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David M. Childs, a longtime partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), and most famously the lead designer of One World Trade Center, the tallest tower at the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, died on March 26 at the age of 83.
Stone in Landscape Architecture: A Sensory Journey is an exhibition at ABC Stone in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where five landscape architecture firms were tasked with creating immersive landscapes that explore the relationship between stone and the design of outdoor spaces. World-Architects...
First dreamed up by one of its residents more than twenty years ago, the National Public Housing Museum is finally opening next month inside the last remaining building from the Jane Addams Homes, the first public housing development in Chicago.
In a short film from The Dialogues Design Directory, architect Sanjay Puri explains—in words and drawings—his stepwell-inspired redesign of a 200-year-old Shiva temple in Nokha, Rajasthan, India.
The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) in New Haven, Connecticut, designed by Louis I. Kahn and completed in 1977, three years after the architect's death, reopens on March 29, 2025, following a multi-year restoration. The most important work in this latest phase of the building's ongoing...
The winners of this year's Best Book Design from all over the World competition, organized by Stiftung Buchkunst (German Foundation for Book Design), have been announced. The five-member jury has selected Stéphanie Baechler's Forget Me Not, which explores 19th-century textile-drying...
LIVING Modernity: Experiments in the Exceptional and Everyday 1920s–1970s, an exhibition that just opened at The National Art Center, Tokyo, presents fourteen masterpieces of modern residential architecture, plus a full-scale reproduction of one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's unbuilt...
The Kistefos Museum, a sculpture park and post-industrial campus located about one hour north of Oslo, is planning a new site-specific gallery that will open in 2031. The museum, working with Malcolm Reading Consultants, has selected eight firms to advance to the next phase of an invited...
The finalists in the second DIVIA Award—the biennial award promoting diversity in architecture—have been announced: seven women architects in more than six countries on four continents.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, working with Malcolm Reading Consultants, has revealed concept designs by six finalists in its two-stage competition to expand the Kansas City, Missouri institution. Take a look at renderings showing how Kengo Kuma, Renzo Piano, Jeanne Gang, and others envision...
Norman Foster speaks in a short film about his firm's design of a proposed 100,000-seat stadium for Manchester United — a huge tent-like structure that would enclose “arguably the largest public space in the world.”
The Wolf Foundation, which “both celebrates and promotes exceptional achievements in the Sciences and the Arts worldwide,” is giving its 2025 Wolf Prize in Architecture to Xu Tiantian, founding principal of Beijing's DnA_Design and Architecture.
Ricardo Scofidio, the New York City architect, educator, and co-founder of the influential interdisciplinary practice Diller Scofidio + Renfro, died on March 6, 2025, at the age of 89.
Accompanying the announcement of Liu Jiakun as the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize are a handful of short films that find the Chengdu-based architect...
Architect Liu Jiakun, a native of Chengdu, China, has been named the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, long considered architecture's highest honor. Today's announcement describes Liu as an architect who continues to practice and reside in Chengdu, “prioritizing the everyday...
Visitors to World-Architects in January voted Nokha Village Community Centre by Sanjary Puri Architects as Building of the Year 2024. Located in the Indian state of...
This house on John Lemley Lane in Christiansburg, a town in Virginia's Valley and Ridge region, would never be confused with its neotraditional neighbors. In lieu of dormers, vinyl siding, and asphalt shingles, the house designed by Ben Pennell has exposed trusses, fiber cement panels, and a...
The New Museum has announced it will reopen its expanded home on Manhattan's Bowery in fall 2025. The expansion, designed by OMA partners Rem Koolhaas and Shohei Shigematsu, links to the museum's iconic 2007 building designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA.
The UK government has announced the teams on the shortlist in the two-stage competition for the design of a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II, to be located in London's St. James Park, just steps from The Mall, the ceremonial route to Buckingham Palace.
In its latest informative film focused on engineering and construction, The B1M heads inside International Congress Centre Berlin, the massive, 313-meter-long “spaceship,” designed by Ralf Schüler and Ursulina Schüler-Witte in the 1970s, that opened in 1979, has sat empty since 2014, was...
ROMEO Collection has just opened Hotel ROMEO Roma, the second location in the Italian capital for the proprietor of five-star hotels and, more importantly, one of the last designs by Zaha Hadid before her death in 2016. The 74-room boutique hotel is housed in a 16th-century palace just steps...
The British Museum in London has announced Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture (LG—A) as the winner of the international architectural competition to redesign its Western Range Galleries, which the museum contends is “one of the biggest cultural renovations undertaken anywhere in the world.”
A recent panel discussion at AIA New York's Center for Architecture explored the state of architectural criticism, “wrestling with questions of ethics, equity, and influence and the role that critics play in the public's perception of the built environment.” World-Architects was in attendance;...
Three years after it opened to the public, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto finally visits the House of Music Hungary he designed for Budapests's City Park, as documented in a video just released by Liget Budapest.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City is a new exhibition that opened at The Shed on February 12. The celebration of the 20th anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installation of 7,503 saffron-colored gates in Central Park also features an...
In a press conference on February 11, Venice Architecture Biennale curator Carlo Ratti revealed some of the 762 participants in the upcoming 19th International Architecture Exhibition. With the Central Pavilion in the Giardini closed for renovations, the Corderie will host many of the projects...
Lotte Scheder-Bieschin, a structural engineer and doctoral researcher in the Block Research Group at ETH Zurich, has developed Unfold Form, a formwork system that enables the construction of thin, fan-shaped vaulted floors in unreinforced concrete. Scheder-Bieschin and BRG shared some...
At a recent event at the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, Mexico, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) announced the five finalists for the 2025 Americas Prize, which honors the best work of architecture completed in the Americas between June 2022 and December 2023.
Architecture, Not Architecture is the new career-spanning monograph on New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro, published this month by Phaidon. Befitting the name, the book is split into two parts — one half presenting buildings and other architecture projects, the other half showing...
Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto was named the 53rd laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in March 2024, and in May he received the medal during a ceremony held at the Art Institute of Chicago. World-Architects visited
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named SANAA, the Tokyo studio of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, as the 2025 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal, recognizing “SANAA’s work to reshape the global design landscape, creating spaces that bring simplicity, light and elegance to...
The Welsh association football club Wrexham AFC has unveiled plans for the new Kop Stand at STōK Cae Ras (STōK Racecourse), the club's longtime home. Designed by Populous, the new stand for 5,500 fans will be wrapped by a brick facade looking onto a new public plaza.
The first film in the Canadian Centre for Architecture's three-part Groundwork series, which explores alternative modes of architectural practice that respond to the urgency of the climate crisis, is available to watch online: Into the Island follows architect Xu Tiantian of Beijing's...
The Nokha Village Community Centre in the Indian state of Rajasthan received the most votes in our poll for World Building of the Year 2024. Designed by Mumbai's Sanjay Puri Architects, the rural building near the village of Nokha consists of a library and community space serving people in...
The second installment in the two-part exhibition of Folios produced by the Architectural Association in London between 1983 and 1991 is now on display at Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. World-Architects stopped by and took some photos.
The second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale opened to the public on January 25 at the Western Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, where it will be on display until May. New for this edition is the AlMusalla Prize, an international competition for a small prayer...