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On 8 June, on Frank Lloyd Wright's 149th birthday, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, which will be on display next year from 12 June to 1 October. John Hill

An online gallery of the concept designs created by the shortlist for the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art International Design Competition has been unveiled by Malcolm Reading Consultants. John Hill

The US Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Cynthia Davidson and Monice Ponce de Leon, sets its aim at Detroit to exhibit twelve speculative architectural projects for the post-industrial American city. John Hill

The Nordic Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale goes by the theme In Therapy: Nordic Countries Face to Face and features a wooden ziggurat that allows visitors to get close to the concrete beams of Sverre Fehn's 1962 masterpiece. John Hill

The 2016 Serpentine Pavilion designed by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on Friday, accompanied by four 25sqm Summer Houses designed by other architects. John Hill

The preliminary, approved design by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for the David M. Rubenstein Forum, a new hub for convening and scholarly collaboration, has been unveiled by the University of Chicago. John Hill

The Herzog & de Meuron-designed Schaudepot, a modest addition to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, opens to the public today. John Hill

The awards of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia were announced at this morning's opening of the six-month-long exhibition. John Hill

A special exhibition, hosted by Fondazione Berengo and coinciding with the Venice Architecture Biennale, celebrates the late Zaha Hadid's four-decade-long career in architecture and design. John Hill

Architect Alejandro Aravena, director of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, and Paolo Baratta, President of La Biennale di Venezia, launched the 15th International Architecture Exhibition with a press conference this morning. John Hill

The third edition of the ArchMarathon Awards wrapped up on Monday with the announcement of twelve winning projects, including the Overall Winner: Vector Architects' Seashore Library in Beidaihe New District, China. John Hill

The architect best known for designing Parliament House in Canberra, Australia's capital, died on Sunday at his home in Canberra. John Hill

A team led by French landscape architects Agence Ter has won the Renew Pershing Square competition with their "The Dynamic Heart of Los Angeles" entry. John Hill

Yesterday the Yale Center for Brisith Art, Louis I. Kahn's masterpiece that was completed in 1977, three years after the architect's death, reopened following the completion of the third phase of a decade-long, $33 million conservation project. John Hill

Nineteen projects have been shortlisted for the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, culled from 348 projects nominated for the 13th cycle of the prestigious $1 million award. John Hill

Alejandro Aravena, director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, has selected Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha to receive the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. John Hill

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2016 National Design Awards, including a lifetime achievement award to Moshe Safdie and the Architecture Design award to Marlon Blackwell Architects. John Hill

Tel Aviv University has selected the design of French studio Atelier d’Architecture Michel Remon as the winning project in the open international competition for its new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center. John Hill

The directors of Ashton Raggatt McDougall have been awarded the Australian Institute of Architects' highest honor, the Gold Medal, at the Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards. John Hill

Two years after David Chipperfield Architects, with their "Nobelhuset" entry, won the competition for the Nobel Center in Sweden, the Stockholm City Council has... John Hill

Four design teams have been selected in the Pershing Square Renew Design Competition, with the winner replacing the little-used, much-hated public space in Downtown Los Angeles designed in the 1990s by Ricardo Legorreta and Laurie Olin. John Hill

Several planned developments for Vectorworks software were unveiled during the keynote address of newly appointed CEO, Dr. Biplab Sarkar, at the Vectorworks Design Summit in Chicago yesterday. John Hill

World-Architects is the Exclusive Media Partner of the Vectorworks Design Summit 2016, which takes place 25-27 April in Chicago. Here we give a brief background on the event and describe what takes place over the three days. John Hill

The 43-story luxury residential tower for developers Westbank and Peterson, proposed for a site near the entrance to Vancouver’s famed Stanley Park, will be Kuma's first North American, large-scale residential tower. John Hill

Eight architecture firms have been selected from the 26-strong long-list (announced in August 2015) in the three-stage competition to design the one-million-square-foot Art Mill in... John Hill

In addition to its annual Honor Awards, announced in January, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently announced the awards it gives out in the categories of housing and... John Hill

Three weeks after Hadid died at the age of 65, ZHA has issued a statement indicating, among other things, that the firm will move forward without its namesake founder. John Hill

Delays caused by an ongoing lawsuit have prompted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to propose tearing down McCormick Place's Lakeside Center in order to keep George Lucas's planned museum in the city. John Hill

The 80-story Oakwood Tower would become, at 300 meters, the world's tallest timber-framed building if built next to the Barbican Centre on London's South Bank. John Hill

Following the death of Zaha Hadid – the world's most famous female architect – on 31 March at the age of 65, The New York Times conducted an informal online questionnaire asking female architects to "talk candidly about their experiences in the profession." John Hill

The three winners of an open design competition will join three pre-qualified candidates – BIG, Lacaton & Vassal, and SANAA – for the restricted design competition for a new school of architecture in Aarhus, Denmark. John Hill

At the United Nations yesterday, 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena announced, both during an afternoon press conference and a conversation with six other Pritzker laureates later in the evening, that his firm's plans for incremental housing are being made freely available online. John Hill

Strelka KB has announced the three finalists and unveiled their concept designs in the international architectural competition for the new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University. John Hill

The New York-based American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the five recipients of its 2016 Architecture Awards. John Hill

Mexico City's Productora has won the 2014/15 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) for emerging architecture for its Pavilion on the Zocalo in Mexico City. John Hill

Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect who was the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize and was recently awarded RIBA's 2016 Royal Gold Medal, died from a heart attack today at the age of 65. John Hill