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The architect best known for designing Parliament House in Canberra, Australia's capital, died on Sunday at his home in Canberra. John Hill

A team led by French landscape architects Agence Ter has won the Renew Pershing Square competition with their "The Dynamic Heart of Los Angeles" entry. John Hill

This residence located on a large wooded lot near Sutton in the Eastern Townships region is conceived as a bi-generational family cottage for a financier now based in Asia and his parents still living in Montreal sharing it for family holidays in summer and winter. Les architectes FABG

When the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, designed by Moshe Safdie, opened in November 2011, it turned Bentonville, Arkansas, into a destination for art and architecture. Four years later the Scott Family Amazeum joined the museum with offerings for families. Located adjacent to the...

World-Architects got a peek at the exhibition Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist on display at the Jewish Museum in New York City until 18 September 2016. John Hill

Twenty works by teamLab, a group of "ultra-technologists" from Tokyo, are on display until July 21st at PACE Art + Technology in Menlo Park, California, including the immersive, constantly changing Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together – A... John Hill

NKS architects has completed a house in Kosen, Kumamoto, Japan, and posted completed photos of the project. NKS architects

Yesterday the Yale Center for Brisith Art, Louis I. Kahn's masterpiece that was completed in 1977, three years after the architect's death, reopened following the completion of the third phase of a decade-long, $33 million conservation project. John Hill

"Ceci n’est pas un hangar. Ceci est une île." This is not a shed. This is an island. Tolila+Gilliland

Today the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris unveiled a temporary work by Daniel Buren that covers the glass "sails" of the Frank Gehry-designed museum with a checkerboard of filters in thirteen colors. John Hill

The second 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, features architect and planner Denise Scott Brown. John Hill

Until May 29, a new installation will bring a spectacular transformation to the pedestrian zone on Sainte-Catherine Street in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles.  KANVA & Quartier des Spectacles Partnership

A successful collaboration between architects and tensile designers reached its final stage in March at Frankfurt’s Light + Building festival and trade fair, where MDT- Tex launched the final Tensilation Type EV canopy system.  Grimshaw & MDT-tex

As part of the Vectorworks Design Summit that took place in Chicago from April 25th to 27th, Kyle Fiddelke, Principal at The Office of James Burnett (OJB), presented "Integrating Technology while Designing for the Public," focusing on the nearby Park at Lakeshore East. John Hill

Nineteen projects have been shortlisted for the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, culled from 348 projects nominated for the 13th cycle of the prestigious $1 million award. John Hill

On Friday, May 6th, the Bridge for Laboratory Sciences at Vassar College was dedicated. Designed by Richard Olcott of Ennead Architects as part of the school's Integrated Science Commons, the new building features two types of bird-safe glass that make it a welcome addition to the... John Hill

Chicago's Lakeshore East development consists primarily of high-rise residential towers oriented about a central green space just steps from Millennium Park and the Loop. At one corner of the park is the ten-story GEMS World Academy, the first of two planned school buildings designed by...

Alejandro Aravena, director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, has selected Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha to receive the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. John Hill

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopens on May 14th in its expanded home designed by Snøhetta. Watch the building's three-year construction in a one-minute time-lapse film from EarthCam. John Hill

The house is located on a sloping plot with a landscape of distant horizon none other than Madrid’s western mountain range viewed. Alberto Campo Baeza

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2016 National Design Awards, including a lifetime achievement award to Moshe Safdie and the Architecture Design award to Marlon Blackwell Architects. John Hill

The first 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, features Dirk Hebel of ETH Zürich. John Hill

Tel Aviv University has selected the design of French studio Atelier d’Architecture Michel Remon as the winning project in the open international competition for its new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center. John Hill

The 7-level, 250-tenant building located at the Monash University Clayton Campus for the purpose of student accommodation incorporates both living and communal areas designed to increase communication and exchanges with other tenants. McBride Charles Ryan

The Luxemburg bank supervisory office (CSSF) is a prospering authority with continuously varying space requirement. The planned office building replaces the current building of CSSF on Route d’Arlon. JSWD Architekten

Yesterday World-Architects got a sneak peek at the Manus x Machina exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. Opening to the public on May 5th, the exhibition design is by OMA New York. John Hill

The project presents the renovation of an apartment located in a building on the ‘Eixample’ neighborhood, Barcelona. Adrian Elizalde

World-Architects was there in November 2014 when the Fulton Center opened to the public in Lower Manhattan. The $1.4 billion project consists of a new head house building, station...

The directors of Ashton Raggatt McDougall have been awarded the Australian Institute of Architects' highest honor, the Gold Medal, at the Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards. John Hill

Last week Eva Franch i Gilabert, Chief Curator and Executive Director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, gave the keynote address at the Vectorworks Design... John Hill

The 2016 tour season at the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, begins on Sunday with Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden, a landscape installation that celebrates the 110th anniversary of Philip Johnson’s birth and the 10th anniversary of his estate opening to... John Hill

Two years after David Chipperfield Architects, with their "Nobelhuset" entry, won the competition for the Nobel Center in Sweden, the Stockholm City Council has... John Hill

Four design teams have been selected in the Pershing Square Renew Design Competition, with the winner replacing the little-used, much-hated public space in Downtown Los Angeles designed in the 1990s by Ricardo Legorreta and Laurie Olin. John Hill

Through the simplest of means, Barcelona-based street artist Pejac has been leaving his distinctive imprint on the buildings of Al Hussein, a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. John Hill

Inaugurated on 25 April 2016, the new Salerno Maritime Terminal by Zaha Hadid Architects is integral to the city’s urban plan. Zaha Hadid Architects

Vertical Itaim is a small building with 10 apartments in São Paulo designed by studio mk27. Its simplicity and the search for generous spaces in a careful composition of material oriented the architectural project. Studio MK27