Magazine

Today the Barack Obama Foundation issued RFPs (Requests for Proposal) to seven potential architects to design the future Obama Presidential Center (OPC) on Chicago's South Side. John Hill

The Japan Sports Council has unveiled two competing designs for the 2019 Rugby Cup and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, following the shelving of Zaha Hadid's competition-winning design earlier this year. John Hill

Lincoln Center and New York Philharmonic have announced that Heatherwick Studio and Diamond Schmitt Architects have been selected to redesign David Geffen Hall, the home of the Philharmonic and the largest concert hall in the Lincoln Center complex. John Hill

Following mentorships by Japan's Kazuyo Sejima and Switzerland's Peter Zumthor, British architect David Chipperfield has been selected as the architecture mentor for 2015-16 in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. John Hill

Assemble, the architecture and design collective from London, has won the Tate's prestigious Turner Prize, beating out three finalists with a community-based project based in the Granby Four Streets area of Toxteth, Liverpool. John Hill

The Museum of Modern Art has selected five finalists for its annual Young Architects Program at its MoMA PS1 outpost in Long Island City, Queens, and it has appointed Sean Anderson as Associate Curator, Department of Architecture and Design. John Hill

The American Institute of Architects has named the influential Postmodern architects from Philadelphia the 2016 recipients of the AIA Gold Medal, the first duo to receive the honor since the AIA allowed collaborations two years ago. John Hill

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has won the international competition to design an 87,000 m2 masterplan in the area of Skøyen in central Oslo; they contend the scheme "will become a unifying urban development icon." John Hill

Strelka KB has announced a shortlist of six design teams that will take part in the second phase of the the international architectural competition for the new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University. John Hill

Last week Wandsworth Council announced that the team led by Denmark's Bystrup Architecture Design and Engineering won the two-stage competition for the Nine Elms to Pimlico cycling and pedestrian bridge crossing the Thames in London. John Hill

After tying with Snøhetta in April of this year in the restricted international competition for the New National Gallery–Ludwig Museum in Budapest's 200-year-old City Park, SANAA has been selected to design the museum. John Hill

The BigMat Group, distributors of construction materials, has announced the winners of the second BigMat ’15 International Architecture Award, with the Grand Prize going to Alberto Campo Baeza's office building in Zamora, Spain. John Hill

The recipients of the 27th Piranesi Awards were announced last week at the conclusion of the Piran Days of Architecture in Slovenia. 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

On Wednesday Chicago's City Council approved the construction of filmmaker George Lucas's Museum of Narrative Art, designed by China's MAD Architects for a lakefront site between Soldier Field and McCormick Place. John Hill

Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney has been named the recipient of the 2015 Gold Medal from the Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). John Hill

Last week fashion house Fendi moved into its new headquarters in the renovated Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome's EUR district, built under dictator Benito Mussolini and inaugurated in 1940. John Hill

Vectorworks has announced the winners – sixteen students/teams from eight countries – in its second annual design scholarship for students in architecture, landscape, and entertainment degrees. John Hill

Construction of Antoni Gaudi's Basïlica de la Sagrada Famïlia in Barcelona has entered its last phase with the erection of six towers that will make it the tallest church in Europe at 172.5 meters (566 feet). John Hill

LEAF International has announced the winners of the 12th annual LEAF Awards, which "recognizes innovative architectural design projects and celebrates excellence in building design on an international basis." John Hill

Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled their nature-inspired design for the Museum of Indigenous Knowledge in Manila, the Philippines. John Hill

Burntwood School, a girls’ school in Wandsworth, London designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, has won the 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize, the 20th annual award for the UK’s best new building. John Hill

Photographer Hilla Becher, who famously documented industrial structures with her husband Bernd in and beyond their native Germany, has died at the age of 81. John Hill

Santiago Calatrava has been named the 2015 recipient of the European Prize for Architecture, awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. John Hill

Called the River Building for its plan flowing across the landscape, the new building designed by the duo of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa for Grace Farms Foundation opened to the public this weekend in New Canaan, Connecticut. John Hill