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The World War One Centennial Commission has announced that five design concepts for the National World War One Memorial at Pershing Park in Washington, DC  have been selected to proceed to Stage II of the design competition. John Hill

Qatar Museums has announced the long-list of 26 architects selected from 489 submissions in the international search for the architect who will design the one-million-square-foot Art Mill in Doha. John Hill

The Chicago Architecture Biennial has announced the final list of participants – over 100 architects and artists from more than 30 countries selected by Biennial Co-Artistic Directors Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda. John Hill

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), with Leonhardt Andra und Partner, has been named winner in the competition for a bridge in Taiwan that will be located at the mouth of the Tamsui River near the Taiwan Strait. John Hill

Design software developer Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc.'s second annual Vectorworks Design Scholarship program offers international students from all design disciplines the opportunity to win up to $10,000 USD. Submission deadline is 31 August 2015. John Hill

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced that this year’s winner of the 10 Year Award is Malmö’s Turning Torso, designed by Santiago Calatrava. John Hill

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has announced that Ultramoderne, a collaboration between architects Yasmin Vobis and Aaron Forrest and structural engineer Brett Schneider, have won the BP Prize in the Chicago Architecture Biennial's Lakefront Kiosk Competition. John Hill

The official LEAF judging panel has announced its 2015 shortlist of entries, projects in 14 categories that "are setting the benchmark for the international architectural and design community." John Hill

Norway's Snøhetta has won SIGNA Group's Bolzano Cable Car competition, which will make the Virgolo/Virgl mountain in Bolzano, the capital of South Tyrol in Italy, accessible to visitors for the first time since its historic funicular closed in 1976. John Hill

WOHA's PARKROYAL on Pickering in Singapore has won the 2015 Urban Habitat Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). John Hill

An icon of Postmodern architecture, the Vanna Venturi House that Robert Venturi designed for his mother in 1964, is up for sale for the first time since 1973. John Hill

The Board of la Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, has named Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, who heads the firm Elemental, as director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition to be held from 28 May to 27 November 2016. John Hill

Japan has shelved Zaha Hadid's competition-winning design for the main stadium of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, citing costs that have ballooned to 252 billion yen ($2 billion USD). John Hill

A school, an apartment building, a cancer center, luxury housing, a university building, and a gallery: The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed the six projects shortlisted for the 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize. John Hill

The organizers of the second MPavilion have revealed AL_A’s design: "an enchanting, highly technical and weather-responsive forest canopy set among the trees and flowers of Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens." John Hill

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have announced the over 60 new buildings from 26 countries as winners of the Interational Architecture Awards for 2015. John Hill

The European Parliament has rejected the plan that would have restricted the so-called Freedom of Panorama, the right to use pictures of public buildings and sculptures without restriction. John Hill

PSA Publishers Ltd., the publisher of the World-Architects platform, announces a change of management as Renato Turri, Charles Ganz and Falk Romano accept, as part of a management buyout, the shares of majority shareholder and company founder Hans Demarmels. John Hill, Inge Beckel

The Studio Museum in Harlem has announced that David Adjaye is designing a new building for the museum on the site of the 1914 building it has occupied since 1982. John Hill

New York's Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP) has announced plans for two residential buildings designed by ODA New York for developer RAL Development Services and Oliver's Realty Group adjacent to the park's Pier 6. John Hill

Two years after Anthony Vidler stepped down as Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, the New York school has named Nader Tehrani of Boston's NADAAA to the position. John Hill

Eight months after rejecting it, Paris city councillors have voted in favor of the "Triangle Tower" proposed for the Porte de Versailles area, what would be the city’s first skyscraper since 1973. John Hill

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has named the four regional winners of the Best Tall Building Awards as part of the organization's annual awards. John Hill

The jury for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's competition for a proposed Guggenheim museum in Helsinki, Finland, has chosen "Art in the City" by Paris's Moreau Kusonoki Architectes as the winner. John Hill

Hauser & Wirth Somerset has announced that Alex Bank, Sam Casswell and Tom Graham, with their "The Garden Rooms" proposal, are the winner of the Shed Project, a competition for young architects. John Hill

The Bridge at Cornell NYC Tech, designed by Weiss/Manfredi, breaks ground and the world's first Passive House high-rise, designed by Handel Architects, is unveiled, as Cornell moves forward with its new campus on Roosevelt Island in New York. John Hill

Charles Correa, widely considered one of the most influential, prolific, and diverse Indian architects and planners, died in Mumbia on 16 June 2015 at the age of 84. John Hill

Two new Maggie's Centres, designed by Steven Holl and Thomas Heatherwick, move forward with a groundbreaking and design unveiling, respectively. John Hill

The American Society of Landscape Architects has announced its 2015 honors recipients. Selected by the ASLA’s Board of Trustees, the honors include the Landscape Architecture Firm Award being given to The Office of James Burnett. John Hill

Bjark Ingels' design of Two World Trade Center for developer Larry Silverstein and tenants 21st Century Fox Inc. and News Corp has been made public via a Wired magazine article and a flashy three-minute video. John Hill

The State Government of Western Australia has unveiled the winning design for a pedestrian bridge traversing the Swan River to connect East Perth with the new Perth Stadium on Burswood Peninsula. John Hill

The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has selected 5 teams to participate in the second stage of the Rail Corridor competition aimed at developing a conceptual master plan for a 24-kilometer-long former railway in Singapore. John Hill

After a setback last month, Google is moving forward with partial plans for an office expansion in Mountain View, California, designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studio. John Hill

Grüntuch Ernst Architekten has been named the first-prize winner in a competition to design the Porsche Design Tower, a new apartment building in Frankfurt. John Hill

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced that the Japanese practice of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa will design an expansion that will double the museum's size. John Hill

On Monday, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, accompanied by His Highness the Aga Khan, officially inaugurated the Aga Khan Park in Toronto. John Hill