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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
Found
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
Found
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
Products
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
Found
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
Found
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
Headlines
on 30-11-2015
Last week Wandsworth Council announced that the team led by Denmark's Bystrup Architecture Design and Engineering won the two-stage competition for the Nine Elms to Pimlico cycling and pedestrian bridge crossing the Thames in London. John Hill
Film
on 30-11-2015
The Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, visits Peter Zumthor at his studio in Haldenstein, Switzerland to present an illuminating, one-hour-long biographical video on the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. John Hill
Headlines
on 26-11-2015
After tying with Snøhetta in April of this year in the restricted international competition for the New National Gallery–Ludwig Museum in Budapest's 200-year-old City Park, SANAA has been selected to design the museum. John Hill
Products
on 25-11-2015
Strasbourg's Urbane Kultur has renovated one of France's "1,000 Pools" from 40 years ago, a distinctive dome set in the townscape. The dark exterior gives way to a light and bright interior covered partially with HI-MACS® acrylic stone. John Hill
Headlines
on 25-11-2015
The BigMat Group, distributors of construction materials, has announced the winners of the second BigMat ’15 International Architecture Award, with the Grand Prize going to Alberto Campo Baeza's office building in Zamora, Spain. John Hill
Headlines
on 24-11-2015
The recipients of the 27th Piranesi Awards were announced last week at the conclusion of the Piran Days of Architecture in Slovenia. John Hill
Film
on 24-11-2015
A new ten-minute documentary from the Irish Architecture Foundation "traces the Irish involvement in building Chicago, from the famous I&M canal to the rise of the Irish culturally and politically." John Hill
Headlines
on 24-11-2015
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group is designing a large, two-tower residential project for a prominently located empty parcel next to the High Line and across the street from Frank Gehry's IAC building. John Hill
Headlines
on 23-11-2015
REX, the Brooklyn firm headed by former OMA partner Joshua Prince-Ramus, has been selected to design the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, long a question mark in the sixteen-acre master plan. John Hill
Found
on 19-11-2015
BAROQUE BAROQUE is a new exhibition in Vienna that brings together a selection of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's artworks from private collections and places them into the baroque spaces of the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy. John Hill
Found
on 18-11-2015
In a ceremony last night overlooking the World Trade Center, the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies gave Santiago Calatrava its European Prize for Architecture. John Hill
Headlines
on 18-11-2015
The Aarhus School of Architecture has announced three pre-qualified candidates for the restricted design competition for a new school of architecture in Denmark. John Hill
Headlines
on 18-11-2015
The Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE - Higher Council of Architectural Colleges of Spain) has announced the winners of its Spanish Interational Architecture Prize 2015. John Hill