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John Hill | 23.05.2019

Headlines

Five decades after it first opened to the public, and 18 years after it closed, Eero Saarinen's TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport in New York City has reopened as the TWA Hotel.


John Hill | 22.05.2019

Headlines

The Swiss architecture firm headed by the Pritzker Prize-winning duo of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron has been selected to design a new $105 million building for the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, Tennessee.


ICD/ITKE | 21.05.2019

Works

The Urbach Tower constitutes the very first structure worldwide made from self-shaped, building-scale components. It not only showcases this innovative manufacturing approach and resultant novel timber structure; it also intensifies the visitors’ spatial involvement and landscape experience by...


Elias Baumgarten | 21.05.2019

Insight

Two days, 17 speakers, 5 events: the “Architecture Matters” conference took place in Munich on April 11 and 12, 2019. The highlight was Friday’s dense program of lectures and discussions spread across the afternoon and evening. The conference was organized for the fourth time by the curator...


Elias Baumgarten | 21.05.2019

Found

In 2015, at the height of the refugee crisis, the platform “Architecture for Refugees” was launched. Its initiators are meanwhile thinking bigger and, under the catchy and memorable slogan “Architecture is a Human Right,” they are committed to bringing about fundamental change in the social...


FreelandBuck | 20.05.2019

Building of the Week

In the aptly named Stack House, four floors of boxes are stacked atop each other to follow the steep slope of a hill. Angled boxes express the different rooms and form a number of terraces. FreelandBuck answered a few questions about the project.


René Ammann | 20.05.2019

Number

Amount a construction worker in the devastated Iraqi city of Mosul is paid per day: $12.50 (€11.20)


John Hill | 20.05.2019

Film

Following I.M. Pei's death last week at the age of 102, CBS has uploaded a couple clips from its archive, one focusing on the Louvre Pyramid in Paris and the other on the JFK Presidential Library in...


Eduard Kögel | 20.05.2019

Building of the Week

Jishou city is the regional capital of the autonomous prefecture of the Tujia and Miao ethnic minorities. It is located within in the Western Hunan province, and has a population of over 300,000 people. Huang Yongyu, a famous artist belonging to the Tujia minority led an initiative for a...


John Hill | 17.05.2019

Found

The competition-winning design by OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture and KOO LLC for the University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for the Arts consists of two towers and some performance spaces beneath a tent-like roof.


John Hill | 17.05.2019

Headlines

I.M. Pei, best known for the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in DC and the Louvre Pyramid in Paris, died early Thursday at his home in Manhattan a few weeks after his 102nd birthday.


John Hill | 16.05.2019

Products

Flare of Frankfurt is a mixed-use development completed last year in the center of Frankfurt am Main. Hadi Teherani Architects' use of Neolith sintered stone for the facades makes the project stand out in its context while also expressing its constituent parts.


Valerio Olgiati | 15.05.2019

Building of the Week

In 2012 "Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy" in Muharraq was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. In turn, Bahrain has been investing in the area: upgrading historic facades, creating new public spaces, and adding new parking garages and other structures. Most striking is a museum...


John Hill | 15.05.2019

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The Statue of Liberty Museum, which broke ground in October 2016, opens to the public on May 16, 2019 on Liberty Island. The 26,000-sf building offers three galleries, the famous statue's original torch, and an accessible green roof.


John Hill | 14.05.2019

Headlines

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY) have announced the five finalists in the Big Ideas for Small Lots NYC competition.


Olson Kundig | 14.05.2019

Works

Led by Design Principal Alan Maskin, Olson Kundig’s design of the Space Needle’s new observation deck and restaurant level “core and shell” builds on the same conceptual premise that originally informed the Space Needle – a place devoted to observation.


John Hill | 14.05.2019

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After a public presentation on Monday, May 13, at the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London, an international jury named Boonserm Premthada, founder of Bangkok Project Studio, winner of the 2019 Royal Academy Dorfman Award.


MQ Architecture | 13.05.2019

Building of the Week

Covered in charred wood, this small building designed by MQ Architecture serves visitors to a large property in Upstate New York. Designed for the same clients as MQ's Magazzino Italian Art, the...


