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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...
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has announced that it will open to the public on September 22, 2026—sixteen years after George Lucas first proposed such a museum, twelve years after he selected Ma Yansong and MAD Architects to design it, and eight years after construction began at Exposition...
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2025, selecting the ten best architecture books published between June 2024 and July 2025.
Ten months after scrapping plans by Switzerland's Herzog & de Meuron, the Vancouver Art Gallery has announced that two Canadian firms—Formline Architecture + Urbanism and KPMB Architects—have been selected to design the institution's new home.
Jim Cutler, principal at Bainbridge, Washington's Cutler Anderson Architects, gives Architectural Digest a tour of a now 12-year-old house in Newberg, Oregon, that he designed so it is one with the old pond that it straddles.
As its name indicates, this affordable housing project in Beaverton—a community within the the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario—was built with modular, prefabricated systems. Built by NRB, a Canadian company that specialized in modular construction, Durham Modular Transitional Housing...
Four days ahead of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition opening to the public, the Venice Architecture Biennale opened Margherissima, a Special Project at Forte Marghera in Mestre. The project, designed by Nigel Coates and students from the Architectural Association in London,...
A new video from Architectural Digest finds New York architect Michael Wyetzner delving into the Constructivist-inspired design process of Zaha Hadid—from her thesis at the Architectural Association and competition-winning entry for The Peak in Hong Kong, to MAXXI in Rome, the Contemporary...
Architectural Digest visits Casa Orgánica, the home of artist and architect Javier Senosiain that he built into the earth overlooking Mexico City. The 12-minute film with commentary from Senosiain beautifully captures the colorful, cave-like spaces of a one-of-a-kind creation.
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...
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 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.
Outpost Office, the practice founded by architects and educators Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann, have installed Color Block No. 2 at various in-between spaces both outside and within the Wexner...
Beatriz Ramo, architect at STAR strategies + architecture, gives Architectural Digest a tour of The Cabanon, the 74-square-foot (6.9-m2) apartment in Rotterdam she...
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.
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 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.
Spirit of Space takes a peak-fall-foliage visit to architect Steven Holl's off-grid Watercolor Hut on his ‘T’ Space campus in Rhinebeck, New York, to speak with the architect about his working process, the quiet focus the hut enables, and even the tools he paints with.
The Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture in London has announced that, in response to climate change and the urgent need to “cultivate careful use and reuse of materials and space,” next year it will start offering a new post-professional program in Conservation and Reuse.
London's Royal Academy of Arts has released a 17-minute film presenting the collaborative social housing projects in Mallorca developed by Cris Ballester Parets,
During a special event held at the Royal Academy of Arts on October 31, Livyj Bereh, the volunteer group that has been rebuilding roofs in Ukraine since May 2002, was awarded the 2024 Royal Academy Dorfman Prize, which aims “to celebrate new ideas and practices that highlight the future...
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2024, selecting the ten best architecture books from 170 submissions from 74 publishers.
Billed as “the first-ever major museum exhibition to examine the career of the influential 20th-century architect Paul Rudolph,” Materialized...
Energies, the new exhibition that opened at the Swiss Institute in Manhattan's East Village on September 11, invites visitors to explore other parts of the neighborhood related to the exhibition's themes of “ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political...
AA Folios: 1983–1985 is a small but dense exhibition now on display at The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. Open to the public for just three weeks, the exhibition presents seven of the fourteen Folios produced by the Architectural Association in...
Architectural Digest tours the 75.9 House in the Vancouver countryside with architect Omer Arbel, who devised a tent-like fabric formwork for the house's lily pad-shaped columns, in its latest “Unique Spaces” video.
The latest installment of The Architects Series, a project of The Plan Magazine and Iris Ceramica Group, presents a half-hour documentary on the architecture and interior design studio NOA...
In January, we asked visitors to our American-Architects platform to vote for their favorite Building of the Week from 2023. In the end, the US Building...
Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj has installed Abetare on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the museum's 2024 Roof Garden Commission. The exhibition, opening on April 30, consists of sculptures inspired by children's doodles, drawings, and scribbles found on...
World-Architects takes a look at four recently published books on housing in North America and Latin America: Housing: Strategies for Urban Redensification; Housing the Nation: Social Equity, Architecture, and the Future of Affordable Housing; Laboratorio de Vivienda / Housing...
Stuart Graff, president and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, gives a tour of Tirranna, a late but lesser-known house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for a “breathtaking” setting in New Canaan, Connecticut, that, Graff says, “rivals even Wright's most famous work, Fallingwater, in the...
Occupying two full floors and multiple terraces of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Renzo Piano-designed building in New York's Meatpacking District, the 81st edition of the Whitney Biennial, subtitled Even Better Than the Real Thing, aims to provide a space where difficult...
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto has revealed renderings of a sweeping architectural transformation of its main floor and Bloor Street entrance by Hariri Pontarini Architects. OpenROM, as the project is being called, aims to make the museum more opening and accessible.
Architectural Digest presents a short film, narrated by A-list celebrities, that takes viewers inside the Brown House in Bel Air, California, designed by Richard Neutra in 1955, restored by Marmol Radziner for Tom Ford earlier this century, and recently remodeled by Hollywood producer Ryan...