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January 31 is the deadline for HouseEurope!, a registered nonprofit aimed at incentivizing renovation over demolition and new construction, to gain one million signatures as a European Citizens’ Initiative. If successful, the initiative will advance to the European Commission and be considered...
Dutch artist Madelon Vriesendorp, the 2025 recipient of the Soane Medal from the Sir John Soane's Museum in London, received her medal and gave a talk Royal Academy of Arts in November. In the lecture, the self-proclaimed “obsessive artist” discusses her upbringing, education, and long...
World-Architects is promoting a new way of experiencing architecture in Barcelona through Architecture Studio Sessions, a series of events that, as part of the official program of Barcelona 2026 World Capital of Architecture, will open architecture studios in the city to the public and turn...
Translated as “sea otter house” in hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the Down River language of local First Nations, təməsew̓txʷ is a combined aquatic and community center in New Westminster, British Columbia, that was designed by Vancouver's hcma. The architects answered a few questions about the project.
Share of the coastline of Jamaica that is accessible to the island's residents, as the state sold most of the 1,022-kilometer (635-mile)...
Three months after the East Wing of the White House was bulldozed by US President Donald J. Trump to make way for a new ballroom, and two months after Shalom Barnes replaced James C. McCrery as architect of the addition, the “East Wing Modernization Project” was presented to the National...
Japanese architect Shin Takamatsu gained fame in and beyond Japan in the 1980s with a “function follows form” approach expressed in stunning graphite drawings and realized in a number of commercial buildings in Kyoto. The architect remains active to this day and has numerous projects on the...
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the 40 shortlisted works selected by the jury for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.
Architect Steven Holl takes viewers on a tour of the Architectural Archive and Research Building in Rhinebeck, New York. The “brachiating” building, home to the Steven Myron Holl Foundation, contains five decades worth of physical models, drawings, and daily watercolors from Holl's practice,...
One hundred years ago, a unique construction program was launched in Frankfurt: Over 12,000 new apartments were built within just a few years. What can Das Neue Frankfurt (The New Frankfurt) teach us about solving the current housing crisis?
Two recently released architecture videos from Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel look at architecture in Mexico and Africa, respectively speaking with Mexico City architect Carlos H. Matos and architect Omar Degan, founder and curator of the first Pan-African Architecture...
Located in Jodhpur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Facets is a brick-clad mixed-use building housing a workplace, warehouse, and experience center for an electric switch company. The architects at Studio UF+O answered a few questions about the building.
Years since the world’s longest running construction project, the Sagrada Família by Antoni Gaudí—now nearing completion, “in a sense,” in Barcelona—broke ground:...
In 2025 we presented 50 projects as Buildings of the Weeks on World-Architects. 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.
With the new year upon us, World-Architects is looking ahead to some of the events, grand openings, and book releases that are planned to unfold over the next twelve months. Here we present 26 things to look forward to in 2026 in four categories: biennials and triennials, exhibitions, museum...
As part of the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona, the Catalan capital will host the International Emerging Workshop, a creative laboratory for students and young professionals led by twelve leading emerging architecture studios, which will take place one week before the...
Take a look back at 2025 as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last twelve months. Instead of a chronological presentation, here we link to 35 articles in 9 categories: Awards, Books, Brutalism, Exhibitions, Films, Interviews,...
In China, things usually happen quickly—including in architecture. But the Xiao Feng Art Museum in Hangzhou took its time: the planning, coordination, and outfitting stretched over thirteen years before the museum doors were finally opened. Beijing-based architect Zhang Ke and his team...
Approximate area of the Guggenheim Museum Abu Dhabi, designed by the late Canadian-American architect Frank O. Gehry, announced in 2006 but not expected to be completed until 2026 after a series of delays, and consisting of
The winners of the SHARE Architecture Awards 2025 were announced at a two-day event at at the Zumtobel Light Forum in Dornbirn, Austria, in early December. The jury deemed the National Star Observatory of Cyprus, designed by Kyriakos Tsolakis Architects, as the overall winner.
The Taichung Green Museumbrary—its name referring to the fact it is home to the both new Taichung Art Museum and the Taichung Public Library—opened to the public on December 13, 2025. It is the largest cultural project to date designed by SANAA, the Japanese firm of Pritzker Prize-winning...
On a recent trip to Morocco, Eduard Kögel visited the Sidi Harazem Thermal Bath Complex, a masterpiece of brutalist architecture that was designed by Jean-Francois Zevaco in the 1960s but is now in need of repairs. Read about the project, its current conditions, and the plans for its future.
The latest architecture-themed video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles Philip Beesley, an artist and designer known for forest-like sculptures and installations.
This month gta Verlag is publishing Values and Surfaces: Art, Economy, Architecture, the English translation and expansion of a collection of essays by art and architectural historian Philip Ursprung first published in German in 2017. Lynnette Widder, architect and professor at Columbia...
Minimum number of AI-powered design variants that were analyzed and evaluated against competing objectives by the architects at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in their design of the West Bund Convention Center in Shanghai, a building
As its subtitle makes clear, Melnikov: An Investigation Through Architectural Models is a new book that examines the built and unbuilt architectural projects of Russian architect and artist Konstantin Melnikov through models. The topic was also the subject of a recent exhibition at...
Just like with the living, space is at a premium for people housed in cemeteries in urban areas. One solution for cemeteries with limited site area is building up, as is being done at Hollywood Forever with its Gower Court Mausoleum. Michael B. Lehrer, founder and principal of Lehrer...
Frank Owen Gehry, the most famous architect in the world since the opening of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain in 1997, died on Friday, December 5, 2025. He was 96.
The American Institute of Architects has announced that Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is the winner of the 2026 AIA Gold Medal, and Jackson, Mississippi's Duval Decker is recipient of the 2026 Firm Award.
Natural materials, craftsmanship, and artificial intelligence—these are the buzzwords at Heimtextil 2026 in Frankfurt. The leading trade fair for interior design will showcase the latest industry trends from January 13 to 16.
The State of Qatar has announced that Frida Escobedo Studio, with Buro Happold and Studio Zewde, won an invited competition to design a new headquarters complex for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Doha waterfront.
Architect and photographer Gillian Hopwood, who moved from England to Nigeria in 1954 and practiced architecture with her husband, John Godwin, in Lagos for around 60 years, died on November 6, 2025. She was 97.
VernissageTV visits the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Basel, taking its camera inside Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room – The Hope of the Polka Dots Buried in Infinity Will Eternally Cover the Universe, part of the first solo exhibition in Switzerland on the famed Japanese artist.
Massey Hall is a historic 131-year-old performing arts venue in Toronto with a curious mix of architectural styles: Palladian outside, Art Deco and Moorish Revival inside. Add to that list modernism, with KPMB Architects' recent revitalization and addition. The architects at KPMB answered a...
Number of Chinese companies among the ten largest construction firms worldwide: 6
Robert A.M. Stern, the famed neotraditional architect, longtime dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and author of a series of definitive books on New York City architecture, died on November 27 at the age of 86.