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The Ontario-based museum has unveiled the designs of five architects/teams in a two-stage competition as part of their relocation to the Parks Canada Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site on the Trent-Severn Waterway.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Dame Zaha Hadid will be the recipient of the 2016 Royal Gold Medal, what RIBA calls "the world’s most prestigious architecture award."
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations has shortlisted 6 design firms from the 48 firms under consideration in the two-stage selection process for the New U.S. Embassy Compound in Brasilia, Brazil.
John Wardle Architects has designed the inaugural Summer Architecture Commission, a new initiative of the National Gallery of Victoria's Department of Contemporary Design and Architecture.
The Linda Pace Foundation has unveiled plans for its new building designed by David Adjaye for a site along San Pedro Creek in San Antonio, Texas.
The recently completed Ryerson University Student Learning Centre in Toronto, designed by Snøhetta with Zeidler Partnership Architects, has a crystalline form accentuated by faceted panels with a prismatic finish at the building's entrance on Yonge Street.
After their competition-winning design for the 2020 Olympics stadium in Tokyo was scrapped due to rising costs, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has stepped down from the revised competition, unable to find a contractor to partner with.
Nearly one year after initial designs by China's Ma Yansong were unveiled to the public, refinements to the museum that filmmaker George Lucas is planning for a lakefront site in Chicago have been released.
Vitra Design Museum's Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design may have closed on September 13th, but for those who missed it the museum has a 25-minute tour of the exhibition from curator Amelie Klein.
The Dutch firm will lead the renovations of two Midtown-Manhattan libraries for the New York Public Library: the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building and the Mid-Manhattan Library, which sit across Fifth Avenue from each other.
The Guardian architecture critic Oliver Wainright goes on a rare tour of Pyongyang, revealing the architecture of the North Korean capital as well as his own sharp eye for capturing the city and its buildings through words and photos.
The much-anticipated opening of The Broad, the museum designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Eli and Edythe Broad in downtown Los Angeles, takes place on September 20th.
French architect Dominique Perrault has been named a recipient of the Japan Art Association’s 2015 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists.
The Architect's Newspaper interviews Chicago architect Jeanne Gang in, of all places, the Chicago River, next to the boathouse her studio completed for a site on the river's north branch.
Sydney-based landscape architectural practice McGregor Coxall has been appointed to work with the Art Gallery NSW and Japanese architects SANAA to develop the landscape design concept for the Sydney Modern Project.
FC Barcelona has announced the finalists in the architectural competition for the Espai Barça, which aims to be the "biggest and best sports facility that the world has ever seen in a city center."
Stone supplier SolidNature collaborated with architect Rem Koolhaas and designer Petra Blaisse to display 600 types of onyx, marbles, travertines, and other stones for the Maison & Objet trade fair in Paris.
Five finalists have been named in the Finnish Association of Architects' (SAFA) 2015 Finlandia Prize for Architecture, with the winner to be selected by composer Kaija Saariaho.
Some aerial drone footage from the first day of September reveals the construction progress on Apple's huge ring-shaped headquarters designed by Norman Foster and located in Cupertino, California.
Northerly Island, a park designed by Studio Gang Architects and SmithGroupJJR for the Chicago peninsula that formerly served as Meigs Field, opens to the public on Friday, twelve years after Mayor Richard M. Daley closed the airport.
A month and a half after being appointed director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has defined "Reporting from the Front" as the theme of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.
With last week's announcement of the international search for an architect to design the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, we take a look at 20 libraries designed by World-Architects member firms since 2004, the year of the striking Clinton Presidential Library designed by ennead architects.
Peruvian practice Llonazamora has inserted a wood and metal construction juxtaposing architectural elements of Lima's Republican buildings inside LIGA in Mexico City for the gallery's 19th exhibition.
A Modern Apartment Emerges From the Meeting of the Two Separately Perceived Prisms: Gokturk 118
The Barack Obama Foundation has released an RFQ (Request for Qualifications) for architects interested in designing the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) to be located on Chicago's South Side.
Following their design being scrapped in July, a 24-minute video from Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) argues that their winning design for the main venue of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is ready to build and pursuing a new design is foolhardy.
News came in September 2014 that architect Isay Weinfeld would take his Brazilian modernism to a site next to the High Line in New York for luxury residences. Renderings have finally been released for the project.
Buenos Aires's new Centro Cultural Kirchner is commonly known as Ballena Azul (Blue Whale) due to its whale-like concert hall designed by B4FS Arquitectos that is covered in metallic fabric from GKD.
Zürich's EM2N has won first prize in the competition for the New Museum of Natural History and State Archives in Basel with their "Zasamane" entry.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are the winners of the 2015 RIBA Jencks Award.
The World War One Centennial Commission has announced that five design concepts for the National World War One Memorial at Pershing Park in Washington, DC have been selected to proceed to Stage II of the design competition.
BIG – Bjarke Ingel Group's design of a waste-to-energy plant under construction in Copenhagen incorporates an art piece that puffs a steam ring each time the plant burns one ton of carbon dioxide.
Paralleling the popularity of supertall skyscrapers that top 300 meters (984 feet), the New York Times looks at "giga coasters," roller coasters with drops of over 300 feet (91 meters).
Qatar Museums has announced the long-list of 26 architects selected from 489 submissions in the international search for the architect who will design the one-million-square-foot Art Mill in Doha.
At World-Architects we are big fans of art with an architectural twist, so we decided to focus on some artists who look to architecture and building as subjects for their paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and films.
The Chicago Architecture Biennial has announced the final list of participants – over 100 architects and artists from more than 30 countries selected by Biennial Co-Artistic Directors Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda.