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John Hill | 03.10.2024

Headlines

During its annual international conference that took place in London and Paris last week, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named Pan Pacific Orchard, a 23-story hotel in Singapore, as the 2024 Best Tall Building Worldwide. Designed by Singapore's WOHA, it is the second...


John Hill | 02.03.2023

Headlines

The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have announced that Andrew Freear, director of Rural Studio in Newbern, Alabama, is the recipient of the 2023 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.


John Hill | 07.09.2022

Headlines

New York's Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2022 National Design Awards, which recognizes design excellence and innovation in nine categories.


John Hill | 01.11.2021

Headlines

The TRANSFER Global Architecture Platform has revealed the winner of its 2021 Architecture Video Award: Split Lives by Joshua Bolchover and John Lin of Rural Urban Framework.


R/URBAN DESIGN OFFICE | 17.08.2020

Works

Two roads were there. A wide road with traffic and a narrow alley in a residential area. The new office space for R/URBAN DESIGN OFFICE LLC was planned between these two contrasting roads. Originally, it was divided into a commercial tenant space facing the wide road and a residential space...


Civic Architects & Bright Urban Futures | 23.01.2018

Works

With the start of 2018, a new iconic structure was opened to the public in Tilburg, Netherlands. The structure forms a public pavilion on the central pier in the old city harbour and serves as a landmark for recreational boats and yachts, visiting the city. The firms Civic Architects & Bright...


Atelier Urban Face | 08.01.2018

Works

The recently installed kiosks at Beaver Lake, designed by Montreal’s Atelier Urban Face, features a delicate balance between the demands of infrastructure, and the integration of the buildings into the landscape.


John Hill | 17.01.2017

Found

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has published a study and report examining all of the buildings over 200 meters tall that were completed in 2016. 


John Hill | 30.05.2016

Insight

Our first of three features on the three main components of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale – the Reporting from the Front exhibition, the National Pavilions, and the Collateral Events – focuses on Alejandro Aravena's contribution, Reporting from the...


John Hill | 25.01.2016

Insight

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 | 11.12.2014

Headlines

The American Institute of Architects has announced the recipients of its annual Honor Awards: the Gold Medal, the Architecture Firm Award, the Topaz Medallion, the Edward C. Kemper Award, and the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award.


John Hill | 27.10.2014

Insight

In response to Chinese leader Xi Jinping's call for an end to "weird architecture" in China, we combed through the profiles on the Chinese-Architects platform of World-Architects to highlight some firms working in a different vein.