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In a professional context that still equates identity with formal language, the work of L35 shifts the focus from style to method. With nearly six decades of experience and a practice that spans diverse regions, the firm has built its strength not on the repetition of solutions, but on a way...
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...
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.”...
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.
At b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, architecture begins, not with a form, but with a stance. In contrast to the inertia of a discipline often defined by style, the firm insists on a different approach: designing requires understanding, questioning, and taking direct responsibility for the city...
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...
Chinese architect Xu Tiantian is the subject of the latest architecture-related video from Louisiana Channel. In “Beauty in Itself Is Dangerous,” she speaks about the architectural acupuncture approach carried out by her Beijing firm,
Spanish-Architects visited the shared Barcelona studio of architects Mariona Benedito and Bayona Valero Architects Associates ahead of them hosting the second installment of Architecture Studio...
Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke has been named the 55th laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Here we take a photographic tour of seven of Radić's buildings, looking at them from the outside before heading inside to discover the often unexpected qualities of space and light that...
In addition to the replacement of a five-story parking garage, the recently completed Springfield Civic Center and CarPark in downtown Springfield, Massachusetts, also encompasses a new civic plaza and a pedestrian lane that was created by closing a street between the garage and the convention...
For the first time in more than sixty years, Otto Wagner's work is being exhibited in Germany. The drawings by the architect and his colleagues, some of whom are well-known, bear witness to the great leap from historicism to modernism at the turn of the last century.
With the new year upon us, World-Architects is looking ahead to some of the events, grand openings, and book releases that are planned to unfold over the next twelve months. Here we present 26 things to look forward to in 2026 in four categories: biennials and triennials, exhibitions, museum...
Take a look back at 2025 as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last twelve months. Instead of a chronological presentation, here we link to 35 articles in 9 categories: Awards, Books, Brutalism, Exhibitions, Films, Interviews,...
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.
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 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winner of the 29th RIBA Stirling Prize: Appleby Blue Almshouse, a social housing complex in London for people over 65, designed by Witherford Watson Mann Architects.
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.
Washington, DC's The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) named Mario Schjetnan and Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU) as recipients of the 2025 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize. Watch a trio of videos made by TCLF in which Schjetnan speaks about the...
Mexican landscape architect Mario Schjetnan and Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU), the interdisciplinary design firm he founded in 1977, are recipients of the 2025 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, the biennial $100,000 award organized by The Cultural Landscape...
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings in the running for the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize, considered “the UK’s most prestigious architecture award.”
Accompanying its announcement of the shortlist for the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has released short films for the six...
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...
The Wolf Foundation, which “both celebrates and promotes exceptional achievements in the Sciences and the Arts worldwide,” is giving its 2025 Wolf Prize in Architecture to Xu Tiantian, founding principal of Beijing's DnA_Design and Architecture.
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...
Liu Jiakun has radically modernized China's building tradition. Now he is being given the highest award for architects. His buildings offer space for individual development, and they show that China's architecture scene can be a source of ideas and a role model.
Accompanying the announcement of Liu Jiakun as the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize are a handful of short films that find the Chengdu-based architect...
Architect Liu Jiakun, a native of Chengdu, China, has been named the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, long considered architecture's highest honor. Today's announcement describes Liu as an architect who continues to practice and reside in Chengdu, “prioritizing the everyday...
A recent panel discussion at AIA New York's Center for Architecture explored the state of architectural criticism, “wrestling with questions of ethics, equity, and influence and the role that critics play in the public's perception of the built environment.” World-Architects was in attendance;...
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...