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on 2023/08/10
Jean-Louis Cohen, the French architectural historian and longtime professor of architectural history at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts died unexpectedly on August 7, 2023. Ulf Meyer
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on 2023/08/04
The Dallas Museum of Art has selected Spain's Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos to radically transform and sustainably preserve the institution's nearly 40-year-old Edward Larrabee Barnes building. John Hill
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on 2023/08/03
Chappe is a new “art house by the sea” that opened earlier this year in Tammisaari, in southern Finland. The small building was designed by JKMM Architects for the Albert de la Chapelle Art Foundation. Ulf Meyer
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on 2023/08/01
The European office of Oppenheim Architecture, based in Basel, has won the competition to turn the Toptani Residence in Tirna, the capital of Albania, into the Besa Museum. John Hill
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on 2023/07/28
In Berlin, the famed “Mäusebunker” (Mouse Bunker), previously under threat of demolition, has been given protected status, while in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Harry Weese's nearly 50-year-old Village Hall now faces a similar threat. John Hill
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on 2023/07/24
Thom Mayne's Los Angeles studio has completed a mixed-use complex that will foster connections outside and inside Vigo through high-speed trains, a shopping mall, and the city's largest public plaza. Silvia Pujalte Toledo
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on 2023/07/12
Concept designs by the six shortlisted firms in the “Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition” have been revealed, with a winner to be announced in August. John Hill
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on 2023/07/08
Together with architect Christian Heuchel of O&O Baukunst and editor Christiane Fath, World-Architects conceived “Town Planning in Democratic Structures,” a special theme on our platform and now a book. World-Architects
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on 2023/07/04
The Centro de Investigación del Mar de Cortés (Sea of Cortez Research Center) opened in Mazatlán, Mexico, at the end of May. Located in Parque Central Mazatlán, the impressive building was designed by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio. Ulf Meyer
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on 2023/07/04
The Royal Academy of Arts in London has announced that Irish architect Shane de Blacam is the recipient of the 2023 Royal Academy Architecture Prize, which recognizes architects who have made "a significant impact on society." John Hill
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on 2023/06/30
During a ceremony in Venice on EUmies Awards Day, June 29, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announced the three winners of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards in the Young Talent category. A fourth award given by the Mies Foundation was also... John Hill
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on 2023/06/29
The Tchoban Foundation's Museum for Architectural Drawing has become a must-visit for architects and architecture enthusiasts from around the world when visiting Berlin, just like the neighboring Aedes Architecture Forum. The exhibition ArchiVision is celebrating the museum's tenth... Falk Jaeger
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on 2023/06/28
Two decades in the making, the International African American Museum (IAAM) opened to the public on June 24, 2023, in Charleston, South Carolina, on “hallowed ground” — waterfront land that centuries ago served as a port of arrival for enslaved Africans. John Hill
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on 2023/06/24
The Moynihan Connector, a new L-shaped pedestrian bridge designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and James Corner Field Operations, opened to the public on June 22, 2023. It connects the High Line to Manhattan West and Moynihan Train Hall. John Hill
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on 2023/06/22
Even though the National Portrait Gallery in St. Martin’s Place boasts the world’s largest collection of portraits, it was sometimes overlooked relative to the other great art museums in London. A new transformation hopes to change that. Ulf Meyer
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on 2023/06/21
British architect Michael Hopkins, recipient of the Royal Gold Medal in 1994 with his wife Patty, died on June 17, “peacefully” and “surrounded by his family,” per Hopkins Architects. He was 88. Ulf Meyer
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on 2023/06/19
Last Thursday, June 8, 2023, the Council of Spanish Architects and World-Architects.com renewed a memorandum of understanding to further promote quality Spanish architecture globally. Madeline Beach Carey
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on 2023/06/14
Florida Senator Marco Rubio has introduced the ‘‘Beautifying Federal Civic Architecture Act,’’ which would effectively resurrect former US President Donald Trump's revoked executive order mandating classical styles for federal buildings. John Hill
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on 2023/06/14
As announced on Friday, June 9, when architects were gathering in San Francisco for the AIA Conference on Architecture, Frank Gehry's iconic, game-changing Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is the latest recipient of the AIA's Twenty-five Year Award. John Hill
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on 2023/06/12
After winning first prize in an architectural design competition, New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro will design the Pina Bausch Zentrum in Wuppertal, a city in Western Germany. Ulf Meyer
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on 2023/06/07
The Smithsonian has announced that Perkins&Will will design the Bezos Learning Center at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, named for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos following his $200 million gift to the institution. John Hill
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on 2023/06/07
The 22nd Serpentine Pavilion opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on June 9, where it will host live music and other events until October 29, 2023. John Hill
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on 2023/06/05
The famous jeweler's flagship store at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street reopened at the end of April following the building's first comprehensive renovation since it opened in 1940. John Hill
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on 2023/06/03
The Whitney Museum of American Art is selling its landmark Marcel Breuer-designed building on Manhattan's Upper East Side to auction house Sotheby's for its new global headquarters. John Hill
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on 2023/05/31
Paolo Portoghesi died on May 30 at his home in Calcata, a medieval village north of Rome, at the age of 91. Though a prolific architect, historian and educator, Portoghesi will forever be known as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale who created the Strada Novissima. John Hill
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on 2023/05/29
With its stacked landscapes, MVRDV's Dutch Pavilion was a symbol of Expo 2000 in Hanover and one for the future of architecture par excellence. Now, after a long period of neglect, it is being given a second life. Manuel Pestalozzi
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on 2023/05/25
Designs by Morphosis and other big-name architects for The Line, the flagship project of NEOM in Saudi Arabia, are on display in Venice as part of Zero Gravity Urbanism—Principles for a New Livability. John Hill
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on 2023/05/24
The City of New York is suing Steven Holl Architects over the additional costs needed to make parts of the Hunters Point Library, which the NYC firm designed and which opened in Long Island City, Queens, in 2019, fully accessible. John Hill
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on 2023/05/21
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announced the twelve finalists of the EUmies Awards Young Talent 2023 on May 19. The winners will be announced on June 29 during EUmies Awards Day. John Hill
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on 2023/05/20
On the morning of Saturday, May 20, the opening day of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, the international jury's choice for the exhibition's Golden Lions and other awards were announced. John Hill
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on 2023/05/19
In a press conference two days ahead of Saturday's opening of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, curator Lesley Lokko addressed recent controversies over the Italian government's denial of visas to members of her team from Ghana. John Hill
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on 2023/05/12
Vienna's AllesWirdGut has completed the Račianska Residential High-Rise Complex (aka GUTHAUS) in nearby Bratislava, Slovakia. Ulf Meyer
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on 2023/05/12
A couple months after the Naomi Milgrom Foundation announced Tadao Ando would design the next iteration of the MPavilion, renderings of Ando's design have been revealed. Ulf Meyer
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on 2023/05/09
The Golden Lions and other awards of the Venice Biennale's 18th International Architecture Exhibition will be decided by these five individuals and given on opening day, May 20, 2023. John Hill
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on 2023/05/07
With the Asociación Semillas, which she founded, Marta Maccaglia supports projects for educational buildings in the Peruvian Amazon region and builds schools in settlements near Lima, among other endeavors. For her great commitment, she has received the inaugural divia award — a prize that... Katinka Corts