Houston’s Ismaili Center, the first in the U.S., holds opening ceremony – Houston Public Media
The five-story structure, years in the making, was the site of an opening ceremony Thursday that included Houston Mayor John Whitmire and His Highness Prince Rahim Aga Khan V, the worldwide spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims. Source: Houston’s Ismaili Center, the first in the U.S., holds opening… Continue reading
Arquitectura Viva 278: Herzog & de Meuron | Arquitectura Viva
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have time and again reinvented themselves over the course of their almost fifty-year career, and now they use their experience to undertake cycles and processes with the conscience the moment demands. Arquitectura Viva showcases five of their latest works, which reinterpret types… Continue reading
Editor’s Letter: The late BV Doshi is a gift that keeps on giving | Architectural Digest India
AD India Editor, Komal Sharma visits The Doshi Retreat at the prestigious Vitra Campus in Germany. Additionally, discover over 25 museums across India with the final issue of 2025. Source: Editor’s Letter: The late BV Doshi is a gift that keeps on giving | Architectural Digest India… Continue reading
Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza – Heneghan Peng Architects | Arquitectura Viva
After more than three decades of waiting and numerous postponements, 1 November 2025 sees the long-awaited official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). The full opening of this colossal complex, located just two kilometres from the Pyramids of Giza, brings to an end a long process that… Continue reading
From no man’s land to an archipelago of parks: BIG transforms Manhattan’s waterfront – Domus
A “parkipelago” along the East River, near the Williamsburg Bridge — designed also as protection against climate events — is only the first step: the East Side shoreline is set to become increasingly green. Source: From no man’s land to an archipelago of parks: BIG transforms Manhattan’s… Continue reading
Explore the Newly Opened Calder Gardens in Philadelphia – Galerie Magazine
The groundbreaking institution presents works by Alexander Calder within a Herzog & de Meuron building and a landscape by Piet Oudolf Source: Explore the Newly Opened Calder Gardens in Philadelphia – Galerie Magazine… Continue reading
Inside Calder Gardens, Philadelphia’s Lush New Space for the Master of the Mobile
Philadelphia’s newest cultural destination blends art and nature in Calder Gardens, a new institution dedicated to the work of Alexander Calder (1898–1976), the third in a generation of local artists.Housed in a new 18,000-square-foot Herzog & de Meuron-designed building set into a verdant landscape featuring 250 varieties of… Continue reading
The Grand Egyptian Museum is finally opening its doors after twenty years of work
Twenty years after work began, through suspensions and intermittent resumptions, announced and denied openings, “monumental” delays (as much as the ambitions of the project) amidst the Arab Spring, pandemic and political and financial instability, the Grand Egyptian Museum designed by Dublin-based Heneghan Peng Architects, in collaboration with Arup… Continue reading
Mori Art Museum & Sou Fujimoto’s “Primitive Future” Architecture
The incredible architecture of Sou Fujimoto is being celebrated with an exhibition at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum. Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest is the Japanese architect’s first major exhibition. Split into eight sections, the survey is an innovative architecture exhibition that not only includes the usual scale models, plans, and… Continue reading
BV Doshi’s last project opens at the prestigious Vitra Campus in Germany | Architectural Digest India
Imagined by the late BV Doshi and realised by Khushnu Panthaki Hoof and Sönke Hoof of Studio Sangath, the Doshi Retreat opens at the Vitra Campus in Weil Am Rhein, Germany. Stillness. Contemplation. Memory. Ritual. Movement. These were among the many words that BV Doshi scribbled on… Continue reading
Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2025 Examines the Technosphere and Human Impact on Earth | ArchDaily
In the exhibition Fluxes at MAAT – Central Tejo, the technosphere’s mass begins in the ground. Iwan Baan’s Petroleum offers a stark portrait of the Athabasca Tar Sands in Canada, an aerial archaeology of extraction where the landscape becomes both resource and ruin. The images reveal the paradox… Continue reading
facing pyramids of giza, grand egyptian museum set to open
The Grand Egyptian Museum by heneghan peng architects has reached completion, standing just over a mile from the Pyramids of Giza. The vast complex is located on a desert plateau at the edge of Cairo, and stands as a bridge between the past and the present of the… Continue reading