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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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Iñaqui Carnicero Alonso-Colmenares is an architect and educator who, since 2023, has served as Secretary General for Urban Agenda, Housing and Architecture in Spain. Architects in politics are in the minority compared to lawyers, economists, and other professions—anywhere, not just Spain. This...
Powerhouse has announced that its latest museum, the new Powerhouse Parramatta in Western Sydney, will open to the public in late 2026, a full seven years after the team of Moreau Kusunoki and Genton
Visitors to Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park on New York's Roosevelt Island may notice something different this spring: a sound installation by artist Hans Rosenström finds the memorial's trees “speaking” and “singing.”
During an event on Monday, April 27, the organizers and curators of the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona presented the full program for Becoming: Architectures for a Planet in Transition, which will take place at multiple venues across Barcelona over five days, from June...
Viollet-le-Duc Drawing Worlds, on display at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, is billed as “the first major US exhibition devoted to Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879), the visionary architect, designer, and theorist who redefined the Gothic past for the modern age.”...
On the occasion of Earth Day, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced the Ambasz-MoMA Annual Prize for Nature-Reconciled Architecture, a new $200,000 prize enabled by a major gift from the Legacy Emilio Ambasz Foundation.
A new 22-minute film from The Frick Collection delves into the institution's renovation and enhancement that opened to the public a year ago. Featuring insights from architect Annabelle...
Ennead Architects, the 160-person New York City architecture firm born from the Polshek Partnership, is merging with CannonDesign, the 1,600-person architecture, engineering, and consulting practice with twenty offices in North America and India.
While the theme for Earth Day 2026 is “Our Power, Our Planet,” our thoughts are focused on water, sparked by reading some of the case studies in Lo—TEK Water: A Field Guide for TEKnology, the latest book by designer, author, and advocate Julia Watson.
Twenty years in the making, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partners with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, open to LACMA members on April 19 and the general public on May 4.
The European Commission and Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the two winners of the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award: the Charleroi Palais des Expositions by AgwA and architecten jan de vylder inge vinck is the Architecture Winner, and...
US President Donald Trump's latest Washington, DC folly is a big one: a 250-foot-tall arch that would be placed at Memorial Circle, halfway between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, and become the tallest triumphal arch in the world if built. The seven-member Commission of...
Ten years in the making, the V&A East Museum opens at East Bank, the new cultural quarter in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, on Saturday, April 18. The building designed by O’Donnell + Tuomey is a sister site to the nearby V&A East Storehouse that opened last May.
Last week saw the unveiling of the City Hall Park Deliverista Hub, billed as the first worker-designed rest and e-bike charging hub for delivery workers in the United States. The structure was designed by FANTÁSTICA, the street furniture brand founded by urban designer J. Manuel Mansylla, aka...
The Getty Center's nearly 30-year-old campus, perched on the San Gabriel Mountains overlooking Los Angeles, will close to the public from March 2027 until spring 2028 for what the institution calls “the most significant series of modernization initiatives since its 1997 opening.”
Kengo Kuma and Associates, with BDP and MICA, has won a competition to design a new wing at the National Gallery, part of the 200-year-old London institution's £750 million Project Domani.
Chinese architect Xu Tiantian is the subject of the latest architecture-related video from Louisiana Channel. In “Beauty in Itself Is Dangerous,” she speaks about the architectural acupuncture approach carried out by her Beijing firm,
World-Architects recently received four books from two architects: two books from New York's GLUCK+ and two books from Paris's h2o architectes. In addition to being small books relative to the usual monographs put out by the same firms and other architects, the books are parts of ongoing...
Earlier this year, World-Architects readers voted Trofa Town Hall, designed by NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira, as Building of the Year 2025. We corresponded with...
As expected, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) overwhelmingly approved plans for the new State Ballroom at the East Wing of the White House. Only one dissenting vote was cast in a meeting that took place two days after a judge ordered construction of the 89,000-square-foot...
On Tuesday, March 31, US District Court Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that construction of President Donald Trump's ballroom at the White House needs to stop, since it lacks the proper approvals from Congress. The ruling came a couple days ahead of the National Capital Planning Commission's...
A fly-through animation shared by US President Donald Trump reveals the design of Trump's future presidential library, planned for a waterfront site in Miami. Taking the form of a tapered skyscraper, the glassy building is being designed by Miami's Bermello Ajamil.
Vitra is a Swiss family-owned furniture company that is known best for the production of iconic modern chairs, as well as for office furniture, its eponymous design museum, and the architectural gems dotting its campus in Weil am Rhein, Gemany. This week's announcement that Vitra will reopen...
In response to the anticipated closure of the Kennedy Center in July for a two-year renovation, eight cultural and architectural organizations—including the American Institute of Architects and the National Trust for Historic Preservation—have filed suit against the Trump administration so it...