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1 month ago

Structural engineer Hanif Kara, design director at AKT II, the engineering firm he cofounded in 1996, is the latest recipient of the Soan Medal, given annually since 2017 by Sir John Soane's Museum in London. John Hill


Film
1 month ago

Ahead of the crowning of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2024, aka “the UK's best new building,” on the evening of October 16, the Royal Institute of British Architects has released short films on each of the six shortlisted projects. John Hill


Headlines
1 month ago

Under the thematic focus “Architectures with,” the 2024 Obel Award has been awarded to Colectivo C733, a group comprised of multiple architecture studios and dozens of architects who came together to realize 36 projects across Mexico in the span of just 36 months.  John Hill


Insight
2 months ago

Billed as “the first-ever major museum exhibition to examine the career of the influential 20th-century architect Paul Rudolph,” Materialized... John Hill


Headlines
2 months ago

During its annual international conference that took place in London and Paris last week, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named Pan Pacific Orchard, a 23-story hotel in Singapore, as the 2024 Best Tall Building Worldwide. Designed by Singapore's WOHA, it is the second... John Hill


Headlines
2 months ago

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has announced that the Community Production Center Las Tejedoras, a workshop for local women artisans in Chongón, Ecuador, designed by architects José Fernando Gómez and Juan Carlos Bamba, is the winner of the fifth MCHAP.emerge Award. John Hill


Found
2 months ago

SD Review 2024 – The 42nd Exhibition of Winning Architectural Drawings and Models was displayed last month at Hillside Terrace in Tokyo and now moves to the Kyoto Institute of Technology Museum and Archives. The Japan-Architects editors visited the exhibition in Tokyo and John Hill


Film
2 months ago

The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features an interview with architect Liz Diller in the studio of Diller Scofidio + Renfro on New York's West Side, not far from the practice's breakout project, the High Line. John Hill


Insight
2 months ago

Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis: A Fable stars Adam Driver as an architect, master builder, and scientist who leads the Design Authority in the fictional city of New Rome. With a supernatural power and a Nobel Prize to his credit, he strives to realize a utopian future inspired by... John Hill


Found
2 months ago

Earlier this year Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza was named an honorary member of the International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA), “in recognition of his exceptional contribution to global architecture.” Next month he will give a keynote at the CICA 2024 International Conference. John Hill


Headlines
2 months ago

Fredric Jameson, the literary and cultural critic and longtime professor at Duke University, died on September 22 at the age of 90. Best known for the 1991 book Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Jameson was influential in architectural circles for making... John Hill


Headlines
2 months ago

Two Trees Management has announced the completion of Domino Square, a one-acre public space that is an extension of Domino Park and which sits in the heart of the larger redevelopment of the former Domino Sugar Refinery site in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. John Hill


Film
2 months ago

Re:Imagine London is a collaboration between Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Epic Games that allows users of Fortnite to shape sections of London with curvy modules designed by ZHA. As explained in a video from The B1M, the just-released feature encourages young gamers to understand urban... John Hill


Headlines
2 months ago

Citizens of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, are being asked to vote on one of two designs — by David Hotson Architect and Wilmotte & Associés — for the modernization and completion of the Cascade Complex that was started in the 1970s but never finished. John Hill


Products
2 months ago

The American Hardwood Export Council's (AHEC) contribution to this year's London Design Festival is Vert, a timber structure designed by Diez Office with OMCºC as a cooling space for visitors and a means of increasing biodiversity in urban environments. Vert is installed at the Parade Ground... John Hill


Found
2 months ago

Brazilian artist Ciao Reisewitz is the latest artist to take over the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. Suspendre el cel fills the pavilion with palm trees, ferns, and other plants that recall the Amazon rainforests and draw attention to their destruction and that of indigenous... John Hill


Headlines
2 months ago

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the shortlisted projects for its awards focused on affordable housing and adaptive reuse: the 2024 Neave Brown Award for Housing and the 2024 Reinvention Award. John Hill


Headlines
2 months ago

The Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain has announced that, in celebration of its 40th anniversary this year, it will be moving into a historic building on Place du Palais-Royal by the end of 2025. Interior renovations will be carried out by Jean Nouvel, the architect of its current... John Hill


