Magazine

Miriam Giordano | 14.09.2015

Headlines

"Shaping European Cities," the opening event of the exhibition "European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015" at BOZAR, Brussels, aims to strengthen the dialogue between policymakers, architects and a wider audience about the role of...


Chevalier Morales Architectes | 11.09.2015

Works

Following an architectural competition in 2011, the firm Chevalier Morales Architectes received the mandate to expand, redesign and bring to compliance the old Lachine borough library, dating back to 1974.


bosch.capdeferro arquitectures | 10.09.2015

Works

The Scaffold House project consists of the rehabilitation of a single-family home that was built in various phases starting in the 1950s in the unrivaled setting of the Sa Riera cove in Begur, Girona.


John Hill | 10.09.2015

Headlines

French architect Dominique Perrault has been named a recipient of the Japan Art Association’s 2015 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists.


John Hill | 09.09.2015

Film

The Architect's Newspaper interviews Chicago architect Jeanne Gang in, of all places, the Chicago River, next to the boathouse her studio completed for a site on the river's north branch.


WW+

arte SPATIAL DESIGN STUDIO | 09.09.2015

Works

An open lift connects the lower and upper portions of arte SPATIAL DESIGN STUDIO's concrete WW+ house in Osaka.


08.09.2015

Building of the Week

Since winning the competition for the World Trade Center masterplan in 2002, Daniel Libeskind has realized buildings all over the world, from Albania to Canada to Singapore. This year sees the completion of his studio's first building in South America: Vitra, a residential building with...


John Hill | 08.09.2015

Headlines

Sydney-based landscape architectural practice McGregor Coxall has been appointed to work with the Art Gallery NSW and Japanese architects SANAA to develop the landscape design concept for the Sydney Modern Project.


Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates, Hans van Heeswijk Architects | 08.09.2015

Works

The new entrance hall at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum opened to the public on 5 September. "Work to move our main entrance to Museumplein has gone very well," says director Axel Rüger.


John Hill | 07.09.2015

Products

Stone supplier SolidNature collaborated with architect Rem Koolhaas and designer Petra Blaisse to display 600 types of onyx, marbles, travertines, and other stones for the Maison & Objet trade fair in Paris.


John Hill | 06.09.2015

Headlines

Five finalists have been named in the Finnish Association of Architects' (SAFA) 2015 Finlandia Prize for Architecture, with the winner to be selected by composer Kaija Saariaho.


John Hill | 06.09.2015

Film

Some aerial drone footage from the first day of September reveals the construction progress on Apple's huge ring-shaped headquarters designed by Norman Foster and located in Cupertino, California.


HGA | 04.09.2015

Works

Surly Brewing MSP is designed as a destination brewery in Minneapolis’s Prospect Park neighborhood. The 8.3 acres for the project, on a brownfield site, is comprised of 7 separate parcels of land divided by the municipalities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.


John Hill | 03.09.2015

Headlines

Northerly Island, a park designed by Studio Gang Architects and SmithGroupJJR for the Chicago peninsula that formerly served as Meigs Field, opens to the public on Friday, twelve years after Mayor Richard M. Daley closed the airport.


Platform for Architecture + Research | 02.09.2015

Works

For the exhibition Shelter: Rethinking how we live in Los Angeles, PAR proposes a new model of high-rise courtyard housing, integrated with mass transit, on LACMA’s proposed tower site on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile.


John Hill | 01.09.2015

Headlines

A month and a half after being appointed director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has defined "Reporting from the Front" as the theme of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.


Barozzi / Veiga | 01.09.2015

Works

This is a synthetic project that shares identifying traits with its surrounding context. Mass, verticality and the shape of the roof lines are dominant, connecting the hall with the rest of the city.


01.09.2015

Building of the Week

Designed by the Tokyo-based firm KMDW, the Veneer House is a self-build plywood house. KMDW designed and built the first Veneer House to serve as a community center for Minamisanriku, in Miyagi Prefecture, after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami devastated the town. The firm has since built similar...


John Hill | 31.08.2015

Insight

With last week's announcement of the international search for an architect to design the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, we take a look at 20 libraries designed by World-Architects member firms since 2004, the year of the striking Clinton Presidential Library designed by ennead architects.


John Hill | 31.08.2015

Found

Peruvian practice Llonazamora has inserted a wood and metal construction juxtaposing architectural elements of Lima's Republican buildings inside LIGA in Mexico City for the gallery's 19th exhibition.


John Hill, CM Mimarlik | 28.08.2015

Works

A Modern Apartment Emerges From the Meeting of the Two Separately Perceived Prisms: Gokturk 118


John Hill | 27.08.2015

Headlines

The Barack Obama Foundation has released an RFQ (Request for Qualifications) for architects interested in designing the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) to be located on Chicago's South Side.


ONG&ONG | 26.08.2015

Works

66MRN is a Zen-inspired house featuring strong architectural lines and shapes, belying a sophisticated living environment that maximizes views of nature.


John Hill | 26.08.2015

Headlines

Following their design being scrapped in July, a 24-minute video from Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) argues that their winning design for the main venue of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is ready to build and pursuing a new design is foolhardy.


John Hill | 24.08.2015

Found

News came in September 2014 that architect Isay Weinfeld would take his Brazilian modernism to a site next to the High Line in New York for luxury residences. Renderings have finally been released for the project.


Crossboundaries | 24.08.2015

Works

Located in the trendy Sanlitun area, a 60-year-old auditorium that has seen multiple transformations now houses Crossboundaries’ new office.


John Hill | 24.08.2015

Products

Buenos Aires's new Centro Cultural Kirchner is commonly known as Ballena Azul (Blue Whale) due to its whale-like concert hall designed by B4FS Arquitectos that is covered in metallic fabric from GKD.


Taylor Cullity Lethlean | 21.08.2015

Works

Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Aurecon and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer were engaged in 2012 to design the new Riverbank Precinct Pedestrian Bridge, following a design competition run by the South Australian Government Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure.


Studio Farris Architects | 21.08.2015

Works

The Park Tower was finished in November 2014 and is situated in a unique location within walking distance from the new MAS museum, the harbor district "Eilandje," the waterfront beside the river Scheldt, and the historic city center.


John Hill | 20.08.2015

Headlines

Zürich's EM2N has won first prize in the competition for the New Museum of Natural History and State Archives in Basel with their "Zasamane" entry.


arbol | 20.08.2015

Works

This is a two-story wooden house in a densely build-up area in Sakai-city, Osaka.


John Hill | 19.08.2015

Headlines

The World War One Centennial Commission has announced that five design concepts for the National World War One Memorial at Pershing Park in Washington, DC  have been selected to proceed to Stage II of the design competition.


MPP Meding Plan + Projekt | 19.08.2015

Works

Within walking distance to Hamburg Central Station two hotels in the medium-class segment were being build: a 3-star ibis Hotel with 252 guest rooms and a 1-star ibis budget Hotel with 196 guest rooms.


John Hill | 18.08.2015

Film

BIG – Bjarke Ingel Group's design of a waste-to-energy plant under construction in Copenhagen incorporates an art piece that puffs a steam ring each time the plant burns one ton of carbon dioxide.


John Hill | 18.08.2015

Film

Paralleling the popularity of supertall skyscrapers that top 300 meters (984 feet), the New York Times looks at "giga coasters," roller coasters with drops of over 300 feet (91 meters).


John Hill | 17.08.2015

Headlines

Qatar Museums has announced the long-list of 26 architects selected from 489 submissions in the international search for the architect who will design the one-million-square-foot Art Mill in Doha.