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Sky Stage, a transformative building-scale public artwork, opens in the shell of a burned and boarded building. Heather Clark

The new Visual Arts facility for the University of Iowa's School of Art and Art History provides 126,000 sf of loft-like space for all visual arts media, from ancient metalsmithing techniques to the most advanced virtual reality technologies. Steven Holl Architects

The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, ARE WE HUMAN?: The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years,200 years, 200,000 years, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley opens tomorrow. John Hill

Port Melbourne Football Club (PMFC) has a proud history spanning 140 years, which makes it one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia. k20 Architecture

SANAA's River Building, which snakes its way across the landscape of New Canaan, Connecticut, has won the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) that is given out every two years by the Illinois Institute of Architecture (IIT). John Hill

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the nine finalists, culled from thirty shortlisted projects, competing for the inaugural Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). Three winners will be announced at a ceremony in Venice on 28 October 2016. John Hill

The New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) has announced the 26 architecture and design firms that will participate in the city's Design and Construction Excellence 2.0 Program, the fifth round overall since the program began in 2005. John Hill

Architekturzentrum Wien's Photo Award 2016, which goes under the motto "I LOVE ARCHITECTURE," sought photographs of buildings completed within the last fifty years. A jury selected ten winners that are featured here. John Hill

Seven firms have been selected for the second round of the Demain Montparnasse competition, which strives to give a new identity to Tour Montparnasse, the much-detested Parisian skyscraper. John Hill

The campus of Hochschule Ruhr West (HRW) - University of Applied Sciences in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, was opened recently by Hannelore Kraft, State Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. HRW is part of a nationwide development of new universities. HPP/ASTOC

LEAF International has announced the winners of the 13th annual LEAF Awards, which "recognizes innovative architectural design projects and celebrates excellence in building design on an international basis." John Hill

The Passive House standard, first developed in Germany in the 1990s, has led to tens of thousands of highly energy efficient buildings, most of them in and around Germany. Its popularity in the United States has been slow, but in recent years the number of Passive House-certified...

The ashes of the late, great Prince, have been interred in a model of his Paisley Park Studios, now on display within the full-sized building. John Hill

Surrounded by a rapidly urbanizing village settlement, the seven-acre site is on the outskirts of New Delhi. The site’s existing rocky terrain posed a significant challenge to the spatial planning of the site. Amit Khanna

An area of 45 square meters is not much for the planning of a house. Nevertheless L3P Architekten managed to make room for a family of four in Dielsdorf near Zurich – using the logic of the surrounding grapevines to articulate the structure. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

The effort to safeguard the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia has won the Buckminster Fuller Institute's 2016 Fuller Challenge, which awards a $100,000 prize "to support the development and implementation of one outstanding strategy." John Hill

Three winners of the new American Architecture Prize, which honors designs in the disciplines of architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture, were announced on October 3rd, World Architecture Day. John Hill

An international jury has selected Hala Wardé and HW Architecture to design BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art, a new musuem that will include a garden amphitheater, accessible public space, and a tower designed to house exhibitions and artist residencies. John Hill

Housing Cairo: The Informal Response, edited by Marc Angélil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, was published earlier this year by Berlin-based publisher Ruby Press. Recently it won a Fiona Shipwright

The Cloud is a site specific work created by the architectural firm Shjworks. The project introduces stay, light and place making in a recreational space belonging to a social housing estate in Copenhagen. Shjworks

Architecture critics that is, particularly Chicago's Blair Kamin and New York's Paul Goldberger. A recent article from Kamin highlights the instability of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and his willingness to attack anybody who slights him. John Hill

Junya Ishigami, who won the 2016 BSI Swiss Architectural Award earlier this year, speaks in a short film about the three projects – Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop, Japanese Pavilion at 2008 Venice Biennale, and "House with Plants" – that the John Hill

Situated at the end of Avenue Lefaucheux, the plot of land is located at the entrance to the joint development zone by the quay. Thanks to its position, it has exceptional views over the Seine, with the island of Billancourt opposite and the new urban park anchoring the riverbank.  Agence Beckmann-N’Thépé

RAI Amsterdam Exhibition and Convention Centre has a new, multifunctional car park. The building is 30 metres high and its eight floors offer parking space for about 1000 cars. The car park is situated on the ring road A10 and the Zuidas, Amsterdam’s business district. Benthem Crouwel Architects

The Nadir Afonso Foundation, built in the city of Chaves, in a terrain located on the right bank of the Tâmega river, had its detailed planning elaborated within the ambit of the Polis program. Álvaro Siza Vieira

In 2006, the Barcelona City Council acquired the Alchemika Factory. The functions of the new multi-use building were agreed upon by the neighborhood associations. The result is a program of social and diverse character: library, nursery school, community center and residence for the elderly with... Oliveras Boix Arquitectes

Caruso St John's gallery in Vauxhall, south of London, which serves as a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst's private art collection, has won the annual prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) that honors the UK's best new building. John Hill

This 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture recipient, a new building for the American University of Beirut’s campus, is radical in composition but respectful... Zaha Hadid Architects

A multi-level bridge spanning a busy motorway has created a dynamic new urban space in this recipient of a 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian, Alireza Behzadi

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the thirty shortlisted projects competing for the inaugural Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). Three winners will be announced at a ceremony in Venice on 28 October 2016. John Hill

This recipient of a 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture is a public space promoting integration across lines of ethnicity, religion and culture. BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, Topotek 1 and Superflex

A quick glance at the front of the residential extension in Texas reveals that something special is going on inside: a bridge leads to a glazed entrance and second floor between two tall tapered volumes. These contain a studio and gallery for the clients, two artists and retired teachers....

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

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

This children’s library was selected as a 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for its embodiment of contemporary life in the traditional courtyard residences... ZAO / standardarchitecture / Zhang Ke

This recipient of a 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture is a community centre that makes a virtue of an area susceptible to flooding in rural Bangladesh. Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA