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The Chicago Architecture Biennial has announced the title of its 2015 inaugural edition – “The State of the Art of Architecture” – and its first participant, renowned photographer Iwan Baan. John Hill

A shopping center with 12 shops facing one of the most valuable corners of Porto Alegre. The project was designed and built with industrial materials, and its structure made of precast concrete optimizing the construction time. Carolina Souza Pinto, Jean Grivot and Lucas Obino

On Monday Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and her Deputy Mayor in charge of urban planning, Jean-Louis Missika, launched an international contest calling on architects to propose innovative projects for 23 urban sites. John Hill

Austrian designers Gassner Redolfi and Swiss architect Alberto Alessi have won the Gold Medal of Design Austria's biennial award for the permanent exhibition Wood Perspectives at the Rubner Haus in Kiens, Italy. John Hill

On Monday, the 104-story tower designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) opened in Lower Manhattan, and on the same day SOM launched a photo contest to celebrate the building's completion. John Hill

Complete renovation, wooden structural extensions on brick ensemble, green roofs to harvest rainwater, windmills and solar chimneys to light and provide natural ventilation. Hubert & Roy architectes et associés

Filmmakers Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine have created Barbicania, a feature-length film capturing a month-long immersion in London's Barbican Centre and Estate. John Hill

Ma Yansong, founder of MAD Architects, has unveiled his design for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art proposed for a lakefront site in Chicago. John Hill

The architecture and design studio Arroyo Solís Agraz has been invited every six months, since 2010, to design an exhibition and sales pavilion under the International Footwear and Leather Items Exhibition, the most important fair in Latin America. Arroyo Solís Agraz

Parking garages are one of the lowliest of building types, often built as gray, open-air concrete boxes without any architectural consideration. But a number of garages, such as Herzog & de Meuron's 1111 Lincoln Road in Miami, reveal the potential hidden in parking structures. Axis...

Good architecture takes its environment into account, particularly surrounding buildings. In Frankfurt am Main, Franken Architekten has taken a literal approach through a digitally drawn façade for a new home and studio in old town Sachsenhausen. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

Bonnie Burnham, President of World Monuments Fund, has announced that the two-decade restoration of Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia, has been awarded the 2014 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize. John Hill

The project focuses on articulating the edge of the city – where human habitat meets the forest. The buildings are placed perpendicular to this edge, so that urban environment and forest have an opportunity to merge into a new kind of environment. Zoka Zola

Cellist Isang Enders visits the Peter Zumthor-designed Bruder-Klaus Chapel in Mechernich, Germany, to perform the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1. John Hill

Developer Larry Silverstein is moving ahead with the long-stagnant 3 World Trade Center, designed by British architect Richard Rogers, after selling tax-exempt bonds to finance the construction. John Hill

The newest design for the renovation of the convention center – originally intended to be a major redevelopment designed by OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture – has been unveiled by Fentress Architects and Arquitectonica. John Hill

Cruz y Ortiz Amsterdam has finished its intervention in the Refurbishment of the Philips Wing, the last remains of the Rijksmuseum’s renovation. Cruz y Ortiz Amsterdam

Park Groot Schijn, Zone Boterlaar Silsburg is the first detailed design of the Ruggeveld masterplan. The planning area covers 6.5 hectares and is located south of the E313 highway. MAXWAN architects + urbanists

Yesterday evening World-Architects stopped by the Storefront for Art and Architecture to check out the Situation NY installation by Jana Winderen and Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY, on display until 21 November 2014. John Hill

The New York firm's design of Washington, DC's Constitution Gardens, with PWP Landscape Architecture, is approved, and their design of Minneapolis's Water Works park, with SCAPE / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, is revealed. John Hill

Mulini Beach is located in an attractive area of Rovinj on the exit from the central city and in the continuation of the promenade, in front of hotels Monte Mulini, Lone and Eden, wrapped in a rich green public park and green forest protective areas. 3LHD

The Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the 2014 Design Excellence Awards given in four categories: Distinguished Building, Interior Architecture, Divine Detail, and Unbuilt Design. John Hill

In-between the trunks of the beautiful Öijared forest one can sense a new figure, zigzagging between the trees and blending in with the environment from which it’s made. Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture

In response to Chinese leader Xi Jinping's call for an end to "weird architecture" in China, we combed through the profiles on the Chinese-Architects platform of World-Architects to highlight some firms working in a different vein. John Hill

Healthcare architecture brings to mind large buildings and complexes with fairly generic exteriors and interiors to match. This is not the case with Legacy's small emergency rooms in suburban Dallas, Texas, designed by 5G Studio Collaborative. In the second and most recent ER, in Allen, a...

"Unboxed," designed by Micaela Colella and Maurizio Barberio, is the wooden transposition of the typical characters of the Mediterranean house, as a valid alternative to masonry or frame structure buildings. Micaela Colella, Maurizio Barberio

The winners of the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize were announced at a benefit dinner at the S.R. Crown Hall of the Illinois Institute of Technology on 22 October 2014. John Hill

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has invited twelve Australian and international architectural firms to submit concept designs for the Sydney Modern Project, a major expansion of the museum. John Hill

Jaanila Country, a masterplan by KCAP Architects&Planners has been awarded with the Habitat award for the best residential public space design in the Leningrad region. The public space has been elaborated in cooperation with Felixx. KCAP and Felixx

Last week the Commission of Fine Arts approved Frank Gehry's latest redesign for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC. It is the second of two government approvals needed for the project to proceed. John Hill

The Fondation Louis Vuitton (FLV) in Paris, designed by Frank O. Gehry, opens to the public on October 27. Building up to the much-anticipated opening, FLV is counting down with 50 days of "stories" and "emotions." We highlight some of our favorites. John Hill

The modernization of the embassy complex involves the adaptive reuse of an existing residential building to provide for additional chancery functions, the replacement of existing building systems, and the improvement of life safety measures. Davis Brody Bond

Today the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation launched an online gallery of submissions – all 1,715 of them – in the first stage of the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition to design a proposed Guggenheim museum in the Finnish capital. John Hill

The architectural language of Coenen Sättele Architecten is in perpetual evolution. It is formed around the context, design brief and a client-tailored uniform architectural solution for both the exterior and interior. Coenen Sättele Architecten

French designer Philippe Starck has teamed up with Slovenian construction company Riko to produce P.A.T.H. – Prefabricated Accessible Technological Homes. John Hill

The great Swiss photographer died yesterday at the age of 81 after a long battle with cancer. In his tenure at Magnum Photos he memorably captured the buildings and personalities of Le Corbusier, Luis Barragan and Oscar Niemeyer, among others. John Hill