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La Biennale di Venezia has announced that architects Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, founders of Hangzhou's Amateur Architecture Studio, will direct the Venice Architecture Biennale's 20th International Architecture Exhibition, making them the first curators of the exhibition from China.
As part of the 2025 World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Miami, curator Vladimir Belogolovsky, of Curatorial Project, has mounted Out of Context, an exhibition presenting seven buildings by seven architects, ranging from a villa in Armenia to zoo pavilions in China.
Sitting on the banks of the Cumberland River in Nashville's Germantown neighborhood, Neuhoff is a large mixed-use development consisting of office, cultural spaces, residential units, and retail/dining establishments in a mix of new construction and converted old buildings that hark back to...
A short film from OPEN Architecture captures the sun moving across the firm's Sun Tower, the cultural facility completed last year on an oceanfront site in the Yantai Yeda Development Zone, in China's Shandong Province.
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.
Riken Yamamoto Exhibition: Community and Architecture is on display until November 3rd at Yokosuka Museum of Art, which Riken Yamamoto designed in 2006 and is considered one of his masterpieces. The Japan-Architects curators visited the exhibition when it opened in July and took...
Richard Serra's Running Arcs (For John Cage) opened at Gagosian's gallery on West 21st Street in New York City on September 12—exactly thirty years to the day after it opened, on September 12, 1992, at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, Germany. World-Architects stopped by...
The Cooper Union in New York City has pulled John Hejduk's 1969 publication Three Projects from its archive and is displaying its drawings and related photographs and documents in the third-floor corridor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture. World-Architects stopped by and...
More than fifty architectural drawings from the collection of Susan Grant Lewin are on display at the Modulightor Building, the Midtown Manhattan home of the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture, until September 20. World-Architects visited
Curator Vyjayanthi Rao and associate curator Tau Tavengwa have revealed “Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures” as the theme for the 3rd Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT03), which will launch in November 2026.
The fourth European Conference on Architecture & the Media took place at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona on May 26 and 27. Videos of the two-day conference are now on YouTube, and here we highlight two of the roundtables that gathered journalists to speak about the role of...
The Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) has announced that anthropologist, writer, and artist Vyjayanthi Rao will serve as curator, with Tau Tavengwa as associate curator, for SAT's third edition set to take place in 2026.
Andreas Ruby built the Swiss Architecture Museum into a platform for discourse. An advocate of the Swiss architecture scene, he increased the number of visitors to the Basel museum by 33 percent. After ten years, he is stepping down as director.
The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) in New Haven, Connecticut, designed by Louis I. Kahn and completed in 1977, three years after the architect's death, reopens on March 29, 2025, following a multi-year restoration. The most important work in this latest phase of the building's ongoing...
LIVING Modernity: Experiments in the Exceptional and Everyday 1920s–1970s, an exhibition that just opened at The National Art Center, Tokyo, presents fourteen masterpieces of modern residential architecture, plus a full-scale reproduction of one of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's unbuilt...
An empty one-story dentist's office in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood, about five miles northwest of the Loop, has been transformed into the two-story home for a boutique furniture studio. A workshop and showroom for Nothing Design Company sits behind the screen-like brick facade, no...
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City is a new exhibition that opened at The Shed on February 12. The celebration of the 20th anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installation of 7,503 saffron-colored gates in Central Park also features an...
At a recent event at the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, Mexico, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) announced the five finalists for the 2025 Americas Prize, which honors the best work of architecture completed in the Americas between June 2022 and December 2023.
Architecture, Not Architecture is the new career-spanning monograph on New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro, published this month by Phaidon. Befitting the name, the book is split into two parts — one half presenting buildings and other architecture projects, the other half showing...
The first film in the Canadian Centre for Architecture's three-part Groundwork series, which explores alternative modes of architectural practice that respond to the urgency of the climate crisis, is available to watch online: Into the Island follows architect Xu Tiantian of Beijing's...
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.
The second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale opened to the public on January 25 at the Western Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, where it will be on display until May. New for this edition is the AlMusalla Prize, an international competition for a small prayer...
Two sculptures by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen are on display in the plaza of Lever House at 390 Park Avenue in New York City until November. World-Architects stopped by to take a closer look at Architect’s Handkerchief, which was inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose...
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...
Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation is a new book by Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus that assembles 96 specially commissioned black-and-white, square-format drawings that show architectural drawing — albeit digitally produced — is alive and well in...
The needs of older people are often neglected in hospital architecture. Greater focus on age-appropriate design is essential to meet the needs of this growing patient group. Geriatrician Cornel Sieber talked to us about helpful approaches in architecture and the importance for clients to...
With the new year upon us, World-Architects is looking ahead to some of the exhibitions, grand openings, and book releases that should be taking place over the next twelve months. Here we present 25 things to look forward to in 2025 in four categories: events, openings, publications, and...
Take a look back at 2024 — our 30th year! — as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last 12 months. Instead...
To Build Law is a new documentary and the second installment in “Groundwork,” a three-part film and exhibition series from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) that explores alternative modes of architectural practice. The film documents the conceptualization and development of...
Mattress Factory, the “artist-centered” museum housed in an early 20th-century Stearns & Foster mattress warehouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, recently opened REIFICATION, a site-specific installation by artist Eugene Macki that fuses sculpture and performance. Take a tour through...
To celebrate the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris five years after a devastating fire necessitated an extensive and speedy restoration and reconstruction, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is exhibiting an immersive, three-dimensional digital model of the Gothic landmark. A...
One of the most formally striking buildings added to an office profile on World-Architects in recent weeks is Sun Tower, a waterfront cultural facility in Yantai, China, designed by OPEN Architecture, the Beijing firm of Huang Wenjing and Li Hu. Take a visual tour through a building “sculpted...
With author Dominique Gauzin-Müller, Anna Heringer talks intelligently, open-heartedly, and captivatingly about her development as a person and what this means for her architecture. Form Follows Love is a monograph, biography, and manifesto all in one.
Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries is on display at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal from November 14, 2024 until March 16, 2025. Here we present a few of Erickson's photographs from the CCA archive that express how the Canadian...
World-Architects recently visited Making Home–Smithsonian Design Triennial, which opened at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City on November 2 and is on display until August 10, 2025. Take a visual tour through some of the 25 site-specific installation that...
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.