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The residents of Vals, Switzerland, have unanimously approved the 381-meter-tall luxury hotel proposed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis for 7132 Ltd. John Hill

The Glasgow School of Art has selected a team led by local architect Page\Park for the restoration of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece that was damaged in a fire last year. John Hill

Yesterday Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Faceboook that "we moved into our new Facebook building in Menlo Park, California," accompanied by a photo of the building's green roof. John Hill

Artist Tomás Saraceno explores social and biological complexity through the manipulation of spider webs in a new exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York. John Hill

Developer Remo Stoffel has unveiled Morphosis Architects' design for an 82-story, 381-meter-high (1,250 feet) tower for the Swiss town of Vals that would become Europe's tallest building. John Hill

The latest design by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for the $600 million expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art sees a simplification of its form and other changes. John Hill

The Serpentine Gallery has released renderings of SelgasCano's chrysalis-like design for the 15th Pavilion, to be erected in London's Kensington Gardens this summer. John Hill

World-Architects got a sneak peek of the exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980, opening at the Museum of Modern Art on the 29th of March. John Hill

The facade of SEHW Architektur's design for the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) in Darmstadt, Germany, appears to form some kind of secret code, appropriate given the site's history. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

Chilean architect Smiljan Radić's design for the 2014 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion has been relocated to Hauser & Wirth's Durslade Farm in Somerset, England. John Hill

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture has launched the online publication Schindler Lab, which documents their "initiative that prompts artists and architects to develop installations highlighting Rudolph M. Schindler's domestic experiment." John Hill

A photo that landed in our inbox today shows the Nanjing International Youth Cultural Center in Nanjing, China, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and illuminated by 700,000 nodes of color-changing LED lights. John Hill

Wandsworth Council has revealed the 4 design teams selected from 74 submissions that will now proceed to the second stage of the Nine Elms to Pimlico bridge competition. John Hill

Chicago's tallest towers sells for $1.3 billion, London will see 263 towers over 20 stories, and a proposal for a "No Shadow Tower also in London. John Hill

Last year saw the most supertall (300 meters or higher) skyscrapers built than in any year (11 of them), most significantly One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. World-Architects is taking a look at it and nine other supertalls under construction. John Hill

The residency of the artists Scenocosme and Lola and Yukao Meet at the Château Éphémère near Paris yielded La Maison Sensible (The Sensitive House), an interactive installation that turned the furniture and walls of a room into sensors for light and sound. John Hill

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced on Wednesday that David Chipperfield Architects has been selected to develop a new design for the Southwest Wing for modern and contemporary art. John Hill

Michael Graves, influential architect of postmodernism, designer of kettles, healthcare design advocate, professor, and member of the New York Five, died yesterday at his Princeton, New Jersey, home. John Hill

Every month brings news of another city trying to create its own version of Manhattan's wildly successful High Line. Most recent is Miami's Underline, which has hired High Line landscape architect James Corner to plan a 10-mile "mobility corridor." John Hill

Four years after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the eastern coast of Japan, we take a look at some of the buildings completed under the Home-for-All program started by architect Toyo Ito in response to the disaster. John Hill

The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects has annouced the winners of its 2015 Design Awards – 12 Honor and 25 Merit awards in 4 categories. John Hill

With the death of Frei Otto on Monday and the awarding of the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize to him on Tuesday, we take a look at a few short films on the German architect/engineer, his structures, and his working methods. John Hill

Tom Pritzker of the Hyatt Foundation announced today, one day after Frei Otto’s death, that the German architect is the 40th laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. John Hill

The construction of French artist Georges Rousse's installation Faro & Faro for the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda in Mexico City is documented in a short film. John Hill

Hascher Jehle Architektur and artist Burghard Müller-Dannhausen treated the exterior and interior, respectively, of the new Rems-Murr-Klinikum hospital in Winnenden, Germany, with a range of colors to create a strong building identity. John Hill

Despite vehement cries for its preservation, legislators in Goshen, New York, failed to vote for protecting the Paul Rudolph's Brutalist building, therefore making its demolition and reconstruction a reality. John Hill

The AA School of Architecture has been busy uploading a wealth of lectures, conversations and documentaries lately, including a BBC documentary on American architect Bruce Goff. John Hill

Ennead Architects won the commission for the Shanghai Planetarium branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (SSTM) with a design inspired by the astronomic principle of orbital motion. John Hill

The University of St. Thomas · Minnesota has announced it will auction off the Frank Gehry-designed Winton Guest House in May, six years after the school relocated the building from its original site. John Hill

World-Architects recently visited the Princeton, New Jersey, office of ikon.5 architects to speak with partners Joseph Tattoni, Arvind Tikku and Charles Maira about the firm's background and their working process, and to look at some new projects. John Hill

Five of the six winning projects in this year's Progressive Architecture Awards were designed by World-Architects member firms. John Hill

Vincent Hecht, an architect and filmmaker from France who is based in Tokyo, has been lovingly documenting architecture in Japan for a few years. Here we present four of his short films on buildings by Fujimoto, Ishigami, Kuma and Sejima. John Hill

The New York Times is reporting that Google has hired the offices of Thomas Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels for a proposed new headquarters in Mountain View, California. John Hill

Stadium Database has announced the winners of its 2014 Stadium of the Year contest, this year inaugurating a special Jury Vote in addition to the usual Public Vote. John Hill

Any subject is fodder for Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein's sketch comedy show Portlandia. In this 90-second clip they portray a couple living in a Microhouse in a Microcommunity. John Hill

At a press conference in London today, the five finalists were announced for the 2015 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award. John Hill