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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.
Dublin, London, Oxford, Zurich—the documentary film The Librarians has taken European cinemas by storm even before its premiere in the US. But it's actually all about the United States: Since fall 2021, Texas Republican Matt Krause's book ban list has been fueling a wildfire in the...
Ada – My Mother the Architect tells the life story of Israeli architect Ada Karmi-Melmede, whose father and brother were architects, and whose daughter, the director of the documentary, was also an architect before she ventured into filmmaking. The feature-length film debuted in fall...
At the Garden's Pace is a film directed by Juan Benavides that documents the construction of a pavilion for a botanical garden in Hilversum, Netherlands. Uniquely, the pavilion was designed by architect Enzo Valerio, but also built by him with a small team of architects over the course...
The Brutalist is a sweeping tale about the immigrant experience, architecture, power, and legacy. Premiering at the Venice International Film Festival in September and released in the US in December, the film has already won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama and will most...
More than a dozen years in the making, the Kinderspital Zürich (University Children’s Hospital Zurich) was officially inaugurated on October 1 and will welcome its first patients on November 2. The design by Basel's Herzog & de Meuron consists of the acute-care hospital and a building...
Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis: A Fable stars Adam Driver as an architect, master builder, and scientist who leads the Design Authority in the fictional city of New Rome. With a supernatural power and a Nobel Prize to his credit, he strives to realize a utopian future inspired by...
The American Hardwood Export Council's (AHEC) contribution to this year's London Design Festival is Vert, a timber structure designed by Diez Office with OMCºC as a cooling space for visitors and a means of increasing biodiversity in urban environments. Vert is installed at the Parade Ground...
Philippe Block heads the Institute for Technology in Architecture (ITA) at ETH Zurich. Together with the Professors Catherine De Wolf, Jacqueline Pauli and Walter Kaufmann, he has organised the IASS Symposium 2024, which is taking place at ETH Campus Hönggerberg. Philippe Block spoke with...
Christ Luebkeman is an engineer, educator, and futurist who leads the Strategic Foresight Hub in the Office of the President at ETH Zurich and is founder of Your2040, a yearly gathering aimed at accelerating change. World-Architects editor John Hill spoke with Luebkeman about these roles and...
Arkitekten (The Architect), winner of a special mention at the 2023 Berlinale Series Award, is a dystopian work about a female architect who is forced to live in an underground parking garage due to rising housing prices. Spanish-Architects spoke with the series creators, Nora...
Swiss-born architectural historian Kurt Forster, who held positions at the CCA, Getty Center, and ETH Zurich, among other institutions, died at his home in New York City on January 6 at the age of 89.
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) returned to Singapore last week, crowning the Huizhen High School in Ningbo, China, designed by Approach Design Studio and the Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group, as World Building of the Year 2023.
A new video from Architectural Digest delves into something fans of architecture and cinema have long appreciated: the prevalence of ultra-modern houses as the lairs of villains in Hollywood movies.
Skin of Glass, a film by Denise Zmekhol that follows her journey to a modernist skyscraper in São Paulo that was designed by her later father and subsequently occupied by hundreds of homeless families, won Best Documentary Feature Film at the BARQ Festival.
Streaming services are in abundance but only one is devoted to architecture: Shelter. Is it worth the monthly investment? Our review.
Swiss Llife Arena, host to the Zurich Lions ice hockey team, is the largest project to date for London’s Caruso St John Architects, the firm of Adam Caruso and Peter St. John. The Lions played their first match in the new arena in October. Ulf Meyer traveled to Zurich to see the building and...
Radical Landscapes is a new documentary directed by Elettra Fiumi about Gruppo 9999, the Radical Architecture collective from Florence that was co-founded by her father, Fabrizio Fiumi. Shown as part of DOC NYC, the film is as much a personal exploration on the part of the filmmaker as...
The public can vote on their favorite among the 32 short films in the running for the AIA Film Challenge 2022. Deadline is October 14, with the winners to be announced on October 25.
Number of minutes the modernist Philipp Vandamm House is seen onscreen in Alfred Hitchcock’s 136-minute thriller North By...
A team led by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has been selected in a global competition to design the new Dock A at Zurich Airport, with a design that is "comprised predominantly of solid regional wood."
A short film by 9sekunden presents the Kunsthaus Zürich extension that was designed by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin and opened in October 2021. Filmed during the preview last spring, the film highlights the contemplative nature of the building, which borders on the monastic as the...
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has revealed the eight shortlisted projects in the WAF Certified Timber Prize 2021, supported for the third consecutive year by the Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC).
Walter de Maria's The 2000 Sculpture — a horizontal sculpture made up of 2,000 white plaster rods — is back on display at the Kunsthaus Zürich, in the large column-free gallery it was created for nearly thirty years ago.
Our URL is staying the same, but as of October 1st the office of World-Architects and its various national platforms will be located at Headsquarter, a co-working space at Talacker 41 in Zurich's first district.
NEBULOSUS is a "pavilion" of vapor clouds created by AUTHOS.ch and Stella Speziali for the third iteration of Design Biennale Zurich, taking place at the Old Botanical Garden until September 5th. The ephemeral installation will host a special augmented reality display during the Lange...
Twelve years in the making, the freestanding building designed by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin for the Kunsthaus Zürich is now complete. The keys were handed over the museum on December 11, with an opening planned for October 2021.
Ten years in the making, The Circle at Zürich Airport, designed by Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto, is now open to the public — in the midst of a pandemic that has seen passenger traffic at the airport reduced by more than 80%.
Concrete's high carbon footprint has led to many calls for alternative materials. It might also be possible to keep using concrete, but do more with less. Researchers at ETH Zürich are exploring a significant reduction of the material through optimized shapes, as illustrated by a new...
The American Institute of Architects has launched this year's AIA Film Challenge, asking filmmakers, architects, and storytellers in the United States to submit mini documentaries (60- to 90-second videos) that can be during stay-at-home orders.
The competition deciding the architect of the extension of Santiago Calatrava's Zurich Stadelhofen from 1990 has wrapped up, and Giuliani Hönger Architekten with Caretta Weidmann have won over Calatrava and...
Liminal, a new site-specific artwork by Wolfgang Buttress, has been unveiled opposite the Tate Modern on the north bank of the Thames as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Small apertures in the installation frame kaleidoscopic views of the river's surface.
How to Build a House, a traveling exhibition about the DFAB House in Dübendorf, Switzerland, is on display at The Cooper Union in New York City. World-Architects attended the exhibition opening and related panel discussion last week, learning everything we ever wanted to know about the...
World-Architects held its annual pow-wow last week, when our international team of curators, editors, and programmers converged on Zurich for two days of meetings, talks, and other activities. On Friday we got a peek at Tanzhaus Zurich, whose extension by Barozzi/Veiga opens on the weekend of...
The existing sports and leisure amenity by Fritz Schwarz and Hans Litz, which dates from 1964 and includes an outdoor swimming pool and two external ice rinks, required a complete renovation, while a new ice sports hall was also to be added.
The World Architecture Festival (WAF), which will be holding its 12th edition in Amsterdam in early December, has released the list of 534 shortlisted projects in 33 categories.