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Lehrer Architects and Arquitectura y Diseño | 08.12.2025

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Just like with the living, space is at a premium for people housed in cemeteries in urban areas. One solution for cemeteries with limited site area is building up, as is being done at Hollywood Forever with its Gower Court Mausoleum. Michael B. Lehrer, founder and principal of Lehrer...


John Hill | 05.12.2025

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The American Institute of Architects has announced that Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is the winner of the 2026 AIA Gold Medal, and Jackson, Mississippi's Duval Decker is recipient of the 2026 Firm Award.


John Hill | 26.11.2025

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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.


John Hill | 25.11.2025

Film

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.


John Hill | 18.11.2025

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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...


John Hill | 05.11.2025

Film

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.


John Hill | 30.10.2025

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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.


The Purple Ink Studio | 27.10.2025

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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...


John Hill | 17.10.2025

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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.


John Hill | 16.09.2025

Insight

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...


Jumana Abdel-Razzaq | 02.09.2025

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Dubai-based journalist Jumana Abdel-Razzaq recently visited the studio of Dabbagh Architects, one of the Middle East’s most celebrated architecture offices working within the region’s cultural space today, learning about architect Sumaya Dabbagh’s background, the firm’s philosophy, and some of...


Antonio La Gioia | 14.07.2025

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In the Raval neighborhood, one of the most densely populated and culturally diverse areas of Barcelona's old town, MIAS Architects has carried out the comprehensive renovation of an existing residential...


Jumana Abdel-Razzaq | 24.06.2025

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Dubai-based journalist Jumana Abdel-Razzaq dropped by the minimalist studio of T.ZED Architects in Dubai for a tour with founder Tarik Zaharna, getting a closer look at the practice ahead of what’s shaping up to be a busy few years.


ikon.5 architects | 16.06.2025

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Portsmouth Abbey School, a Benedictine boarding school in Rhode Island, will turn 100 next year. The latest addition to the school's campus on Narragansett Bay is a student center designed by ikon.5 architects. The firm answered a few questions about the recently completed project,...


John Hill | 28.05.2025

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A few months after the UK government announced the five shortlisted teams in the two-stage competition for the design of a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II, their design concepts have been revealed, with the winner to be announced in early summer.


John Hill | 13.03.2025

Found

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, working with Malcolm Reading Consultants, has revealed concept designs by six finalists in its two-stage competition to expand the Kansas City, Missouri institution. Take a look at renderings showing how Kengo Kuma, Renzo Piano, Jeanne Gang, and others envision...


John Hill | 25.02.2025

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The UK government has announced the teams on the shortlist in the two-stage competition for the design of a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II, to be located in London's St. James Park, just steps from The Mall, the ceremonial route to Buckingham Palace.


John Hill | 03.02.2025

Building of the Week

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...


John Hill | 29.01.2025

Film

Open Space, the studio dedicated to “preserving and portraying the essence of architecture through the medium of film,” visits the Judy House in Kalamazoo, Michigan, designed by Norman F. Carver, Jr. more than fifty years ago. Tim and Vanessa Hills give viewers a tour of the Japanese-inspired...


John Hill | 24.01.2025

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Safdie Architects and Kerry Properties have announced the completion of the second phase of Habitat Qinhuangdao, a complex on the coast of the Bohai Sea, 200 miles (320 km) east of Beijing, China, that consists of 1,800 residences spread across 40 acres (16 hectares).


Serie Architects | 20.01.2025

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Late last year Serie Architects completed the Raj Sabahgruh, the new Satsang and Meditation Complex that is the centerpiece in the 100-hectare (250-acre) masterplan development for the Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram, Dharampur, Gujarat, India. The architects sent us some text and images on the...


Eduard Kögel, Vector Architects | 13.01.2025

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Vector Architects from Beijing has realized several special cultural buildings for the development company Aranya. The most recent, in Wulingshan 2.5 hours northeast of Beijing, is a small spa and bathhouse embedded...


John Hill | 09.01.2025

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Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Bureau Cube Partners have won an anonymous design competition for the new home of the Nikola Tesla Museum, which will be housed in Belgrade, Serbia's historic Milan Vapa Paper Mill.


Madeline Beach Carey | 11.12.2024

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The latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's “Building Novels” series, which looks at works of fiction where buildings and architecture play integral roles, is Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows by Anna Kostreva, an architectural designer and urban researcher at Plural Studio in Berlin....


Ayers Saint Gross | 09.12.2024

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From 1982 until 2019, visitors to the Missouri Botanical Garden entered through the grounds through the HOK-designed Ridgway Visitor Center. With the 40-year-old building unable to handle the garden's growing crowds, it was replaced by the Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center designed by Baltimore's...


Madeline Beach Carey | 03.12.2024

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PSA Publishers Ltd, the company that oversees the World-Architects platforms, was founded in Zurich in 1994. As the year 2024 draws to a close we mark the 30th anniversary of PSA with an article that traces the company’s evolution over these three decades and highlights some of the important...


Schenker Salvi Weber Architekten | 25.11.2024

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Schenker Salvi Weber have built St. Pölten's new KinderKunstLabor (Children's Art Laboratory). Michael Salvi answered some questions about the spatially and atmospherically rich building that was developed using a physical model.


John Hill | 21.11.2024

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, working with Malcolm Reading Consultants, has announced the six finalists who will take part in second stage of the international design competition to expand the Kansas City, Missouri institution.


Engineers Without Borders Germany | 04.11.2024

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Built in seven phases over seven years, the Rising Star school buildings opened in March 2023 in in Hopley, Zimbabwe. Constructed by hand from more than half a million bricks, the linear school buildings arranged around a courtyard are characterized by round arches at the walkways and in the...


John Hill | 03.11.2024

Found

A lot of books make their way to the office of World-Architects, so many that coverage of all of them is impossible. Occasionally, the books we receive converge to paint a portrait of contemporary publishing, as do the nine books assembled here. They signal other ways of making books: via...


John Hill | 24.10.2024

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After being closed since 2021, following four suicides in just two years. Related Companies, the developer of Hudson Yards, reopened Heatherwick Studio's The Vessel with safety netting that allows visitors to access portions of the climbable sculpture's 150 stairs and 80 landings.


John Hill | 16.10.2024

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Ma Yansong and MAD Architects have just completed One River North, a new mixed-use apartment building with retail that the architects describe a “a cracked-open canyon in the heart of Denver.”


John Hill | 08.10.2024

Film

Ahead of the crowning of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2024, aka “the UK's best new building,” on the evening of October 16, the Royal Institute of British Architects has released short films on each of the six shortlisted projects.


ODDO Architects | 07.10.2024

Building of the Week

Faced with a tiny lot abutting neighbors on three sides — a not uncommon condition in the densely built-up city of Hanoi — ODDO Architects designed a vertical house for a family, where each of its five floors has a different function. The architects sent us some text and images on TH House.


John Hill | 24.09.2024

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Two Trees Management has announced the completion of Domino Square, a one-acre public space that is an extension of Domino Park and which sits in the heart of the larger redevelopment of the former Domino Sugar Refinery site in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.


John Hill | 24.09.2024

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Re:Imagine London is a collaboration between Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Epic Games that allows users of Fortnite to shape sections of London with curvy modules designed by ZHA. As explained in a video from The B1M, the just-released feature encourages young gamers to understand urban...