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on 26-01-2016
"The Weight of Sacrifice," by 25-year-old Chicago architect Joseph Weishaar and New York sculptor Sabin Howard, has been chosen as the winning design in the two-stage competition for a World War I memorial in Washington, DC. John Hill
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on 25-01-2016
Architect Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein have completed their much-anticipated addition to the 19th-century Swiss National Museum, a jagged concrete mass that touches down in three points to connect the old and new buildings to the adjacent Platzspitz park. John Hill
Insight
on 25-01-2016
What does the selection of Alejandro Aravena as the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate mean for the future of "architecture's Nobel"? World-Architects ponders the question and offers a handful of nominations for future Pritzker Prize juries to consider. John Hill
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on 22-01-2016
Dublin's Heneghan Peng Architects, with Toronto's Kearns Mancini Architects, has bested four other finalists to win the international competition for the new $45-million Canadian Canoe Museum in Ontario. John Hill
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on 22-01-2016
Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture have unveiled their redesign of Berlin's historic Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe), which makes the large department store comprehensible by breaking it into four quadrants, each with its own atrium. John Hill, Katinka Corts
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on 21-01-2016
New York's Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has unveiled its latest design for the transformation of McKim, Mead & White's James A. Farley Post Office into the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall across the street from Penn Station. John Hill
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on 20-01-2016
Less than a year after Bjarke Ingels's firm redesigned Two World Trade Center for 21st Century Fox and News Corp, the companies have decided to remain in Midtown Manhattan until 2025. John Hill
Headlines
on 18-01-2016
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the recipients of the 2016 Institute Honor Awards, 18 projects from approximately 500 submissions in three categories: architecture, interior architecture, and regional and urban design. John Hill
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on 18-01-2016
The motto of Expo 2015 in Milan, "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life," was translated in the French pavilion into a built landscape designed by Parisian architecture firm XTU, with lighting design by Bonn's Licht Kunst Licht. John Hill, Thomas Geuder
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on 14-01-2016
David Maisel's series of photographs, The Fall, now on display at Haines Gallery in San Francisco, explores from above the landscape between Toledo and Madrid, Spain, to reveal the not-so-subtle interactions between humans and nature. John Hill
Headlines
on 14-01-2016
According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH, the official international arbiter of skyscraper heights), the total number of "supertall" skyscrapers reaches 100 with the completion of Rafael Viñoly's 432 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. John Hill
Headlines
on 13-01-2016
The Hyatt Foundation has announced that Alejandro Aravena of Chile has been selected as the 2016 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. John Hill
Headlines
on 13-01-2016
A team consisting of Robbrecht en Daem, Dierendonckblancke Architecten, VK and Arup, in collaboration with Bureau Bas Smets, Muller Van Severen and Grontmij, has been selected to design the new media building for VRT, the Flemish Radio and Television Broadcasting Company in Brussels. John Hill
Film
on 12-01-2016
Architect Steven Holl and choreographer Jessica Lang collaborated last year on Tesseracts of Time, which premiered in November at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance in Chicago. Watch the two discuss their collaboration, and watch excerpts from the first performance. John Hill
Insight
on 11-01-2016
On Sunday, the exhibition Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie, closed at the National Academy Museum in New York. World-Architects eMagazine Editor in Chief John Hill visited the exhibition on the 2015 AIA Gold Medal winner and filed this report. John Hill
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on 08-01-2016
Is this a ceramic tile pattern? A painting? A quilt? No, it's a "public domain remix" of a small fraction of the 187,000 items the New York Public Library has made available for high-resolution download. John Hill
Headlines
on 07-01-2016
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a $22 billion plan to modernize transportation infrastructure throughout New York state, with $3 billion going toward a renovated Penn Station, the busiest – and considered the worst – train station in New York City. John Hill
