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on 26/01/2015
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation today announced that they have selected teacher, author, curator and critic Aaron Betsky to lead the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, effective immediately. John Hill
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on 23/01/2015
In August 2014 Zaha Hadid sued The New York Review of Books and architecture critic Martin Filler over comments in a book review, and now the two sides have settled with Hadid donating the settlement money to a labor rights charity. John Hill
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on 23/01/2015
News broke last weekend that the non-profit organization closed its San Francisco offices, and yesterday AFH issued an official statement announcing they will be filing for bankruptcy. John Hill
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on 21/01/2015
Last week Snøhetta, with local architects SRA, were named the winner in a competition for Le Monde's new headquarters in Paris. John Hill
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on 20/01/2015
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has narrowed down the number of finalists vying for the Sydney Modern Project from twelve to five. John Hill
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on 15/01/2015
The 2015 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often considered architecture's highest honor, won't be known for a couple more months, but today we learned that British architect Richard Rogers will help decide the next recipient. John Hill
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on 14/01/2015
The jury for the fifth annual City of Dreams Pavilion Competition in New York has selected two winning designs to be erected on Governors Island for the summer 2015 season. John Hill
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on 13/01/2015
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston today previewed plans for the Fayez S. Sarofim Campus, which includes new buildings designed by Steven Holl Architects and Lake|Flato Architects. John Hill
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on 09/01/2015
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the 2015 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, 23 projects from approximately 500 submissions in three categories: architecture, interior architecture and regional & urban design. John Hill
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on 08/01/2015
Eight months after Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece was damaged in a fire, the Glasgow School of Art announced the names of the architects’ practices shortlisted to lead the building's restoration. John Hill
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on 08/01/2015
The Architect's Newspaper has announced four winners in its competition that "aimed to rethink one of the most iconic streets in the world—42nd street in Midtown Manhattan." John Hill
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on 07/01/2015
On 2 January 2015, the Federal District Court upheld the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of Over The River, an art installation planned for the Arkansas River in Colorado that was originally proposed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1992. John Hill
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on 05/01/2015
Polls are now open to vote for your favorite Building of the Week on three of our national platforms: American-Architects, German-Architects and Swiss-Architects. John Hill
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on 22/12/2014
Thirteen years after winning first prize in an international competition, Coop Himmelb(l)au's design for the Musée des Confluences finally opened to the public in Lyon, France, on 20 December 2014. John Hill
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on 18/12/2014
City officials in Chicago have unveiled an 88-story tower designed by Studio Gang Architects for Chinese developer Wanda Group. The zigzag tower would sit in Lakeshore East, the same development as the architect's famous Aqua Tower. John Hill
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on 17/12/2014
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the list of 420 projects from 36 countries competing for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. John Hill
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on 16/12/2014
Stereotank has been selected as the winner of the 2015 Times Square Valentine Heart Design, an invited competition organized by the Times Square Arts and the Architectural League of New York. John Hill
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on 15/12/2014
The University of Melbourne's Melbourne School of Design, designed by Boston's NADAAA and Victoria, Australia's John Wardle Architects (JWA), opened at the beginning of December, four months ahead of schedule. John Hill
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on 12/12/2014
Exactly 112 years to the day after Andrew Carnegie moved into his mansion on New York's Upper East Side, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum reopens after a major, three-year renovation of the building. John Hill
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on 11/12/2014
The American Institute of Architects has announced the recipients of its annual Honor Awards: the Gold Medal, the Architecture Firm Award, the Topaz Medallion, the Edward C. Kemper Award, and the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award. John Hill
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on 10/12/2014
The Presidio Trust has announced that James Corner Field Operations has been selected from among five finalists to design thirteen acres of new parkland overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. John Hill
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on 09/12/2014
Steven Holl Architects has bested seven finalists, including Zaha Hadid Architects and OMA, to design a new wing for the Mumbai City Museum, also known as Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum. John Hill, Steven Holl Architects
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on 04/12/2014
Serpentine Galleries has announced that Spanish architecture practice SelgasCano, founded in 1998 by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, will design the 15th Serpentine Pavilion. John Hill
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on 03/12/2014
The Westminster City Council has granted planning approval for a pedestrian bridge designed by Thomas Heatherwick that would span the River Thames and connect Temple and Southbank in London. John Hill
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on 02/12/2014
The jury for the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition has selected six finalists from the 1,715 anonymous submissions submitted in October for the open competition's first stage. The finalists will develop their designs for the second stage. John Hill
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on 01/12/2014
The Prime Minister of Malaysia and the Mayor of London have unveiled the design by Bjarke Ingels Group for Malaysia Square at the mixed-use Battersea Power Station development in London. John Hill
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on 26/11/2014
At the close of the Media Architecture Biennale 2014 in Aarhus, Denmark, five projects in as many categories were acknowledged as "the world’s most outstanding accomplishments in the intersection between architecture and technology." John Hill
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on 25/11/2014
The recipients of the 26th Piranesi Awards were announced last week at the conclusion of the Piran Days of Architecture in Slovenia. John Hill
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on 21/11/2014
After Paris's city council narrowly rejected Herzog & de Meuron's proposed 42-story Triangle Tower for the city's Porte de Versailles area, Mayor Anne Hidalgo decried the vote as invalid and is calling for a second one. John Hill
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on 20/11/2014
While it's not yet December, World-Architects is already looking forward to a handful of buildings that will be opening in 2015. John Hill
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on 18/11/2014
Yesterday the Hudson River Park Trust and the Diller – Von Furstenberg Family Foundation Alliance announced plans to build Pier55, a public park and performance space designed by Thomas Heatherwick for Manhattan's West Side. John Hill
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on 14/11/2014
At a recent ceremony in Jakarta, the Holcim Foundation announced the winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 for the Asia Pacific, which "illustrate how sustainable construction continues to evolve." John Hill
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on 14/11/2014
The Smithsonian has unveiled BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group's proposed master plan for the institution's Washington, D.C. South Mall campus, made up of the museums and gardens along Independence Avenue S.W., from Seventh to 12th streets. John Hill
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on 12/11/2014
Wadden Sea Centre and the city of Esbjerg have announced Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter's proposal as the winning scheme for the extension and refurbishment of the Wadden Sea Centre in Vester Vedsted, Denmark. John Hill
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on 12/11/2014
The National Library has unveiled Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron's preliminary design for the library's new home to be built on a government-allocated site in the National Precinct in Jerusalem. John Hill