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The consumer goods industry is getting together in Frankfurt. From 7 to 11 February, Ambiente, the world’s leading trade fair, will once again set the stage for trends and lifestyles. This year marks the debut of the Interior Looks area with a high-caliber interior design...
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Bureau Cube Partners have won an anonymous design competition for the new home of the Nikola Tesla Museum, which will be housed in Belgrade, Serbia's historic Milan Vapa Paper Mill.
The Palisades Fire that broke out on Tuesday, January 7, has expanded to more than 15,000 acres over the course of two days, growing closer to Case Study House #8, the masterpiece of modern residential architecture designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1949.
As part of a recent TEDx event in Fargo, North Dakota, Craig Dykers presents Snøhetta's design process for the competition-winning design of the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library now under construction in the Dakota Badlands.
Japanese architect Hiroshi Hara, best known for two buildings completed in the 1990s — the JR Kyoto Station Building and the Umeda Sky Building in Osaka — died on January 3, 2025, at the age of 88.
The needs of older people are often neglected in hospital architecture. Greater focus on age-appropriate design is essential to meet the needs of this growing patient group. Geriatrician Cornel Sieber talked to us about helpful approaches in architecture and the importance for clients to...
With the new year upon us, World-Architects is looking ahead to some of the exhibitions, grand openings, and book releases that should be taking place over the next twelve months. Here we present 25 things to look forward to in 2025 in four categories: events, openings, publications, and...
The Małopolska Science Center Cogiteon held its grand opening on June 21, 2024, six years after a competition was held for the design of the new institution. The winning design by the Wrocław office of heinlewischer placed the interactive exhibitions below a sloped green roof that is open to...
Minimum number of times the rationalist Casa del Fascio, or House of Fascism, designed in 1932 by Italian architect Giuseppe Terragni, then 28, and completed in 1936,
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.
Yoshio Taniguchi, the celebrated Japanese architect best known for the design of museums, including the 2004 expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, died on December 16, 2024, at the age of 87.
The Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design and Real Estate Company ADM have announced five finalists in an open international design compeitition for a new museum of architecture and design that will be built in Helsinki’s South Harbour.
The jury of the 5th edition of Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize 2024, a biennial initiative by Simon curated by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, has announced two winning films in two categories — Collective Places and Personal Places — as well as a Best Audiovisual Narrative...
Take a look back at 2024 — our 30th year! — as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last 12 months. Instead...
The new Museum of Modern Art Warsaw revealed itself during an inauguration in October, but the Thomas Phifer-designed building won't have its official grand opening until February 2025. In between, Ulf Meyer visited to see the results of an institution nearly two decades in the making.
Size of the main building of the “People’s Palace” in the Syrian capital of Damascus, where the ruling Assad family lived until the beginning of December 2024, while tens of...
To Build Law is a new documentary and the second installment in “Groundwork,” a three-part film and exhibition series from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) that explores alternative modes of architectural practice. The film documents the conceptualization and development of...
The nominees in the second DIVIA Award — the biennial award promoting diversity in architecture — have been announced: 25 women architects in more than 20 countries.
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...
The latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's “Building Novels” series, which looks at works of fiction where buildings and architecture play integral roles, is Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows by Anna Kostreva, an architectural designer and urban researcher at Plural Studio in Berlin....
Accor Hotels is set to open the Pullman Tokyo Ginza hotel on the site of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, the masterpiece of Metabolism that was designed by Kisho Kurokawa in 1972 and demolished fifty years later despite attempts to save the innovative structure.
At the start of the year, Munich becomes the hub for the international construction industry. From January 13 to 17, the world's leading trade fair BAU focuses on building of tomorrow. The five key themes address the urgent transformations required.
Share of the 100 tallest buildings currently under construction worldwide that are in China: 61
WXCA, a young architecture studio from Warsaw, designed both the Polish History Museum and the adjacent Polish Army Museum. Ulf Meyer recently visited the two institutions that had their grand openings last year, sending us his impressions.
From 1982 until 2019, visitors to the Missouri Botanical Garden entered through the grounds through the HOK-designed Ridgway Visitor Center. With the 40-year-old building unable to handle the garden's growing crowds, it was replaced by the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center designed by Baltimore's...
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.
The Centre des Cultures et Spiritualités Ewés (CCSE) is a project initiated by the Kothor Foundation, whose aim is to promote the culture and historical heritage of the Ewé people through the construction of a multi-faceted site. The project also aims to change the way visitors and the general...
Heimtextil is the world's leading trade fair for home and contract textiles. The next edition will take place from January 14 to 17, 2025 under the motto "Connected by Textiles." More than 3,000 exhibitors from over 60 countries are expected to attend.
To celebrate the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris five years after a devastating fire necessitated an extensive and speedy restoration and reconstruction, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is exhibiting an immersive, three-dimensional digital model of the Gothic landmark. A...
The Albert Einstein Discovery Center (AEDC) will pay tribute to the famous physicist, but it is also intended to enhance its location in Ulm. Daniel Libeskind presented his design for the new building last week.
A year and a half after officials in the Chicago suburban of Oak Park were poised to consider the demolition of its own Village Hall, the Village Board voted to revitalize the building designed by Harry Weese in 1975.
The ten finalists of the fifth biennial Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize have been announced. An initiative from Simon curated by the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, the prize aims to address global challenges of socio-environmental impact through videos that show architectural projects...
PSA Publishers Ltd, the company that oversees the World-Architects platforms, was founded in Zurich in 1994. As the year 2024 draws to a close we mark the 30th anniversary of PSA with an article that traces the company’s evolution over these three decades and highlights some of the important...
As is the case for many other building typologies in China today, schools are often realised with standardised building modules designed independent of any location or topography. Hongling High School in the Futian district of Shenzhen is no exception. While it tends to be assumed that the...