Headlines
on 07-01-2016
Munich's HENN has won first prize in a competition to design a nearly 200-meter-tall office tower for software company Kingdee in Shenzhen, China. John Hill
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on 05-01-2016
Laurent Kronental's Souvenir d'un Futur, which documents senior citizens living in the "Grands Ensembles" around Paris – some of them designed by Ricardo Bofill in the 1980s – earned the photographer a 2015 Emerging Talent Award (Bourse de Talent) from the... John Hill
Headlines
on 04-01-2016
In 2013 and 2014, the Building of the Week on American-Architects took a state-by-state look at American architecture, but last year we went overseas to see how US architects design for other countries – and the inverse, to see how foreign architects build in North America. Now it's... John Hill
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on 04-01-2016
The campus of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is known best for SANAA's Rolex Learning Center built in 2010. Dominique Perrault has just completed an adjacent building whose facade dissolves through the use of a custom, movable aluminum mesh. John Hill, Thomas Geuder
Film
on 04-01-2016
The Louisiana Museum of Art profiles Copenhagen's Henning Larsen Architects in "Building Ambitions for Soceity," a twenty-minute film from the Louisiana Channel. John Hill
Headlines
on 22-12-2015
One week after revealing the two finalists in the second design competition for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Stadium, the Japan Sports Council has selected the winner, a wood and steel structure designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. John Hill
Headlines
on 21-12-2015
Today the Barack Obama Foundation issued RFPs (Requests for Proposal) to seven potential architects to design the future Obama Presidential Center (OPC) on Chicago's South Side. John Hill
Insight
on 14-12-2015
For our last Insight feature of 2015, World-Architects looks back – month-by-month, and week-by-week – at some of the headlines, projects, competitions, features and products of the last year, while we glance ahead to some projects slated for completion in 2016. John Hill
Headlines
on 14-12-2015
The Japan Sports Council has unveiled two competing designs for the 2019 Rugby Cup and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, following the shelving of Zaha Hadid's competition-winning design earlier this year. John Hill
Headlines
on 11-12-2015
Lincoln Center and New York Philharmonic have announced that Heatherwick Studio and Diamond Schmitt Architects have been selected to redesign David Geffen Hall, the home of the Philharmonic and the largest concert hall in the Lincoln Center complex. John Hill
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on 10-12-2015
To celebrate the holiday season, the Lab at Rockwell Group has created "Luminaries," an interactive light installation amongst the palm trees inside the winter garden at Brookfield Place, the former World Financial Place in Lower Manhattan. John Hill
Headlines
on 09-12-2015
Following mentorships by Japan's Kazuyo Sejima and Switzerland's Peter Zumthor, British architect David Chipperfield has been selected as the architecture mentor for 2015-16 in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. John Hill
Headlines
on 08-12-2015
Assemble, the architecture and design collective from London, has won the Tate's prestigious Turner Prize, beating out three finalists with a community-based project based in the Granby Four Streets area of Toxteth, Liverpool. John Hill
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on 07-12-2015
The Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) is celebrating its centennial and the tenure of outgoing Dean Robert A.M. Stern with the exhibition "Pedagogy and Place: Celebrating 100 Years of Architecture Education at Yale" that just opened inside Rudolph Hall. John Hill
Headlines
on 04-12-2015
The Museum of Modern Art has selected five finalists for its annual Young Architects Program at its MoMA PS1 outpost in Long Island City, Queens, and it has appointed Sean Anderson as Associate Curator, Department of Architecture and Design. John Hill
Headlines
on 03-12-2015
The American Institute of Architects has named the influential Postmodern architects from Philadelphia the 2016 recipients of the AIA Gold Medal, the first duo to receive the honor since the AIA allowed collaborations two years ago. John Hill
Headlines
on 02-12-2015
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has won the international competition to design an 87,000 m2 masterplan in the area of Skøyen in central Oslo; they contend the scheme "will become a unifying urban development icon." John Hill
Headlines
on 01-12-2015
Strelka KB has announced a shortlist of six design teams that will take part in the second phase of the the international architectural competition for the new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University. John Hill