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World-Architects first learned about the greenhouse designed by Kennedy & Violich Architecture for Wellesley College in 2017, when it won a LafargeHolcim Award. The... Kennedy & Violich Architecture

Amount of floorspace built in China each year – as a one-story building, the equivalent would cover 1.3 times the entire footprint of... René Ammann

Height of the 40-story tower made with mass timber planned for Sydney, which would become the world’s tallest hybrid timber building: 180 meters (590... René Ammann

The semi-annual Vectorworks Design Summit allows Vectorworks users the opportunity to connect with other users, interact with the company’s software developers, and hear about new developments for future updates. This year’s Design Summit was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, John Hill

Approximate number of applications submitted since 2013 for roughly 40,000 units of affordable housing in New York City: 25 million René Ammann

Sideyard fits a narrow space in Portland's Eastside, near the Burnside Bridge and across the street from the Fair-Haired Dumbell. Skylab's design for the five-story office building... Skylab

Percentage of registered architects in the United States who are Black women: 0.3% (just 2% are Black) René Ammann

Number of U.S. homeowners in forbearance plans at the end of May, representing 8.9% of all active mortgages and more than $1 trillion in... René Ammann

The second Architecture & the Media conference, organized by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, took place May 11 - 14, 2020, two years after the inaugural event was held at the... John Hill

Size of warehouse space the biggest property investment firm, Prologis, owns and manages: 90 square kilometers (or 1.5 Manhattans) René Ammann

Number of people arrested in the Albanian capital of Tirana for protesting against the demolition of the 80-year-old National Theatre: 37 René Ammann

After March saw a historic drop of the American Institute of Architects' Architecture Billings Index to 33.3, the ABI score dropped further in April to 29.3, "a new all-time low for the index." John Hill

Belgium's Osar Architects is a leader in designing healing communities in healthcare and related sectors. World-Architects spoke recently with Osar Architects about their projects, Building Information Modeling, BIM "translators," and how Osar uses John Hill

Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic of HANNAH worked with various students, researchers, and departments from Cornell University to realize the Ashen Cabin, a prototype and research project that "upcycles" ash trees decimated by beetles. Lok and Zivkovic, who recently won a HANNAH

Year in which the Chinese government decided erecting skyscrapers over 500 meters are "not allowed" and buildings over 250 meters should be "strictly... René Ammann

Surface of a new urban lagoon, whose levels change with dry and rainy seasons, created on the ruins of an unused shopping mall in the center of Tainan Spring, Taiwan: 54,600 m² René Ammann

In a "three-minute read" on Medium, Sidewalk Labs CEO Daniel Doctoroff explains why "it no longer made sense... John Hill

A decade ago MB Architecture created an art studio out of two shipping containers in the Hamptons. The firm recently completed a single-family home nearby, also made from containers, with four of... MB Architecture

Width that desks in open-plan offices have shrunk over the years: 40 cm (15.75")  René Ammann

The last piece of steel decking for the replacement of the Morandi Bridge, portions of which collapsed in August 2018 killing 43 people, was recently hoisted into... John Hill

Share of U.S. architecture firms expecting revenue losses of 17% on average over the next three months: 94% René Ammann

The 11th Street Bridge Park, which OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture and OLIN won a competition to design in October 2014, has received approval from the National... John Hill

As part of The World Around's online symposium held on Earth Day, Andrés Jaque of the Office for Political Innovation and Iván López Munuera made a 14-minute film about the "massive architectural transformation... John Hill

Binke Lenhardt and Hao Dong head the Beijing-based firm Crossboundaries. They design conversions and modular buildings in China, but they also teach courses for children and... Elias Baumgarten

Estimated number of people living in shared households in large American cities that will play a vital role in how the country copes... René Ammann

Milan's Piuarch has been selected to design the Human Technopole Foundation's new building and campus for scientific research, part of the MIND Milano Innovation District located in the former Expo Area. John Hill

Estimated drop in real estate showings in North America from early March 2020 to now: 75% René Ammann

World-Architects recently corresponded with Ángela Baldellou, who runs Observatorio 2030, a group created by the Council of Spanish Architects that brings together professionals and experts from... Madeline Beach Carey

Number of beds for patients with Covid-19 that New York City's largest convention center,... René Ammann

The Junshan Cultural Center is a clubhouse and sales center catering to a development north of Beijing, near the Miyun Reservoir. A short film takes viewers above, around, and inside Neri&Hu's... John Hill

Share of the cost of a new home in the United States being eaten up by regulatory burdens, impact fees, taxes, and the costs of delays: 24% René Ammann

Many museums are closed and just about all architecture-related events are postponed or canceled in response to the spread of COVID-19. Some exhibitions, such as the collections of drawings by... John Hill

Around the world, events that bring large groups of people together are being canceled or postponed as the novel coronavirus spreads. These include architecture and design events; some of the major fairs and conferences... John Hill

Number of slave dwellings across the United States that preservation architect Jobie Hill has registered so far in the René Ammann

The naming of Yvonne Farrelly and Shelley McNamara as the 2020 laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize has drawn attention to the work of their Dublin... John Hill

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara talk about each other, the work of Grafton Architects, and the responsibility of architects in our age of environmental crises, in a trio of films made on the occasion of being named the John Hill