Insight
2 months ago

Energies, the new exhibition that opened at the Swiss Institute in Manhattan's East Village on September 11, invites visitors to explore other parts of the neighborhood related to the exhibition's themes of “ecological affordances and effects, social formations, and political... John Hill


Headlines
2 months ago

The Foundation for the Finnish Museum of Architecture and Design and Real Estate Company ADM have revealed the 623 entries that were submitted in the first stage of an open international design competition for a new museum of architecture in Helsinki’s South Harbour. All 623 proposals are... John Hill


Found
2 months ago

The latest addition to Tippet Rise Art Center — a sprawling ranch in Montana that has been home to artworks, pavilions, and performance spaces since opening in 2016 — is Geode, an open-air acoustical structure and performance venue designed by Arup to create an intimate sonic environment... John Hill


Film
2 months ago

Back in May, on the UNESCO International Day of Light, the 2024 Daylight Awards were awarded to Alberto Camp Baeza and Till Roenneber, respectively in the architecture and research categories. The Daylight Award has released videos of their ten-minute award lectures. John Hill


Headlines
2 months ago

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has been named a recipient of Japan Art Association’s 2024 Praemium Imperiale, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists. John Hill


Found
2 months ago

AA Folios: 1983–1985 is a small but dense exhibition now on display at The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. Open to the public for just three weeks, the exhibition presents seven of the fourteen Folios produced by the Architectural Association in... John Hill


Headlines
on 06/09/2024

Details have been announced for the proposed Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA), the first major art museum for the “City of Lights.” Planned for a site in Symphony Park, the museum is being designed by Francis Kéré, recipient of the John Hill


Products
on 06/09/2024

Pixel, the mixed-use complex designed by MVRDV for the new Makers District on Al Reem Island in Abu Dhabi, is made up of seven towers whose terraces seem to tumble down toward a central courtyard. The terraces and bay windows are shaded by pixelated screens made with glazed brick panels from... John Hill


Headlines
on 05/09/2024

Seven years after 72 people were killed in a fire that, due to highly flammable facade retrofit, quickly spread through the 24-story Grenfell Tower... John Hill


Film
on 04/09/2024

As part of the the Kunsttage Basel event in late August, Nicolas Krupp Gallery invited Swiss visual artist Eric Hatten to play around with the materials in the gallery's new exhibition space currently under construction. VernissageTV walked through the exhibition in one of its latest videos. John Hill


Found
on 02/09/2024

Unlike fashion, publishing, and other fields, architecture doesn't have a “season.” But when it comes to exhibitions and other architectural events, autumn is a busy time. Here we highlight a half-dozen of the numerous architecture exhibitions opening in September and October. These are... John Hill


Headlines
on 31/08/2024

The British Museum has announces a shortlist of five architect-led teams for a major renovation of its Western Range Galleries, a project the museum contends is “one of the most significant cultural renovation projects in the world.” John Hill


Headlines
on 29/08/2024

A typed note by John Sainsbury, one of the donors for the 1991 addition to the National Gallery in London bearing the family's name, was recently found in a false column. The note explicitly criticizes the column as “a mistake of the architect,” Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. John Hill


Film
on 27/08/2024

Architectural Digest tours the 75.9 House in the Vancouver countryside with architect Omer Arbel, who devised a tent-like fabric formwork for the house's lily pad-shaped columns, in its latest “Unique Spaces” video. John Hill


Headlines
on 26/08/2024

Designed by Ayers Saint Gross, and following from a concept developed by Studio Gang in their strategic master plan for the National Aquarium a decade ago, the Harbor Wetland aims to educate the public and expand the natural habitat in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. John Hill


Found
on 23/08/2024

Newly released renderings show the Grand Stade Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco, the 115,000-capacity stadium projected to be the largest football stadium in the world. Designed by Populous in collaboration with Oualalou + Choi, the stadium's tented roof was inspired by moussem, an... John Hill


Film
on 21/08/2024

Architect and building tech innovator Doris Sung spoke at TED Salon: The Rockefeller Foundation in May about how building facades can be active contributors to urban life and public health, presenting proposals developed by her firm DOSU Studio Architecture. John Hill


Headlines
on 21/08/2024

Price Tower, the 19-story landmark building in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, that is the only skyscraper realized by Frank Lloyd Wright, will close on September 1, one year after its current owner purchased it for just $10, and go up for auction in October. John Hill


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