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The State of Qatar has announced that Frida Escobedo Studio, with Buro Happold and Studio Zewde, won an invited competition to design a new headquarters complex for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Doha waterfront.
Architect and photographer Gillian Hopwood, who moved from England to Nigeria in 1954 and practiced architecture with her husband, John Godwin, in Lagos for around 60 years, died on November 6, 2025. She was 97.
VernissageTV visits the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Basel, taking its camera inside Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room – The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Universe, part of the first solo exhibition in Switzerland on the famed Japanese artist.
Massey Hall is a historic 131-year-old performing arts venue in Toronto with a curious mix of architectural styles: Palladian outside, Art Deco and Moorish Revival inside. Add to that list modernism, with KPMB Architects' recent revitalization and addition. The architects at KPMB answered a...
Number of Chinese companies among the ten largest construction firms worldwide: 6
Robert A.M. Stern, the famed neotraditional architect, longtime dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and author of a series of definitive books on New York City architecture, died on November 27 at the age of 86.
Marina Tabassum Architects: People Place Poiesis opened at TOTO GALLERY·MA on November 21. The exhibition showcases the Bangladeshi architect's projects that are rooted in climate, culture, and tradition, and which are also committed to supporting people affected by natural disasters...
La Biennale di Venezia has announced that architects Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, founders of Hangzhou's Amateur Architecture Studio, will direct the Venice Architecture Biennale's 20th International Architecture Exhibition, making them the first curators of the exhibition from China.
For the first time in its 65-year history, the house designed by Pierre Koenig as part of Arts & Architecture magazine's Case Study Houses program, made famous through photographs taken by Julius Shulman, is up for sale.
As part of their recently unveiled design for Birmingham City Football Club’s new stadium, Heatherwick Studio and MANICA, with filmmaker Steven Knight, have released a short film explaining their design that is anchored by twelve towering chimney-like structures visible from miles away.
The recipients of the 36th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 22, 2025, during the 42nd Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia.
AquaPraça, designed by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Höweler + Yoon, was exhibited in design form in this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Ratti, then unveiled at full scale in Venice in September, before the building made a 7,500-mile nautical voyage to Belém, Brazil, for...
Size of the Fractal Chapel, or Lukaskapelle, located in a state hospital in the Austrian city of Graz, designed by INNOCAD, and
Louisiana Channel has expanded Make Materials Matter, a 15-minute short film profiling Danish architect Søren Pihlmann, into a nearly one-hour film that presents Pihlmann's curation and restoration of the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale alongside other projects that embody his...
If life gives you lemons, the saying goes, you make lemonade. And if Switzerland serves up some fog on a Saturday morning, you make the most of it, visiting a building whose overgrown concrete surfaces just look better bathed in gray. Look at some photos from a recent visit to Siedlung Halen,...
News has broke that Sperone Westwater, the 50-year-old art gallery based in New York City, is closing at the end of the year. This raises the question: What will become of the gallery's bespoke eight-story building on the Bowery designed by Norman Foster?
Tom Avermaete brings architectural history out of its niche. In his lectures and research work as a professor at ETH Zurich, he transforms it into a teacher, demonstrating how environmentally friendly and resource-efficient construction can be achieved.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has announced that it will open to the public on September 22, 2026—sixteen years after George Lucas first proposed such a museum, twelve years after he selected Ma Yansong and MAD Architects to design it, and eight years after construction began at Exposition...
The Zumtobel Group supports the EUmies Awards, one of the most prestigious awards for architects worldwide. Isabel Zumtobel explains why she is convinced of the importance of this commitment and why promoting young talent is particularly close to her heart.
Set against the wild limestone cliffs and dense coastal forest of Punakaiki, Punangairi redefines what a visitor center can be. Designed by Sheppard & Rout Architects, in collaboration with Ngāti Waewae, the project moves beyond tourism infrastructure to become an act of cultural and...
Minimum factor by which prices of a property in one of more than forty Melbourne suburbs have surged in the last thirty years: 10
The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) opened to the public on October 31 with a 24-hour open house that included a number of free events in addition to a portion of the museum's 117,000 artworks being put on display. World-Architects visited during the open house and took some photos,...
As part of the 2025 World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Miami, curator Vladimir Belogolovsky, of Curatorial Project, has mounted Out of Context, an exhibition presenting seven buildings by seven architects, ranging from a villa in Armenia to zoo pavilions in China.
The fourth edition of the Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival (BARQ) recently concluded with the announcement of E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea as the best feature film. The film, directed by Beatrice Minger and Christoph Schaub, won out among the seven...
On November 8, Sotheby's New York opened its new home in the Breuer Building, the 1966 brutalist masterpiece designed by Marcel Breuer for the Whitney Museum of American Art. The renovation of the modern landmark was carried out by Switzerland's Herzog & de Meuron with New York's PBDW...
The Doshi Retreat opened on October 25 at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. It is a refuge designed by Pritzker Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi in close collaboration with his granddaughter Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof.
The Ismaili Center, Houston, designed by Farshid Moussavi Architecture and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in partnerhsip with AKT II DLR Group, was inaugurated on November 6 as the first Ismaili Center in the United States and the seventh worldwide.
The Inaugural RIBA Middle East Awards has recognized nine winning projects across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, celebrating the region’s best new architecture. Jumana Abdel-Razzaq reports on the winners from Dubai.
On November 1, Dublin-based architecture firm heneghan peng architects celebrated the official completion of its design of the Grand Egyptian Museum. Located just over one mile away from the Pyramids of Giza, the museum is a testament to the longevity and scale of ancient Egyptian civilization...
Number of years it took to construct and open the entire complex of the Grand Egyptian Museum close to Giza, spanning 500,000 square meters (5.4m sf), costing some $1.2bn (€1.1bn), and...
A list of 410 works nominated for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards (EUmies Awards) has been released by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. The nominations showcase the most significant built works in the EU...
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles Zhu Pei, the Chinese architect whose most famous building is the stunning five-year-old Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum.
Lahbib El Moumni and Imad Dahmani founded Mémoire des Architectes Modernes Marocains (MAMMA) in Casablanca in 2016. MAMMA is working on documenting modernist buildings that have often been forgotten and urgently need more publicity. Eduard Kögel spoke with Lahbib El Moumni...
Sitting on the banks of the Cumberland River in Nashville's Germantown neighborhood, Neuhoff is a large mixed-use development consisting of office, cultural spaces, residential units, and retail/dining establishments in a mix of new construction and converted old buildings that hark back to...
Number of American architects and designers tasked with advising on designs for major projects, such as the White House ballroom and the monumental “Arc de Trump,”
Malcolm Reading Consultants has revealed the designs by the seven finalists in the Museum of Jesus’ Baptism at Bethany, Jordan – International Design Competition. The new museum will be located on the east bank of the Jordan River, adjacent to Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan,”...