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Spain's Mateo Arquitectura has designed the 46,000-square-foot Cultural Center to float above the Praça Largo da Devesa in Castelo Branco, Portugal. Mateo Arquitectura

The program of this rental property is conformed by offices on its first two levels and a residential loft on its upper floor. Arquidromo

A photo that landed in our inbox today shows the Nanjing International Youth Cultural Center in Nanjing, China, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and illuminated by 700,000 nodes of color-changing LED lights. John Hill

Wandsworth Council has revealed the 4 design teams selected from 74 submissions that will now proceed to the second stage of the Nine Elms to Pimlico bridge competition. John Hill

Chicago's tallest towers sells for $1.3 billion, London will see 263 towers over 20 stories, and a proposal for a "No Shadow Tower also in London. John Hill

Wiel Arets Architects has won a competition to design 'Am Hirschgarten' located on the western edge of Munich. It is a campus-like cluster of four buildings, each of which entails a tower; the highest is 17 m, and cantilevers from its plinth. Wiel Arets Architects

Last year saw the most supertall (300 meters or higher) skyscrapers built than in any year (11 of them), most significantly One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. World-Architects is taking a look at it and nine other supertalls under construction. John Hill

The residency of the artists Scenocosme and Lola and Yukao Meet at the Château Éphémère near Paris yielded La Maison Sensible (The Sensitive House), an interactive installation that turned the furniture and walls of a room into sensors for light and sound. John Hill

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced on Wednesday that David Chipperfield Architects has been selected to develop a new design for the Southwest Wing for modern and contemporary art. John Hill

Michael Graves, influential architect of postmodernism, designer of kettles, healthcare design advocate, professor, and member of the New York Five, died yesterday at his Princeton, New Jersey, home. John Hill

Every month brings news of another city trying to create its own version of Manhattan's wildly successful High Line. Most recent is Miami's Underline, which has hired High Line landscape architect James Corner to plan a 10-mile "mobility corridor." John Hill

The single-family home is situated on 2828 feet above sea level, right at the entry into mill valley. The rising silhouette of the roof gives a slight impression of the upward striving space sequence. Pedevilla Architects

Four years after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the eastern coast of Japan, we take a look at some of the buildings completed under the Home-for-All program started by architect Toyo Ito in response to the disaster. John Hill

The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects has annouced the winners of its 2015 Design Awards – 12 Honor and 25 Merit awards in 4 categories. John Hill

With the death of Frei Otto on Monday and the awarding of the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize to him on Tuesday, we take a look at a few short films on the German architect/engineer, his structures, and his working methods. John Hill

Tom Pritzker of the Hyatt Foundation announced today, one day after Frei Otto’s death, that the German architect is the 40th laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. John Hill

The Learning Hub at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), designed by Heatherwick Studio and executed by lead architect CPG Consultants, is a new educational landmark for Singapore. Heatherwick Studio

The construction of French artist Georges Rousse's installation Faro & Faro for the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda in Mexico City is documented in a short film. John Hill

Conversion of a former food market into a cultural center Dushe Architectural Design

Team Mei and Felixx are a prize-winner for the redevelopment of a post war residential area in Munich. Felixx / Mei

Boston's MASS Design Group burst onto the architecture scene with the 2011 completion of the Butaro Hospital in Rwanda. Their design responded to the African context through a grouping of buildings perched upon a hilltop, while the interiors addressed disease and patient comfort through...

Reviving Mies in The Buda Hills: Leftovers of a pine forest … and a squirrel. Architema

Hascher Jehle Architektur and artist Burghard Müller-Dannhausen treated the exterior and interior, respectively, of the new Rems-Murr-Klinikum hospital in Winnenden, Germany, with a range of colors to create a strong building identity. John Hill

Despite vehement cries for its preservation, legislators in Goshen, New York, failed to vote for protecting the Paul Rudolph's Brutalist building, therefore making its demolition and reconstruction a reality. John Hill

The AA School of Architecture has been busy uploading a wealth of lectures, conversations and documentaries lately, including a BBC documentary on American architect Bruce Goff. John Hill

In recent decades cities in China have grown at a tremendous speed. On their peripheries new real estate developments have produced huge housing complexes with uniform appearances. Many of these developments are a kind of speculative investment and as a result millions of the apartments are...

KKA together with Riksbyggen has won a land-use competition in Helsingborg, Sweden. The proposal treated one block in the expanding harbor area Oceanhamnen. Kjellander Kaminsky Architecture

Ennead Architects won the commission for the Shanghai Planetarium branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (SSTM) with a design inspired by the astronomic principle of orbital motion. John Hill

Nueva School at Bay Meadows provides a variety of innovative educational environments woven together to form an integrated “ecology of learning” designed to inspire the 21st century student. Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects

In recent years, architectural practice has undergone deep transformations. In countries with a strong artisan tradition, as is the case of Spain, the old model of studying architecture that could lead to being in charge of projects of very different scales has been substituted by vast...

On the outskirts of the city of Buenos Aires, we have developed the Club House for the nautical neighborhood community of Nordelta in Tigre. Estudio Ramos

How to establish a clear spatial, material and social identity of the neighbourhood? dekleva gregorič architects

The University of St. Thomas · Minnesota has announced it will auction off the Frank Gehry-designed Winton Guest House in May, six years after the school relocated the building from its original site. John Hill

For David Zwirner’s second location in Chelsea, Selldorf Architects designed a 30,000 sf building that will be the first LEED certified commercial gallery in the U.S. Selldorf Architects

Pujalt is a township in l’Anoia region of Spain. The project connects new constructions and existing traditional buildings. Arriola & Fiol

The monotonous rhythm that is conformed by the facades of all the houses in Guadarrama Street is boldly interrupted by an architectonic manifesto: the habitual architecture evolves into Guadarrama House, a spatial poetry in the middle of a prose. Mayer Hasbani