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At the heart of the the new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), opening to the public on May 4, is a five-story atrium made from shotcrete, or sprayed concrete. John Hill

Kengo Kuma & Associates has won the international design competition for a visitor center for the Butrint National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Albania’s Ionian coast. Ulf Meyer

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and American Library Association (ALA) have announced the five winners of the 2023 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards, coming at a time when libraries in the United States are facing censorship and other challenges. John Hill

Curator and critic Vladimir Belogolovsky recently spoke with Hong Kong-based architect Gary Chang about his background, his firm, EDGE Design Institute, and some of the projects he has created since the completion of the famous Suitcase House at the Commune by the Great Wall two decades ago. Vladimir Belogolovsky

In a ceremony on the evening of April 23, the Ordre des Architectes du Québec (OAQ) unveiled the ten winners of its awards of excellence for 2023, including two Grand Prix d'Excellence. John Hill

From the street, this ranch house looks much the same as when it was completed in the 1970s, but the recent addition by emerymcclure architecture makes a statement in the backyard through its textured shingle skin. Inside, walls were removed to create an open living space. The architects... emerymcclure architecture

Share of the facade of the Reggio School in the Spanish city of Madrid that is covered by cork, creating a habitat for microbiological fungi as... René Ammann

Mass Support: Flexibility and Resident Agency in Housing is an exhibition now on display at the City College of New York that “examine[s] the promise and pitfalls of overlooked knowledge from the recent past,” specifically the Stichting Architecten Research (SAR) think tank in the... John Hill

Studio Gang's transformation of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) opens to the public on April 22, the first day in a week-long celebration of the newly reimagined museum. John Hill

Yuko Nagayama & Associates designed the exterior and part of the interior of Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, the commercial building with 48 floors above ground and 5 basement levels, whose unique appearance has attracted attention since it started construction. Japan-Architects visited the tower... Yuko Nagayama, Kume Sekkei

Two LINA fellows, Rebeka Bratož Gornik and Joaquin Mora, are investigating architect Richard Marasović's abandoned Children’s Maritime Health Resort of Military Insured Persons in Croatia, as part of DAI-SAI's “From Care to Cure and Back” program. Two short video interviews explain their... John Hill

Frank Gehry and Bjarke Ingels are the big names among the five architecture firms vying to design the planned National Museum of the U.S. Navy in an “artistic ideas competition.” John Hill

Walker Hall is the adaptive reuse of a nearly century-old building on the campus of the University of California, Davis, transforming it from a home for agricultural engineering to a student center, “a hub of university life.” The architects at Leddy Maytum Stacy answered a few questions about... Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects

Artist Lauren Halsey's the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I) is a monumental installation that combines motifs from South Central Los Angeles, ancient Egypt and other places, both real and imagined. John Hill

Price of a two-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom house built in 1984 in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, that is considered René Ammann

Restoration work is underway on the 165-foot-tall brick tower of Eliel Saarinen's First Christian Church, one of seven designated national historic landmarks in the small Indiana town of Columbus. John Hill

The winner of Metals in Construction Magazine's 2023 Design Challenge, which asked entrants to envision concepts for redeveloping a Midtown Manhattan office tower for residential use, cuts up a modern skyscraper to create a Vertical Village with “neighborhoods in the sky.” John Hill

At 80 years old, more active than ever, Mario Botta multiplies projects across the world. For this Ticino native, the role of architecture is to go beyond function and to conjure up the sacred. Let’s meet the architect. Patricia Lunghi

Architect William (Bill) Hellmuth, the Chairman and CEO of HOK and nephew of founding partner George F. Hellmuth, died on April 6, 2023, at the age of 69, following a long illness. John Hill

On 10 December 2022, the 9th Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale for Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) curated by Lu Andong, Prince Gong, and Aric Chen, opened at the newly converted Kingway Brewery, in the Luohu District in Shenzhen. The conversion of the brewery... Eduard Kögel

As part of its “Built Ecologies: Architecture and Environment” video series, MoMA's Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment presents a short film on the New England Aquarium, designed by Peter Chermayeff and completed in 1969. John Hill

The location of a former gas station in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood has been transformed by GO'C into a gallery and community center with an open-air courtyard and rooftop for gatherings. The architects answered a few questions about the project. GO'C

After Rio (2021), Seoul (2017), Durban (2014) and Tokyo (2011), the International Union of Architects (UIA) is holding its World Congress in the city of Copenhagen from July 2 to 6, 2023. Silvia Pujalte Toledo

Portland's Waechter Architecture has completed Mississippi, a three-story commercial building that serves, in part, as the firm's own headquarters and is billed as the Pacific Northwest’s first “all-wood” mixed-use mass timber project. John Hill

The latest monograph on Thom Mayne and Morphosis, M³: modeled works [archive] 1972-2022, is a 1000-page tome that presents their entire 50-year oeuvre exclusively in photographs of the physical models that have helped make the Southern California studio so influential. John Hill

Streaming services are in abundance but only one is devoted to architecture: Shelter. Is it worth the monthly investment? Our review. John Hill

Number of affordable housing units needed to meet India’s growing urban population — expected to reach 600 million by... René Ammann

Ahead of its fourth annual summit of “architecture’s now, near, and next,” to be held at the Guggenheim Museum on Earth Day (April 22), The World Around has announced its inaugural Young Climate Prize winners. John Hill

The DART Laboratory (Digital Architecture Research Technologies) at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College has unveiled a “groundbreaking advancement in creating an ultra-lightweight, 3D printed concrete wall.” A short film shows the design and construction of Shell Wall. John Hill

As spring brings the promise of warmer weather, many people's thoughts turn to outdoor activities such as sunbathing, swimming, and sand volleyball. Juanita Beach Park in Kirkland, Washington, is a year-round neighborhood amenity with these and other activities. A bathhouse with restrooms... EHDD

Heatherwick Studio has unveiled their design of a new public library in Columbia, Maryland, for the Howard County Library System. The studio's first public library, the project aims to “reflect the changed role of the library.”  John Hill

Price of a flat-pack home for landless people living in Bangladesh’s river deltas who are frequently forced to move to escape flooding, René Ammann

Filmmaker Michael Blackwood, who directed and/or produced over 150 documentary films, most of them focused on artists, architects, and musicians, died on February 24 at the age of 88. John Hill

Elyn Zimmerman's Marabar, a site-specific installation on the plaza of the National Geographic Society (NGS) in Washington, DC, has been relocated to the campus of the American University (AU) in DC. Zimmerman reworked the 450,000-pound artwork and gave it a new name: Sudama. John Hill

Edward Denison, professor at The Bartlett School of Architecture, delivered his inaugural lecture as part of the school's International Lecture Series on March 15. “End Time: Reflections on Design, Modernities, and the Anthropocene” reflects on Denison's 25-year career researching and... John Hill

Nigerian-born artist, designer and architect Demas Nwoko has been named the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by La Biennale di Venezia. He will receive the award at the inauguration of the Venice Architecture Biennale on May 20, 2023. John Hill