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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.
The SPF Institute for Solar Technology OST in Rapperswil and Griesser demonstrate with their joint research project "PowerSlide" why solar shading is no longer merely heat protection, but increasingly an energy component.
Last month, in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, Madeline Beach Carey spoke with Marta Vall-llossera, President of the Higher Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain (CSCAE), a role she has held since February 2022 and the unexpected passing of then CSCAE president Lluís Comerón.
Bofill Taller de Arquitectura is designing a resort in Dhërmi, Albania, that comprises 443 residential units settling onto the landscape like a lightweight fabric. Faced with an almost untouched coastal forest landscape, the firm has opted for restraint: the architecture does not dominate the...
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
Decades before the creation of Central Park, New Yorkers seeking nature ventured to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Founded in 1838, the cemetery's now 478 acres still a half million visitors every year paying homage to some of the famous permanent residents or just taking in the site's...
Number of unresolved building violations in the Spanish city of Malaga: 12,823
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...
Chinese architect Doreen Liu and her firm, NODE, are committed to transforming infrastructure projects into community spaces. Yet in her home country, the focus remains primarily on technical criteria. Eduard Kögel spoke with Ms. Liu about Honghu Park and other projects in Shenzhen.
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 April 18, the Goethe-Institut's new Dakar location, designed by the firm of Francis Kéré, was inaugurated. The building, unveiled in 2022, has walls made...
Price of a three-bedroom apartment just under 2,000 square feet (186 m2) in a building on Place de L’Estrapade in Paris’ fifth arrondissement,
World-Architects speaks to renowned Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh about the risks to her country’s architecture, preserving memory of place, and protecting structural identity amid war and conflict.
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.
A rippling facade of glass cantilevering over the sidewalk greets visitors to the new Glasshouse Theatre in Brisbane, Australia, designed by Blight Rayner Architecture in partnership with Snøhetta. The architects answered a few questions about the recently completed project, revealing how the...
Price of a 265-square-foot (24.6 m2) “micro loft” inside Providence Arcade, America’s oldest shopping mall: $225,000 (€191,000)
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.