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John Hill | 08.03.2024

Bau der Woche

Williams College has unveiled the design by Brooklyn's SO–IL for a new building for the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), what will be the museum's first purpose-built home since it was inaugurated a century ago. Framed in mass timber and capped by a flowing, overhanging roof, SO–IL's...


Katinka Corts | 09.03.2023

Headlines

The divia award promotes the visibility of women in the international architecture industry. From the 27 nominees announced in December, the jury has selected five finalists.


John Hill | 01.11.2022

Film

Psyche and Aeon Video have shared Dream City: More, Better, Sooner, the 2016 short film by artist Alice May Williams, coinciding with the completion of the transformation of the Battersea Power...


John Hill | 13.10.2022

Film

Chicago-based architect and artist Amanda Williams is one of 25 recipients of 2022 MacArthur "Genius" Fellowships, as announced on Wednesday, October 12. Learn about how her "works visualize the ways urban planning, zoning, development, and disinvestment impact the lives of everyday residents"...


John Hill | 05.02.2021

Headlines

As announced by the Obama Foundation on February 3rd, the years-long federal review process of plans to build the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side is complete, meaning the project will break ground later this year.


John Hill | 06.11.2020

Headlines

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has won a competition for the Student Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, which will replace the nearly 20-year-old Mattin Center designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.


John Hill | 01.07.2020

Headlines

The University of Southern California School of Architecture and Getty Research Institute have announced the joint acquisition of the archive of architect Paul Revere Williams, "the most significant African American architect of the 20th century."


John Hill | 13.02.2020

Headlines

Hollywood's Architect, a new documentary on Paul Revere Williams, celebrates the life and work of the African American "Architect to the Stars" who was the posthumous recipient of the


John Hill | 05.11.2019

Headlines

Reserve Properties and Westdale Properties have unveiled Untitled, a pair of residential towers planned for midtown Toronto that are designed by musician Pharrell Williams working with architects IBI Group and interior designers U31.


John Hill | 29.10.2019

Headlines

The Obama Foundation has revealed updated renderings for the Obama Presidential Center (OPC), the project designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA) for a site in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side.


John Hill | 17.09.2019

Headlines

New York architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have been named recipients of the Japan Art Association’s 2019 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists.


John Hill | 12.03.2019

Headlines

Five years after MoMA tore down Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects' Folk Art Museum in New York City, John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, has announced plans to raze the firm's 18-year-old Mattin Center.


ALICE EPFL | 08.06.2017

Works

HOUSE 2 - COUNTER CITY is a 240-square-metre public architectural installation situated next to the Toni-Areal in Zurich. The project is based on an experimental format for collaborative design and construction conceived by ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace) — a...


John Hill | 03.05.2017

Headlines

The Obama Foundation has released a couple teaser images for the Obama Presidential Center, designed by New York's Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners with Chicago's Interactive Design Architects for a site on Chicago's South Side.


John Hill | 08.12.2016

Headlines

The Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has voted to posthumously award the 2017 AIA Gold Medal to Paul Revere Williams, FAIA. It is the 73rd AIA Gold Medal and the first time it is being given to an African-American architect.


EPFL ALICE Studio | 18.07.2016

Works

HOUSE 1 is an architectural installation based on an experimental format for collaborative design and construction by ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace) – an international group of young architects and researchers, scientists, and doctoral candidates from the EPFL (École...


John Hill | 30.06.2016

Headlines

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA), with local architecture firm Interactive Design Architects (IDEA), have been selected by the Obama Foundation to design the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in Chicago.


John Hill | 29.03.2016

Found

The Obama Foundation has posted interviews with the seven finalists for the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) to be built on Chicago's South Side. Among other things, the architects were asked what their favorite Chicago building is and why.


John Hill | 21.12.2015

Headlines

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 | 13.01.2015

Film

Cool Spaces! The Best New Architecture, a documentary series on U.S. public television, has made its "Art Spaces" episode available online.