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In August 2014 Zaha Hadid sued The New York Review of Books and architecture critic Martin Filler over comments in a book review, and now the two sides have settled with Hadid donating the settlement money to a labor rights charity. John Hill

News broke last weekend that the non-profit organization closed its San Francisco offices, and yesterday AFH issued an official statement announcing they will be filing for bankruptcy. John Hill

World-Architects got a sneek peek today of Bjarke Ingels Group's HOT TO COLD exhibition, opening Saturday at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. John Hill

Last week Snøhetta, with local architects SRA, were named the winner in a competition for Le Monde's new headquarters in Paris. John Hill

The documentary CONCRETE LOVE: The Böhm Family has its international premiere on the 26th of January at the Slamdance Festival in Park City, Utah, three days after architect Gottfried Böhm turns 95. John Hill

Artist John Edmark has created some hypnotic 3D printed sculptures that appear to move when spun under a strobe light. John Hill

Since 2012, Wolf-Gordon has created an annual site-specific installation for NeoCon as a means of highlighting the company’s products and adding an exclamation point to the “heart” of Chicago’s Merchandise Mart. John Hill

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has narrowed down the number of finalists vying for the Sydney Modern Project from twelve to five. John Hill

Antoni Gaudí's unrealized design for the Our Lady of the Angels chapel dates to 1915, nine years before the architect's death. A century later the chapel is set to be built in Rancagua, Chile, making it the first Gaudí building outside his native Spain. John Hill

This week, building design and construction professionals head to Munich for BAU 2015, the "world's leading trade fair for architecture, materials, systems." Here we highlight a few of BAU Blog's "Team Building" and "Talks About Tomorrow" features. John Hill

Nearly ten years after the completion of Hearst Tower in Manhattan, Norman Foster – aided by a small camera-equipped drone – gives a tour of the tower, from the James Carpenter fountain and "piazza" above it to the offices of Good Housekeeping. John Hill

The 2015 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often considered architecture's highest honor, won't be known for a couple more months, but today we learned that British architect Richard Rogers will help decide the next recipient. John Hill

The jury for the fifth annual City of Dreams Pavilion Competition in New York has selected two winning designs to be erected on Governors Island for the summer 2015 season. John Hill

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston today previewed plans for the Fayez S. Sarofim Campus, which includes new buildings designed by Steven Holl Architects and Lake|Flato Architects. John Hill

Cool Spaces! The Best New Architecture, a documentary series on U.S. public television, has made its "Art Spaces" episode available online. John Hill

Two walls of Danish brand Vipp's new two-story Vipp Shelter feature large sliding windows, specifically the PanoramAH! sliding windows supplied by Malmö, Sweden's Architectural Solutions. John Hill

The construction of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Museum of Image & Sound overlooking Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is documented in a couple short films from MIS. John Hill

As part of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's "Louisiana Channel," which produces videos on art on a weekly basis, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels offers advice to aspiring architects. John Hill

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the 2015 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, 23 projects from approximately 500 submissions in three categories: architecture, interior architecture and regional & urban design. John Hill

Eight months after Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece was damaged in a fire, the Glasgow School of Art announced the names of the architects’ practices shortlisted to lead the building's restoration. John Hill

The Architect's Newspaper has announced four winners in its competition that "aimed to rethink one of the most iconic streets in the world—42nd street in Midtown Manhattan." John Hill

Premiering at the Maison des Arts de Créteil in November 2014, Pixel melded the real and the virtual, as this short film with excerpts from the one-hour performance illustrates. John Hill

On 2 January 2015, the Federal District Court upheld the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of Over The River, an art installation planned for the Arkansas River in Colorado that was originally proposed by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1992. John Hill

In this twelve-minute film produced by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, architect Steven Holl speaks about his background and ideas on design. John Hill

Yes, we're finding this Christmas short a bit late, but it's too funny to resist posting. In it, a husband and wife architect redesign Christmas for their family, with presents stacked like Habitat 67 and a gingerbread house based on the Guggenheim. John Hill

Polls are now open to vote for your favorite Building of the Week on three of our national platforms: American-Architects, German-Architects and Swiss-Architects. John Hill

On the last day of 2014 The Broad museum announced the last sections of scaffolding were removed from around its new façade, dubbed the "veil" by architects Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. John Hill

Of the 420 projects from 36 countries competing for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015, we highlight some of the contending projects designed by World-Architects member firms. John Hill

Thirteen years after winning first prize in an international competition, Coop Himmelb(l)au's design for the Musée des Confluences finally opened to the public in Lyon, France, on 20 December 2014. John Hill

City officials in Chicago have unveiled an 88-story tower designed by Studio Gang Architects for Chinese developer Wanda Group. The zigzag tower would sit in Lakeshore East, the same development as the architect's famous Aqua Tower. John Hill

Archiculture is a 25-minute film that "offers a unique glimpse into the world of studio-based, design education through the eyes of a group of students finishing their final design projects." John Hill

The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the list of 420 projects from 36 countries competing for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. John Hill

Stereotank has been selected as the winner of the 2015 Times Square Valentine Heart Design, an invited competition organized by the Times Square Arts and the Architectural League of New York. John Hill

The University of Melbourne's Melbourne School of Design, designed by Boston's NADAAA and Victoria, Australia's John Wardle Architects (JWA), opened at the beginning of December, four months ahead of schedule. John Hill

For the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, Studio Gang Architects uses a traditional yet obscure masonry technique to give the trefoil-shaped building its distinctive appearance. John Hill

Exactly 112 years to the day after Andrew Carnegie moved into his mansion on New York's Upper East Side, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum reopens after a major, three-year renovation of the building. John Hill