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The small market town of Baumgartenberg in the Machland in Upper Austria is a fine example of maximum ambivalence: due to the economic price of land and the good transport connections to the conurbation around Linz a number of industries and businesses of considerable size have settled here, the...

Modern architecture is a rarity in what Knowles Blunck Architecture describes as the "McMansions, strip malls, and the occasional ‘western’ themed buildings" of South Dakota. The development where this house sits even has a form-based code that prefers...

For the design of the Health Sciences Education Building at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in Phoenix, CO Architects found inspiration in Arizona's iconic canyon formations, splitting the building into two six-story wings and wrapping the exterior in a rainscreen of copper panels. Chandler,... John Hill

The Center for Sustainable Landscapes houses administrative and classroom functions for the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, while furthering the institution's mission "to advance sustainability and promote human and environmental well-being through action and...

Oklahoma sits atop some of the largest petroleum fields in the United States, so it's no surprise that the drilling and production of oil and natural gas is a major industry in the state. Kirkpatrick Oil is one of many companies making up the industry. Their headquarters is in Oklahoma...

bHAN EAST, the first international project by Kyoto-based interior design firm FHAMS, is a gourmet food shop in the Gangnam district of Seoul that offers Yamaya-brand mentaiko (spicy-salty marinated pollock or cod roe) along with a select assortment of other Japanese and Korean products....

Joshua David and Robert Hammond will receive the 15th award from the National Building Museum. John Hill

The Great Plains stretch from Texas to Canada in the swath east of the Mississippi and west of the Rockly Mountains. North Dakota lies at the northern U.S. edge of this flat expanse of prairie, grassland, and farms. This house for an art collector in Fargo finds inspiration in the farmstead...

The President's Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force selects ten multidisciplinary teams for the Rebuild by Design competition. John Hill

While only about 110,000 people call the Missoula metropolitan area home, that is enough to make it the second largest city in Montana, "Big Sky Country." On a prominent triangular lot near downtown—at the end of what is known as the "hip strip"—architect Eric...

„Schutzhaus“ nennen Marte.Marte Architekten zwar das kleine Haus, das sie im Vorarlberger Laternsertal an den Rand eines bewaldeten Tobels direkt in einen Schihang gestellt haben. Das in Wirklichkeit aber ein kleines feines Ferienhaus ist. Findet in ihm doch nicht der einsame Wanderer...

Four architects—Diller Scofio + Renfro, H3 Hardy, SHoP Architects, SOM—envision new futures for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. John Hill

This vacation home designed by Kiyotoshi Mori and Natsuko Kawamura of MDS Co. Ltd sits in the foothills of Yamanashi Prefecture’s Yatsugatake Mountains. The team aims to help keep Japan’s cultural heritage alive by taking a fresh look at traditional crafts and culture,...

Geo Metria was designed by Mount Fuji Architects Studio, a Tokyo-based “creator’s collective” committed to developing quality living environments through architectural and other design work. The residence sits on a hillside where the plains of Odawara meet the mountains of...

Located on the banks of the Ohio River southwest of downtown Louisville, Riverbank Park is 70 acres envisioned by De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop in their master plan "as a new recreational venue for the community." The first component in the park's master...

It was 20 years ago this spring that the demolition of Kowloon Walled City near Hong Kong's former Kai Tak Airport began. On this anniversary, the South China Morning Post publishes a feature accompanied by a highly detailed inforgraphic. John Hill

adamo-faiden is an architecture studio that emerged from the ruins of the Argentinean corralito. After leaving the country and going to study and work in Europe, for Sebastián Adamo and Marcelo Faiden their return to post-crisis Argentina led to them reformulate their role as...

The Nihondaira Hotel, a long-standing institution on Shizuoka’s scenic Nippondaira plateau, sits within  Nihondaira Park. Recently created by Shizuoka's municipal government, the park presents the Nippondaira plateau as an open-air museum of natural landscape art; as part of the...

