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John Hill | 05.10.2016

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Canadian architect Bing Thom, founding principal of Bing Thom Architects, died yesterday in Hong Kong after suffering a brain aneurism.


John Hill | 05.10.2016

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The third MPavilion, commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation and designed by Indian architect Bijoy Jain, began its four-month run today in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens.


John Hill | 04.10.2016

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Projects in Bangladesh, China, Denmark, Iran, and Lebanon are recipients of the prestigious award that is given out every three years "to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture."


John Hill | 03.10.2016

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Earlier this year World-Architects met with Zurich-based interior designer Karsten Schmidt, an expert in the world of hospitality. We got a tour of one of his recent projects, the


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Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, designed by Hargreaves Associates, has been awarded the Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize, which was given out last week as part of 9th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture under the theme "Tomorrow Landscapes."


John Hill | 30.09.2016

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Italian architect Cino Zucchi has covered the new automated warehouse for furniture company Pedrali with aluminum fins in three shades of green in reference to the countryside that surrounds the building.


John Hill | 30.09.2016

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Yesterday, New York City's Queens Library held a topping-out ceremony for Hunters Point Community Library in Long Island City. Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the library is on track to open next summer....


John Hill | 29.09.2016

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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Paulo Mendes da Rocha, "Brazil’s most celebrated living architect," will receive the 2017 Royal Gold Medal.


John Hill | 28.09.2016

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AIA New York State, an organization of the American Institute of Architects, has awarded its 2016 Firm of the Year award to WXY architecture + urban design, the multi-disciplinary practice led by principals Claire Weisz, Mark Yoes, Layng Pew, and Adam Lubinsky.


John Hill | 28.09.2016

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Zupagrafika, the "Hispano-Polish creative design studio" of David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka, are the creators of a series of irresistible paper collections inspired by modernist and brutalist architecture.


John Hill | 26.09.2016

Film

In a fifteen-minute TED Talk from February 2016, Michael Murphy, co-founder of Boston's MASS Design Group, presents some of their "lo-fab" projects that embody "a holistic approach that produces community as well as (beautiful) buildings."


John Hill | 23.09.2016

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Tomorrow, 24 September 2016, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture will be dedicated in Washington, DC. To celebrate its much-anticipated opening, we present ten facts on the project through photos of the completed building.


John Hill | 23.09.2016

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Architect Santiago Calatrava has unveiled plans for a "cutting-edge office building" to be located next to the Calatrava-designed Stadelhofen rail station in Zurich.


John Hill | 21.09.2016

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Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, of Los Angeles architecture firm Johnston Marklee, have been named the artistic directors for the second Chicago Architecture Biennial.


John Hill | 20.09.2016

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New York architect Steven Holl and Swiss professor Marilyne Andersen have been named the 2016 laureates of The Daylight Award in the Architecture and Research categories, respectively.


John Hill | 19.09.2016

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The long-awaited National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), designed by David Adjaye, opens to the public in Washington, DC, on Saturday. A timelapse from EarthCam documents the building's construction.


John Hill | 16.09.2016

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Riehen/Basel's Fondation Beyeler has announced that Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner has been commissioned to design the extension to the successful museum that Renzo Piano Building Workshop completed in 1997.


John Hill | 15.09.2016

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"The Park," the first-ever park on the Las Vegas Strip, opened to the public in April. Designed by New York's !melk landscape architecture & urban design, the five-acre park is dotted with clumps of steel shade structures alongside some 250 trees.


John Hill | 15.09.2016

Film

One day Robert Bezeau, a Canadian transplant living on the island of Bocas Del Toro in Panama, woke up from a dream and decided to build an entire village out of plastic bottles. A short film goes behind their construction and features a couple getting ready to move into the first plastic-bottle...


John Hill | 14.09.2016

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British designer Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled his "passionate effort to leave a meaningful public legacy for New York" with the Vessel sculpture of stairs and landings, to be the centerpiece of New York's Hudson Yards project.


John Hill | 14.09.2016

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An Occupation of Loss, an installation and performance piece designed by OMA/Shohei Shigematsu in collaboration with artist Taryn Simon, runs at New York's Park Avenue Armory from 13 to 25 September 2016.


John Hill | 14.09.2016

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Today Vectorworks, Inc. released the English version of its 2017 BIM software for AEC, landscape and entertainment design industries.


John Hill | 13.09.2016

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Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been named a recipient of the Japan Art Association’s 2016 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists.


John Hill | 12.09.2016

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The Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA) has announced the four finalists of the third annual Finlandia Prize for Architecture: Lappeenranta City Theatre, Löyly, Railo and Suvela Chapel.


John Hill | 09.09.2016

Insight

Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. To track progress on the rebuilding efforts, we present 15 pieces – built and in-progress – on the 16-acre site.


John Hill | 08.09.2016

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At a press conference this morning, officials unveiled the design for the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center designed by Joshua Prince-Ramus's firm REX.


John Hill | 08.09.2016

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Taking aim at the refugee crisis and issues of migration, among other things, the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale, which opens to the public today under the theme After Belonging, asks, "Where do we belong? How can architects intervene in the reconfiguration...


John Hill | 07.09.2016

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For a short three weeks – from 1 to 26 September 2016 – Philip Johnson's iconic Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, is covered in bright red polka dots courtesy of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.


John Hill, Thomas Geuder | 02.09.2016

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In London's Shepherd's Bush area, Henning Stummel Architects has built a house whose rooms are arranged like monks' cells around a courtyard. The roofs and walls are clad in standing seam metal panels covered with a unique bio-based coating.


John Hill | 01.09.2016

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London's Design Museum has announced the nominees in six categories – Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport – for the Beazley Designs of the Year. Here we highlight the thirteen projects in the Architecture category.


John Hill | 31.08.2016

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Amanda Levete's MPavilion, the temporary pavilion installed in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens last year, finds a permanent home in the city's Docklands City Park, designed by MALA studio.


John Hill | 31.08.2016

Film

MoMA PS1 invited German artist Katharina Grosse to transform an abandoned building at Fort Tidlen, a national park on the city's Rockaway peninsula. She explains the explosion of color in the landscape in a short film from the Museum of Modern Art.


John Hill | 31.08.2016

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Olana, the 19th-century home of landscape artist Frederic Edwin Church in New York's Hudson River Valley, invited 21 architects and landscape architects to imagine a 21st-century version of Church's unbuilt summer house.


John Hill | 30.08.2016

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Architects Advocate Action on Climate Change, a platform made up of "architects dedicated to healthy and livable communities, and guided by scientific consensus and reason," publicly launches on the first of September.


John Hill | 30.08.2016

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Earlier this month Oslo's Snøhetta won the competition for the new Banque Libano Francaise (BLF) headquarters in Beirut with a design that features large planted terraces carved into the checkerboard-clad tower.


John Hill | 29.08.2016

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On Friday the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies announced the winners of their 22nd annual American Architecture Awards.