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Amtrak, the US Department of Transportation, and Penn Transformation Partners, the master planner appointed to the project last month, have unveiled design renderings for the much-needed redevelopment of New York's Penn Station, the busiest transportation hub in the Western Hemisphere.
Rowan University is located in Southern New Jersey, about a half hour drive south of Philadelphia, not far from the Pine Barrens, a large area made up of Atlantic Cedar forest and unique flora and fauna. ikon.5 architects found inspiration in the Pine Barrens in their design of an expansion to...
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...
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.
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...
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.”
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...
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...
With his firm Scenic Architecture Office, and in collaboration with Tongji Architectural Design Group, Zhu Xiaofeng won the competition to design the Wave Cube science fiction museum in a suburb of Shanghai. The museum is located in the Fengxian District, one of five new districts along the...
Ahead of its opening on March 21, World-Architects got a sneak peek of the newly expanded New Museum, which has added an OMA-designed structure next to its 2007 building designed by SANAA. Here we present a photographic tour through the 60,000-square-foot building, from top to bottom.
Here we highlight four exhibitions in Manhattan and Brooklyn that opened recently or will open soon, ranging from a historical look at a swath of Midtown and alternative proposals for houses to monographic exhibitions on a late visionary architect and critic, and an architect from Austria.
A new eleven-minute film from Foster + Partners explains the design, engineering, and functioning of 270 Park Avenue, the firm's new supertall skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, and takes viewers inside some of the spaces that serve as the headquarters of JPMorgan Chase.
The Packer Collegiate Institute is a private school in Brooklyn Heights that has occupied a Gothic-style building since the mid-1800s, though it has seen expansions and modernizations over the years. The latest expansion is the Garden House, designed by WXY architecture + urban as a four-story...
On a recent trip to Denmark, Eduard Kögel ventured to Humlebæk to see Memoryscapes, the second exhibition in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s “Architecture Connecting” series, on view at the museum until May 17, 2026.
On a chilly January afternoon, World-Architects stopped by Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park in Battery Park City to look at the recently completed pavilion designed by Thomas Phifer and Partners. As the sun set, we took some photographs.
The OMA-designed expansion of the New Museum, which opened on New York's Bowery in a building designed by SANAA in 2007, will finally open to the public on March 21—ten years after the project was announced.
News has broke that Sperone Westwater, the 50-year-old art gallery based in New York City, is closing at the end of the year. This raises the question: What will become of the gallery's bespoke eight-story building on the Bowery designed by Norman Foster?
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...
Set against the wild limestone cliffs and dense coastal forest of Punakaiki, Punangairi redefines what a visitor center can be. Designed by Sheppard & Rout Architects, in collaboration with Ngāti Waewae, the project moves beyond tourism infrastructure to become an act of cultural and...
The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) opened to the public on October 31 with a 24-hour open house that included a number of free events in addition to a portion of the museum's 117,000 artworks being put on display. World-Architects visited during the open house and took some photos,...
On November 8, Sotheby's New York opened its new home in the Breuer Building, the 1966 brutalist masterpiece designed by Marcel Breuer for the Whitney Museum of American Art. The renovation of the modern landmark was carried out by Switzerland's Herzog & de Meuron with New York's PBDW...
Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s national research program focused on transitioning to net zero and a green economy, has unveiled the Stone Demonstrator, a 1:1 scale pre-tensioned stone structure installed on the Earls Court development site in West London. The three-story installation...
Six years after it opened to a mix of fanfare and controversy, the Hunters Point branch of the Queens Public Library in New York City has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought over the inaccessibility of portions of building for people with disabilities, after modifications to...
Although it won't be 100% complete and fully occupied for some months, JPMorganChase opened its new 60-story global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, October 21, six years after the demolition of its predecessor, the 52-story Union Carbide Building, began.
Of the ten proposals hoping to secure three coveted casino licenses for downstate New York, five of the teams have withdrawn their bids or had them voted down by so-called Community Advisory Committees. Of the five remaining bids, none are in Manhattan.
Three high-profile museum projects nearing completion in New York and New Jersey—New Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, and Studio Museum in Harlem—have one architecture firm in common: Cooper Robertson. World-Architects recently stopped by Cooper Robertson’s Lower Manhattan office to...
Innovation QNS, the proposed five-block mixed-use development with apartments, office space, retail, open space, and an arts and culture hub next to the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, has been scrapped in favor of smaller developments.
Located in the northeast corner of Central Park, just steps from New York City's Harlem neighborhood, the Davis Center at the Harlem Meer opened to the public in April. Replacing the former Lasker Rink and Pool that was built in the 1960s, the new Davis Center provides year-round recreation in...
The Architecture of Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest is on display at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo until November. It is the first major survey of Fujimoto's work. The Japan-Architects curators visited the exhibition, sending us photos of some of the many models, videos, sketches,...
A number of parks and other public spaces in New York City have made headlines in recent weeks. Here we highlight four of them: a beloved community green space, a waterfront park, an informal skate park, and a piece of pedestrian infrastructure.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is reopening its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, with galleries dedicated to the arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania, following a nearly decade-long transformation by Kulapat Yantrasast of WHY Architecture.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has revealed the preliminary design for the Amsterdam Avenue side of its famed campus on New York's Upper West Side. The plaza and streetscape improvements are designed by Hood Design Studio, WEISS/MANFREDI, and Moody Nolan.
Three years ago, the New York City Building Code was updated to allow the use of cross-laminated timber as a low-carbon alternative to other construction materials. The first mass timber project approved and built under the code revision was just completed: Frame 122, a five-story apartment...
The textured masonry facades of Josep Lluís Sert’s nearly 50-year-old Eastwood apartment buildings—now The Landings—on Roosevelt Island are being covered with insulation to meet New York City’s recently implemented energy-efficiency requirements. World-Architects visited to see portions of the...
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) will be leading the renovation of Penn Station, removing New York State's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) from the project.
The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, a new exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum in Lower Manhattan, explores how concrete supplanted steel as the material of choice for structuring tall buildings around the world. World-Architects stopped by the museum soon after the exhibition opened in...