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John Hill | 07.10.2025

Found

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Spiral building and the 60th anniversary of its architect, Maki and Associates, the cultural center in Tokyo's Aoyama neighborhood is exhibiting Maki Fumihiko and Spiral – A Place Where Art Lives for the first two weeks of October. The...


Realrich Architecture Workshop | 06.10.2025

Building of the Week

Located in Tangerang, the largest city in the Indonesian province of Banten, Kampoong Guha consists of a children's library, educational spaces, residences, and the office of Realrich Architecture Workshop Studio, which is both architect and client for the community-focused project. Architect...


René Ammann | 05.10.2025

Number

Estimated number of flats that have been demolished in Paris over the last 20 years: 200,000


John Hill | 04.10.2025

Film

Design Will Save The World visits Gary's Place, the 235-acre property in Silay, Philippines, that architect Edward “Ed” Ledesma has turned from a working fish pond into a forested landscape with casitas for his family and an event center for weddings and concerts.


Katinka Corts | 02.10.2025

Insight

Dublin, London, Oxford, Zurich—the documentary film The Librarians has taken European cinemas by storm even before its premiere in the US. But it's actually all about the United States: Since fall 2021, Texas Republican Matt Krause's book ban list has been fueling a wildfire in the...


John Hill | 01.10.2025

Headlines

Ten months after scrapping plans by Switzerland's Herzog & de Meuron, the Vancouver Art Gallery has announced that two Canadian firms—Formline Architecture + Urbanism and KPMB Architects—have been selected to design the institution's new home.


Headlines

The Monte Sant’Angelo Subway Station, which opened on September 11, is part of the larger infrastructure project coordinated by Achille Bonito Oliva.


John Hill | 30.09.2025

Headlines

Sir Terry Farrell, best known for designing the MI6 Building, the London headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service (and which made frequent appearances in James Bond films), died on September 28th at the age of 87.


Behet Bondzio Lin Architekten + BCHO Architects | 29.09.2025

Building of the Week

An undulating brick wall is an appropriate expression for W MISSION, the textile company founded in Seoul in 1988. The company's headquarters, located in Seoul's Seongdong District, was designed by Behet Bondzio Lin Architekten from Münster and BCHO Architects from Seoul. The architects at


René Ammann | 29.09.2025

Number

Increase in per-square-meter price of a flat in the heart of Dubai, in US dollar terms over the past five years: 122%


John Hill | 27.09.2025

Insight

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...


John Hill | 24.09.2025

Headlines

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.


John Hill | 24.09.2025

Found

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...


John Hill | 23.09.2025

Film

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.”


John Hill | 23.09.2025

Headlines

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.


CZA Cino Zucchi Architetti | 22.09.2025

Building of the Week

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...


John Hill | 21.09.2025

Headlines

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.


John Hill | 20.09.2025

Insight

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...


René Ammann | 20.09.2025

Number

Estimated number of new hotel rooms in India—"the hottest new travel destination for hotel brands"—expected to be ready by the end of...


John Hill | 19.09.2025

Found

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...


Joël Steiger | 19.09.2025 Paid content

Specials

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...


John Hill | 16.09.2025

Film

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,


John Hill | 16.09.2025

Headlines

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.


John Hill | 16.09.2025

Insight

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...


John Hill | 15.09.2025

Found

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...


GLUCK+ Architecture | 15.09.2025

Building of the Week

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...


René Ammann | 14.09.2025

Number

Number of windows from homes destroyed in an earthquake in Nepal that the German collective Supertecture used to build an extension to a...


John Hill | 11.09.2025

Headlines

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.


John Hill | 09.09.2025

Film

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.


John Hill | 09.09.2025

Headlines

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.


John Hill | 09.09.2025

Found

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...


BNIM | 08.09.2025

Building of the Week

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...


René Ammann | 07.09.2025

Number

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...


John Hill | 05.09.2025

Insight

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


John Hill | 04.09.2025

Headlines

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.”


John Hill | 04.09.2025

Film

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...