John Hill | 13.05.2019

Headlines

This summer, New Story, Icon, and Yves Béhar's Fuseproject will break ground on what they bill as the world's first 3D-printed community, for impoverished families somewhere in Latin America.


René Ammann | 13.05.2019

Number

Price of a niche for an urn in a private columbarium "in the best position" in Hong Kong: €204,000 ($229,000) 


John Hill | 10.05.2019

Headlines

FutureHAUS — the modular house designed, engineered, and built by faculty and students from Virginia and winner of the 2018 Solar Decathlon Middle East in Dubai — has been erected in Times Square as part of NYCxDESIGN and


Susanna Koeberle | 09.05.2019

Insight

With the exhibition Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People, the Vitra Design Museum presents the first retrospective on the complete work of the Indian architect outside of Asia. In 2018, Doshi became the first architect from India to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.


Wild Architectural Objects | 09.05.2019

Works

Lily, a floating structure, offers a new playful and sensorial experience on the central lake of the Futuroscope.


John Hill | 08.05.2019

Found

Later this year, Klaus Littmann will turn Wörthersee Stadium in Klagenfurt, Austria, into a temporary art intervention inspired by Max Peintner's 50-year-old drawing The Unending Attraction of Nature.


PHILIPPARCHITEKTEN | 08.05.2019

Works

On a narrow and elongated hillside property, architect Anna Philipp designed a building in the form of two L-angles set against each other to create two attractive but functionally very different exterior spaces.


John Hill | 08.05.2019

Headlines

During the first week of May, two teams spent 30 hours robotically 3D printing their designs in the final stage of the NASA 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge. After building and testing, New York's AI. SpaceFactory nabbed the $500,000 first-place prize.


René Ammann | 06.05.2019

Number

Estimated profit the U.S. developer Vornado will make on the sellout of the $3.4 billion limestone palace 220 Central Park South in Manhattan, designed by Robert A.M. Stern: $1 billion


John Hill | 06.05.2019

Film

Last month, the twenty shortlisted projects competing for the 2019 Aga Khan Award Architecture were revealed. This month, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture has been unveiling short...


Amalgam Studio | 06.05.2019

Building of the Week

This weekend house takes its name from an old railroad junction in the small town of Gallatin, about 100 miles north of New York City. Inspired by the barns that still dot the area, the two structures take on gabled forms, looking at home on the property's many acres. Amalgam Studio answered a...


John Hill | 03.05.2019

Found

The world-famous auction house Sotheby's has completed the transformation of its headquarters on New York's Upper East Side. Some of the galleries designed by Shohei Shigematsu of OMA New York...


Richard Beard Architects | 02.05.2019

Works

With breathtaking views of Mt. Rokko to the north and a vast waterscape to the south, Kobe sits as a strip of land with phenomenal views both inland and to the sea.


John Hill | 02.05.2019

Products

On March 12, the bus station in Tilburg, Netherlands, designed by architectenbureau cepezed had its official opening. Waiting passengers are shielded from the elements by an awning covered in ETFE foil and equipped with solar panels.


John Hill | 01.05.2019

Headlines

The National Building Museum in Washington, DC, has released renderings for its sixth annual Summer Block Party installation. Lawn, designed by the LAB at Rockwell Group, will fill the museum's Great Hall as a sloping green surface.


New Office Works | 01.05.2019

Works

Growing Up is a pavilion located in the West Kowloon Cultural District. It is the winning entry of the inaugural Hong Kong Young Architects & Designers Competition, which was launched in April 2017.


John Hill | 30.04.2019

Headlines

eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of the 2019 Skyscraper Competition, with 3 winners and 27 honorable mentions selected from 478 submitted projects. Here we highlight the three winners.


Amir Mann / Ami Shinar Architects & Planners, Moshe Zur Architects | 30.04.2019

Works

Israel's newest airport is located 11 miles (18 km) from the Red Sea resort city of Eilat and was designed by two of Israel's leading firms, Amir Mann / Ami Shinar Architects and Planners in partnership with Moshe Zur Architects.