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John Hill | 05.10.2020

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The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the four winners of the third biennial Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA).


John Hill | 30.09.2020

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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Sir David Adjaye is the 2021 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal, which recognizes architects who have had significant influence "either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture."


John Hill | 29.09.2020

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To celebrate its 150th anniversary, Hennessy X.O is releasing a limited run of 150 numbered decanters featuring a crinkled sleeve of 24 carat gold-dipped bronze designed by architect Frank Gehry.


John Hill | 29.09.2020

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Named for the first Black partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the new award will support BIPOC undergraduate students enrolled in architecture and related programs in the United States.


John Hill | 24.09.2020

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The hyperrealistic renderings of Peter Zumthor's design for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) that were recently made public focus on the gallery spaces that sit behind the glass walls of the curving plan.


John Hill | 23.09.2020

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The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the twelve finalists, culled from 43 shortlisted projects, competing for the third biennial Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). Four winners will be announced in early October.


John Hill | 23.09.2020

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The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the nine finalists, culled from 22 shortlisted projects, competing for the inaugural Asia Edition of the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). Three winners will be announced in early October.


John Hill | 22.09.2020

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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and American Library Association have announced the winners of the 2020 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards.


John Hill | 18.09.2020

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In a unanimous vote, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation has selected Snøhetta to design a presidential library dedicated to the 26th President of the United States, to be located in Medora, North Dakota.


John Hill | 16.09.2020

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The spiraling He Art Museum (HEM) designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando will open to the public on the first day of October.


John Hill | 15.09.2020

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On September 14, developers SL Green and Hines, with architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox, cut the ribbon on One Vanderbilt, which at 1,401 feet (427m) is the tallest office building in Midtown Manhattan.


John Hill | 15.09.2020

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The Brazilian architect, who will turn 92 in October, has donated around 10,000 items spanning his 65-year career to the Casa da Arquitectura in Matosinhos, Porto.


John Hill | 11.09.2020

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Monopol reports that Peter Zumthor will be the subject of a new film by Wim Wenders, the German filmmaker who made Buena Vista Social Club and a documentary about dance choreographer Pina Bausch.


John Hill | 08.09.2020

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The stations feature generous vaulted spaces inspired by regional architecture as part of the larger project's goal of encouraging people in the capital of Qatar to use public transit rather than relying on cars.


John Hill | 02.09.2020

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Herzog & de Meuron has restored and extended the Musiksaal that is home to the Basel Symphony Orchestra. The extension was done "in the same neo-Baroque architectural tradition" of the 19th-century original designed by Johann Jakob Stehlin.


John Hill | 01.09.2020

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The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the 43 shortlisted projects competing for the third biennial Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA).


John Hill | 31.08.2020

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Tehran-born sculptor Siah Armajani, who lived in Minneapolis since 1960 and created art with an architectural bent, died in Minneapolis on August 27 at the age of 81.


John Hill | 27.08.2020

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Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti, who died in March at the age of 92, is one of four former artistic directors of La Biennale di Venezia who will be given posthumous Golden Lions in early September.


John Hill | 25.08.2020

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The International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA) has released its shortlist of books and essays in the running for the Dennis Sharp CICA Awards 2020.


John Hill | 24.08.2020

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OMA New York has unveiled the glass-topped transformation designed by Shohei Shigematsu for the Tiffany & Co. flagship store on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street.


John Hill | 21.08.2020

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Six months after news leaked of a draft executive order by the Trump administration to mandate classical architecture for federal buildings, a contract opportunity for a new courthouse in Florida embeds that same mandate, drawing the ire of the AIA.


John Hill | 18.08.2020

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The 13th edition of the World Architecture Festival, originally scheduled to take place in Lisbon in early December, is moving to June 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, launching WAFVirtual in its place.


John Hill | 13.08.2020

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The announcement of a $100,000 gift to the department of architecture at Alabama's Tuskegee University signals the strides being taken to diversify the profession in the United States, but data indicates there is a lot more that needs to be done.


John Hill | 04.08.2020

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Construction of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, designed by Santiago Calatrava to replace the 82-year-old church destroyed on September 11, 2001, resumed this week after years of sitting idle.


John Hill | 27.07.2020

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July 26 marked the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. Among other things, the ADA ensures equal access to public buildings.


John Hill | 17.07.2020

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The Getty Foundation has announced the thirteen recipients of grants in its seventh — and final — round of Keeping It Modern, the initiative created in 2014 to aid in the conservation of modern...


John Hill | 14.07.2020

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Two years after making history by becoming the first woman selected to direct the Architectural Association in London, Eva Franch i Gilabert has been fired from her post over "specific failures of performance."


John Hill | 06.07.2020

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Chybik + Kristof Architects & Urban Designers has won a competition to design the Jihlava Multipurpose Arena, what is billed as one of the largest sports and leisure complexes in the Czech Republic.


John Hill | 02.07.2020

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BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has unveiled its design of "the world's most sustainable furniture factory" for Vestre, the Norwegian manufacturer of urban furniture.


John Hill | 26.06.2020

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The American Society of Landscape Architects has announced the recipients of this year's Honors, which are selected by ASLA’s Board of Trustees and "represent the highest recognition ASLA bestows each year."


John Hill | 25.06.2020

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Ma Yansong's MAD Architects have revealed their masterplan and architectural design for Shenzhen Bay Culture Park, a cultural complex planned for a waterfront site in Shenzhen, China.


John Hill | 18.06.2020

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The broad support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States since the murder of George Floyd has extended to schools of architecture, which are voicing their support for change in the face of structural racism.


John Hill | 17.06.2020

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Raffles City Chongqing, a mixed-use project in the center of Chongqing, China, recently opened the skybridge that caps four of the project's eight towers.


John Hill | 16.06.2020

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The Fundació Mies van der Rohe is launching the second edition of the Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture today, June 16, on the 135th anniversary of Lilly Reich's birth.


John Hill | 10.06.2020

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The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced the theme for 13th edition taking place in December in Lisbon: "Greening the City."


John Hill | 03.06.2020

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Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are designing a slender 87-story mixed-use tower on Toronto's Mink Mile that would be the tallest building in Canada if completed.