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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...
Price range for studio and one-bedroom apartments with beach access to the Red Sea in Hurghada, Egypt: $15,000 to $45,000...
Michael Benedikt, the celebrated University of Texas at Austin professor and author of numerous books of architectural theory, died on August 13 at the age of 78.
The Sixth Pantheon is an impressive work of architecture in Buenos Aires whose existence and architect, Ítala Fulvia Villa, remained silenced for decades. Completed in the 1950s, the underground necropolis received global attention after the recent publication of a monograph devoted to it....
Despite the widespread attention given to the efforts of preservationists to convert the former Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, designed by Kenzo Tange, into a hotel, the governor of the prefecture is standing firm on plans to demolish the distinctive boat-shaped building built in 1964.
Among the numerous events that took place during the vernissage of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale back in May was a panel discussion organized by The World Around and the San Marco Art Centre (SMAC). The World Around recently uploaded a one-hour video of “The World Around On Site:...
Eighty years after the Augustów Roundup, the tragic massacre of Polish soldiers and civilians by the Soviet Red Army, the House of Remembrance of the Augustów Roundup has opened in Augustów's historic Dom Turka. The architects at Tremend sent us some text and images on the project, which was...
One component of the 2026 UIA World Congress taking place in Barcelona next summer is the UIA International Student Competition, Catalysts of Resilience, which launched in July and “invites students to design spatial interventions that enable resistance and adaptation to predictable...
The Miller Hull Partnership's third project completed with the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) is the recently completed U.S. Consulate General in Guadalajara, Mexico. Made up of multiple buildings, the project balances technical and security requirements...
First he added gold trim to the Oval Office. Then he added two large flagpoles to the White House grounds and paved over the lawn of the famous Rose Garden. Now US President Donald Trump is set to build a 90,000-square foot, $200 million ballroom where the East Wing now stands.
Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron will transform the historic Birkenstock Campus in Marin County, California, into “a world-class art and design museum” for the nonprofit Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity, which advances the legacy of famed husband-and-wife designers...
Established in 1984, the Kanoria Centre for Arts in Ahbedabad was designed by Balkrishna Doshi, who worked out of his Ahmedabad studio, Sangath, until his death in 2023. Doshi's legacy is being carried out, in part,
Architecton is the third installment in Victor Kossakovsky's “A” trilogy—following Vivan las Antipodas! (2011) and Aquarela (2018)—which finds the Russian filmmaker exploring humanity's place on the Earth. The 2024 documentary oscillates between hypnotic slow-motion...
In late June, the Concéntrico festival took place in Logroño, Spain, featuring a number of temporary pavilions and events structured around four curatorial themes. One pavilion addressing the theme of water is the Round About Baths, designed by
Estudio ALA's project for a mezcal distillery, or palenque, in the Mexican state of Michoacan includes production areas, worker dining areas, and recreational spaces. The programmatic spaces are shaded by generous roofs supported by mass timber and integrated into the natural topography...
The first episode of Rebel Architects: From Venice to the World Stage, a 12-part documentary series by FORT: LA (Friends Of Residential Treasures: LA) “about seven architects who defined the freewheeling West Coast aesthetic,” is now free to watch online.
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been named a recipient of Japan Art Association’s 2025 Praemium Imperiale, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists.
In the Raval neighborhood, one of the most densely populated and culturally diverse areas of Barcelona's old town, MIAS Architects has carried out the comprehensive renovation of an existing residential...
Johanna Deinet and her K&L Architekten team, Saikal Zhunushova and Andy Senn all design buildings that get by without complex air conditioning technology. Even on hot summer days, constructive solar shading elements such as shutters and blinds keep their low-tech buildings cool.
The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower opened in MoMA’s street-level galleries on July 10. The small exhibition documents Kisho Kurokawa's groundbreaking residential project located in Tokyo’s Ginza District from 1972 until 2022, through dozens of artifacts, an interactive virtual...
The aptly named Ts VEIL is a social dining space in Ho Chi Minh City spread across three floors behind a draped metal mesh facade. Sitting on a corner parcel in a dense neighborhood, the facade veils a structure that is an assemblage of new and old. Architect Khoa Vu answered a few questions...
Estimated annual costs for fuel, crew salaries, maintenance and upkeep for Koru—the world’s largest sailing yacht, at 417 feet (127m)—owned by Amazon...
The Architecture of Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest is on display at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo until November. It is the first major survey of Fujimoto's work. The Japan-Architects curators visited the exhibition, sending us photos of some of the many models, videos, sketches,...
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced the FBI will be moving its headquarters from the brutalist J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, DC to the neoclassical Ronald Reagan Building, also in DC, the former home of the shuttered USAID.
Ma Yansong, who runs his global studio, MAD Architects, out of offices in Beijing, Los Angeles, and Rome, is one of the most distinctive artistic voices in China. He spoke to Vladimir Belogolovsky about his just-opened Fenix Museum in Rotterdam, the under-construction Lucas Museum of Narrative...
Last month, the nineteen shortlisted projects competing for the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were revealed. The Aga Khan Trust Development Network (AKDN) has uploaded...
Curator Vyjayanthi Rao and associate curator Tau Tavengwa have revealed “Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures” as the theme for the 3rd Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT03), which will launch in November 2026.