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A stainless steel sculpture nearing completion in China's Xianjing region bears a striking resemblance to Anish Kapoor's famous Cloud Gate sculpture installed in Chicago's Millennium Park in 2006. John Hill

A new installation by Berlin's Barkow Leibinger "offers a space for public encounter and experience" inside a thicket of bundled stainless steel rods. John Hill

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), with Leonhardt Andra und Partner, has been named winner in the competition for a bridge in Taiwan that will be located at the mouth of the Tamsui River near the Taiwan Strait. John Hill

The site is located next to a branch of the Min River. The aim of the masterplan is the exploit the proximity of water by connecting to as many buildings as possible. NEXT architects

The former French Concession in the heart of Shanghai is known for its typical rectilinear development – the Li Long. Li stands for neighborhood, and Long refers to the narrow rectilinear streets separating the buildings. gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner

It's hard not to be charmed by the once-a-day paper buildings that Charles Young of Edinburgh has been creating since August 2014. John Hill

On 1 May 2015 the Pulitzer Arts Foundation opened with an expanded building and a new name. Previously known as the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, the institution that calls itself "a sanctuary for the ever-evolving experience of art" opened in 2001 in a building...

Design software developer Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc.'s second annual Vectorworks Design Scholarship program offers international students from all design disciplines the opportunity to win up to $10,000 USD. Submission deadline is 31 August 2015. John Hill

In the village of Zvizzhi in the Kaluzhskaya Region of Russia architects Sergei Tchoban and Agniya Sterligova have built a Museum of Rural Labor. With its silhouette of a silo tower, the object is implemented artfully to the landscape of the village. Sergei Tchoban and Agniya Sterligova

The OSA Group (Organization of Contemporary Architects) was an architectural association formed in the Soviet Union during the 1920s. It gathered important figures of what became known later as Constructivist architecture. BUREAU A

Frankfurter Allgemeine has posted some photographs of the completed facade of Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. John Hill

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced that this year’s winner of the 10 Year Award is Malmö’s Turning Torso, designed by Santiago Calatrava. John Hill

Industrial Architecture. A building within another. When designing a car service building the main challenge is to organize two very different functional programs. SAU taller d'arquitectura

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has announced that Ultramoderne, a collaboration between architects Yasmin Vobis and Aaron Forrest and structural engineer Brett Schneider, have won the BP Prize in the Chicago Architecture Biennial's Lakefront Kiosk Competition. John Hill

The 3Cubes office buildings designed by gmp for the Caohejing Business Park in the western part of Shanghai have now been completed. gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner

As Wang Changling–a renowned poet of the Tang Dynasty– illustrated in his work Shige (Chinese for Poetical Patterns), the art of writing a poem involves three individual layers: landscape description as the physical layer; inception of emotions from the landscape as... W.DESIGN

Inspired by the residence of Bruce Wayne (aka Batman), Melbourne, Australia's Molecule concealed a garage below an existing tennis court in the renovation of a large house. John Hill

A thin undulating roof caps the Visitor Center that Bohlin Cywinski Jackson designed for Vanke and its Pearl Hill Preserve development in Qingdao, China. The form mimics the surrounding natural landscape, while the roof and its supports serve as a contemporary interpretation of...

The exhibition consists in a dynamic space, where the viewer is encouraged to discover the potential of the lights and the images. The exhibition doesn’t have a figure, but retains a form: it’s an organism inside an open space system, adaptable and flexible. Vidal Tomás Arquitectes

Baptiste Debombourg’s work takes the real world and morphs it into something new. He reacts to specific contexts and transmutes different substances like an alchemist: Styrofoam packing materials are transformed into neo-Gothic altars… Baptiste Debombourg

The Chicago Architecture Biennial has posted the more than 100 entries for the BP America Lakefront Kiosk Competition on Pinterest, with the winner to be announced soon. John Hill

Yangzhou Hongqiao Shopping Street is bounded by Da Hongqiao Road to the North, Slender West Lake to the West, and it is also the south entrance of Slender West Lake. Dushe Architectural Design

The Len Lye Centre is New Zealand’s only single artist museum and its design is deeply influenced by the life, ideas, writings and work of Len Lye (5 July, 1901 – 15 May, 1980). Patterson Associates

The commission: a flat for a couple with two children. The place : last floor of a Hausmanian building; ancient servant’s bedrooms already transformed into a flat. h2o architectes

Five houses that work together, using the natural topography of the site for the best views: the project is located on mountain environment, adjacent to San Roque Lake. Carlos Alejandro Ciravegna

The official LEAF judging panel has announced its 2015 shortlist of entries, projects in 14 categories that "are setting the benchmark for the international architectural and design community." John Hill

China’s largest insurance company, China Life Insurance Company, has moved into its new Data Center in Shanghai-Pudong. gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner

This spacious private residence is located on a small clearing on the backside of the elongated estate in Wilhelmshorst near Potsdam. The quiet location and a big stock of preserved trees define the surrounding of the place. nps tchoban voss

In a list of building types that are the least regarded architecturally, surely gas stations are present if not right at the top. Design seems to be set aside in favor of economy and signage, but the redesign of Rompetrol's Litro stations by Eight Inc. admirably combines formal minimalism...

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has released renderings of a new building for Brighton College's Sport and Sciences departments. The design was recently submitted for planning approval following its selection in a 2013 invited competition.

Norway's Snøhetta has won SIGNA Group's Bolzano Cable Car competition, which will make the Virgolo/Virgl mountain in Bolzano, the capital of South Tyrol in Italy, accessible to visitors for the first time since its historic funicular closed in 1976. John Hill

NEXT realizes an apartment complex in the shape of Shouxi stone. The project is located on a complicated site, in the old city center of Fuzhou, the capital of the Fujian Province. NEXT Architects

For Chicago’s first ever architecture biennial, Fox in the Snow Studio in collaboration with artist Ben Butler proposed a kiosk whose design began by first looking to the prairie for inspiration. Fox in the Snow Studio

WOHA's PARKROYAL on Pickering in Singapore has won the 2015 Urban Habitat Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). John Hill

Reinhold Messner's sixth and last MMM-Museum opens to the public on 24 July 2015. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, the museum is fused with the 8,000-meter peak of the Kronplatz-Plan de Corones Ski Mountain in South Tyrol, Italy. John Hill

An icon of Postmodern architecture, the Vanna Venturi House that Robert Venturi designed for his mother in 1964, is up for sale for the first time since 1973. John Hill