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With a growing awareness of the environmental benefits of solid wood over steel and concrete construction, more and more buildings this century are being constructed out of wood. With over twenty case studies in Joseph Mayo's new book, Solid Wood, World-Architects spoke with the... John Hill

The 15th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, designed by Spain's SelgasCano, opens to the public on Thursday in London's Kensington Gardens. John Hill

Hauser & Wirth Somerset has announced that Alex Bank, Sam Casswell and Tom Graham, with their "The Garden Rooms" proposal, are the winner of the Shed Project, a competition for young architects. John Hill

Four fifth-year students, Ashley Clark, Morgan Acino, Stephen Durham, and Will Gregory, recently completed the new (and first-ever) library for the town of Newbern, Alabama. Rural Studio

The Bridge at Cornell NYC Tech, designed by Weiss/Manfredi, breaks ground and the world's first Passive House high-rise, designed by Handel Architects, is unveiled, as Cornell moves forward with its new campus on Roosevelt Island in New York. John Hill

The Wood Shed project is situated along the coast, a short drive from Taipei in Taiwan. The project is designed as an adaptive reuse project around an existing shed structure, repurposing all of the existing structure. HAO / Holm Architecture Office

Krueck + Sexton Architects have completed a 375,000 square foot, highly sustainable Federal Office Building located at 2030 S.W. 145th Avenue in Miramar, Florida. Krueck + Sexton

The building is located in the historical center of San Candido, a small touristic village in the Dolomites. In the first three stories it houses a department store while the upper three storiess have been transformed from a partly underused attic space into four large, independent apartments for... Plasma Studio

Charles Correa, widely considered one of the most influential, prolific, and diverse Indian architects and planners, died in Mumbia on 16 June 2015 at the age of 84. John Hill

Roof House is a project that completely transforms an existing villa beautifully situated on a large site filled with trees in Fredensborg, Denmark. LETH & GORI

Few young architects under the age of 30 can boast of two completed commissions in their portfolios like Ondrej Chybik and Michal Kristof, the founders of Chybik+Kristof Associated Architects. Their first commission – a modular cafeteria for KOMA MODULAR in Vizovice – was... Chybik+Kristof Associated Architects

Brooklyn's Nomad Studio has installed Green Varnish in the courtyard of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM), the twelve-year-old building designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture. John Hill

"Cultural design collaboration" is not seen typically in a list of an architect's consultants, but it makes perfect sense here, given the client's mandate that the new terminal at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport embodies "the heritage of India and the...

Two new Maggie's Centres, designed by Steven Holl and Thomas Heatherwick, move forward with a groundbreaking and design unveiling, respectively. John Hill

The S-Bahn-Station Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz in Leipzig, Germany, is a wonderous space of concrete, glass block and light, the product of a collaboration between architect Max Dudler and lighting designer Andreas Schulz. John Hill

The primary objective for this tiny cafe in the heart of downtown San Francisco was to bring epicurean level coffee at a rate and speed to meet the Financial District’s demands while simultaneously revitalizing a stretch of sidewalk that has been fallow for over twenty years. jones | haydu

A five-minute film from developers Saif Sumaida and Amit Khurana explains 152 Elizabeth, a seven-story residential project designed by Tadao Ando, with interiors by Michael Gabellini, for a corner lot in Manhattan's Nolita (North of Little Italy) neighborhood. John Hill

Kilimanjaro Women Information Exchange and Consultancy Organization (KWIECO) was founded in 1987 in Moshi, Tanzania. It provides advice on legal, health, social and economic issues to women. Hollmen Reuter Sandman Architects

The American Society of Landscape Architects has announced its 2015 honors recipients. Selected by the ASLA’s Board of Trustees, the honors include the Landscape Architecture Firm Award being given to The Office of James Burnett. John Hill

The business community today operates dynamically, impulsively and diversely. Office environments must respond to the constant changes in working groups’ organizations, to their production processes and to the needs for personal comfort and technology development. dekleva gregorič architects

Politico Magazine presents a portrait of Southern Californian architect Teddy Cruz, who "has a new way of developing cities ... drawing inspiration from an unlikely place just across the border from his home in San Diego." John Hill

Vaulted Willow is an architectural folly exploring lightweight, ultra-thin, self-supported shells through the development of custom computational protocols of structural form-finding and descriptive geometry. The project's aim is to resolve and delineate structure, skin and ornamentation into... MARC FORNES/THEVERYMANY

The TREExOFFICE co-working space launched today in Hoxton Square, the first initiative to be realized by the Park Hack project, which was set up to test innovative models that sustain and enhance public open spaces. John Hill

Artist Simon Terrill and architectural collective Assemble have teamed up to create full-scale "soft" versions of postwar British playgrounds inside the Architecture Gallery at RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) in London. John Hill

After a very fast construction period of only two months a spectacular new pavilion shines in the heart of Rotterdam. Mei architects and planners designed this new McDonald's pavilion on Coolsingel Rotterdam. Mei architects and planners

Bjark Ingels' design of Two World Trade Center for developer Larry Silverstein and tenants 21st Century Fox Inc. and News Corp has been made public via a Wired magazine article and a flashy three-minute video. John Hill

Stuttgart's Steimle Architekten recently completed a three-story urban villa with a small courtyard, a deck atop the garage, and a lap pool. The architects sent us some photographs and drawings of the S3 City Villa. Steimle Architekten

Opening fifteen minutes early might not seem like much when it comes to a building, but when considered as a piece of an Expo – an event that often sees pavilions being worked on after the gates open – it is quite an undertaking. But it is only one among many for the USA Pavilion...

The London Festival of Architecture takes place throughout the month of June under the theme Work in Progress. We highlight ten of the installations, exhibitions, and events happening as part of the LFA. John Hill

The State Government of Western Australia has unveiled the winning design for a pedestrian bridge traversing the Swan River to connect East Perth with the new Perth Stadium on Burswood Peninsula. John Hill

The Architectural Review presents a 10-minute film by filmmaker Antonio Brasiliano and journalist Ursula Troncoso on Vigliecca & Associados's Parque Novo Santo Amaro V in São Paulo, which has evolved substantially since its 2012 completion. John Hill

The House of Music opened in Aalborg, Denmark, just over one year ago. Designed by Wolf Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au, the building looks complex, but it is based on a simple courtyard building, as explained in a couple short films from Spirt of Space. John Hill

Designed by Tokyo-based Love Architecture, House in Yagumo combines a rich sense of nature with Tokyo’s big-city setting. Architect Yukio Asari incorporates natural elements like light, shadow, and breezes into his designs and utilizes organic building materials, rooting his work in... Love Architecture Inc.

A 2-1/2-minute film from Spirit of Space takes viewers inside the timber-framed Tamedia Office Building in Zurich, Switzerland, designed by Shigeru Ban Architects. John Hill

The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has selected 5 teams to participate in the second stage of the Rail Corridor competition aimed at developing a conceptual master plan for a 24-kilometer-long former railway in Singapore. John Hill

Designed by UNStudio and DP Architects, the academic campus for the Singapore University of Technology and Design reflects an in-depth understanding of the changing requirements of learning institutions today. UNStudio