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A new ten-minute documentary from the Irish Architecture Foundation "traces the Irish involvement in building Chicago, from the famous I&M canal to the rise of the Irish culturally and politically." John Hill

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group is designing a large, two-tower residential project for a prominently located empty parcel next to the High Line and across the street from Frank Gehry's IAC building. John Hill

Munich's HENN has won first prize in the competition for Zalando's Headquarters in Berlin. It is designed as an ensemble of two new buildings that form the heart of the corporate campus in Berlin-Friedrichshain. HENN

For Rotterdam's Timmerhuis, a new building for the city hall that will accommodate municipal services, offices, and residential units, OMA conceived a modular building with repeated units gradually set back from the street as they rise into two irregular peaks. OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture

REX, the Brooklyn firm headed by former OMA partner Joshua Prince-Ramus, has been selected to design the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, long a question mark in the sixteen-acre master plan. John Hill

Developers’ architecture, a crisis in ecological construction, misunderstood modernism, no stars – what are the concerns shaping contemporary German architecture at the moment? A polemic. Ulf Meyer

BAROQUE BAROQUE is a new exhibition in Vienna that brings together a selection of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's artworks from private collections and places them into the baroque spaces of the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy. John Hill

Montreal grew rapidly during the first half of the 20th century and keeping pace was the construction of neighborhood schools, often designed by well-known architects of the time. NFOE et associés architectes

Taking into account the city’s urban tissue, the project is the renovation of a Brussels typical terraced house. Originally inhabited by a single family, the house appeared too big and difficult to take care of after the children grew up and left. Edouard Brunet and François Martens

In a ceremony last night overlooking the World Trade Center, the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies gave Santiago Calatrava its European Prize for Architecture. John Hill

The Aarhus School of Architecture has announced three pre-qualified candidates for the restricted design competition for a new school of architecture in Denmark. John Hill

The Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE - Higher Council of Architectural Colleges of Spain) has announced the winners of its Spanish Interational Architecture Prize 2015. John Hill

Steven Holl Architects has announced that their competition-winning 2008 project for two skyscrapers joined by a raised pedestrian bridge at Nordhavn Harbor has gained approval from the city of Copenhagen. John Hill

National Geographic has put together a helpful visual guide to Manhattan's building boom, which will add 47 skyscrapers to the island's crop of 28, pre-2004 buildings over 700 feet tall. John Hill

The 350-meter-long curved arch pedestrian bridge Weinberg crosses the Havel River to connect the Weinberg Park and the Optik Park, offering pedestrians a pleasant crossing in a beautiful garden landscape and views of the river. schlaich bergermann partner

Not many buildings require a ballistics consultant, but it is a necessity when it comes to shooting ranges. Berlin's magma architecture completed their second one this year, for the 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games (TO2015), following the shooting venues they...

The site is located in the area near Yamato River in Osaka. The existence building is in a corner of residential area. Jun Murata

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has selected Stefano Boeri's Bosco Verticale in Milan as the overall "2015 Best Tall Building Worldwide" at the 14th Annual CTBUH International Best Tall Building Awards Symposium and Dinner recently held in Chicago. John Hill

Collective-LOK's design featuring "a faceted ring of golden, mirrored hearts to create a kaleidoscopic pavilion that multiplies the spectacle of Times Square" has won the invited competition for the 8th annual pavilion celebrating Valentine's Day. John Hill

Next year, from 11 June to 18 September, Zurich will host Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art. As part of the event, the Department of Architecture at ETH is contributing a floating pavilion with cinema and swimming pool. John Hill

When the design process start in October 2012, the idea behind the new Max&Co building in Tokyo was to build a piece of architecture that could express a clear identity through simplicity. Andrea Tognon Architecture

March Studio’s dynamic entry stair and lobby for Hotel Hotel in Canberra, Australia was named the World Interior of the Year at the Inside Festival held recently in Singapore. John Hill

A short film from Coop Himmelb(l)au illustrates how the polished stainless steel "Cloud" at the center of the Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition (MOCAPE) in Shenzhen, China will be built by Robots – Kraftwerk soundtrack included. John Hill

Hualien Residences, designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, kick off sales with a complete model unit on Taiwan’s East Coast. The 1000 m2 show home offers a glimpse into the lifestyle and amenities of the development. BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group

Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet, Denmark’s leading hospital, recently inaugurated its new Patient Hotel and Administrative Building, designed by 3XN Architects. 3XN

Formerly limited to spots in Midtown Manhattan, now a 1,000-foot-tall tower, designed by SHoP Architects, is proposed for a small site in Downtown Brooklyn. John Hill

Nendo has designed an office and cafe inside the Sogetsu Kaikan building in Tokyo designed by Kenzo Tange. nendo

Last week the eighth annual World Architecture Festival (WAF) was held in Singapore, when more than thirty projects were given awards and the "super jury" crowned the World Building of the Year. John Hill

The Interlace, a residential development in Singapore designed by OMA/Buro Ole Scheeren has been named World Building of the Year 2015 at the World Architecture Festival. John Hill

The house in Nučice may suggest a game with three “dice“, or boxes that differs from one another in their shapes and building materials. Mimosa Architekti

As part of their Finite Format exhibition at the House of Art České Budějovice in the Czech Republic, Chilean architects Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen, working with students from the Faculty of Art and Architecture at the Technical University of... John Hill

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) has unveiled expansion plans by Chicago architect Jeanne Gang for the $325 million, 218,000-square-foot Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation. John Hill

As opposed to a heterogeneous environment, we conceive a neutral aesthetically building. A homogeneous white skin covers exterior of the building; only where it bends inward appear yellow interstices of inner, a reflection of light and warmth. Comas-Pont Arquitectes slp

Jvantspijker urbanism architecture has redesigned the main space of an old steam factory in the Delfshaven neighborhood of Rotterdam, to become an open loft office. jvantspijker urbanism architecture research

With the opening last month of the the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling, the larger Sugar Hill Development is complete. The 13-story building designed by the firm of David Adjaye also consists of an early childhood center, 124 units of affordable housing, office... Adjaye Associates

British firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) has beat out Foster + Partners and UNStudio to win a competition to design the new Terminal 3 building at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. John Hill