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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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
Number
on 7/10/23
Estimated number of households globally who have solar panels installed on their roofs today: 25 million René Ammann
Found
on 7/7/23
The sixth and final exhibition in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s “The Architect’s Studio” series presents the Kenyan architectural studio Cave Bureau (stylized as cave_bureau), founded by Kabage Karanja and... Ulf Meyer
Number
on 7/3/23
Frequency with which the Great Mosque in Djenné, Mali, is freshly plastered in mud: Yearly René Ammann
Number
on 6/19/23
Figure New York City is sinking each year under the weight of more than a million buildings that weigh 762 million tonnes (1.68 trillion pounds): 1-2 millimeters René Ammann
Found
on 6/16/23
One of the numerous exhibitions in Venice unrelated to the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale but taking place during its six-month run (see also: John Hill
Number
on 6/9/23
Share of all the rice straw produced in France, according to researchers at Atelier LUMA, that would be enough... René Ammann
Number
on 6/2/23
Rankings of Ghana, Syria and Argentina among the 107 countries indexed Serbian databank numbeo.com, where mortgages are more than 1000 percent of income: 1, 2 & 3 René Ammann
Insight
on 5/31/23
Richard Hassell and Wong Mun Summ first met at the Singapore office of Kerry Hill Architects, where they worked as designers for five years, predominantly on resorts in Bali, Indonesia. Working well together led them to start their own independent practice in Singapore in 1994: Vladimir Belogolovsky
Number
on 5/27/23
Price celebrities Beyoncé and Jay-Z paid — in cash — for a 40,000-square-foot (3700 m2) mansion on eight acres (3.2 ha) in Malibu, California, designed by... René Ammann
Number
on 5/22/23
Increases in the prices of building materials between January 2022 and May 2023 in Nigeria, Africas biggest country: 70% René Ammann
Number
on 5/12/23
Share of materials in the renovation of the American Geophysical Union Headquarters in Washington, DC that was reused: 96% René Ammann
