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Take a look back at 2024 — our 30th year! — as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last 12 months. Instead... John Hill

The new Museum of Modern Art Warsaw revealed itself during an inauguration in October, but the Thomas Phifer-designed building won't have its official grand opening until February 2025. In between, Ulf Meyer visited to see the results of an institution nearly two decades in the making. Ulf Meyer

Size of the main building of the “People’s Palace” in the Syrian capital of Damascus, where the ruling Assad family lived until the beginning of December 2024, while tens of... René Ammann

To Build Law is a new documentary and the second installment in “Groundwork,” a three-part film and exhibition series from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) that explores alternative modes of architectural practice. The film documents the conceptualization and development of... John Hill

The nominees in the second DIVIA Award — the biennial award promoting diversity in architecture — have been announced: 25 women architects in more than 20 countries.  John Hill

Two and a half years after Mexican architect Frida Escobedo was selected to design the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, renderings have been released of what is notably the first wing designed by a woman in The Met's 154-year... John Hill

The latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's “Building Novels” series, which looks at works of fiction where buildings and architecture play integral roles, is Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows by Anna Kostreva, an architectural designer and urban researcher at Plural Studio in Berlin.... Madeline Beach Carey

Accor Hotels is set to open the Pullman Tokyo Ginza hotel on the site of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, the masterpiece of Metabolism that was designed by Kisho Kurokawa in 1972 and demolished fifty years later despite attempts to save the innovative structure. John Hill

At the start of the year, Munich becomes the hub for the international construction industry. From January 13 to 17, the world's leading trade fair BAU focuses on building of tomorrow. The five key themes address the urgent transformations required. Natalie Kreutzer

Share of the 100 tallest buildings currently under construction worldwide that are in China: 61 René Ammann

WXCA, a young architecture studio from Warsaw, designed both the Polish History Museum and the adjacent Polish Army Museum. Ulf Meyer recently visited the two institutions that had their grand openings last year, sending us his impressions. Ulf Meyer

Mattress Factory, the “artist-centered” museum housed in an early 20th-century Stearns & Foster mattress warehouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, recently opened REIFICATION, a site-specific installation by artist Eugene Macki that fuses sculpture and performance. Take a tour through... John Hill

The Vancouver Art Gallery is scrapping plans to build a new home designed by Herzog & de Meuron due to rising costs, and will seek a new architect. John Hill

The Centre des Cultures et Spiritualités Ewés (CCSE) is a project initiated by the Kothor Foundation, whose aim is to promote the culture and historical heritage of the Ewé people through the construction of a multi-faceted site. The project also aims to change the way visitors and the general... Kéré Architecture

Heimtextil is the world's leading trade fair for home and contract textiles. The next edition will take place from January 14 to 17, 2025 under the motto "Connected by Textiles." More than 3,000 exhibitors from over 60 countries are expected to attend. Silke Bücker

To celebrate the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris five years after a devastating fire necessitated an extensive and speedy restoration and reconstruction, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is exhibiting an immersive, three-dimensional digital model of the Gothic landmark. A... John Hill

The Albert Einstein Discovery Center (AEDC) will pay tribute to the famous physicist, but it is also intended to enhance its location in Ulm. Daniel Libeskind presented his design for the new building last week. Katinka Corts

A year and a half after officials in the Chicago suburban of Oak Park were poised to consider the demolition of its own Village Hall, the Village Board voted to revitalize the building designed by Harry Weese in 1975. John Hill

The ten finalists of the fifth biennial Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize have been announced. An initiative from Simon curated by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, the prize aims to address global challenges of socio-environmental impact through videos that show architectural projects... John Hill

PSA Publishers Ltd, the company that oversees the World-Architects platforms, was founded in Zurich in 1994. As the year 2024 draws to a close we mark the 30th anniversary of PSA with an article that traces the company’s evolution over these three decades and highlights some of the important... Madeline Beach Carey

As is the case for many other building typologies in China today, schools are often realised with standardised building modules designed independent of any location or topography. Hongling High School in the Futian district of Shenzhen is no exception. While it tends to be assumed that the... Eduard Kögel

Price paid in 2024 for a European-style home in Hong Kong owned by Hui Ka Yan, founder of the onetime property giant China Evergrande, who in 2009 paid $130... René Ammann

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Modulus Matrix: 85 Social Housing in Cornellà, Barcelona, designed by Peris + Toral Arquitectes is the winner of the 2024 RIBA International Prize. John Hill

Spirit of Space takes a peak-fall-foliage visit to architect Steven Holl's off-grid Watercolor Hut on his ‘T’ Space campus in Rhinebeck, New York, to speak with the architect about his working process, the quiet focus the hut enables, and even the tools he paints with. John Hill

The recipients of the 35th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 23, 2024, during the 41st Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia. John Hill

One of the most formally striking buildings added to an office profile on World-Architects in recent weeks is Sun Tower, a waterfront cultural facility in Yantai, China, designed by OPEN Architecture, the Beijing firm of Huang Wenjing and Li Hu. Take a visual tour through a building “sculpted... John Hill

Schenker Salvi Weber have built St. Pölten's new KinderKunstLabor (Children's Art Laboratory). Michael Salvi answered some questions about the spatially and atmospherically rich building that was developed using a physical model. Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten

Amount the tenant of a 2-bedroom apartment in a low-energy property in West Kirby, England, pays monthly in energy costs in the winter: £10 ($12.50) René Ammann

Take a tour through the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Village via a new book from Dominique Perrault, A Village and its Double: Urban Planning Manual: Olympic and ParalympicGames, Paris 2024. Published by Actar, the 800-page book is an urban manual that is the antithesis of other... John Hill

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, working with Malcolm Reading Consultants, has announced the six finalists who will take part in second stage of the international design competition to expand the Kansas City, Missouri institution. John Hill

Longwood Reimagined, a 17-acre expansion of Longwood Gardens carried out by WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism in collaboration with Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture, opens to the public on Novemer 22, 2024. John Hill

The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features a 20-minute interview with Spanish architect Rafael Moneo at his studio in Madrid. John Hill

In the Malaga region of the Serranía de Ronda, Philippe Starck has designed a unique and surrealist oil mill that fuses tradition, art, and architecture in homage to olive oil and local culture. An intense red concrete cube, like the earth of the landscape on which it stands, represents “the... Antonio La Gioia

With author Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Anna Heringer talks intelligently, open-heartedly, and captivatingly about her development as a person and what this means for her architecture. Form Follows Love is a monograph, biography, and manifesto all in one. Elias Baumgarten

Age of the Stirling Prize-winning Centenary Building at England's University of Salford, set to be demolished after standing empty for eight years and be replaced by about 900 homes amid a... René Ammann

Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries is on display at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal from November 14, 2024 until March 16, 2025. Here we present a few of Erickson's photographs from the CCA archive that express how the Canadian... John Hill