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Constellations Bar is an outdoor venue which includes a bar, food truck, art space and community garden. H. Miller Bros.

For London's Clerkenwell Design Week in May of this year, Studio Weave created the Smith pavilion, which showcased the innovative use of tools in making things – books, clocks, even coffee – but also fiber cement panels from Equitone. John Hill

At a recent ceremony in Toronto, the Holcim Foundation announced the winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 for North America, which "illustrate how sustainable construction continues to evolve." John Hill

The Guggenheim Foundation has announced it received 1,715 entries from 78 countries in an open competition to design a future Guggenheim Museum in the Finnish capital. John Hill

We love it when clients aren’t afraid to share their grand dreams for their home, even if it seems to defy what’s possible for the location. Turett Collaborative Architects

The first building in Belgian artist Xavier Delory's Pèlerinage sur la Modernité ("Pilgrimage on Modernity"), which imagines modern architectural masterpieces in states of abandon, is Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye outside Paris. John Hill

The fifth installment of six episodes in Al Jazeera's Rebel Architecture series travels to Nigeria to look at architect Kunlé Adeyemi's attempt to build a floating theater serving residents of Port Hartcourt. John Hill

The Getty Foundation has announced the first ten recipients of architectural conservation grants in its "Keeping It Modern" initiative focused on the conservation of modern architecture. John Hill

To understand Nishinoyama House, a small apartment complex on the outskirts of Kyoto, it helps to understand its roof. Fred Bernstein

Toronto is graced with two new cultural buildings designed by renowned architects: the Ismaili Centre, by India's Charles Correa and the Aga Khan Museum, by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. John Hill

The new Office Technical and Education Building (OTE) is the central facility in the new Illinois Accelerator Research Center (IARC) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Ross Barney Architects

Team Arkitema’s master plan includes a recreational loop, meeting places and varied housing clusters. These elements will help to make NærHeden something completely different from the functionally divided and monotonous suburbs that we know today. Arkitema Architects

Following our intent to make buildings last longer through the utility of longer life-span materials, the Discovery Centre exhibits cultural continuity and creates built form that need not be conditioned and spruced up timely. Architecture Discipline

LA-based Moore + Friesl introduces C2 Credenza featuring ultra high-gloss white Senoplast finish, rear LED lighting, integrated recessed handle, matte painted interior, brushed stainless steel adjustable feet and customizable options. Moore + Friesl

Single-family homes in the United States tend to be one- or two-story buildings that sprawl across the land. Another tactic is taken in the aptly named Tower House designed for a steep and narrow Portland lot by architect Benjamin Waechter. Building up four floors allows for economical...

The new tropical conservatory at the Botanical Gardens in Aarhus is like a drop of dew in its green surroundings. Sustainable design, new materials and advanced computer technology went into the creation of the hothouse's organic form. C. F. Møller Architects

In recent years a number of popular tech companies – Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, and Twitter – have opened new headquarters in San Francisco's South of Market area. We take a look inside them for a side-by-side comparison of their workplace designs. John Hill

Shigeru Ban Architects has been named the first prize winner in Tainan city government's international design competition for a new fine arts museum aimed at promoting the development of the Taiwanese city’s fine arts culture and industry. John Hill

From September 13-21, over 300 events and exhibitions take place as part of the London Design Festival, including Zaha Hadid's Crest. The temporary sculpture sits in the reflecting pool of the Victoria and Albert Museum's John Madejski Garden. John Hill

At a public award ceremony and lecture in November, the National Building Museum will present broadcaster Charlie Rose its prize that recognizes "exemplary practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design." John Hill

This project transforms the existing library and music venue "Trommen" into a cultural center. The conversion respects the existing building designed by architect Knud Munk in 1988, creating transparency and a house with various activities. Arkitema Architects

Nemetschek Vectorworks has announced the winners – fifteen students from eight countries – in is first annual design scholarship for students in architecture, landscape, and entertainment degrees. John Hill

Gehry and the Eisenhower Memorial Commission have unveiled the latest design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC, following the National Capital Planning Commission's rejection of the design in April of this year. John Hill

Dongjiao State Guest Hotel is an important Ambassador-level reception site in Shanghai. The new development project area is located on a narrow triangle site behind the No.1 Building. Dushe Architectural Design

The fourth installment of Al Jazeera's six-part Rebel Architecture series looks at Vo Trong Nghia attempts to return greenery to Vietnam's cities and design affordable homes for poor communities. John Hill

Rotorua’s new police station, designed by Leuschke Group Architects in association with Vincent Chrisp Architects of Melbourne, is anything but stock standard. Leuschke Group Architects

At a recent ceremony in Moscow, the Holcim Foundation announced the winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 for Europe, which "illustrate how sustainable construction continues to evolve." John Hill

At 2pm on September 21, "a singular contemporary museum" – the Muze'um L, Light & Landscape – opens in Roeselare, Belgium. John Hill

A museum conserves and preserves a story, clarifies a thought and supports a pedagogical path. So the house of music too is witness, in the specific, of the musical world. It is an artistic container that assumes continually different connotations. 3TI_LAB Srl

California's Trimble, which bought SketchUp from Google in 2012, has announced its acquisition of Frank Gehry's software and consulting services business, Gehry Technologies. John Hill

What looks like a low-slung industrial box rising from the plains of Oklahoma, with oil derricks projecting from its roof, is in fact a library inspired by the natural and economic characteristics of the place. Designed by LWPB Architecture with Richard+Bauer, the building is an unabashed...

Regiocentrale Zuid is an office for water traffic control near the Dutch-Belgian border; its occupants oversee countless waterways from its curved upper story, which cantilevers up to 10 meters. Wiel Arets Architects

Like a beached whale of black steel, Polish artist Monika Sosnowska's Tower sculpture – all 110 feet (33-1/2 meters) of it – sprawls across the large gallery space of Hauser & Wirth's West 18th Street location in New York City. John Hill

A terrace house explores the use of interstitial spaces to bring light, air and water into the house. HYLA Architects

A porous skin of copper panels shields the fluid interior of the Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches. Over one thousand cast stone panels, provided by Advanced Architectural Stone, sculpt the multi-level foyer. John Hill

Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design has created the "100 Colors" installation in Tokyo's Shinjuku Central Park, on display from September 4 to September 11, 2014. John Hill