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John Hill | 12.08.2014

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Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced his appointment of Amale Andraos as the next dean of the University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.


John Hill | 12.08.2014

Found

Can't make it to Washington, DC, to see the BIG Maze at the National Building Museum? No worries, as you can own your own miniature replica of the installation.


John Hill | 11.08.2014

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The letters B-U-S stand 14-feet-high in the conceptual sculpture and bus stop created by the Spanish collaborative mmmm… as part of the initiative TRANSIT – Creative Placemaking with Europe in Baltimore.


John Hill | 08.08.2014

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The American Institute of Architects' Los Angeles chapter (AIALA) has announced that Platform for Architecture + Research will receive the highest honor they bestow on an emerging architecture firm for consistently producing innovative architecture.


John Hill | 08.08.2014

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Architecture for Humanity co-founder Cameron Sinclair launches the Dead Prize, which highlights the worst designs, projects that have caused harm to the environment.


John Hill | 07.08.2014

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To celebrate its new home designed by 2014 Pritzker Prize laureate Shigeru Ban, the Aspen Art Museum is holding a free 24-hour opening on August 9th and 10th with art, music, performance, film, tours, activities, talks, and food.


John Hill | 06.08.2014

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The Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation (BBP) has unveiled fourteen design proposals for two parcels at Pier 6, issued in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP).


John Hill | 05.08.2014

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Seven years after completing the Bloch Building, designed by Steven Holl Architects, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and New York's Weiss/Manfredi are imagining a cultural district anchored about the museum.


John Hill | 04.08.2014

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The exhibition on buildings designed by Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Richard Rogers and others opens on September 13, 2014, at the Carnegie Museum of Art's Heinz Architectural Center.


John Hill | 01.08.2014

Film

The Swiss Pavilion has posted clips from the marathon interviews "A stroll through a fun palace" curator Hans Ulrich Obrist performed during the vernissage of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. World-Architects has selected a few highlights.


John Hill | 31.07.2014

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The New York-based architect has been selected to design the building complex of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and TR Warszawa Theatre at Plac Defilad.


John Hill | 30.07.2014

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PAD Architectes' (Periot Architecture Durable) design for the headquarters of Beneteau in Givrand, France, is wrapped in a perforated facade made from HI-MACS acrylic stone.


John Hill | 30.07.2014

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Russia's Strelka Institute has selected MVRDV founder Winy Maas as the curator of the 2014/2015 academic year, where he will help formulate "ten fundamental questions about the future."


John Hill | 29.07.2014

Film

If "music is liquid architecture" and architecture really is "frozen music," as Goethe wrote, then what kind of music is the embodiment of Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut?


John Hill | 29.07.2014

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An eponymous exhibition on Korean artist Do Ho Suh opens at The Contemporary Austin on September 20, 2014.


John Hill | 29.07.2014

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Blair Wilson of Wilson Architects, the Brisbane, Australia firm that turned 130 this year, has passed away at the age of 83.


John Hill | 28.07.2014

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Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. "wants to reward students who are determined to solve today’s most challenging design problems." Submission deadline is July 30, 2014.


John Hill | 28.07.2014

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China's MAD Architects and Chicago's Studio Gang Architects will design the building and landscape, respectively, for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (LMNA) in Chicago, according to an announcement released today.


John Hill | 28.07.2014

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The Australian Institute of Architects’ International Area Committee Jury has announced the winners of the 2014 International Architecture Awards.


John Hill | 25.07.2014

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On a visit to New York City's Governors Island to see the Spontaneous Interventions exhibition on Colonel's Row yesterday, we checked out CDR Studio Architects' winning submission for the annual City of Dreams Pavilion.


John Hill | 24.07.2014

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An apartment building designed by Elenberg Fraser in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, incorporates solar protection through bronze-colored mesh from GKD woven around the exterior.


John Hill | 24.07.2014

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In a statement posted on the CCA's website yesterday, Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza reveals where he will donate the archive of his "many years of activity dedicated to architecture."


John Hill | 24.07.2014

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The organizers of the 2012 Olympics in London have reached an out-of-court settlement with Atopia over the design of the Cauldron that was witnessed by close to one billion people during the opening ceremony.


John Hill | 23.07.2014

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De Unie Hasselt-Genk is billed as "a new and suprising art project" that, starting June 21, links the Belgian Limburg cities of Hasselt and Genk.


John Hill | 23.07.2014

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Architects Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, and Johnpaul Jones will receive medals from President Barack Obama on July 28, 2014.


John Hill | 23.07.2014

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Westadium, a consortium led by Brookfield Financial and John Laing, has unveiled their winning design for the new Perth Stadium, to be built on the Burswood Peninsula of the Western Australia city.


John Hill | 22.07.2014

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The opening of the Rose Pavilion, a multimedia pavilion developed by some young architects under the direction of Dimitry Demin with Prof. Ludger Hovestadt, the ETH Chair for CAAD, takes place at the ETH Polyterrasse in Zurich on July 23 at 8pm.


John Hill | 22.07.2014

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Zurich's E2A Piet Eckert und Wim Eckert Architekten have won the international competition for the new "Taz" office building in Berlin.


John Hill, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill | 21.07.2014

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The University Center adds 375,000 square feet of academic and student space to The New School’s Greenwich Village campus in Manhattan.


John Hill | 21.07.2014

Film

Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura has made its contribution to "Time Space Existence," a collateral event of the Venice Architecture Biennale, available online. The installation is a panoramic film that tackles the exhibition's three-word theme.


John Hill | 21.07.2014

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Furniture manufacturer Herman Miller has announced it will acquire the modern furniture retailer Design Within Reach for an estimated $154 million in cash.


John Hill | 18.07.2014

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Today is Friday, which means we're heading to the Museum of Modern Art for their UNIQLO Free Friday Nights. One exhibition we're excited to see is Conceptions of Space: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Architecture, curated by Pedro Gadanho.


John Hill | 18.07.2014

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Architect Sean Godsell is designing the inaugural MPavilion that will be installed in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens from October 7, 2014 until February 1, 2015.


John Hill | 17.07.2014

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Los Angeles-based architect Randall Stout died on July 11 after a battle with cancer.


John Hill | 17.07.2014

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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed the six projects shortlisted for the 2014 RIBA Stirling Prize.


John Hill | 16.07.2014

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New York architect Steven Holl has been named a recipient of the Japan Art Association’s 2014 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists.