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The residency of the artists Scenocosme and Lola and Yukao Meet at the Château Éphémère near Paris yielded La Maison Sensible (The Sensitive House), an interactive installation that turned the furniture and walls of a room into sensors for light and sound.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced on Wednesday that David Chipperfield Architects has been selected to develop a new design for the Southwest Wing for modern and contemporary art.
Michael Graves, influential architect of postmodernism, designer of kettles, healthcare design advocate, professor, and member of the New York Five, died yesterday at his Princeton, New Jersey, home.
Every month brings news of another city trying to create its own version of Manhattan's wildly successful High Line. Most recent is Miami's Underline, which has hired High Line landscape architect James Corner to plan a 10-mile "mobility corridor."
The single-family home is situated on 2828 feet above sea level, right at the entry into mill valley. The rising silhouette of the roof gives a slight impression of the upward striving space sequence.
Four years after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the eastern coast of Japan, we take a look at some of the buildings completed under the Home-for-All program started by architect Toyo Ito in response to the disaster.
The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects has annouced the winners of its 2015 Design Awards – 12 Honor and 25 Merit awards in 4 categories.
With the death of Frei Otto on Monday and the awarding of the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize to him on Tuesday, we take a look at a few short films on the German architect/engineer, his structures, and his working methods.
Tom Pritzker of the Hyatt Foundation announced today, one day after Frei Otto’s death, that the German architect is the 40th laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize.
The Learning Hub at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), designed by Heatherwick Studio and executed by lead architect CPG Consultants, is a new educational landmark for Singapore.
The construction of French artist Georges Rousse's installation Faro & Faro for the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda in Mexico City is documented in a short film.
Conversion of a former food market into a cultural center
Team Mei and Felixx are a prize-winner for the redevelopment of a post war residential area in Munich.
Boston's MASS Design Group burst onto the architecture scene with the 2011 completion of the Butaro Hospital in Rwanda. Their design responded to the African context through a grouping of buildings perched upon a hilltop, while the interiors addressed disease and patient comfort through...
Reviving Mies in The Buda Hills: Leftovers of a pine forest … and a squirrel.
Hascher Jehle Architektur and artist Burghard Müller-Dannhausen treated the exterior and interior, respectively, of the new Rems-Murr-Klinikum hospital in Winnenden, Germany, with a range of colors to create a strong building identity.
Despite vehement cries for its preservation, legislators in Goshen, New York, failed to vote for protecting the Paul Rudolph's Brutalist building, therefore making its demolition and reconstruction a reality.
The AA School of Architecture has been busy uploading a wealth of lectures, conversations and documentaries lately, including a BBC documentary on American architect Bruce Goff.
In recent decades cities in China have grown at a tremendous speed. On their peripheries new real estate developments have produced huge housing complexes with uniform appearances. Many of these developments are a kind of speculative investment and as a result millions of the apartments are...
KKA together with Riksbyggen has won a land-use competition in Helsingborg, Sweden. The proposal treated one block in the expanding harbor area Oceanhamnen.
Ennead Architects won the commission for the Shanghai Planetarium branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (SSTM) with a design inspired by the astronomic principle of orbital motion.
Nueva School at Bay Meadows provides a variety of innovative educational environments woven together to form an integrated “ecology of learning” designed to inspire the 21st century student.
In recent years, architectural practice has undergone deep transformations. In countries with a strong artisan tradition, as is the case of Spain, the old model of studying architecture that could lead to being in charge of projects of very different scales has been substituted by vast...
On the outskirts of the city of Buenos Aires, we have developed the Club House for the nautical neighborhood community of Nordelta in Tigre.
How to establish a clear spatial, material and social identity of the neighbourhood?
The University of St. Thomas · Minnesota has announced it will auction off the Frank Gehry-designed Winton Guest House in May, six years after the school relocated the building from its original site.
For David Zwirner’s second location in Chelsea, Selldorf Architects designed a 30,000 sf building that will be the first LEED certified commercial gallery in the U.S.
Pujalt is a township in l’Anoia region of Spain. The project connects new constructions and existing traditional buildings.
The monotonous rhythm that is conformed by the facades of all the houses in Guadarrama Street is boldly interrupted by an architectonic manifesto: the habitual architecture evolves into Guadarrama House, a spatial poetry in the middle of a prose.
Architect Zoka Zola may be based in Chicago, but her roots go back to Croatia, specifically to Rijeka, the country's third largest city. So it's fitting that one of her most recent projects took the architect back to her city of birth to design affordable housing after a competition...
On Saturday 28 February 2015, Delft’s new railway station officially opened to the public. The station sits atop a new train tunnel built in place of the old concrete viaduct that has divided the city in two since 1965.
World-Architects recently visited the Princeton, New Jersey, office of ikon.5 architects to speak with partners Joseph Tattoni, Arvind Tikku and Charles Maira about the firm's background and their working process, and to look at some new projects.
We are a team of specialists in different areas of architecture and construction. A team motivated and prepared to take each new project as a challenge that requires our most demanding and constant improvement.
Designed by Hiroshima-based architecture firm Keisuke Kawaguchi +K2-DESIGN, Locomotive Hills is an adult day service center located partway up a gently sloping, forested hill. The shape of the building itself is patterned on a hill and is designed to continue the thread of green through the city....
Five of the six winning projects in this year's Progressive Architecture Awards were designed by World-Architects member firms.
"Simply ... the SilverWoodHouse ... any attempt to adjectives falls short of the final experience of contemplation ... congratulations and thanks Ernesto." These were the words of my clients Rui and Marisa when asked about SilverWoodHouse.