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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.”
During an event on Monday, April 27, the organizers and curators of the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona presented the full program for Becoming: Architectures for a Planet in Transition, which will take place at multiple venues across Barcelona over five days, from June...
Chinese architect Doreen Liu and her firm, NODE, are committed to transforming infrastructure projects into community spaces. Yet in her home country, the focus remains primarily on technical criteria. Eduard Kögel spoke with Ms. Liu about Honghu Park and other projects in Shenzhen.
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.”...
On April 18, the Goethe-Institut's new Dakar location, designed by the firm of Francis Kéré, was inaugurated. The building, unveiled in 2022, has walls made...
Price of a three-bedroom apartment just under 2,000 square feet (186 m2) in a building on Place de L’Estrapade in Paris’ fifth arrondissement,
World-Architects speaks to renowned Lebanese architect Lina Ghotmeh about the risks to her country’s architecture, preserving memory of place, and protecting structural identity amid war and conflict.
On the occasion of Earth Day, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced the Ambasz-MoMA Annual Prize for Nature-Reconciled Architecture, a new $200,000 prize enabled by a major gift from the Legacy Emilio Ambasz Foundation.
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...
Ennead Architects, the 160-person New York City architecture firm born from the Polshek Partnership, is merging with CannonDesign, the 1,600-person architecture, engineering, and consulting practice with twenty offices in North America and India.
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.
A rippling facade of glass cantilevering over the sidewalk greets visitors to the new Glasshouse Theatre in Brisbane, Australia, designed by Blight Rayner Architecture in partnership with Snøhetta. The architects answered a few questions about the recently completed project, revealing how the...
Price of a 265-square-foot (24.6 m2) “micro loft” inside Providence Arcade, America’s oldest shopping mall: $225,000 (€191,000)
Twenty years in the making, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partners with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, open to LACMA members on April 19 and the general public on May 4.
The European Commission and Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the two winners of the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award: the Charleroi Palais des Expositions by AgwA and architecten jan de vylder inge vinck is the Architecture Winner, and...
US President Donald Trump's latest Washington, DC folly is a big one: a 250-foot-tall arch that would be placed at Memorial Circle, halfway between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, and become the tallest triumphal arch in the world if built. The seven-member Commission of...
Ten years in the making, the V&A East Museum opens at East Bank, the new cultural quarter in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, on Saturday, April 18. The building designed by O’Donnell + Tuomey is a sister site to the nearby V&A East Storehouse that opened last May.
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...
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...
Shortage of affordable housing units in Brazil forcing over 16 million people into informal settlements without...
The Getty Center's nearly 30-year-old campus, perched on the San Gabriel Mountains overlooking Los Angeles, will close to the public from March 2027 until spring 2028 for what the institution calls “the most significant series of modernization initiatives since its 1997 opening.”
The Powerhouses developed by Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta generate more energy over their lifetime than they consume. This is made possible by surprisingly simple low-tech solutions and high-performance solar systems, as well as robust design and strict waste prevention measures.
Kengo Kuma and Associates, with BDP and MICA, has won a competition to design a new wing at the National Gallery, part of the 200-year-old London institution's £750 million Project Domani.
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,
World-Architects recently received four books from two architects: two books from New York's GLUCK+ and two books from Paris's h2o architectes. In addition to being small books relative to the usual monographs put out by the same firms and other architects, the books are parts of ongoing...
Concave concrete “blades” rise, crescendo-like, across the three floors of the Vet Hospital in Tirana, Albania, designed by Davide Macullo Architects. The curved walls further define the interior spaces that the Swiss architect designed to “dismantle the primordial fear of confinement” and, in...
Number of years Lebanese architect Mona Hallak fought to save Beit Beirut—previously called the Barakat Building, the Yellow House, and the Building of Death—a historic, 102-year-old building in the Lebanese capital of Beirut that survived the 15-year-long Lebanese Civil War and, as war...
Earlier this year, World-Architects readers voted Trofa Town Hall, designed by NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira, as Building of the Year 2025. We corresponded with...
As expected, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) overwhelmingly approved plans for the new State Ballroom at the East Wing of the White House. Only one dissenting vote was cast in a meeting that took place two days after a judge ordered construction of the 89,000-square-foot...
On Tuesday, March 31, US District Court Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that construction of President Donald Trump's ballroom at the White House needs to stop, since it lacks the proper approvals from Congress. The ruling came a couple days ahead of the National Capital Planning Commission's...
A fly-through animation shared by US President Donald Trump reveals the design of Trump's future presidential library, planned for a waterfront site in Miami. Taking the form of a tapered skyscraper, the glassy building is being designed by Miami's Bermello Ajamil.
The Architects’ Association of Catalonia (COAC), founded in 1931 and heir to the Association of Architects (1874), is a corporation representing Catalan architects, promoting excellence in architecture, and spreading its values, especially its social and cultural dimensions....
Vitra is a Swiss family-owned furniture company that is known best for the production of iconic modern chairs, as well as for office furniture, its eponymous design museum, and the architectural gems dotting its campus in Weil am Rhein, Gemany. This week's announcement that Vitra will reopen...
As designed by SOSOKKI ANAC, the firm of architect Gi-Tae Chung, the recently completed Monologue Café is a prismatic brick volume outside and “a space of introspection rather than consumption” inside. The project explores how architecture can “embody a quiet narrative.” Gi-Tae Chung answered...
