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on 4/11/16
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
Headlines
on 4/6/16
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
Headlines
on 4/6/16
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
Headlines
on 4/4/16
The New York-based American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the five recipients of its 2016 Architecture Awards. John Hill
Headlines
on 4/4/16
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
Headlines
on 3/31/16
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
Headlines
on 3/30/16
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, as part of the SPARK consortium, has won the competition to design a new educational facility at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/29/16
The Dutch architecture firm won with a proposal for a mixed-use development with offices, apartments, hotels, retail, restaurants and public open spaces. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/28/16
The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced the four finalists of the fourth open international Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 grant awarded annually to a single architect to support travel-based architectural research. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/24/16
eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of the 2016 Skyscraper Competition, which asked entrants to "challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments." John Hill
Headlines
on 3/22/16
The new Australian Embassy in Jakarta, designed by Australian architects Denton Corker Marshall, was opened on Monday by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/22/16
Steven Holl Architects has won the invited competition to design the new Rubenstein Commons at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/21/16
The MIPIM Awards, which bill themselves as "the world's property market," were announced on 17 March 2016 at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/18/16
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets and Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) Director Dirk Denison have announced the five MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Finalists. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/18/16
Luis Martínez Santa-María of Madrid has won the Fundació Mies van der Rohe's "Fear of Columns" competition with "I don't want to change the world. I only want to express it." His winning design will be realized as a temporary installation this summer. John Hill, Silvia Pujalte Toledo
Headlines
on 3/17/16
SADAR+VUGA, HHF architekten and local consultant Archicon have received first prize for their proposal in the competition for the adaptation and reconstruction of Dom Revolucije (Home of Revolution) in Nikšić, Montenegro. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/15/16
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, Foster + Partners, and Grimshaw Architects have been chosen by organizers of the Expo 2020 in Dubai to design the Opportunity, Mobility, and Sustainability theme pavilions, respectively. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/14/16
Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets and Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) Director Dirk Denison have announced the MCHAP 2014/15 nominees and jury. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/9/16
The National Building Museum (NBM) in Washington, DC, has unveiled ICEBERGS, James Corner Field Operations' installation that will occupy the museum's huge Great Hall this summer. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/9/16
FC Barcelona has announced that the Espai Barça jury has unanimously selected Nikken Sekkei + Pascual i Ausió Arquitectes as the winning team for the design of the new Camp Nou. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/8/16
Jeanne Gang has been named "Architect of the Year" by The Architectural Review, and her firm Studio Gang Architects has been selected to design the new U.S. Embassy Compound in Brasilia, Brazil. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/7/16
Last week New York's $4 billion Transit Hub at the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan partially opened to the public devoid of any fanfare. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/3/16
The competition-winning proposal by architects from VOA Architecture and engineers from Werner Sobek New York envisions the Pan Am Building (now the MetLife Building) at 200 Park Avenue in New York City covered in a patterned, double-glazed curtain wall. John Hill
Headlines
on 3/1/16
Alejandro Aravena, director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice and recipient of the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize, hit the press circuit recently to discuss his Biennale theme, Reporting from the Front, and explain what exactly is going on in that photo... John Hill
Headlines
on 3/1/16
Last night the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANY) announced the winners of the 2016 Design Awards in four categories: Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design. John Hill
Headlines
on 2/26/16
About a year and a half after Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for an end to "weird architecture" in China, the country's State Council issued an official directive that says no to "oversized, xenocentric, weird" architecture devoid of cultural tradition. John Hill
Headlines
on 2/25/16
French architect Odile Decq has won The Architectural Review's Jane Drew Prize, which "recognizes an architectural designer who through their work and commitment to design excellence has raised the profile of women in architecture." John Hill
Headlines
on 2/24/16
Alejandro Aravena, director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition has unveiled the list of national participations in the Venice Architecture Biennale as well as the participants in his "Reporting from the Front" exhibition. John Hill
Headlines
on 2/24/16
Two weeks after being named the architect of the 2016 Serpentine Pavilion, the design by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group has been unveiled by London's Serpentine Galleries. John Hill
Headlines
on 2/22/16
James F. Goldstein, owner of John Lautner's 1963 Sheats-Goldstein house, famous for being featured in the Coen Brothers' film The Big Lebowski, has agreed to donate the iconic house to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). John Hill
Headlines
on 2/22/16
The New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects is conferring the Medal of Honor, its highest honor for an individual architect or firm, to Annabelle Selldorf, principal of the 65-person New York firm Selldorf Architects. John Hill
Headlines
on 2/18/16
The American Institute of Architects has announced the three keynote speakers for the AIA Convention 2016 in Philadelphia: an Isreali designer, an actor who plays a fictional president, and a Pritzker Prize-winning Dutch architect. John Hill
Headlines
on 2/17/16
Five new creations from Canada, United States, France and Switzerland have been selected by the jury for the International Garden Festival, to be presented at Les Jardins de Métis / Reford Gardens from 23 June to 2 October 2016. John Hill
Headlines
on 2/10/16
London's Serpentine Gallery has announced the selection of Denmark's BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group to design the 16th pavilion in Kensington Gardens, to be accompanied by four summer houses designed by architects from Europe and Africa. John Hill
Headlines
on 2/9/16
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and developer Tishman Speyer have unveiled renderings for a supertall skyscraper with a spiral of terraces overlooking the High Line and Hudson Yards in Manhattan. John Hill