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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.
The Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2024 (TAB24) was held at the Estonian Museum of Architecture last October and November under the theme “Resources for a Future,” as developed by head curator
In our “Healing Architecture” series, we examine the quality of stay in healthcare buildings, focusing on the creation of spaces that actively support recovery.
Zhaoyang Architects from Dali, the provincial capital of Yunnan, has been building in rural areas for many years. The project presented here was created for the...
Number of nights fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) stayed in his 600-m2 (6,450-sf) “Villa Louveciennes”...
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) invited the public into its new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Peter Zumthor in collaboration with SOM, for a summer preview of the building that is set to open in April 2026.
A staunch opponent of modern architecture, Léon Krier designed mixed-use urban neighborhoods where everything was within walking distance. The traditionalist was a leading figure of postmodernism, but a lavish book on Albert Speer's architecture brought him into disrepute.
A number of parks and other public spaces in New York City have made headlines in recent weeks. Here we highlight four of them: a beloved community green space, a waterfront park, an informal skate park, and a piece of pedestrian infrastructure.
Jim Cutler, principal at Bainbridge, Washington's Cutler Anderson Architects, gives Architectural Digest a tour of a now 12-year-old house in Newberg, Oregon, that he designed so it is one with the old pond that it straddles.
Although “summer reads” have been a thing for a long time, books about architecture don’t tend to populate lists of books to be taken on holiday. Most architecture books are big and heavy, academic rather than narrative. Novels with strong architectural elements strike a good balance, and in...
Foster + Partners has been selected to design the National Memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’ Park, London, beating out Heatherwick Studio, WilkinsonEyre, and other shortlisted firms.