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Wes Anderson speaks with Gagosian about the jewel box-like recreation of artist Joseph Cornell's studio from the basement of his house on Utopia Parkway in Queens to the gallery's storefront windows at 9 rue de Castiglione in Paris.
Here we highlight four exhibitions in Manhattan and Brooklyn that opened recently or will open soon, ranging from a historical look at a swath of Midtown and alternative proposals for houses to monographic exhibitions on a late visionary architect and critic, and an architect from Austria.
Height of the 77-story F Tower in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, designed by Pierre Fakhoury with a symmetrical, chamfered geometry that evokes the power of an African mask: 421...
In addition to the replacement of a five-story parking garage, the recently completed Springfield Civic Center and CarPark in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, also encompasses a new civic plaza and a pedestrian lane that was created by closing a street between the garage and the convention...
The last vacant commercial parcel at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan will be filled by American Express, which announced that it will own and occupy 2 World Trade Center, a 55-story tower being designed by Foster + Partners.
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2026 National Design Awards, which “recognize the innovation and impact of individual designers and organizations across 10 categories,” including architecture and landscape architecture.
Egypt's new National Museum is impressive: Dublin's heneghan peng architects has found its own architectural language, and Stuttgart's Atelier Brückner captivates with its scenographic design of the galleries.
Watch curator James Taylor-Foster give a brief video introduction to Worldglimpsing: Roleplay and the Design of Alternate Realities, currently on display at ArkDes in Stockholm and the first installment in a two-exhibition series from ArkDes and Nieuwe Instituut that “[shines a] light...
Snøhetta has shared photos of the Shanghai Grand Opera House that is nearing completion on the banks of the Huangpu River. The building with publicly accessible rooftop is set to open in the second half of 2026.
Lemay describes their approach to the design of the Saint Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal Welcome Pavilion as one of “humility rather than assertion.” Situated at the base of the highest building in Montreal, the new building embeds itself into the landscape and signals its presence via an...
Estimated future turnover of the Wynn Al Marjan casino resort under construction on an artificial island in Ras Al Khaimah,...
The seven members of the US Commission of Fine Arts (CFA)—all of whom were appointed by President Donald Trump in January—have approved plans for a $400 million ballroom to replace the White House's East Wing that was demolished last fall. Approval by the National Capital Planning Commission...
Mitsubishi Jisho Design Inc. recently presented the Marunouchi Architecture Tour. The tour introduced the company's "Inheritance Design" philosophy via visits to actual buildings in Tokyo's Marunouchi district, and included a report on the Marunouchi Architectural Materials Preservation...
Interior design is increasingly seen as a fundamental tool in having a positive attitude towards life. The discourse on this topic was stimulated in mid-February at the Ambiente trade fair and the expert presentations in the event program organized by World-Architects.
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: Hidden Furniture Masterpieces 1950-1991 is on display at LuisaViaRoma's New York boutique through April. The exhibition presents dozens of pieces of 20th-century furniture designed by architects from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), alongside related...
The first episode of the new An Architect's Perspective series finds architect and host James Hamilton visiting Can Lis, the house Jørn Utzon built for his family on the island of Mallorca.
How can resources be used responsibly in construction? Young architects Ronan Crippa and Timothy Allen discuss this with architecture educator Andreas Ruby and researcher Daria Kovaleva, while Basel Grand Council member Salome Bessenich assesses which ideas are likely to gain majority...
For the first time in more than sixty years, Otto Wagner's work is being exhibited in Germany. The drawings by the architect and his colleagues, some of whom are well-known, bear witness to the great leap from historicism to modernism at the turn of the last century.
Here we touch on some recent headlines in the realm of architectural preservation, including awards, grants, and a passing of note.
Open since early November, the Frances M. Maguire Hall for Art & Education is the most significant expansion of the Woodmere Museum opened, which opened in 1910 in Philadelphia. The project renovates a 19th-century residence and provides the museum with fourteen additional galleries....
As part of Bangkok Design Week, which took place in early February, Jenchieh Hung and Kulthida Songkittipakdee of HAS design and research designed High Line Bangkok, a temporary pavilion that “reinterprets public infrastructure for tropical living.” Here we present some photos and drawings of...
Number of homes Australia intends to build in Bradfield City, a new 114-hectare city (282-acre) west of Sydney, including a university campus and a...
From March 8 to 13, Frankfurt will be the stage for light, design, and building technology, at the Light + Building 2026 trade fair. World-Architects invites you to Talks+Tours and Guided Tours with international experts.
The Foundation for the Development of the Lands Adjacent to the Baptism Site has announced that the team led by Níall McLaughlin Architects (NMLA) has won the Museum of Jesus’ Baptism at Bethany, Jordan – International Design Competition, besting the six other finalists in the two-stage...
A new eleven-minute film from Foster + Partners explains the design, engineering, and functioning of 270 Park Avenue, the firm's new supertall skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, and takes viewers inside some of the spaces that serve as the headquarters of JPMorgan Chase.
The Global Turn: Six Journeys of Architecture and the City, 1945–1989 is a new book born from a meeting of the Global Architectural History Teaching Collective (GAHTC), which was founded in 2013 to infuse a global perspective into the academic preparation of the next generation of...
Forestone Cabin is a prototypical shelter designed and built by the 2025 class of the Master in Ecological Architecture and Advanced Construction program at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). Located in the Pyrenees, the cabin resembles a boulder but is built from...
Architect Yan Meng from the Beijing- and Shenzhen-based firm URBANUS has designed two schools in Shenzhen that make direct reference...
Number of times the ski jump in Sochi (2014 Winter Olympics; cost approx. $272 million/€230 million) and the National Sliding Center in Yanqing (2022 Beijing Winter Olympics; cost approx. $500 million/€420 million) were used for international competitions after the close of their respective...
A new rendered animation gives a peek inside the new Concourse D at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. The project, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) with Ross Barney Architects, JGMA, and Arup, is now under construction and expected to be completed in late 2028.
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the seven works in the running for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award: five projects for the Architecture prize and two projects vying for the Emerging prize.
Home textiles are increasingly establishing themselves as defining elements in interior design. New impulses were provided in mid-January at the Heimtextil 2026 trade fair and the expert presentations organized by World-Architects in the event program.
US President Donald Trump is continuing his reshaping of Washington, DC, with headlines in recent days indicating he will close the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for a two-year “reconstruction” and big-name firms are submitting designs to redesign Washington Dulles International...
The new Town Hall in Trofa, a small city north of Porto, has received the most votes in our poll for World Building of the Year 2025. Designed by Porto's NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira, Trofa Town Hall is a dark brick building that emerged from the transformation and expansion of an old...
Years it took the former Norwich Sports Village, or “Hanging Cloths” sports site in Hellesdon, a village in Norfolk, England, to be granted listed status: 38
The Packer Collegiate Institute is a private school in Brooklyn Heights that has occupied a Gothic-style building since the mid-1800s, though it has seen expansions and modernizations over the years. The latest expansion is the Garden House, designed by WXY architecture + urban as a four-story...