The importance of photography in promoting buildings and architects is undeniable. But what about the uncommissioned work—the personal explorations, the fine art exhibitions, the free work, the side projects—that architectural photographers undertake outside of their commercial jobs?... John Hill

Geographically Florida is defined as a peninsula and a panhandle. Jacksonville sits in the northeast corner of the state, at the confluence of these two conditions. One result of this location is what architect Christopher Frye describes as eclectic buildings that are rooted in their place....

As architects Osamu Nishida and Erika Nakagawa designed this residence in Kanagawa Prefecture, they conceived of the architectural plan as a map. The pair strewed elements of the residence across the lot, and by doing so created a unique home structured similarly to a village. The...

This urban infill project in Fayetteville is a house and studio for a painter who is also a professor at the University of Arkansas. The house is situated on the south to take advantage of the sun, and the studio is on the north for that side's ever-important indirect light; a carport...

CODA wins the MoMA PS1 Young Architect's Program, and Situ Studio is chosen by the Times Square Alliance for Heartwalk. John Hill

Located on the 185,000-square-meter site of a former ranch in Taikicho, Hokkaido, Même Meadows is a unique research facility for studying design responses to the region’s harsh climate. The environmental technology research institute based at the Meadows focuses on the collaborative...

In contrast to the "existing Beverly Hills clichés," as architect Dan Brunn calls them, Yojisan's quiet facade of cedar, Cor-ten steel, and glass greets passersby along North Beverly Drive, just steps away from Wilshire Boulevard. Inside, the home for Yoji Tajima's haute...

By digging into the terraced building site, architect Keisuke Maeda of UID created a living area that is protected from the elements yet strongly connected to the land. His “House on the Surface of the Earth” is not a pre-conceived structure simply set on the ground, but rather a...

Massachusetts' Cape Cod is famous for, among other things, the namesake style of residential architecture that started hundreds of years ago but has persevered in suburban landscapes across the country. The traditional form and construction was a response to the cape's harsh natural...

Previously, World-Architects featured the Covington Farmers Market, designed and built by the design/buildLAB at Virginia Tech. That structure reused wood from a warehouse whose site...

Vancouver’s Patkau Architects submitted a poetic and serene solution to last years annual Winnipeg Skating Shelters design competition for the City of Winnipeg. Winnipeg is a city of 600,000 residents located on the Canadian prairie. It is the coldest city of its size outside of...

This home for a couple with three children in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture enjoys a rich natural setting despite its location in a residential district. Architect Takeshi Hosaka based his design on an image of gradation from the woodland on the home’s south side, through the adjacent...

In December, 2011, the Museumof Modern Art(MoMA) appointed Portuguese architect Pedro Gadanho as its Curator of Contemporary Architecture. World-Architects met with Mr. Gadanho to talk about his new responsibilities at MoMA, how his background informs his curatorial post, and his ideas on... John Hill

The Edge House marks itself in the mountains of Northwest Connecticut with two curved walls in vertical cedar boards, one gray and one red. The latter acts as the house's spine and its circulation, also sheltering the occupants from prevailing winds. The gray wall is broken by rectilinear...

When a city opts to utilize prototype designs for public buildings, the results are often cheap and ugly; repurposed trailers or other modular units come to mind. But Houston, Texas has a recipe for good civic architecture in the first of what could be many police stations designed by Roth...

Artist Tomás Saraceno completed the installation of his "Cloud City" on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. John Hill

Developer L&L Holding Co. is holding an invited design competition for a skyscaper to replace a 1950s tiered glass box at 425 Park Avenue in New York City. John Hill

Cleveland, like many American cities with an industrial past, has plenty of brownfield sites that are ripe for creative redevelopment. These 27 Townhouses, developed by Adobe Modern Lifestyle Developers and designed by DIMIT Architects, occupy a brownfield site east of downtown Cleveland,...