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BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group and developers Soloviev Group and Mohegan have unveiled Freedom Plaza, a proposed mixed-use development on three blocks south of the United Nations that could be the site of New York City's first casino. John Hill

Two years after Qatar Museums announced it was undertaking the development of three major museums, all designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects, renderings of Herzog & de Meuron's Lusail Museum have been revealed. John Hill

The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has announced that Casa sobre el Arroyo, the house bridging a stream in Mar del Plata, Argentina, designed by Amancio Williams in the 1940s, is the recipient of the 2024 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize. John Hill

On February 1 the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) announced the completion of a draft environmental impact statement for the proposed Midtown Bus Terminal, which would replace the much-unloved Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, revealing two renderings of the... John Hill

In revised plans submitted for planning approval, Eric Parry Architects' design of 1 Undershaft, a 74-story tower to be located in the City of London, would reach a height of 309.6m (1015.8 feet), making it the capital's joint-highest building. John Hill

The Sorol Art Museum, which opens to the public in Gangneung, South Korea on February 14, 2024, is the first completed building in Korea by Meier Partners and the first project completed since the New York firm restructured in 2021. John Hill

UNStudio has shared images of their concept for a spokeless Ferris wheel in Seoul, while Rafael Viñoly Architects has revealed their design of a vineyard-topped terminal for Aeroporto Amerigo Vespucci in Florence. John Hill

The Legends Tower, part of The Boardwalk at Bricktown, a proposed mixed-use development in Oklahoma City by developer Matteson Capital and architecture firm AO, is targeting a height of 1,907 feet — 131 feet taller than the tallest building in the United States. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named Lesley Lokko the 2024 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal, given annually “to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence on the advancement of architecture.” John Hill

The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the 40 shortlisted works selected by the jury for the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. John Hill

Finnish architect Juha Leiviskä, known for a series of stunning churches with light-filled interiors in his native country, died on November 9, 2023, at the age of 87. John Hill

Last week Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) announced that the “Millennium Park 20th Anniversary Celebration” will take place July 18–21, almost exactly 20 years after 24-acre park opened to the public. John Hill

Swiss-born architectural historian Kurt Forster, who held positions at the CCA, Getty Center, and ETH Zurich, among other institutions, died at his home in New York City on January 6 at the age of 89. John Hill

Terminal 2 at Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (BLR), which was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and opened to passengers last year, recently received a special prize from Prix Versailles for its stunning bamboo-lattice interior. John Hill

Italian architect, engineer, and educator Carlo Ratti has been selected as curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale's 19th International Architecture Exhibition, which is set to open in May 2025. John Hill

David Lake and Ted Flato, founder partners of San Antonio, Texas's Lake|Flato Architects, are winners of the 2024 AIA Gold Medal, the highest honor given by the American Institute of Architects. John Hill

Ahead of construction set to start soon, Google has released renderings of the renovation of the James R. Thompson Center in Chicago, the postmodern “spaceship” that was designed by Helmut Jahn in the 1980s and recently John Hill

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban studies have announced that Miami's Chad Oppenheim is winner of “the highest honor for architecture in the United States.” John Hill

Dogma, the Brussels-based practice of Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara, is the 2023 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award, named for the influential architecture critic and landscape designer.  John Hill

Amy Hau, who began her career as artist Isamu Noguchi's assistant in 1986 and for the last eight years has been a principal at New York's WXY Architecture and Urban Design, has been appointed director of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. John Hill

Brett Steele, who moved from the Architectural Association in London to the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture in 2017, has been named the new dean of the USC School of Architecture, a post he'll assume in February 2024. John Hill

Japanese architect Toyo Ito is donating a portion of his archive, documenting projects spanning the years 1971 and 1995, to the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal.  John Hill

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) returned to Singapore last week, crowning the Huizhen High School in Ningbo, China, designed by Approach Design Studio and the Zhejiang University of Technology Engineering Design Group, as World Building of the Year 2023. John Hill

The Tangshan Quarry Park in Nanjing, China, designed by Shanghai's Z+TStudio, has been named the winner of the 2023 Rosa Barba Casanovas International Landscape Prize, awarded at the 12th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture Biennial in Barcelona. John Hill

Lacaton & Vassal, the French architecture practice of Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, has been named the recipient of the 2023 Soane Medal, given out by Sir John Soane's Museum in London. John Hill

The recipients of the 34th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 25, 2023, during the 40th Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia. John Hill

Rob Krier, the influential architect, author, and sculptor who was born in Luxembourg and spent much of his life in Germany, has died at the age of 85. John Hill

On Monday, November 20, a topping-out ceremony was held for the 1,388-foot (423m) tower designed by Foster + Parters for JPMorgan Chase, the replacement for the bank's Midtown Manhattan office tower that was torn down in 2021. John Hill

The Reggio School in Madrid by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation and the Gabriela García Márquez Library in Barcelona by SUMA Arquitectura are the joint winners of the FAD Architecture Award 2023. John Hill

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has completed a restoration of Lever House, designed by SOM in 1952, as part of a $100 redevelopment of the Midtown Manhattan office tower by Brookfield Properties and WatermanClark. John Hill

The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has announced the comprehensive restoration of the Brick House, designed by Philip Johnson at the same time as the iconic Glass House. The restoration will be complete next year, in time for the Glass House's 75th... John Hill

Space Caviar and the Practice Lab at re:arc institute have launched “non-extractive architecture(s),” an online directory that aims to assist in the "creation and amplification of more equitable paradigms in architecture.” John Hill

COOKFOX Architects is designing the new Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music (BSACAM) at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, as a mass-timber structure covered in weathering steel. John Hill

A year ahead of its fall 2024 opening, World-Architects got a hard-hat tour of Longwood Reimagined, the transformation of Longwood Gardens, the renowned botanical garden west of Philadelphia, being carried out by John Hill

During a special event held at the Royal Academy of Arts on the evening of November 2, Mexican architect Gabriela Carrillo was awarded the RA Dorfman Award, which “champions architecture from around the world that looks forward to the future of architecture and architectural practice.” John Hill

Neoplus Sixten Inc., the curators of the Japan-Architects platform, have posted photographs from their visit to Tenjincho Place, an apartment building in Tokyo's Bunkyō ward designed by Hiroyuki Ito Architects with a stunning teardrop-shaped courtyard in its center. John Hill