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The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the three winners of the inaugural Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). The awards were given today during the “Shaping European Cities” debate in Venice. John Hill

We propose a building with a unique image for the campus. A building that breaks the existing gray monotony – referring not only about the pictorial issue of the Campus, but also about the “global crisis without end” – and that, at the same time, is able to captivate. Cláudio Vilarinho

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six finalists in its inaugural RIBA International Prize, which replaces the RIBA Lubetkin Prize and is "open to all qualified architects anywhere in the world." John Hill

Four months after George Lucas ditched plans to build his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago, concept designs by Ma Yansong for sites in Los Angeles and San Francisco have been unveiled. John Hill

A Buddhist retreat in the Suffolk countryside has reopened, designed by Walters & Cohen Architects. Walters & Cohen Architects

NEXT turns a bridge into the ultimate experience: Dutch-Chinese Lucky Knot by NEXT architects connects, illuminates and entertains. NEXT architects

The Mirrorhouse is perched on the hillside of Beverly Hills with downtown views to the east and views to Palos Verdes and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The floor plan is developed around five offset volumes, enclosing the private spaces of the house. XTEN Architecture

Yesterday World-Architects toured inside Renzo Piano Building Workshop's Jerome L. Greene Science Center, which is set to open in spring 2017 as one of the first buildings on Columbia University's new Manhattanville campus. John Hill

As part of the eleventh edition of Nuit Blanche Toronto, which took place the first night of October, the anonymous art group Luzinterruptus covered a street with softly illuminated books, the latest iteration of their Literature vs. Traffic installation. John Hill

This project is part of the urban fabric of the Colonia Roma Norte in Mexico City. Arqmov Workshop

The Sante Fe Opera was faced with the need to expand, but when it came time to do so the work had to be done piecemeal, with construction taking place between seasons. Juan Matiz and his firm, MAD, master planned and designed the complex expansion, which consists of numerous public spaces as...

Sky Stage, a transformative building-scale public artwork, opens in the shell of a burned and boarded building. Heather Clark

The new Visual Arts facility for the University of Iowa's School of Art and Art History provides 126,000 sf of loft-like space for all visual arts media, from ancient metalsmithing techniques to the most advanced virtual reality technologies. Steven Holl Architects

The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, ARE WE HUMAN?: The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years,200 years, 200,000 years, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley opens tomorrow. John Hill

Port Melbourne Football Club (PMFC) has a proud history spanning 140 years, which makes it one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia. k20 Architecture

SANAA's River Building, which snakes its way across the landscape of New Canaan, Connecticut, has won the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) that is given out every two years by the Illinois Institute of Architecture (IIT). John Hill

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the nine finalists, culled from thirty shortlisted projects, competing for the inaugural Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). Three winners will be announced at a ceremony in Venice on 28 October 2016. John Hill

The New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) has announced the 26 architecture and design firms that will participate in the city's Design and Construction Excellence 2.0 Program, the fifth round overall since the program began in 2005. John Hill

Architekturzentrum Wien's Photo Award 2016, which goes under the motto "I LOVE ARCHITECTURE," sought photographs of buildings completed within the last fifty years. A jury selected ten winners that are featured here. John Hill

Seven firms have been selected for the second round of the Demain Montparnasse competition, which strives to give a new identity to Tour Montparnasse, the much-detested Parisian skyscraper. John Hill

The campus of Hochschule Ruhr West (HRW) - University of Applied Sciences in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, was opened recently by Hannelore Kraft, State Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. HRW is part of a nationwide development of new universities. HPP/ASTOC

LEAF International has announced the winners of the 13th annual LEAF Awards, which "recognizes innovative architectural design projects and celebrates excellence in building design on an international basis." John Hill

The Passive House standard, first developed in Germany in the 1990s, has led to tens of thousands of highly energy efficient buildings, most of them in and around Germany. Its popularity in the United States has been slow, but in recent years the number of Passive House-certified...

The ashes of the late, great Prince, have been interred in a model of his Paisley Park Studios, now on display within the full-sized building. John Hill

Surrounded by a rapidly urbanizing village settlement, the seven-acre site is on the outskirts of New Delhi. The site’s existing rocky terrain posed a significant challenge to the spatial planning of the site. Amit Khanna

An area of 45 square meters is not much for the planning of a house. Nevertheless L3P Architekten managed to make room for a family of four in Dielsdorf near Zurich – using the logic of the surrounding grapevines to articulate the structure. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

The effort to safeguard the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia has won the Buckminster Fuller Institute's 2016 Fuller Challenge, which awards a $100,000 prize "to support the development and implementation of one outstanding strategy." John Hill

Three winners of the new American Architecture Prize, which honors designs in the disciplines of architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture, were announced on October 3rd, World Architecture Day. John Hill

An international jury has selected Hala Wardé and HW Architecture to design BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art, a new musuem that will include a garden amphitheater, accessible public space, and a tower designed to house exhibitions and artist residencies. John Hill

Housing Cairo: The Informal Response, edited by Marc Angélil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, was published earlier this year by Berlin-based publisher Ruby Press. Recently it won a Fiona Shipwright

The Cloud is a site specific work created by the architectural firm Shjworks. The project introduces stay, light and place making in a recreational space belonging to a social housing estate in Copenhagen. Shjworks

Architecture critics that is, particularly Chicago's Blair Kamin and New York's Paul Goldberger. A recent article from Kamin highlights the instability of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and his willingness to attack anybody who slights him. John Hill

Junya Ishigami, who won the 2016 BSI Swiss Architectural Award earlier this year, speaks in a short film about the three projects – Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop, Japanese Pavilion at 2008 Venice Biennale, and "House with Plants" – that the John Hill

Situated at the end of Avenue Lefaucheux, the plot of land is located at the entrance to the joint development zone by the quay. Thanks to its position, it has exceptional views over the Seine, with the island of Billancourt opposite and the new urban park anchoring the riverbank.  Agence Beckmann-N’Thépé

RAI Amsterdam Exhibition and Convention Centre has a new, multifunctional car park. The building is 30 metres high and its eight floors offer parking space for about 1000 cars. The car park is situated on the ring road A10 and the Zuidas, Amsterdam’s business district. Benthem Crouwel Architects

The Nadir Afonso Foundation, built in the city of Chaves, in a terrain located on the right bank of the Tâmega river, had its detailed planning elaborated within the ambit of the Polis program. Álvaro Siza Vieira