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The bright pink "Dreamhouse Experience" opened on May 16 to smiling girls as well as protesters.
The rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece is transformed this summer into Aten Reign, one of artist James Turrell's signature Skyspaces.
A European Museum of the Year Award, a new design gallery, and a new metro station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The Dutch architect has been appointed Director of the Berlage Center for Advanced studies in Architecture and Urban Design at the Delft University of Technology.
Workers in Belize partially destroyed a 2,300-year-old pyramid to use the crushed rock for road fill.
A major RIBA exhibition in London presents the architect's five-decade-long career.
Nature centers are a fairly specific building type that allow architects to enrich people's experiences of architecture, the natural environment, and their interaction. Nature centers also call for sustainable architecture of the utmost, due to their purpose and proximity to...
To recognize the achievements of firms profiled on World-Architects.com, we present the second biannual roundup of Awards, Competitions, Completed Buildings, Exhibitions, and Monographs; carefully selected, just like the profiles.
Brooklyn's Gia Wolff is the recipient of the first traveling fellowship open to architects outside of Harvard GSD since 1935.
Kennebunkport is a popular summer vacation spot overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the southeastern corner of Maine—its most famous seasonal resident is the family of former President George H.W. Bush. As architect Carol A. Wilson describes it, a defining characteristic of the area is...
The Museum of Modern Art has selected Diller Scofidio + Renfro to design its expansion, potentially incorporating the former Folk Art Museum.
The Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum has announced the recipients of its 2013 National Design Awards.
Soo Sunny Park's Unwoven Light, on display until August 30 at Rice University Art Gallery in Houston, bathes the gallery in brilliant colors via artificial and natural light refracted through the Plexiglas pieces.
Daniel Libeskind beat out Ann Hamilton and Jaume Plensa for a Holocaust memorial at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus.
On April 25, the new Messe Basel building opened its doors for Baselworld, the World Watch and Jewelry Show, what is the driving force behind the new three-story addition designed by Herzog & de Meuron. With its top two floors perched above a glass base and straddling a roadway, the...
Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall & Conference Centre in Iceland wins 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award.
Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's sculptures aim to bring a smile to anybody's face. His Rubber Duck is docked in Hong Kong's Harbour City from May 2 to June 9, 2013.
The American-born architect based in London died on April 20 after a short illness.
Architecture and other undergraduate students at the longtime tuition-free school will pay up to $20,000 in yearly tuition.
This short film, edited by ViaViLi (Khaled Morgan and Elnaz Anzalchi), pieces together 20 clips of famous architects talking about architecture. It is a who's who of architects from the dawn of the television to our age of the Internet, spanning from the boastings of Frank Lloyd Wright to a...
On September 19, 2012, the new Folkwang Library opened on the Essen-Werden campus of the Folkwang University of the Arts. The boxy building, designed in a 2006 competition by Max Dudler, holds a 200,000-strong musicological collection behind a translucent skin that looks like stone but is in fact...
Not surprisingly the library, museum, and policy institute for the 43rd U.S. President is designed by Robert A.M. Stern.
It was 20 years ago this spring that the demolition of Kowloon Walled City near Hong Kong's former Kai Tak Airport began. On this anniversary, the South China Morning Post publishes a feature accompanied by a highly detailed inforgraphic.
Located on the banks of the Ohio River southwest of downtown Louisville, Riverbank Park is 70 acres envisioned by De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop in their master plan "as a new recreational venue for the community." The first component in the park's master...
Architect Renzo Piano's preliminary design for a $300 million museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles includes a "soap bubble."
In Australian photographer Ben Thomas's latest series, Accession, he inverts views of cities to create odd alternate realities.
Only three materials—rammed earth, steel, and cedar—comprise this small trailhead structure in eastern Kansas. Foremost of these is rammed earth, a truly sustainable material that also provides an appealing appearance. Designed and built by students in the University of Kansas...
As part of the 2013 Milano Salone (April 9-14), Panasonic commissioned architect Akihisa Hirata to design an installation occupying an arcade at the University of Milan.
The sixth World Architecture Festival (WAF) will take place October 2-4, 2013 at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. With the awards submissions process underway (the deadline for entry is May 24), World-Architects thought it a good time to interview Paul Finch, the driving force behind WAF and...
Architekturbild e.v. has announced the winners of its biennial award, to be exhibited at DAM in Frankfurt.
The Vancouver property of late Canadian architect Arthur Erickson is being eyed for development.
The Cyberinfrastructure Building houses Indiana University's 700-strong University Information Technology Services. This staff was previously scattered across several buildings on campus, but now they occupy an L-shaped building in a nearby technology park. SmithGroupJJR's design...
On April 13, after a 10-year restoration and renovation headed by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos of Seville, the "Museum of the Netherlands" in Amsterdam opens its doors.
The Midway Plaisance—a one-mile-long green space laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the 1890s—splits the University of Chicago's Hyde Park campus into the neo-Gothic spires and quadrangles to the north and the predominantly modern buildings to...
The architect says she deserves "a Pritzker Prize inclusion ceremony" during an event on women in architecture.