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Golden light shines through a canopy of leaves to create a unique gathering space in the atrium of the new Philips Lighting headquarters in Eindhoven. Intelligent lights in the parametric designed ‘tree’ generate different scenarios, boosting communication, interchange and... LAVA

Completed in 1973 and considered one of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's early masterpieces, the Douglas House in Harbor Springs, Michigan, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior. John Hill

Austin’s Bouldin Creek neighborhood provides a unique and ever-changing context to the Main Stay House. Matt Fajkus Architecture

In the third and final segment of our three-part survey of the major components of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, here are a seven of the Collateral Events and Special Projects that World-Architects visited in Venice. John Hill

The Euro Cup finals take place on Sunday with Portugal squaring off against France on its home turf in Saint-Denis. André Chiote, an illustrator who happens to live in Oporto, Portugal, has depicted a few of the Euro Cup venues in his distinctive style. John Hill

Arte Charpentier Architectes has designed an innovative and challenging structure for the entry to the Evergreen Campus in Paris. Arte Charpentier Architectes

House H is located in an exclusive area in Madrid. The house has a floor area of 16,145 sf (1,500 m2) and is the answer to the broad and diverse functional needs of the client, a well-known international sportsman. ABIBOO Architecture

The young Parisian architecture agency UBALT has realized its first project: the renovation of a small apartment in Paris's Le Marais district. UBALT

The recovery of thermal allotments in Caldes de Montbui, Spain, and the new Solidarność Square in Szczecin, Poland, were announced as joint recipients of the 9th European Prize for Urban Public Space at an awards ceremony on Monday, July 4th. John Hill

Nestled in the privacy of a hemlock forest, FAHOUSE presents an amazing building that seems to emerge from a children's story. Jean Verville architecte

Over the weekend the National Building Museum (NBM) in Washington, DC, opened ICEBERGS, an installation designed by James Corner Field Operations for the museum's huge Great Hall. John Hill

Yesterday the LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction launched the $2 million Lafarge Holcim Awards 2016/2017, which "identifies the ideas with the highest potential to tackle today’s challenges to increasing urbanization and to improve quality of life." John Hill

The World Architecture Festival has announced the finalists in the 17 completed buildings categories that will be vying for Building of the Year at the 2016 festival taking place in Berlin from 16-18 November. John Hill

Responding to the need for contemporary buildings "to protect and temper with as little energy and resources as possible," Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects covered the facade of the 8 Octavia residential building with louvers that each occupant operates. Primarily facing west...

On June 17 at Toronto’s historic Evergreen Brick Works, Azure Magazine revealed the 18 winners of its 6th annual AZ Awards. John Hill

The project consists of the renovation of an existing building in Boulogne Billancourt, the redesign of the facades, taking into account the overall structure, the renovation of the technical premises, and the optimization of office spaces. Atelier Zündel Cristea

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA), with local architecture firm Interactive Design Architects (IDEA), have been selected by the Obama Foundation to design the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in Chicago. John Hill

The much anticipated extension of the Kunstmuseum Basel opened to the public in April. Architects Emanuel Christ and Chrisoph Gantenbein have crafted a building that interprets the classical elements of architecture found in the museum's main building. A dynamic Light Frieze across the facade... John Hill, Thomas Geuder

World-Architects got a sneak peek of The Hills, the second phase of West 8's design for Governors Island Park in New York City, which is opening to the public on 19 July 2016. John Hill

Avanto Architects and Joanna Laajisto Creative Studio have completed Löyly, a unique combination of a public sauna and a restaurant in Helsinki. Avanto Architects

Gerry Judah was asked by BMW to come up with a sculpture, bigger and better than anything done before, to commemorate their centenary at Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester, West Sussex. Gerry Judah

Visitors to Anish Kapoor's ArcelorMittal Orbit in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park now have the option of descending the 76-meter-tall tower via Carsten Höller's newly opened Tunnel Slide – the world's longest at 178 meters. John Hill

Chromazone is about the creation of memorable perceptual experience. It explores optical complexity, ambiguity and mutability within an outline of formal austerity. It operates with the knowledge that perceptually equivocal conditions can situate experience in enigmatic places that... Hal Ingberg architecte

The shock over the unexpected outcome of the EU Referendum sits deep in the British architecture scene. This can be seen in first reactions from different British offices, which also employ a large number of nationals from other EU countries. Now their future is uncertain. Oliver Pohlisch

World-Architects stopped by the New York Public Library's new 53rd Street Library this morning for its opening. Designed by Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos, the library is highlighted by an amphitheater visible from the street. John Hill

The seven finalists of the second biennial Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), which recognizes the best built works of architecture in the Americas realized from January 2014 through December 2015, have been announced. John Hill

Star Wars creator George Lucas has issued a statement announcing he is abandoning plans to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago, where lawsuits have delayed the project since it was unveiled in 2014. John Hill

Three years after a 2013 visit to the Office for Metropolitan Architecture's (OMA) New York office to speak with partner Shohei Shigematsu, World-Architects editor John Hill returned to 180... John Hill

Anchoring Beijing’s Dawangjing business district, the mixed-use Beijing Greenland Center is a highly sustainable landmark building equidistant from Beijing’s bustling core and the airport. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced the regional winners of the CTBUH 2016 Tall Building Awards culled from 132 submissions, the most entries to date. John Hill

In the latest installment in an interview series that explores the philosophical concerns of architects exhibiting at "TIME - SPACE - EXISTENCE," a collateral event at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, Peter Eisenman speaks about architectural education, history, drawing and meaning. John Hill

This development is in the 19th arrondissement on the northern edge of Paris, within an urban environment characterised by the brick buildings of low-cost housing units developed between the wars. Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

Docomomo US has announced the winners of the 2016 Modernism in America Awards program with ten projects that raise "awareness of the importance to advocate, restore and celebrate the architecture, landscapes and typologies of postwar society in the United States." John Hill

Pop-up sensory garden and giant xylophone arrives in Greenwich for London Festival of Architecture. pH+ Architects

For the first time the Venice Architecture Biennale includes three Special Projects, one focused on applied arts. A World of Fragile Parts, curated by Brendan Cormier of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, explores the production of copies in the 21st century. John Hill

Text by Eduard Kögel