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on 30.11.2015
Last week Wandsworth Council announced that the team led by Denmark's Bystrup Architecture Design and Engineering won the two-stage competition for the Nine Elms to Pimlico cycling and pedestrian bridge crossing the Thames in London. John Hill
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on 26.11.2015
After tying with Snøhetta in April of this year in the restricted international competition for the New National Gallery–Ludwig Museum in Budapest's 200-year-old City Park, SANAA has been selected to design the museum. John Hill
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on 25.11.2015
The BigMat Group, distributors of construction materials, has announced the winners of the second BigMat ’15 International Architecture Award, with the Grand Prize going to Alberto Campo Baeza's office building in Zamora, Spain. John Hill
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on 24.11.2015
The recipients of the 27th Piranesi Awards were announced last week at the conclusion of the Piran Days of Architecture in Slovenia. John Hill
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on 24.11.2015
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group is designing a large, two-tower residential project for a prominently located empty parcel next to the High Line and across the street from Frank Gehry's IAC building. John Hill
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on 23.11.2015
REX, the Brooklyn firm headed by former OMA partner Joshua Prince-Ramus, has been selected to design the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, long a question mark in the sixteen-acre master plan. John Hill
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on 18.11.2015
The Aarhus School of Architecture has announced three pre-qualified candidates for the restricted design competition for a new school of architecture in Denmark. John Hill
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on 18.11.2015
The Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE - Higher Council of Architectural Colleges of Spain) has announced the winners of its Spanish Interational Architecture Prize 2015. John Hill
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on 17.11.2015
Steven Holl Architects has announced that their competition-winning 2008 project for two skyscrapers joined by a raised pedestrian bridge at Nordhavn Harbor has gained approval from the city of Copenhagen. John Hill
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on 16.11.2015
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has selected Stefano Boeri's Bosco Verticale in Milan as the overall "2015 Best Tall Building Worldwide" at the 14th Annual CTBUH International Best Tall Building Awards Symposium and Dinner recently held in Chicago. John Hill
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on 16.11.2015
Collective-LOK's design featuring "a faceted ring of golden, mirrored hearts to create a kaleidoscopic pavilion that multiplies the spectacle of Times Square" has won the invited competition for the 8th annual pavilion celebrating Valentine's Day. John Hill
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on 13.11.2015
Next year, from 11 June to 18 September, Zurich will host Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art. As part of the event, the Department of Architecture at ETH is contributing a floating pavilion with cinema and swimming pool. John Hill
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on 10.11.2015
Formerly limited to spots in Midtown Manhattan, now a 1,000-foot-tall tower, designed by SHoP Architects, is proposed for a small site in Downtown Brooklyn. John Hill
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on 06.11.2015
The Interlace, a residential development in Singapore designed by OMA/Buro Ole Scheeren has been named World Building of the Year 2015 at the World Architecture Festival. John Hill
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on 05.11.2015
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) has unveiled expansion plans by Chicago architect Jeanne Gang for the $325 million, 218,000-square-foot Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation. John Hill
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on 03.11.2015
British firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) has beat out Foster + Partners and UNStudio to win a competition to design the new Terminal 3 building at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. John Hill
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on 30.10.2015
On Wednesday Chicago's City Council approved the construction of filmmaker George Lucas's Museum of Narrative Art, designed by China's MAD Architects for a lakefront site between Soldier Field and McCormick Place. John Hill
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on 27.10.2015
Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney has been named the recipient of the 2015 Gold Medal from the Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). John Hill
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on 27.10.2015
Last week fashion house Fendi moved into its new headquarters in the renovated Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome's EUR district, built under dictator Benito Mussolini and inaugurated in 1940. John Hill
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on 26.10.2015
Vectorworks has announced the winners – sixteen students/teams from eight countries – in its second annual design scholarship for students in architecture, landscape, and entertainment degrees. John Hill
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on 23.10.2015
Construction of Antoni Gaudi's Basïlica de la Sagrada Famïlia in Barcelona has entered its last phase with the erection of six towers that will make it the tallest church in Europe at 172.5 meters (566 feet). John Hill
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on 21.10.2015
LEAF International has announced the winners of the 12th annual LEAF Awards, which "recognizes innovative architectural design projects and celebrates excellence in building design on an international basis." John Hill
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on 19.10.2015
Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled their nature-inspired design for the Museum of Indigenous Knowledge in Manila, the Philippines. John Hill
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on 16.10.2015
Burntwood School, a girls’ school in Wandsworth, London designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, has won the 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize, the 20th annual award for the UK’s best new building. John Hill
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on 15.10.2015
Photographer Hilla Becher, who famously documented industrial structures with her husband Bernd in and beyond their native Germany, has died at the age of 81. John Hill
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on 13.10.2015
Santiago Calatrava has been named the 2015 recipient of the European Prize for Architecture, awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. John Hill
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on 11.10.2015
Called the River Building for its plan flowing across the landscape, the new building designed by the duo of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa for Grace Farms Foundation opened to the public this weekend in New Canaan, Connecticut. John Hill
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on 08.10.2015
Rotterdam's Neutelings Riedijk Architects have been commissioned to design the new ZIL Tower, so named as it will occupy the former ZIL automotive factory site close to the Moskva River and just five kilometers from Moscow's historic core. John Hill
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on 07.10.2015
Yesterday the second MPavilion, designed by AL_A, the firm of British architect Amanda Levete, opened to the public in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. John Hill
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on 04.10.2015
On Saturday the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial opened to the public at the Chicago Cultural Center under the theme "The State of the Art in Architecture." John Hill
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on 01.10.2015
The Vancouver Art Gallery has unveiled Herzog & de Meuron’s conceptual design for a new 310,000-square-foot (28,800-sm) museum to be built out of wood in downtown Vancouver. John Hill
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on 29.09.2015
New York architect Deborah Berke has been named the next dean of the Yale School of Architecture (SOA), taking over for longstanding dean Robert A.M. Stern when he steps down next year. John Hill
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on 25.09.2015
The Ontario-based museum has unveiled the designs of five architects/teams in a two-stage competition as part of their relocation to the Parks Canada Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site on the Trent-Severn Waterway. John Hill
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on 24.09.2015
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Dame Zaha Hadid will be the recipient of the 2016 Royal Gold Medal, what RIBA calls "the world’s most prestigious architecture award." John Hill
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on 23.09.2015
The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations has shortlisted 6 design firms from the 48 firms under consideration in the two-stage selection process for the New U.S. Embassy Compound in Brasilia, Brazil. John Hill