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"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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
An open lift connects the lower and upper portions of arte SPATIAL DESIGN STUDIO's concrete WW+ house in Osaka.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
A Modern Apartment Emerges From the Meeting of the Two Separately Perceived Prisms: Gokturk 118
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.
66MRN is a Zen-inspired house featuring strong architectural lines and shapes, belying a sophisticated living environment that maximizes views of nature.
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.
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.
Located in the trendy Sanlitun area, a 60-year-old auditorium that has seen multiple transformations now houses Crossboundaries’ new office.
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, 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.
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.
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.
This is a two-story wooden house in a densely build-up area in Sakai-city, Osaka.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.