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Mexican architect Tatiana Bilbao spoke with PLANE—SITE in the second video of a series leading up to the GAA Foundation's Time-Space-Existence exhibition, planned as a collateral exhibition of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. John Hill

For the day-two evening keynote at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin, architect Charles Jencks and critic Pierre de Meuron spoke about the new Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. John Hill

The great Japanese architect spoke with PLANE—SITE in the first video of a series leading up to the GAA Foundation's Time-Space-Existence exhibition, planned as a collateral exhibition of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. John Hill

Hansel & Gretel, a collaboration between architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and artist Ai Weiwei, opened at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City earlier this month. World-Architects spoke with iart's Valentin Spiess to learn about what went into making the... John Hill

From CAD to BIM, 3D printing, and virtual reality, technology's influence upon architectural production is pervasive and increasingly rapid. Much talk of the next big thing focuses on generative design. But what is it and how will it impact architects? Marc K. Howe spoke with Danil Nagy... Marc K. Howe

On Friday evening architect Peter Zumthor spoke with architecture critic Paul Goldberger in front of a packed house at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The event was the 34th iteration of Surface magazine's Design Dialogues series. John Hill

The University of Chicago is the largest landowner in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood and the largest employer on the city's South Side. This century the institution has undergone a building boom, with new academic buildings, dormitories, medical facilities, day care centers, and...

New York's ESI Design is responsible for two office lobby renovations carried out this year for Beacon Capital Partners: Terrell Place in Washington, DC, and 575 Fifth in Midtown Manhattan. Each lobby incorporates LED screens to add some movement and color to the spaces and lift the...

Baubotanik, “Living Plant Construction,” is an artificial word – composed of the German words “Bau” (construction) and “Botanik” (botany) – and a method of constructing living buildings with living plants. We spoke with Ferdinand Ludwig, who has... Katinka Corts

Last week Eva Franch i Gilabert, Chief Curator and Executive Director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, gave the keynote address at the Vectorworks Design... John Hill

Danish "architect of the moment" Bjarke Ingels recevied the 60 Minutes treatment on Sunday evening: Morley Safer spoke with Ingels about a handful of BIG's many projects underway around the world. John Hill

If you want that your garden gives you the best of himself and do grow quality food, it ‘s obvious and fundamental to turn the entire food farm project towards the sun. So we didn’t want to use any artificial lighting to supply power to plant vegetable gardens and a maximum of diversity. ABF-lab Architects and Engineers

At our first meeting, the clients spoke of simplicity and an open view of the woods. They wanted a house that "looks like a house." They preferred a more traditional style, reminiscent of East Coast homes by the sea, standing like cedar-shingled "lighthouses," standing strong... Bourgeois / Lechasseur architects

Cc-studio was invited, together with two other offices, to take part in a mini-competition initiated by the municipal supervisor Don Murphy, the director of VMX architects. cc-studio

REX's design of a building for two companies – Vakko and Power Media – in Istanbul is built upon two projects: one, an old design by the Brooklyn-based architects, and two, the physical concrete frame of an unfinished hotel on the site. The architects explain the complex yet...

With a growing awareness of the environmental benefits of solid wood over steel and concrete construction, more and more buildings this century are being constructed out of wood. With over twenty case studies in Joseph Mayo's new book, Solid Wood, World-Architects spoke with the... John Hill

The Prime Minister of Malaysia and the Mayor of London have unveiled the design by Bjarke Ingels Group for Malaysia Square at the mixed-use Battersea Power Station development in London. John Hill

American-Architects member firm Architecture Is Fun is featured in the most recent Success Story from Nemetschek Vectorworks. John Hill

World-Architects traveled to Chicago last week to attend the 2014 AIA National Convention, where we spoke with architects, looked at some great architecture, went to some parties, and learned as much as possible about where the profession is heading. John Hill

A restoration and renovation of the former thermic power station of Venice S. Lucia railway station for residential purposes, the project brings light and color where darkness reigned before, and it brings sustainability to the historic old town. GRUPPOFONARCHITETTI

BPS Development Company has unveiled phase-three designs by Frank Gehry and Norman Foster. John Hill

Designed to serve as both studio and residence for ceramics artist Koichiro Isezaki, architect Tamotsu Teshima’s House in Inbe blends quietly into its surroundings in the city of Bizen, Okayama Prefecture. Teshima’s work is characterized by attractive designs that draw their power...

The two big-name architects will design the residential buildings that make up Phase 3 of London's Battersea Power Station development. John Hill

Theatre Aspen opened its new facilities last June, just in time for a summer of concerts in the city's beautiful Rio Grande Park. The new structure consists of a demountable black box theatre that is removed after the summer season and a permanent pavilion that houses the lobby,...

World-Architects spoke with Scott Marble, director of C-BIP’s Integrated Design Studios, about how the Columbia University GSAPP program is attempting to transform architectural education. The interview, which took place at the Brooklyn office of Marble Fairbanks, is transcribed here,... John Hill

A studio visit to Cannon Design's St. Louis, Missouri, office, housed in an old power station. Principal George Nikolajevich gave World-Architects a tour. John Hill