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The seven finalists of the second biennial Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), which recognizes the best built works of architecture in the Americas realized from January 2014 through December 2015, have been announced. John Hill

Star Wars creator George Lucas has issued a statement announcing he is abandoning plans to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago, where lawsuits have delayed the project since it was unveiled in 2014. John Hill

Three years after a 2013 visit to the Office for Metropolitan Architecture's (OMA) New York office to speak with partner Shohei Shigematsu, World-Architects editor John Hill returned to 180... John Hill

Anchoring Beijing’s Dawangjing business district, the mixed-use Beijing Greenland Center is a highly sustainable landmark building equidistant from Beijing’s bustling core and the airport. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced the regional winners of the CTBUH 2016 Tall Building Awards culled from 132 submissions, the most entries to date. John Hill

In the latest installment in an interview series that explores the philosophical concerns of architects exhibiting at "TIME - SPACE - EXISTENCE," a collateral event at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, Peter Eisenman speaks about architectural education, history, drawing and meaning. John Hill

This development is in the 19th arrondissement on the northern edge of Paris, within an urban environment characterised by the brick buildings of low-cost housing units developed between the wars. Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

Docomomo US has announced the winners of the 2016 Modernism in America Awards program with ten projects that raise "awareness of the importance to advocate, restore and celebrate the architecture, landscapes and typologies of postwar society in the United States." John Hill

Pop-up sensory garden and giant xylophone arrives in Greenwich for London Festival of Architecture. pH+ Architects

For the first time the Venice Architecture Biennale includes three Special Projects, one focused on applied arts. A World of Fragile Parts, curated by Brendan Cormier of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, explores the production of copies in the 21st century. John Hill

Text by Eduard Kögel

On Saturday The Floating Piers, the first project completed by Christo since his wife, Jeanne-Claude, died in 2009, opened to the public at Lake Iseo in northern Italy. John Hill

Lawrence is a city of about 90,000 people in northeast Kansas, best known as the home of the University of Kansas (KU). The university's presence means Lawrence has a thriving downtown, one that stretches along Massachusetts Street. Near the north end of the street is the Lawrence Public...

The project site is atypical for Paris : it is a very big unit, historically made up of 3 parcels, rather narrow, equivalent width and deep enough. The central plot was occupied by a small house to preserve, built in the 17th century ahead the other buildings of the street. This situation... rh+ architecture

Iraq has issued new postage stamps honoring two of the country's late, great architects: Zaha Hadid, who died in March at the age of 65, and Mohamed Makiya, who died last year at the age of 101. John Hill

The Machado Silvetti-designed Center for Asian Art, an addition to the Ringling Museum of Art, is covered in more than 3,000 deep-green, glazed terra cotta tiles that boldy mark the entrance to the grand Florida institution. John Hill

The first HPP project in Turkey is complete. The split tower rises 110 meters into the sky above the Kozyatağı financial district. HPP Architects

The new headquarters for international advertising superstar Droga5 occupy three building floors and a two-story penthouse in New York’s Financial District. ROGERSPARTNERS Architects+Urban Designers

The team of Adjaye Associates and AB3D with Plan A, AKTII, BuroHappold, Turner & Townsend, and Martha Schwartz Partners has won the two-stage competition for the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art in the historic center of Riga. John Hill

The Tippet Rise Art Center opens tomorrow on an 11,500-acre (4,450-hectare) ranch just north of Yellowstone in Fishtail, Montana. Among its many artworks are a few pieces by architects Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa of Ensamble Studio. John Hill

After four years of work, the recent inauguration of the Maison des Êtudiants de l’École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) unveiled a signature building which enhances an entire neighborhood in the Griffintown district. Menkès Shooner Dagenais LeTourneux Architectes

As part of Art Basel (16-19 June), Swiss artist Zimoun has installed hundreds of paper bags and DC motors inside an elevated shipping container. A small opening in the base of the container allows one visitor at a time to immerse themselves in the sound of the slowly moving bags. John Hill

This former ice-making factory in Japan has been converted into an office and nursery by Taku Sakaushi / O.F.D.A. + Sakaushi Lab., Tokyo University of Science. Sakaushi Taku Architects' Office/O.F.D.A.

The building will take place in the plot of Civic Center of the city of Ryde, with 9,600 square meters. MASS Lab

This project houses a growing graphic/product design office within an existing brick building located in the Jackson square historic district. Terry.Terry Architecture

Watch the six-year construction of Herzog & de Meuron's extension of their 2000 Tate Modern on London's South Bank in this two-minute time-lapse film made by Lobster Pictures (via Wallpaper*). The "New Tate Modern" opens to the public on Friday. John Hill

A Renovation and Addition to a Historic Museum at Florida State University Sarasota, Florida: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is the legacy of circus entrepreneur and art collector John Ringling and his wife, Mable. Machado Silvetti

In the Historic Cemetery of St. Joseph of Granada, Spain, a pantheon is built for a family. The emotion at the time of the disappearance of a beloved one, the farewell and the evocative meditation of memory through the sensory experience are key elements of this work. Wulff + Guirnaldos Arquitectos

This 55-square-foot (5.1-sm) backyard retreat in Brooklyn is a site of experimention for architect Nicholas Hunt, who covered the walls inside and out with salvaged fencing and salvaged cedar siding, respectively, and put a planted roof and skylight overhead. In his words, "It...

White Arkitekter has won an international design competition for Skellefteå’s cultural centre and hotel, which will be completed in 2019. The design was selected from over 55 entries from ten countries. White arkitekter

The colorful Weaving the Courtyard, Escobedo Solíz Studio's winning design in MoMA PS1's 17th annual Young Architects Program (YAP), recently opened to the public in Long Island City, Queens. John Hill

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

SeaGlass: A Ride to the Bottom of the Ocean, Battery Park transforms the traditional ride structure into an instrument of the future with digital projection and electrified glass technology, Smart Glass. WXY architecture + urban design

In the second part of our three-part look at the major components of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, here are a dozen of our favorite National Pavilions from the 65 found in the Giardini, the Arsenale, and beyond. John Hill

This kind of intervention stands for a new approach and vision on the built heritage of big cities which, most of time, are left to abandonment and abrasion of time for diferent reasons, either these are historical, social or economic. Andre Espinho Arquitectura