlier this year by Rotterdam- and Montreal-based Maas Lawrence. World-Architects delves into the career-spanning book that is part...
Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, founder of the large Beijing firm Turenscape, was among four people killed in a plane crash in Brazil on Tuesday. The crash happened during the making of a documentary about Yu and his pioneering Sponge City Concept.
Riken Yamamoto Exhibition: Community and Architecture is on display until November 3rd at Yokosuka Museum of Art, which Riken Yamamoto designed in 2006 and is considered one of his masterpieces. The Japan-Architects curators visited the exhibition when it opened in July and took...
Nowness presents a short film on Japanese architect Suzuko Yamada’s own house in suburban Tokyo. Shrouded by trees, the six-year-old “steel-and-timber Tokyo home sits in dialogue with the trees that envelop it.”
Of the ten proposals hoping to secure three coveted casino licenses for downstate New York, five of the teams have withdrawn their bids or had them voted down by so-called Community Advisory Committees. Of the five remaining bids, none are in Manhattan.
The regeneration of the former civil hospital in Riva del Garda, Italy, carried out by the design team composed of Cino Zucchi Architetti and Euro Project Engineering Consulting with Arturo Busetto, has transformed the campus into an assisted living facility while reconfiguring a portion of...
The Piranesi Award recognizes the best Central European buildings realized in the last two years. The call for proposals for the 2025 edition is now open, with a deadline of October 7.
The long-awaited grand opening of Calder Gardens—the new arts institution dedicated to the world-famous 20th-century artist Alexander Calder—takes place in Philadelphia on September 21, 2025. World-Architects got a peek of the Herzog & de Meuron-designed building and gardens by Piet Oudolf...
Estimated number of new hotel rooms in India—"the hottest new travel destination for hotel brands"—expected to be ready by the end of...
Richard Serra's Running Arcs (For John Cage) opened at Gagosian's gallery on West 21st Street in New York City on September 12—exactly thirty years to the day after it opened, on September 12, 1992, at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, Germany. World-Architects stopped by...
Aluminum manufacture puts sizeable strain on the environment. But by using green energy and larger proportions of scrap material, this durable and recyclable light metal can be produced far more sustainably in carbon emissions terms. Griesser of Switzerland is leading the way within its sector...
Grimshaw, the firm Sir Nicholas Grimshaw founded in 1980 and now comprises more than 550 employees in offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Dubai, Melbourne, Sydney, and Auckland, has created a 20-minute film celebrating the legacy of its founder,
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, the English architect best known for designing such high-tech buildings as the International Terminal Waterloo in London and the Eden Project in Cornwall, and the recipient of the 2019 RIBA Royal Gold Medal, died on September 14 at the age of 85.
Three high-profile museum projects nearing completion in New York and New Jersey—New Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, and Studio Museum in Harlem—have one architecture firm in common: Cooper Robertson. World-Architects recently stopped by Cooper Robertson’s Lower Manhattan office to...
The Cooper Union in New York City has pulled John Hejduk's 1969 publication Three Projects from its archive and is displaying its drawings and related photographs and documents in the third-floor corridor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. World-Architects stopped by and...
People walking along West 162nd Street in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood would probably have a hard time believing the WHIN Music Community Charter School, with its ribbed aluminum panels and yellow window frames, is a former parking garage that was renovated and added to by...
Number of windows from homes destroyed in an earthquake in Nepal that the German collective Supertecture used to build an extension to a...
Helsinki's JKMM Architects has won a high-profile international competition to design a new Museum of Architecture and Design on a prominent waterfront site in the Finnish capital.
Last month, sixty years after he died while taking a dip in the Mediterranean, France 24 shined a spotlight on Le Corbusier, the Swiss-French architect considered by many to be the father of modernist architecture, but whose legacy has been reconsidered in recent years.
Innovation QNS, the proposed five-block mixed-use development with apartments, office space, retail, open space, and an arts and culture hub next to the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, has been scrapped in favor of smaller developments.
Since the inaugural Exhibit Columbus in 2017, the Landmark Columbus Foundation has invited people to visit the Indiana city every two years to experience installations spread across downtown and other parts of the “small-town architectural mecca.” A highlight of this year's exhibition—the...
The LifeServe Blood Center Headquarters in central Iowa was designed by BNIM as a facility that “encourages blood donation as a lifelong habit.” The architects answered a few questions about the project, which was a recipient of the 2025 International Architecture Award presented by The...
Dutch architect Stefan De Bever, who expanded Eindhoven Airport in 2013, cannot prevent its expansion by invoking moral rights, as the costs of a total...
More than fifty architectural drawings from the collection of Susan Grant Lewin are on display at the Modulightor Building, the Midtown Manhattan home of the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture, until September 20. World-Architects visited
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings in the running for the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize, considered “the UK’s most prestigious architecture award.”
Accompanying its announcement of the shortlist for the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has released short films for the six...
Seven projects have been announced as winners of the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The winners, ranging from an X in Y to a Z in ZZ, will split the $1 million USD prize.
Dubai-based journalist Jumana Abdel-Razzaq recently visited the studio of Dabbagh Architects, one of the Middle East’s most celebrated architecture offices working within the region’s cultural space today, learning about architect Sumaya Dabbagh’s background, the firm’s philosophy, and some of...
The National Medal of Honor Museum, housed in a 102,000 square-foot building located in the heart of the Arlington, Texas Entertainment District, held its grand opening on March 22, 2025. The large building lifted into the air on massive columns is one of the last buildings designed by Rafael...
Nikolaus Kuhnert played a decisive role in shaping German architectural discourse for decades: From 1972, the critical mind was part of the editorial team of the magazine ARCH+, founded in 1968, of which he became co-editor in 1982.
In an anticipated move, US President Donald J. Trump has issued an executive order that calls for classical and traditional architecture to be the preferred styles of federal public buildings in the United States. “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again” echoes a similar executive order...
Temporary Tecture: Structures of Necessity is a new book from KOSMOS, an architectural practice with offices in Zurich and Graz, that is filled with photographs that “[offer] a fresh and compelling perspective on the often-overlooked world of temporary infrastructure.” Take a look...
One year after the European Commission and Fundació Mies van der Rohe announced the two winners of the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, the EUmies Awards has uploaded videos of the winners and finalists to YouTube.
On a recent visit to the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, World-Architects discovered the George L. Mosse Humanities Building, a lesser-known, endangered Brutalist building designed by Chicago architect Harry Weese that opened in 1969. With millions of dollars of deferred...
Located in the northeast corner of Central Park, just steps from New York City's Harlem neighborhood, the Davis Center at the Harlem Meer opened to the public in April. Replacing the former Lasker Rink and Pool that was built in the 1960s, the new Davis Center provides year-round recreation in...