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The Chicago Park District welcomed employees and the public inside its new Headquarters in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the city's Southwest Side in June. The bold design by John Ronan Architects is a circular building that sits within a new park. Ulf Meyer visited over the summer and... Ulf Meyer, John Ronan Architects

Born in Munich, architect Florian Busch founded Florian Busch Architects in Tokyo in 2009, after working in the office of Toyo Ito. In the second part of a two-part interview, Busch talks with Ulf Meyer about the Nobori Building in Tokyo, the K8 building in Kyoto, and “Vertical Landscapes,”... Ulf Meyer

A team of Danish architects and landscape architects has completed the European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden, a campus that aims to “advance material research for science and innovation.” Ulf Meyer

Born in Munich, architect Florian Busch founded Florian Busch Architects (FBA) in 2009, after working in the office of Toyo Ito. In the first part of a two-part interview, Busch talks with Ulf Meyer about his... Ulf Meyer

Powerhouse Sydney has announced that Powerhouse Parramatta, billed as “the largest cultural development in Australia to be created since the Sydney Opera House,” will open in early 2025. Ulf Meyer

Jean-Louis Cohen, the French architectural historian and longtime professor of architectural history at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts died unexpectedly on August 7, 2023. Ulf Meyer

Chappe is a new “art house by the sea” that opened earlier this year in Tammisaari, in southern Finland. The small building was designed by JKMM Architects for the Albert de la Chapelle Art Foundation. Ulf Meyer

The sixth and final exhibition in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s “The Architect’s Studio” series presents the Kenyan architectural studio Cave Bureau (stylized as cave_bureau), founded by Kabage Karanja and... Ulf Meyer

The Centro de Investigación del Mar de Cortés (Sea of Cortez Research Center) opened in Mazatlán, Mexico, at the end of May. Located in Parque Central Mazatlán, the impressive building was designed by Tatiana Bilbao Estudio. Ulf Meyer

Even though the National Portrait Gallery in St. Martin’s Place boasts the world’s largest collection of portraits, it was sometimes overlooked relative to the other great art museums in London. A new transformation hopes to change that. Ulf Meyer

Norman Foster, the massive monographic exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris until August 7, 2023, looks back at six decades of arguably the world’s most successful architect. Ulf Meyer asks if it is a premature obituary. Ulf Meyer

British architect Michael Hopkins, recipient of the Royal Gold Medal in 1994 with his wife Patty, died on June 17, “peacefully” and “surrounded by his family,” per Hopkins Architects. He was 88. Ulf Meyer

After winning first prize in an architectural design competition, New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro will design the Pina Bausch Zentrum in Wuppertal, a city in Western Germany. Ulf Meyer

The just-completed Amsterdam headquarters of Booking.com was designed by UNStudio with a focus on health and well-being. Does it pull it off? Ulf Meyer got a tour of the building and sent us his impressions. Ulf Meyer

Vienna's AllesWirdGut has completed the Račianska Residential High-Rise Complex (aka GUTHAUS) in nearby Bratislava, Slovakia. Ulf Meyer

A couple months after the Naomi Milgrom Foundation announced Tadao Ando would design the next iteration of the MPavilion, renderings of Ando's design have been revealed. Ulf Meyer

Hungary’s tallest tower houses the headquarters of the country’s biggest company, the MOL Group. The giant oil and gas conglomerate commissioned Lord Norman Foster from London to design their new headquarters, which was inaugurated in December. Ulf Meyer

Turkey’s first museum of modern and contemporary art opens the doors to its new home on Thursday, May 4. Designed by Genoa, Italy's Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), Istanbul Modern is located on the waterfront in Istanbul’s Karaköy quarter, right where the Bosphorus and Golden Horn meet. Ulf Meyer

Toranomon Hills Station Tower is a mixed-use tower in Tokyo designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu for the Mori Corporation. When it opens to the public in fall 2023, it will be OMA’s first tower in Tokyo. Ulf Meyer looked at the project in-progress and sent us his impressions. Ulf Meyer

Kengo Kuma & Associates has won the international design competition for a visitor center for the Butrint National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Albania’s Ionian coast. Ulf Meyer

The Manchester Museum has become home to the UK’s first permanent gallery for South Asian art, courtesy of an extension designed by Purcell, the firm that boasts “the world’s largest team of heritage experts.” Ulf Meyer

Michael Maltzan Architecture led the two-decade-long transformation of the Hammer Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The newly named Lynda and Stewart Resnick Cultural Center opens to the public on March 26. Ulf Meyer

Combining the the Museum of Central Finland and the Alvar Aalto Museum, the new Aalto2 Museum Centre opens to the public in May, when it will play a major part of the 125th anniversary of Alvar Aalto’s birth. Ulf Meyer

Heatherwick Studio: Building Soulfulness opened on March 17 at Mori Art Museum's Tokyo City View gallery. The first exhibition in Japan devoted to the UK studio of Thomas Heatherwick, Building Soulfulness displays 28 major projects over the last three decades. Ulf Meyer visited... Ulf Meyer

British architect David Chipperfield has been named the laureate of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize. He is the 52nd recipient of the award that is considered architecture’s highest honor. Ulf Meyer

Last month David Chipperfield Architects won the competition to expand the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Ulf Meyer spoke with David Chipperfield and Alexander... Ulf Meyer

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Carlo Ratti Associati have designed CapitaSpring, a 280-meter-tall “oasis” of green in Singapore. Ulf Meyer visited the building, sending us his impressions. Ulf Meyer

A team led by David Chipperfield Architects has won the high-profile competition to expand the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. (Originally published on January 12, 2023; updated with additional renderings on February 16.) Ulf Meyer

Despite the efforts of preservationists, the decision has been made that the Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, designed by Kenzo Tange in 1964, will be knocked down. Ulf Meyer

The Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) in Bangalore is celebrating its grand opening on February 18, 2023. The museum is housed in a five-story building designed by Mathew & Ghosh Architects. Ulf Meyer

Aldo Rossi: Insulae, a new exhibition at the Tchoban Foundation – Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin, focuses on Italian architect Aldo Rossi’s drawings from the 1980s. Ulf Meyer visited and sent us his... Ulf Meyer

Oslo’s LPO Architects and New York and London’s GRECODECO have turned a 1930s headquarters for a utility company into Oslo’s trendiest hotel. Ulf Meyer visited and sent us this report. Ulf Meyer

Ole Scheeren: Spaces of Life is a large solo exhibition now on display at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Presenting the work of Karlsruhe-born architect Ole Scheeren, the exhibition aims to explore “how today’s architecture creates prototypes for living tomorrow.” Ulf Meyer... Ulf Meyer

Tokyu Corporation will open the Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, a large hotel and entertainment complex, on April 14. Designed by Yuko Nagayama & Associates, it is Japan’s... Ulf Meyer

The 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate was a great master builder as well as an astute thinker and gifted writer. His versatile architecture made him a mediator between Japan and the West. Ulf Meyer

In the exhibition Translated Traditions – Public Courtyards and Urban Platforms at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin, Shanghai’s Scenic Architecture Office shows how it translates traditions. Ulf Meyer