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At b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, architecture begins, not with a form, but with a stance. In contrast to the inertia of a discipline often defined by style, the firm insists on a different approach: designing requires understanding, questioning, and taking direct responsibility for the city...
Earlier this year, World-Architects readers voted Trofa Town Hall, designed by NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira, as Building of the Year 2025. We corresponded with...
Spanish-Architects visited the shared Barcelona studio of architects Mariona Benedito and Bayona Valero Architects Associates ahead of them hosting the second installment of Architecture Studio...
The new Town Hall in Trofa, a small city north of Porto, has received the most votes in our poll for World Building of the Year 2025. Designed by Porto's NOARQ | José Carlos Nunes de Oliveira, Trofa Town Hall is a dark brick building that emerged from the transformation and expansion of an old...
“The arts are not isolated,” John Cage shortly before his death in 1992, “but engage in dialogue.” He happened to be referring to music and architecture, the latter occasionally referred to as “frozen music.” Here we explore the relationship between these two arts, spurred by a forthcoming...
In 2025 we presented 50 Buildings of the Week on World-Architects, and now it's your turn to help us crown a Building of the Year by voting for your favorite project. The deadline is Saturday, January 31, with the winner announced in early February.
World-Architects is promoting a new way of experiencing architecture in Barcelona through Architecture Studio Sessions, a series of events that, as part of the official program of Barcelona 2026 World Capital of Architecture, will open architecture studios in the city to the public and turn...
Located in Jodhpur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Facets is a brick-clad mixed-use building housing a workplace, warehouse, and experience center for an electric switch company. The architects at Studio UF+O answered a few questions about the building.
In 2025 we presented 50 projects as Buildings of the Week on World-Architects. Now it's your turn to help us crown a Building of the Year by voting for your favorite project between now and the end of January. The winner will be announced in early February.
With the new year upon us, World-Architects is looking ahead to some of the events, grand openings, and book releases that are planned to unfold over the next twelve months. Here we present 26 things to look forward to in 2026 in four categories: biennials and triennials, exhibitions, museum...
Take a look back at 2025 as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last twelve months. Instead of a chronological presentation, here we link to 35 articles in 9 categories: Awards, Books, Brutalism, Exhibitions, Films, Interviews,...
La Biennale di Venezia has announced that architects Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, founders of Hangzhou's Amateur Architecture Studio, will direct the Venice Architecture Biennale's 20th International Architecture Exhibition, making them the first curators of the exhibition from China.
As part of their recently unveiled design for Birmingham City Football Club’s new stadium, Heatherwick Studio and MANICA, with filmmaker Steven Knight, have released a short film explaining their design that is anchored by twelve towering chimney-like structures visible from miles away.
The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles Zhu Pei, the Chinese architect whose most famous building is the stunning five-year-old Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum.
Anchoring Harvard University's new Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston, Massachusetts, the David Rubenstein Treehouse is a new university-wide hub for convening and the first mass timber building on the Ivy League school's growing campus.
Appropriate to its name, the Center for Inclusive Growth & Competitiveness at T. A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) is "devoid of entry or even a main door, fostering openness and accessibility," in the words of its architects, The Purple Ink Studio. This addition to the TAPMI campus in...
Three high-profile museum projects nearing completion in New York and New Jersey—New Museum, Princeton University Art Museum, and Studio Museum in Harlem—have one architecture firm in common: Cooper Robertson. World-Architects recently stopped by Cooper Robertson’s Lower Manhattan office to...
Dubai-based journalist Jumana Naim recently visited the studio of Dabbagh Architects, one of the Middle East’s most celebrated architecture offices working within the region’s cultural space today, learning about architect Sumaya Dabbagh’s background, the firm’s philosophy, and some of their...
Among the numerous events that took place during the vernissage of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale back in May was a panel discussion organized by The World Around and the San Marco Art Centre (SMAC). The World Around recently uploaded a one-hour video of “The World Around On Site:...
Dubai-based journalist Jumana Naim dropped by the minimalist studio of T.ZED Architects in Dubai for a tour with founder Tarik Zaharna, getting a closer look at the practice ahead of what’s shaping up to be a busy few years.
The fourth European Conference on Architecture & the Media took place at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona on May 26 and 27. Videos of the two-day conference are now on YouTube, and here we highlight two of the roundtables that gathered journalists to speak about the role of...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is reopening its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, with galleries dedicated to the arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania, following a nearly decade-long transformation by Kulapat Yantrasast of WHY Architecture.
A few months after the UK government announced the five shortlisted teams in the two-stage competition for the design of a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II, their design concepts have been revealed, with the winner to be announced in early summer.
Price to convert office buildings into flats—rearranging floor plans, plumbing, ventilation, and more: $250 to...
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, working with Malcolm Reading Consultants, has revealed concept designs by six finalists in its two-stage competition to expand the Kansas City, Missouri institution. Take a look at renderings showing how Kengo Kuma, Renzo Piano, Jeanne Gang, and others envision...
Visitors to World-Architects in January voted Nokha Village Community Centre by Sanjary Puri Architects as Building of the Year 2024. Located in the Indian state of...
The UK government has announced the teams on the shortlist in the two-stage competition for the design of a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II, to be located in London's St. James Park, just steps from The Mall, the ceremonial route to Buckingham Palace.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Gates and Unrealized Projects for New York City is a new exhibition that opened at The Shed on February 12. The celebration of the 20th anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's installation of 7,503 saffron-colored gates in Central Park also features an...
The Nokha Village Community Centre in the Indian state of Rajasthan received the most votes in our poll for World Building of the Year 2024. Designed by Mumbai's Sanjay Puri Architects, the rural building near the village of Nokha consists of a library and community space serving people in...
The second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale opened to the public on January 25 at the Western Hajj Terminal at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, where it will be on display until May. New for this edition is the AlMusalla Prize, an international competition for a small prayer...
Open Space, the studio dedicated to “preserving and portraying the essence of architecture through the medium of film,” visits the Judy House in Kalamazoo, Michigan, designed by Norman F. Carver, Jr. more than fifty years ago. Tim and Vanessa Hills give viewers a tour of the Japanese-inspired...
With the new year upon us, World-Architects is looking ahead to some of the exhibitions, grand openings, and book releases that should be taking place over the next twelve months. Here we present 25 things to look forward to in 2025 in four categories: events, openings, publications, and...
In 2024 we presented 40 projects on World-Architects in our inaugural World Building of the Week feature. Now it's your turn to help us crown a Building of the Year by voting for your favorite project between now and the end of January. The winner will be announced in early February.
Take a look back at 2024 — our 30th year! — as we present a few highlights from the many articles we published in our online magazine over the last 12 months. Instead...
The latest installment in Madeline Beach Carey's “Building Novels” series, which looks at works of fiction where buildings and architecture play integral roles, is Seeing Fire | Seeing Meadows by Anna Kostreva, an architectural designer and urban researcher at Plural Studio in Berlin....
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, working with Malcolm Reading Consultants, has announced the six finalists who will take part in second stage of the international design competition to expand the Kansas City, Missouri institution.