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John Hill | 20.01.2026

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Eight years after David Chipperfield Architects' competition-winning design for the Nobel Center in Stockholm was halted by a Swedish court, a revised design on a different waterfront site, also designed by Chipperfield, has been unveiled. Construction is expected to start next year.


John Hill | 18.01.2026

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The OMA-designed expansion of the New Museum, which opened on New York's Bowery in a building designed by SANAA in 2007, will finally open to the public on March 21—ten years after the project was announced.


John Hill | 14.01.2026

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January 31 is the deadline for HouseEurope!, a registered nonprofit aimed at incentivizing renovation over demolition and new construction, to gain one million signatures as a European Citizens’ Initiative. If successful, the initiative will advance to the European Commission and be considered...


John Hill | 09.01.2026

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Three months after the East Wing of the White House was bulldozed by US President Donald J. Trump to make way for a new ballroom, and two months after Shalom Barnes replaced James C. McCrery as architect of the addition, the “East Wing Modernization Project” was presented to the National...


John Hill | 08.01.2026

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The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the 40 shortlisted works selected by the jury for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.


John Hill | 03.01.2026

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In 2025 we presented 50 projects as Buildings of the Weeks on World-Architects. Now it's your turn to help us crown a Building of the Year by voting for your favorite project between now and the end of January. The winner will be announced in early February.


Antonio La Gioia | 31.12.2025

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As part of the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona, the Catalan capital will host the International Emerging Workshop, a creative laboratory for students and young professionals led by twelve leading emerging architecture studios, which will take place one week before the...


John Hill | 12.12.2025

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The winners of the SHARE Architecture Awards 2025 were announced at a two-day event at at the Zumtobel Light Forum in Dornbirn, Austria, in early December. The jury deemed the National Star Observatory of Cyprus, designed by Kyriakos Tsolakis Architects, as the overall winner.


John Hill | 12.12.2025

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The Taichung Green Museumbrary—its name referring to the fact it is home to the both new Taichung Art Museum and the Taichung Public Library—opened to the public on December 13, 2025. It is the largest cultural project to date designed by SANAA, the Japanese firm of Pritzker Prize-winning...


John Hill | 05.12.2025

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Frank Owen Gehry, the most famous architect in the world since the opening of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain in 1997, died on Friday, December 5, 2025. He was 96.


John Hill | 05.12.2025

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The American Institute of Architects has announced that Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is the winner of the 2026 AIA Gold Medal, and Jackson, Mississippi's Duval Decker is recipient of the 2026 Firm Award.


Natalie Kreutzer | 05.12.2025

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Natural materials, craftsmanship, and artificial intelligence—these are the buzzwords at Heimtextil 2026 in Frankfurt. The leading trade fair for interior design will showcase the latest industry trends from January 13 to 16.


John Hill | 04.12.2025

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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.


John Hill | 03.12.2025

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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.


John Hill | 26.11.2025

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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.


John Hill | 25.11.2025

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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.


John Hill | 24.11.2025

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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.


John Hill | 19.11.2025

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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?


John Hill | 18.11.2025

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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...


Antonio La Gioia | 13.11.2025

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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...


John Hill | 13.11.2025

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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...


John Hill | 10.11.2025

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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.


John Hill | 06.11.2025

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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...


John Hill | 31.10.2025

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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,”...


John Hill | 30.10.2025

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Anchoring Harvard University's new Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston, Massachusetts, the David Rubenstein Treehouse is a new university-wide hub for convening and the first mass timber building on the Ivy League school's growing campus.


John Hill | 24.10.2025

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Six years after it opened to a mix of fanfare and controversy, the Hunters Point branch of the Queens Public Library in New York City has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought over the inaccessibility of portions of building for people with disabilities, after modifications to...


John Hill | 22.10.2025

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Although it won't be 100% complete and fully occupied for some months, JPMorganChase opened its new 60-story global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, October 21, six years after the demolition of its predecessor, the 52-story Union Carbide Building, began. 


John Hill | 22.10.2025

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Outrage has accompanied images of the East Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, being demolished to make way for US President Donald J. Trump's large addition of a 900-seat, $250 million ballroom.


John Hill | 17.10.2025

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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winner of the 29th RIBA Stirling Prize: Appleby Blue Almshouse, a social housing complex in London for people over 65, designed by Witherford Watson Mann Architects.


John Hill | 16.10.2025

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The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2025, selecting the ten best architecture books published between June 2024 and July 2025.


John Hill | 14.10.2025

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Mexican landscape architect Mario Schjetnan and Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU), the interdisciplinary design firm he founded in 1977, are recipients of the 2025 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, the biennial $100,000 award organized by The Cultural Landscape...


John Hill | 12.10.2025

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Later this month the Dallas City Council will debate the fate of Dallas City Hall, the brutalist building designed by I. M. Pei that has accumulated close to $100 million in deferred maintenance costs since its completion in 1978.


John Hill | 08.10.2025

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The Chicago-based nonprofit organization formerly known as the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has rebranded as the Council on Vertical Urbanism (CVU), a name the group contends “more clearly reflects our expanded global vision and the future we're helping to shape.”


John Hill | 01.10.2025

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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.


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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

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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.