Architecture

Snøhetta has teamed up with San Francisco’s EHDD to design an almost 21,000-square-metre expansion for the city’s modern art museum.

From May 5 to 9, the Architecture and Design Film Festival in Chicago features a selection of 39 films and documentaries about design heavyweights including Renzo Piano, Stefan Sagmeister and Philippe Starck. Here are our top 10 picks.

Last month, the AZ AWARDS jury weighed in. Now it’s your turn! Until Friday, May 6, vote for your favourite AZ AWARDS finalists in the People’s Choice Awards.

A look at the process behind five projects – including 60 Richmond Street East housing, Langara College Library and River of Death and Discovery Dinosaur Museum – by the Toronto firm.

Last weekend, Levittown, New York – famous as the first planned residential community ever built – held an open house, with a little help from Dutch design studio Droog and New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

“Our design for the new parliament in Tirana, Albania, stands for the transparency of democracy,” says Wolf D. Prix, co-founder of the firm.

In the lead-up to Canada’s federal election, the future of cities should be on the minds of the 80 per cent of us that live in urban areas. What goes into a beautiful city was the topic of a discussion hosted at Toronto’s MaRS centre by the Martin Prosperity Institute, Salon Camden and the Design Industry Advisory Committee.

With head-liners like Juhani Pallasmaa, Glenn Murcutt and Kenneth Frampton, the Ghost 13 conference on a farm in Nova Scotia wants to rock the profession.

Ai Weiwei’s arrest more than a week ago has spurred protests and petitions around the globe. The internationally acclaimed Chinese artist, dissident and designer, who collaborated with Herzog & deMeuron on the famed Bird’s Nest for the Beijing Olympics, hasn’t been heard from since April 3.

On the lawn of London’s Kensington Gardens, Pritzker Prize laureate Peter Zumthor will design this year’s pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery.