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Amtrak, the US Department of Transportation, and Penn Transformation Partners, the master planner appointed to the project last month, have unveiled design renderings for the much-needed redevelopment of New York's Penn Station, the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere.
The Century of Gehry, a major retrospective of Frank O. Gehry's architecture and design, opens on June 12 in the new Álvaro Siza Wing at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal.
Rowan University is located in Southern New Jersey, about a half hour drive south of Philadelphia, not far from the Pine Barrens, a large area made up of Atlantic Cedar forest and unique flora and fauna. ikon.5 architects found inspiration in the Pine Barrens in their design of an expansion to...
Number of pieces in the largest ever LEGO set—a version of the Sagrada Família in the Spanish city of Barcelona, the...
With three weeks to go until the UIA World Congress of Architects in Barcelona, World-Architects has rounded up some other events taking place in the context of the Catalan capital also serving as UNESCO-UIA World Capital of Architecture.
Fifteen years after opening its Safdie Architects-designed home in Bentonville, Arkansas, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art is opening, on June 6, a major expansion designed by the same architecture firm. Appropriately, old and new create a seamless whole in the Ozark landscape.
Take a peek inside a serpentine, the 2026 Serpentine Pavilion designed by Mexico City's LANZA atelier. It opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on June 6 and remains on display until October 25, hosting Serpentine's public programming.
A short film documents Smiljan Radić and the six other members of the jury visiting the seven works in the running for the prestigious EUmies Awards 2026, the winners of which were announced in April and given their prizes at a ceremony in Barcelona last month.
About a month after the Getty Center announced it would be closing next year for a major modernization of its nearly 30-year-old campus, the institution has revealed renderings of new and redesigned elements, including a tram station designed by Gehry Partners.
Days to build a 3D-printed apartment building in Bezannes (close to Reims, France) with twelve units of social housing, each with its own balcony, spread...
The Lost Shtetl Jewish Museum, which celebrates the rich history of Jewish life in Lithuania, opened to the public on September 20, 2025. The building was designed to be “like a village that is constantly being built,” per Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects, who answered some questions about...
Disseny Hub Barcelona is hosting an exhibition that traces a continuous arc of architecture produced in Catalonia from 1875 to the present. With more than five hundred pieces unearthed from archives and storage facilities, the exhibition offers a cross-cutting perspective that transcends...
Forty-one years after Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Pont Neuf Wrapped, artist JR has covered the famous bridge over the Seine in Paris with an inflatable mountain. Over three weeks in June, visitors will be able to traverse the bridge inside La Caverne du Pont Neuf.
In the more than thirteen years since Hurricane Sandy sent water surging into Lower Manhattan, New York City has been fortifying the affected waterfronts in keeping with the Big U, a competition-winning vision by a team led by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and ONE Architecture and Urbanism. With...
Piet Oudolf, in a short film made for The World Around Summit 2026, speaks from his home and studio in Hummelo, Netherlands, about his landscape design for Calder Gardens, the art institution and Herzog & de Meuron-designed building that opened to the public in Philadephia last year.
We live in an age of intellectual simplification: complex interrelationships are reduced to slogans and black-and-white narratives—even in architecture. Aita Flury offers a counterpoint with her book Reprise.
Number of architecture students who could enroll in 2026 in Switzerland’s ETH Zurich for the yearly fee of one architecture student at MIT Architecture in Cambridge, Massachusetts—both listed among the
One month after giving it preliminary approval with requests for revisions, the Commission of Fine Arts granted final approval for US President Donald Trump's 250-foot-tall arch proposed for Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery—with most of the requests ignored by Trump and his...
Ongoing shifts in retail have left many malls and shopping centers around the world empty, either slated for demolition or—in the most responsible cases—transformed into other uses, such as offices, schools, or even housing. Oriente Green Campus is an exemplary example of a large shopping mall...
In a professional context that still equates identity with formal language, the work of L35 shifts the focus from style to method. With nearly six decades of experience and a practice that spans diverse regions, the firm has built its strength not on the repetition of solutions, but on a way...
Filmmaker Juan Benavides has created a short film from 6-½ minutes he shot for At the Garden’s Pace, the 2024 documentary film about the construction of a pavilion for a botanical garden in Hilversum, Netherlands. The short film shows architect Enzo Valerio and others blowing sand from...
One month after US President Donald Trump had the federal government take control of the much-needed renovation of Penn Station in Manhattan, a developer has been chosen—but not the one many people were expecting.
The expansion of Wrightwood 659, an exhibition space in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando nearly a decade ago, is facing opposition from a neighbor—a holdout trying to block the expansion via a lawsuit.
Six months after architects Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, founders of Hangzhou's Amateur Architecture Studio, were named the curators of the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale, the pair have revealed their exhibition theme: Do Architecture – For the Possibility of Coexistence Facing a Real...
The Villum Fonden, Velux Fonden, and Velux Stiftung sister foundations have announced the 2026 winners of The Daylight Award, the biennial award that honors and supports daylight research and daylight in architecture. Architects Momoyo Kaijima and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow are the...
Years since Herzog & de Meuron began working on Tour Triangle, at 180 meters (590 feet), the third tallest...
The MEERESMUSEUM is housed in Stralsund’s 700-year-old St. Catherine’s Monastery. Reichel Schlaier Architects carefully renovated the complex and added a modern museum building featuring a large aquarium. We asked Elke Reichel and Peter Schlaier a few questions about the project.
Dispositional Intelligence in Architecture is the third book by architect and educator José Aragüez. Published in 2025, the book follows The Building (2016) and Spatial Infrastructure (2022). In it, Aragüez analyzes the work of three figures whose hybrid...
Camden Highline—the proposed transformation of a a disused railway viaduct in London into a new local park, garden walk, and wildlife corridor—has paused due to rising construction costs, general inflation, and “the emerging 2026 energy shock.”
VernissageTV takes viewers inside the Pavilion of Greece at the Venice Art Biennale 2026, which is open to the public until November. The pavilion's immersive installation, called Escape Room, was created by artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis.
World-Architects speaks to Dr. George Arbid, a Lebanese architect, researcher, and curator of the latest Sharjah Architecture Triennial archival exhibition, showcasing historic architectural materials from Baghdad, Damascus, and Tunis until July 2026.
The Storefront for Art and Architecture has named DAAR—Decolonizing Architecture Art Research, the art/architecture practice of Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, as the inaugural recipient of the Kyong Park Prize for Art and Architecture, which recognizes practitioners working at the...
Castor Place is a multi-use venue housed in a transformed 19th-century warehouse in Piraeus, the ancient port city of Athens. The adaptive reuse project was designed by Manhattan Projects New York City (MPNYC), the firm led by architect Andreas Kostopoulos, as a “welcoming space capable of...
A new series of videos from Kohn Pedersen Fox during their 50th anniversary year takes viewers behind the design of various KPF projects, including the mixed-use supertall at 520 Fifth Avenue in New York City and Panorama St Paul’s, the conversion of a 1980s building in London into at...
Size of Venus’ flower basket—glass sponges living in 500m (1,600') deep water that inspired a proposed 315m (1,033') high skyscraper in Vancouver, BC, Canada: 10–30cm (4–12")
Madeline Beach Carey, in the latest installment of the “Building Novels” series focused on works of fiction with architectural themes, reviews Javier Moro’s The Architect of New York, published in an English translation by Counterpoint Press earlier this year.