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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...
Size of the Floating Bamboo House 2 by Vietnam's H&P Architects, constructed from bamboo stems, leaves, corrugated iron, and bamboo screens, featuring a flexible interior layout and floating...
Floating Bamboo House (FB House) is a housing model for Vietnamese locals whose livelihoods are river-based, especially those in the Mekong Delta. A first prototype was displayed at Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul last year, and a second prototype, presented here, was completed in Hanoi in...
At more than 5,000 square meters, a new residence near Moscow designed by J.MAYER.H and Partners is a clear sign of wealth inequality in the world today. But its size is balanced by a highly commendable tactic of integrating the building into the landscape, in effect fusing the two parts into...
As part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Rotterdam’s Monadnock has fitted out a portion of one of the Chicago Cultural Center’s monumental stairs with large signs expressing famous quotes by Daniel H. Burnham.
Parametric design, building information modeling, computer-aided manufacturing – these terms represent the digital change in architecture and the building industry. Such architects as Jürgen Mayer H. and Tobias Wallisser, as well as engineers like Werner Sobek, are carrying out...
York Theatre Royal has re-opened following a significant redevelopment by De Matos Ryan, dramatically transforming the theatre’s spaces and visitor experience.
German architect J. Mayer H. unveiled his new installation, XXX TIMES SQUARE WITH LOVE, in New York City's Times Square this morning. The pink seats reference the X-shaped street inersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue as well as the adult theaters that once populated...
Spain’s proposal for the Bienal de Venecia 2016 is entitled “Unfinished”: a compilation of unfinished architectures to provoke reflection on how Spanish architecture has responded to the post-boom real estate crisis. The intention of the project’s curators...
With 20 percent of the votes, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's (AS+GG) FKI Tower in Seoul, South Korea, has won the Building of the Year 2015 on American-Architects.
With last week's announcement of the international search for an architect to design the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, we take a look at 20 libraries designed by World-Architects member firms since 2004, the year of the striking Clinton Presidential Library designed by ennead architects.
Five houses that work together, using the natural topography of the site for the best views: the project is located on mountain environment, adjacent to San Roque Lake.
The Garden House is a new 179 sm house at the far end of the rear garden of a Victorian house in South West London.
The plot is located in the historical city center of Granollers and placed into an urban fabric of dwellings between party walls. The available space is narrow and elongated – only 6.5 m wide – and accessible from two streets.