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The curators of BLUEPRINT, which opened Friday at New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture, have wrapped the facade by Steven Holl and Vito Acconci in white plastic.
News broke last weekend that the non-profit organization closed its San Francisco offices, and yesterday AFH issued an official statement announcing they will be filing for bankruptcy.
Last week Snøhetta, with local architects SRA, were named the winner in a competition for Le Monde's new headquarters in Paris.
The documentary CONCRETE LOVE: The Böhm Family has its international premiere on the 26th of January at the Slamdance Festival in Park City, Utah, three days after architect Gottfried Böhm turns 95.
Since 2012, Wolf-Gordon has created an annual site-specific installation for NeoCon as a means of highlighting the company’s products and adding an exclamation point to the “heart” of Chicago’s Merchandise Mart.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has narrowed down the number of finalists vying for the Sydney Modern Project from twelve to five.
Resembling a simple glass-box office building from a distance, up close the 50-story FKI Tower reveals a simple yet ingenious wall section that incorporates solar panels angled to absorb more of the sun's rays than a strictly vertical surface. Further, a number of atriums and a rooftop...
The building is a part of the technological park of Coruña University. This technological park is formed by another six buildings interconnected among them.
Antoni Gaudí's unrealized design for the Our Lady of the Angels chapel dates to 1915, nine years before the architect's death. A century later the chapel is set to be built in Rancagua, Chile, making it the first Gaudí building outside his native Spain.
To rebel with a cause: The big blank concrete central library of the Shoolini University in Solan, overlooks a beautiful green valley.
The 2015 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often considered architecture's highest honor, won't be known for a couple more months, but today we learned that British architect Richard Rogers will help decide the next recipient.
The Tagus Gás Headquarters, built in Parque de Negócios do Cartaxo, stands out as one of most innovative buildings in Portugal by its bold design based on sustainability characteristics, being the first office building certified by BREEAM in Portugal.
This mixed-use development of urban market-rate homes, restaurants and shops continues the repair of the neighborhood fabric damaged by the removal of the Central Freeway.
The jury for the fifth annual City of Dreams Pavilion Competition in New York has selected two winning designs to be erected on Governors Island for the summer 2015 season.
The Spirulina Fountain displaces the culture of landscape architecture and gardening towards contemporary issues of land and urban farming in restrained areas.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston today previewed plans for the Fayez S. Sarofim Campus, which includes new buildings designed by Steven Holl Architects and Lake|Flato Architects.
Cool Spaces! The Best New Architecture, a documentary series on U.S. public television, has made its "Art Spaces" episode available online.
The Helsinki Guggenheim is open to the world, to the city and the sea; it will become an active cultural hub, a dynamic platform for experimentation and innovation.
The construction of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Museum of Image & Sound overlooking Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is documented in a couple short films from MIS.
The international architectural design competition of the Pomeranian Science and Technology Park in Gdynia was won by AEC Krymow & Partners, an architectural office from Warsaw.
As part of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's "Louisiana Channel," which produces videos on art on a weekly basis, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels offers advice to aspiring architects.
The new Israel's Square consists of a folded surface floating above the ground – like a flying carpet. The square, or surface, hovers between two worlds: the city and the neighboring Ørsted Park.
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the 2015 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, 23 projects from approximately 500 submissions in three categories: architecture, interior architecture and regional & urban design.
Amsterdam based studio Engel Architecten has recently completed this residence in the wooded surroundings of Zeist, a small town in the center of the Netherlands.
The project presents a mixed program to build a school, a gymnasium, but also incorporate a third element: encouraging biodiversity.
In this twelve-minute film produced by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, architect Steven Holl speaks about his background and ideas on design.
Yes, we're finding this Christmas short a bit late, but it's too funny to resist posting. In it, a husband and wife architect redesign Christmas for their family, with presents stacked like Habitat 67 and a gingerbread house based on the Guggenheim.
This compact residence is nestled within the dense expanse of Tokyo, in a neighborhood characterized by narrow streets and traditional low-rise houses and which borders a park heavily visited during the spring, when the city’s cherry trees bloom.
Polls are now open to vote for your favorite Building of the Week on three of our national platforms: American-Architects, German-Architects and Swiss-Architects.
On the last day of 2014 The Broad museum announced the last sections of scaffolding were removed from around its new façade, dubbed the "veil" by architects Diller, Scofidio + Renfro.
Of the 420 projects from 36 countries competing for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015, we highlight some of the contending projects designed by World-Architects member firms.
This combined studio, gallery, and home by Fukuoka-based Masao Yahagi Architects features a wood-frame construction style appropriate to the building’s location in a historic district near the sea, and an open gallery space unbroken by columns. The site presented a number of design...
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Thirteen years after winning first prize in an international competition, Coop Himmelb(l)au's design for the Musée des Confluences finally opened to the public in Lyon, France, on 20 December 2014.
Allied Works Architecture has shared their design for the Ohio Veterans Memorial and Museum, which they were awarded in 2013 following an invited competition that included David Chipperfield Architects and Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
RAW turns downtown Montreal into a high-design, interactive kaleidoscope with Prismatica, a public art installation on display from 10 December 2014 to 1 February 2015 as part of Quartier des Spectacles’ Luminothérapie.