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on 1/9/24
In a short film from Vlaams Architectuurinstituut (Flanders Architecture Institute), curators Bie Plevoets and Sofie De Caigny describe As Found. Experiments in Preservation, the exhibition focusing on contemporary approaches to renovating existing buildings that is John Hill
Number
on 1/8/24
Six years after its launch, number of the anticipated 270,000 homes to be “unlocked” by £4.2 billion ($5.34 billion, or €4.88 billion) in spending promised by Britain's major housebuilding infrastructure fund René Ammann
Film
on 1/4/24
Listen to Ben van Berkel talk about his travels to China, the theater UNStudio is building in Hong Kong, projects in Australia, Germany and Spain, the recently completed John Hill
Number
on 12/18/23
Estimated number of housing units being created by office-to-residential conversions in the United States right now: 21,000 René Ammann
Headlines
on 12/15/23
Ahead of construction set to start soon, Google has released renderings of the renovation of the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago, the postmodern “spaceship” that was designed by Helmut Jahn in the 1980s and recently John Hill
Number
on 12/11/23
Number of homeless kids in San Francisco, California, waiting for shelter ahead of Christmas: 363 René Ammann
Film
on 12/5/23
The latest architecture-related filmed interview from Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel features Reinier de Graaf, partner at OMA in... John Hill
Number
on 11/30/23
Approximate number of people who follow the @african_brutalism account on Instagram, a collection of photos of African modernist and brutalist architecture (with 241 posts, as of today):... René Ammann
Number
on 11/27/23
Age of RMIT Village, a 12-story student housing complex in the city of Melbourne, Australia, to be knocked down and rebuilt for $264... René Ammann
Number
on 11/20/23
Amount Canadian architect Asen Vitko spent to turn the empty 123-year-old neo-Gothic St. Mary the Virgin church in Toronto into 17 townhomes: $16 million... René Ammann
Film
on 11/14/23
With the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale wrapping up its six-month run on November 26, La Biennale di Venezia has been adding short videos to its 2023 architecture... John Hill
Number
on 11/13/23
Amount Morocco plans to spend to rebuild each individual home that was completely destroyed by the earthquake that hit on September 8, 2023:... René Ammann
Reviews
on 11/9/23
In China, everyone knows the saying “In heaven there is paradise, on earth there is Suzhou and Hangzhou”. In Suzhou, the many historic gardens and the old city centre with its whitewashed buildings and grey roofs along the canals have been protected for fifty years. New high-rise districts... Eduard Kögel
Found
on 11/9/23
Ma Yansong: Landscapes in Motion opened in late September at the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning (MoCAUP) in Shenzhen, China, presenting a retrospective of MAD’s... John Hill
Number
on 11/6/23
Number of skyscrapers in London’s “City Cluster” area that are either under... René Ammann
Headlines
on 11/6/23
A year ahead of its fall 2024 opening, World-Architects got a hard-hat tour of Longwood Reimagined, the transformation of Longwood Gardens, the renowned botanical garden west of Philadelphia, being carried out by John Hill
Reviews
on 10/30/23
Two weeks ago we featured the first mass timber condominium in New York City (Timber House), and this week we have another building in Brooklyn that boasts another first: the first single-family residence... Schiller Projects
Number
on 10/30/23
Estimated time the office-to-residential conversion of the empty 22-story, triangular-shaped Flatiron Building in New York City, which sold for $161 million (€152m)... René Ammann
Reviews
on 10/23/23
Rotterdam's MVRDV is one of four architecture firms in the “collaborative design cohort” designing different parts of Mission Rock, a new neighborhood in San... MVRDV
Number
on 10/23/23
Minimum number of birds that were killed on a single day in October, when they collided with a single Chicago building,... René Ammann
Number
on 10/16/23
Estimated net worth of Hafeez Contractor, India’s richest architect and... René Ammann
Number
on 10/9/23
Number of elements of the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) building designed by Swiss architect and 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate Peter Zumthor that, he says, René Ammann
Number
on 10/2/23
Number of Japanese architects by the likes of Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, and Kuma Kengo, who have redesigned public toilets in various locations throughout Shibuya, Tokyo: 16 René Ammann
Insight
on 9/29/23
The 19th Asian Games opened on September 23 and run through October 8, 2023, in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province. The Games, originally scheduled for 2022, were postponed for a year because of China’s Covid-19 policy. Of the more than fifty competition venues for the Games, only twelve... Eduard Kögel
Reviews
on 9/27/23
Hainan Island, located in the South China Sea, has a tropical climate all year round. Since 1988, the island has been an independent province and the largest special economic zone in the People’s Republic. The capital Haikou is located at the northern end of the island with a population of... Eduard Kögel
Number
on 9/25/23
Cost of the world’s most expensive building — Islam's most sacred site and the largest mosque in the world,... René Ammann
Number
on 9/15/23
Price of 11 flats worth £640,000 ($800,000) in Looe, a village in Cornwall, England, sold to renovate and let as affordable homes for locals: £1 ($1.25) René Ammann
Number
on 9/11/23
Office vacancy rate in San Francisco, California, at the end of the second quarter 2023: 31.6% René Ammann
Specials
on 9/11/23
Hadi Teherani designed the new wellness area of the Krallerhof Hotel. The exceptional building features downward opening facade elements from HIRT kinetics AG
Number
on 9/4/23
Share of monthly household income US home owners were paying for their mortgage in June 2023: 29% René Ammann
Reviews
on 8/28/23
Shelter Island is a small island town near the eastern end of Long Island that is reachable only by ferries. The island is home to numerous modern houses, such as the Eco House, previously featured as a US... KoningEizenberg
Number
on 8/28/23
Minimum number of Chinese developers that defaulted or failed to make debt payments in the last three years, according to the credit ratings agency Standard... René Ammann
Found
on 8/24/23
Born in Munich, architect Florian Busch founded Florian Busch Architects (FBA) in 2009, after working in the office of Toyo Ito. In the first part of a two-part interview, Busch talks with Ulf Meyer about his... Ulf Meyer
Number
on 8/18/23
Number of outside windows an all-white stucco L-shaped single-level corner house in the town of Morelia, in Central Mexico, counts to make the clients feel secure: 0 René Ammann
Reviews
on 7/20/23
In recent decades, the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone has developed into the fastest growing metropolis in the world. As a result, new ways of natural resource management are needed. Doreen Heng Liu and her Eduard Kögel