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For the first time in its 65-year history, the house designed by Pierre Koenig as part of Arts & Architecture magazine's Case Study Houses program, made famous through photographs taken by Julius Shulman, is up for sale.
As part of their recently unveiled design for Birmingham City Football Club’s new stadium, Heatherwick Studio and MANICA, with filmmaker Steven Knight, have released a short film explaining their design that is anchored by twelve towering chimney-like structures visible from miles away.
The recipients of the 36th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 22, 2025, during the 42nd Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia.
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AquaPraça, designed by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati and Höweler + Yoon, was exhibited in design form in this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Ratti, then unveiled at full scale in Venice in September, before the building made a 7,500-mile nautical voyage to Belém, Brazil, for...
Size of the Fractal Chapel, or Lukaskapelle, located in a state hospital in the Austrian city of Graz, designed by INNOCAD, and
Louisiana Channel has expanded Make Materials Matter, a 15-minute short film profiling Danish architect Søren Pihlmann, into a nearly one-hour film that presents Pihlmann's curation and restoration of the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale alongside other projects that embody his...
If life gives you lemons, the saying goes, you make lemonade. And if Switzerland serves up some fog on a Saturday morning, you make the most of it, visiting a building whose overgrown concrete surfaces just look better bathed in gray. Look at some photos from a recent visit to Siedlung Halen,...
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?
Tom Avermaete brings architectural history out of its niche. In his lectures and research work as a professor at ETH Zurich, he transforms it into a teacher, demonstrating how environmentally friendly and resource-efficient construction can be achieved.
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...
The Zumtobel Group supports the EUmies Awards, one of the most prestigious awards for architects worldwide. Isabel Zumtobel explains why she is convinced of the importance of this commitment and why promoting young talent is particularly close to her heart.
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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...
Minimum factor by which prices of a property in one of more than forty Melbourne suburbs have surged in the last thirty years: 10
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,...
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.
The fourth edition of the Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival (BARQ) recently concluded with the announcement of E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea as the best feature film. The film, directed by Beatrice Minger and Christoph Schaub, won out among the seven...
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...
The Doshi Retreat opened on October 25 at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. It is a refuge designed by Pritzker Prize winner Balkrishna Doshi in close collaboration with his granddaughter Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof.
The Ismaili Center, Houston, designed by Farshid Moussavi Architecture and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in partnerhsip with AKT II DLR Group, was inaugurated on November 6 as the first Ismaili Center in the United States and the seventh worldwide.
The Inaugural RIBA Middle East Awards has recognized nine winning projects across Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, celebrating the region’s best new architecture. Jumana Naim reports on the winners from Dubai.
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On November 1, Dublin-based architecture firm heneghan peng architects celebrated the official completion of its design of the Grand Egyptian Museum. Located just over one mile away from the Pyramids of Giza, the museum is a testament to the longevity and scale of ancient Egyptian civilization...
Number of years it took to construct and open the entire complex of the Grand Egyptian Museum close to Giza, spanning 500,000 square meters (5.4m sf), costing some $1.2bn (€1.1bn), and...
A list of 410 works nominated for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards (EUmies Awards) has been released by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. The nominations showcase the most significant built works in the EU...
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles Zhu Pei, the Chinese architect whose most famous building is the stunning five-year-old Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum.
Lahbib El Moumni and Imad Dahmani founded Mémoire des Architectes Modernes Marocains (MAMMA) in Casablanca in 2016. MAMMA is working on documenting modernist buildings that have often been forgotten and urgently need more publicity. Eduard Kögel spoke with Lahbib El Moumni...
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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...
Number of American architects and designers tasked with advising on designs for major projects, such as the White House ballroom and the monumental “Arc de Trump,”
Malcolm Reading Consultants has revealed the designs by the seven finalists in the Museum of Jesus’ Baptism at Bethany, Jordan – International Design Competition. The new museum will be located on the east bank of the Jordan River, adjacent to Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan,”...
Anchoring Harvard University's new Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston, Massachusetts, the David Rubenstein Treehouse is a new university-wide hub for convening and the first mass timber building on the Ivy League school's growing campus.
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.
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...
As the Gulf region experiences unprecedented growth—more than a trillion US dollars’ worth of projects are in the pipeline—Arabian-Architects.com is set to become the dedicated online platform for the region’s architects, designers, and related professionals. The new regional platform...
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Appropriate to its name, the Center for Inclusive Growth & Competitiveness at T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) is "devoid of entry or even a main door, fostering openness and accessibility," in the words of its architects, The Purple Ink Studio. This addition to the TAPMI campus in...
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...
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain opens its new premises at 2 Place du Palais-Royal in central Paris, across the street from the Louvre, on October 25. The institution is housed inside a Haussmannian building from 1855 that has been renovated by Jean Nouvel with five mobile...