Magazine
A new video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles architectural designer Jenny Sabin, whose eponymous design studio and design lab at Cornell University investigate the intersections of architecture, science, and the fine arts.
In 2023 we presented 40 projects on World-Architects in our inaugural World Building of the Week feature. Now it's your turn to help us crown a Building of the Year by voting for your favorite project between now and the end of January. The winner will be announced in early February.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
The Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture in London has announced that, in response to climate change and the urgent need to “cultivate careful use and reuse of materials and space,” next year it will start offering a new post-professional program in Conservation and Reuse.
London's Royal Academy of Arts has released a 17-minute film presenting the collaborative social housing projects in Mallorca developed by Cris Ballester Parets,
During a special event held at the Royal Academy of Arts on October 31, Livyj Bereh, the volunteer group that has been rebuilding roofs in Ukraine since May 2002, was awarded the 2024 Royal Academy Dorfman Prize, which aims “to celebrate new ideas and practices that highlight the future...
Billed as “the first-ever major museum exhibition to examine the career of the influential 20th-century architect Paul Rudolph,” Materialized...
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features an interview with architect Liz Diller in the studio of Diller Scofidio + Renfro on New York's West Side, not far from the practice's breakout project, the High Line.
Energies, the new exhibition that opened at the Swiss Institute in Manhattan's East Village on September 11, invites visitors to explore other parts of the neighborhood related to the exhibition's themes of “ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political...
The latest addition to Tippet Rise Art Center — a sprawling ranch in Montana that has been home to artworks, pavilions, and performance spaces since opening in 2016 — is Geode, an open-air acoustical structure and performance venue designed by Arup to create an intimate sonic environment...
As part of the the Kunsttage Basel event in late August, Nicolas Krupp Gallery invited Swiss visual artist Eric Hatten to play around with the materials in the gallery's new exhibition space currently under construction. VernissageTV walked through the exhibition in one of its latest videos.
The latest architecture-related film from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features an interview with Andrés Jaque, founder of the Office for Political Innovation and Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP).
The latest installment of The Architects Series, a project of The Plan Magazine and Iris Ceramica Group, presents a half-hour documentary on the architecture and interior design studio NOA...
This June, Rotterdam shines as the epicenter of architectural innovation with its highly anticipated Architecture Month, the large annual festival dedicated to envisioning the Dutch city's future. Amid the myriad of events capturing the city's cultural scene, one standout deserves special...
In January, we asked visitors to our American-Architects platform to vote for their favorite Building of the Week from 2023. In the end, the US Building...
Jenny Holzer: Light Line is on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City from May 17 until September 29, 2024. The major exhibition features a selection of artworks created by the artist from the 1970s to the present and, at its center, a new manifestation of Installation for...
Film director Steve McQueen's Bass is an immersive light-and-sound installation in the lower-level gallery of Dia Beacon in New York's Hudson River Valley. World-Architects visited ahead of the artwork's opening on May 12.
For Le Grand Soir, which opened last month and is on display for two years in the courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada stacked colored concrete blocks into towers inspired by the tradition of constructing human pyramids in Morocco as well...
Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj has installed Abetare on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the museum's 2024 Roof Garden Commission. The exhibition, opening on April 30, consists of sculptures inspired by children's doodles, drawings, and scribbles found on...
A US federal judge has halted the demolition of Greenwood Pond: Double Site, a 1996 work of environmental art in Des Moines, Iowa, by Mary Miss, and a German court has ruled that Ravensburger can continue to produce jigsaw puzzles bearing the iconic image of Leonardo da Vinci's...
Watch a short film from VernissageTV of Ryoji Ikeda's data.tecture [nº1], the immersive sound and video installation that was recently shown at Blum Gallery in Los Angeles as part of Thirty Years: Written with a Splash of Blood.
Richard Serra, the artist known for monumental sculptures made with large plates of weathering steel that required people to move around them to fully experience them — making him a favorite of many architects — died at his Long Island home on Tuesday, March 26, at the age of 85.
Occupying two full floors and multiple terraces of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Renzo Piano-designed building in New York's Meatpacking District, the 81st edition of the Whitney Biennial, subtitled Even Better Than the Real Thing, aims to provide a space where difficult...
Minimum funds required to rebuild the burnt-out Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art, according to architect David Chipperfield:...
The Interactive Learning Pavilion at the University of California, Santa Barbara received the most votes in our poll for US Building of the Year 2023. Designed by Seattle's LMN Architects, the classroom building consists of two volumes astride an open-air “street” that,
In 2023 we presented just shy of 40 Buildings of the Week, featuring short Q&As with architects about recently completed buildings in the United States. It's your turn to help us crown a US Building of the Year by voting for your favorite. The winner will be announced at the end of...
A highlight of ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN, the comprehensive retrospective on Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha now on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, is Chocolate Room, a gallery covered in more than 500 sheets of paper screen-printed with chocolate.
The latest architecture-related filmed interview from Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features Reinier de Graaf, partner at OMA in...
Nyasha Harper Michon, an architect and self-described “archtivist” spoke with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel at WomenMakeTheCity in Amsterdam in October, explaining how designing with “archtivism” leads to less elitist, more inclusive built environments.
The latest video at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features an interview with artist Rachel Whiteread, who won the Turner Prize in 1993 — the first time a woman won the prize — for House, the concrete cast of an old Victorian house.
A Permanent Nostalgia for Departure: A Rehearsal on Legacy with Zaha Hadid is on display at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, until January 28, 2024. The exhibition features artworks that engage directly with the 20-year-old building designed by Zaha Hadid, notably...
Marc-Christoph Wagner interviewed Shelley McNamara, Pritzker Prize laureate and partner with Yvonne Farrell in Grafton Architects, during the UIA World Congress of Architects in July for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel.