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31/5/23

Paolo Portoghesi died on May 30 at his home in Calcata, a medieval village north of Rome, at the age of 91. Though a prolific architect, historian and educator, Portoghesi will forever be known as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale who created the Strada Novissima. John Hill


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29/5/23

With its stacked landscapes, MVRDV's Dutch Pavilion was a symbol of Expo 2000 in Hanover and one for the future of architecture par excellence. Now, after a long period of neglect, it is being given a second life. Manuel Pestalozzi


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25/5/23

Designs by Morphosis and other big-name architects for The Line, the flagship project of NEOM in Saudi Arabia, are on display in Venice as part of Zero Gravity Urbanism—Principles for a New Livability. John Hill


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24/5/23

The City of New York is suing Steven Holl Architects over the additional costs needed to make parts of the Hunters Point Library, which the NYC firm designed and which opened in Long Island City, Queens, in 2019, fully accessible. John Hill


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21/5/23

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announced the twelve finalists of the EUmies Awards Young Talent 2023 on May 19. The winners will be announced on June 29 during EUmies Awards Day. John Hill


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20/5/23

On the morning of Saturday, May 20, the opening day of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, the international jury's choice for the exhibition's Golden Lions and other awards were announced. John Hill


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19/5/23

In a press conference two days ahead of Saturday's opening of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, curator Lesley Lokko addressed recent controversies over the Italian government's denial of visas to members of her team from Ghana. John Hill


Headlines
12/5/23

Vienna's AllesWirdGut has completed the Račianska Residential High-Rise Complex (aka GUTHAUS) in nearby Bratislava, Slovakia. Ulf Meyer


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12/5/23

A couple months after the Naomi Milgrom Foundation announced Tadao Ando would design the next iteration of the MPavilion, renderings of Ando's design have been revealed. Ulf Meyer


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9/5/23

The Golden Lions and other awards of the Venice Biennale's 18th International Architecture Exhibition will be decided by these five individuals and given on opening day, May 20, 2023. John Hill


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7/5/23

With the Asociación Semillas, which she founded, Marta Maccaglia supports projects for educational buildings in the Peruvian Amazon region and builds schools in settlements near Lima, among other endeavors. For her great commitment, she has received the inaugural divia award — a prize that... Katinka Corts


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3/5/23

Hungary’s tallest tower houses the headquarters of the country’s biggest company, the MOL Group. The giant oil and gas conglomerate commissioned Lord Norman Foster from London to design their new headquarters, which was inaugurated in December. Ulf Meyer


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3/5/23

Turkey’s first museum of modern and contemporary art opens the doors to its new home on Thursday, May 4. Designed by Genoa, Italy's Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), Istanbul Modern is located on the waterfront in Istanbul’s Karaköy quarter, right where the Bosphorus and Golden Horn meet. Ulf Meyer


Headlines
28/4/23

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari is the 2023 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal, which recognizes architects "who have had a significant influence on the advancement of architecture." John Hill


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27/4/23

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


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25/4/23

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


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24/4/23

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


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21/4/23

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


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19/4/23

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


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17/4/23

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


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16/4/23

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


Headlines
12/4/23

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


Headlines
10/4/23

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


Headlines
10/4/23

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


Headlines
8/4/23

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


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2/4/23

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


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2/4/23

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


Headlines
29/3/23

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


Headlines
26/3/23

The Manchester Museum has become home to the UK’s first permanent gallery for South Asian art, courtesy of an extension designed by Purcell, the firm that boasts “the world’s largest team of heritage experts.” Ulf Meyer


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25/3/23

Michael Maltzan Architecture led the two-decade-long transformation of the Hammer Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The newly named Lynda and Stewart Resnick Cultural Center opens to the public on March 26. Ulf Meyer


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22/3/23

Combining the the Museum of Central Finland and the Alvar Aalto Museum, the new Aalto2 Museum Centre opens to the public in May, when it will play a major part of the 125th anniversary of Alvar Aalto’s birth. Ulf Meyer


Headlines
17/3/23

Two notable recent passings: Thomas Hacker, one of the most influential architects in the US state of Oregon, died on February 27 at the age of 81; and British architect Michael Wilford, longtime partner of James Stirling, died on March 10 at 84 years old. John Hill


Headlines
15/3/23

The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced that Japanese architect Tadao Ando will design the next MPavilion, which will open in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens on November 16, 2023. John Hill


Headlines
14/3/23

Michael Graves Architecture & Design, along with DeSimone Consulting Engineers and Wehr Constructors, is being sued by Humana Corporation over "latent defects" in its nearly 40-year-old postmodern headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, designed by Graves. John Hill


Headlines
9/3/23

The divia award promotes the visibility of women in the international architecture industry. From the 27 nominees announced in December, the jury has selected five finalists. Katinka Corts


Headlines
7/3/23

News reports reveal that Amazon is pausing construction on its second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, DC. The pause includes the spiraling Helix designed by NBBJ. John Hill


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