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John Hill | 13.04.2015

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Patrik Schumacher, Director at Zaha Hadid Architects, took to Facebook on Friday with a 1,400-word rant targeting architecture critics as "superficial and ignorant."


John Hill | 09.04.2015

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The organizers of MPavilion have announced that AL_A, the studio of British architect Amanda Levete, has been selected to design the second annual pavilion for Melbourne's Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens.


John Hill | 08.04.2015

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Soon after moving into its Frank Gehry-designed headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Facebook has revealed plans for two adjacent buildings also designed by Gehry.


John Hill | 01.04.2015

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eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of the 2015 Skyscraper Competition, which asked entrants to "challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments."


John Hill | 31.03.2015

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The Glasgow School of Art has selected a team led by local architect Page\Park for the restoration of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece that was damaged in a fire last year.


John Hill | 26.03.2015

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Developer Remo Stoffel has unveiled Morphosis Architects' design for an 82-story, 381-meter-high (1,250 feet) tower for the Swiss town of Vals that would become Europe's tallest building.


John Hill | 25.03.2015

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The latest design by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for the $600 million expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art sees a simplification of its form and other changes.


John Hill | 25.03.2015

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The Serpentine Gallery has released renderings of SelgasCano's chrysalis-like design for the 15th Pavilion, to be erected in London's Kensington Gardens this summer.


John Hill | 17.03.2015

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Chicago's tallest towers sells for $1.3 billion, London will see 263 towers over 20 stories, and a proposal for a "No Shadow Tower also in London.


John Hill | 13.03.2015

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced on Wednesday that David Chipperfield Architects has been selected to develop a new design for the Southwest Wing for modern and contemporary art.


John Hill | 12.03.2015

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Every month brings news of another city trying to create its own version of Manhattan's wildly successful High Line. Most recent is Miami's Underline, which has hired High Line landscape architect James Corner to plan a 10-mile "mobility corridor."


John Hill | 05.03.2015

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Ennead Architects won the commission for the Shanghai Planetarium branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (SSTM) with a design inspired by the astronomic principle of orbital motion.


John Hill | 03.03.2015

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The University of St. Thomas · Minnesota has announced it will auction off the Frank Gehry-designed Winton Guest House in May, six years after the school relocated the building from its original site.


John Hill | 25.02.2015

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Stadium Database has announced the winners of its 2014 Stadium of the Year contest, this year inaugurating a special Jury Vote in addition to the usual Public Vote.


John Hill | 25.02.2015

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At a press conference in London today, the five finalists were announced for the 2015 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award.


John Hill | 24.02.2015

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The American Institute of Architects California Council has given Lawrence Scarpa, principal of Santa Monica's Brooks + Scarpa Architects, its 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award.


John Hill | 23.02.2015

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Over the weekend, a fire swept through the Torch tower in Dubai's marina district. The fire damaged the skyscraper, the tallest residential building in the world when it was completed in 2011, but no one was killed.


John Hill | 11.02.2015

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Architect Jon Jerde, founder of the The Jerde Partnership, died Monday at his Los Angeles home after a long illness.


John Hill | 11.02.2015

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Less than a week after Morphosis was selected to design a 100-room luxury hotel in Vals, Switzerland, for Therme Vals owner 7132 Ltd, some of the jury members are distancing themselves from the decision.


John Hill | 10.02.2015

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The New York Post reports that The Related Companies "has hired Rem Koolhaas to design their new High Line project on West 18th Street."


John Hill | 06.02.2015

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Spanish duo Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano have won the Alvar Aalto Medal, conferred by the Museum of Finnish Architecture, the Finnish Association of Architects, the Architectural Society, the Alvar Aalto Foundation and the City of Helsinki.


John Hill | 06.02.2015

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Morphosis Architects, headed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, has been selected in a competition to design a luxury hotel for 7132 Ltd in Vals, Switzerland, home to Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals.


John Hill | 06.02.2015

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Office for Political Innovation, a Madrid- and New York-based practice directed by Andrés Jaque, has won the 16th edition of MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program with COSMO.


John Hill | 04.02.2015

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The Sant Gervasi-Joan Maragall Library, designed by BCQ arquitectura barcelona, has been awarded the 2014 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona of Architecture and Urbanism.


John Hill | 04.02.2015

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On Monday Frank Gehry's design for the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building at the University of Technology, Sydney, home to the UTS Business School, opened its doors.


John Hill | 04.02.2015

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A group of 10 buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright have become the first works of modern architecture nominated by the United States to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List.


John Hill | 27.01.2015

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The MIPIM Awards, which honor "the very best of the real estate industry," have shortlisted 40 finalist projects from 22 countries in 11 categories, including a Special Jury Award for the first time.


John Hill | 26.01.2015

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The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation today announced that they have selected teacher, author, curator and critic Aaron Betsky to lead the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, effective immediately.


John Hill | 23.01.2015

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News broke last weekend that the non-profit organization closed its San Francisco offices, and yesterday AFH issued an official statement announcing they will be filing for bankruptcy.


John Hill | 21.01.2015

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Last week Snøhetta, with local architects SRA, were named the winner in a competition for Le Monde's new headquarters in Paris.


John Hill | 20.01.2015

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The Art Gallery of New South Wales has narrowed down the number of finalists vying for the Sydney Modern Project from twelve to five.


John Hill | 15.01.2015

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The 2015 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often considered architecture's highest honor, won't be known for a couple more months, but today we learned that British architect Richard Rogers will help decide the next recipient.


John Hill | 14.01.2015

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The jury for the fifth annual City of Dreams Pavilion Competition in New York has selected two winning designs to be erected on Governors Island for the summer 2015 season.


John Hill | 13.01.2015

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston today previewed plans for the Fayez S. Sarofim Campus, which includes new buildings designed by Steven Holl Architects and Lake|Flato Architects.


John Hill | 09.01.2015

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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the 2015 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, 23 projects from approximately 500 submissions in three categories: architecture, interior architecture and regional & urban design.


John Hill | 05.01.2015

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Polls are now open to vote for your favorite Building of the Week on three of our national platforms: American-Architects, German-Architects and Swiss-Architects.