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With this project for fifteen new classrooms serving year seven to high school, the challenge was to place a new five-story contemporary classroom building in very close proximity to some of the oldest school buildings in Brisbane.

Master plan for a new city development including the erection of the new mainline Vienna railway station. Working in a planning team with Atelier Ernst Hoffmann and Atelier Albert Wimmer. Theo Hotz Partner was responsible for the station roof. Theo Hotz Partner Architekten

After a setback last month, Google is moving forward with partial plans for an office expansion in Mountain View, California, designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studio. John Hill

New Museum MORE (Museum for Dutch Modern Realism), designed by Hans van Heeswijk Architects to showcase the Netherlands’ biggest collection of modern realist art, opened on 2 June 2015, with critics praising its light but exuberant minimalist architecture. Hans van Heeswijk Architects

Marc-Christoph Wagner from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art interviews Norman Foster, who turned 80 on 1 June 2015, about his childhood, path to architecture, hobbies, and approach to designing buildings. John Hill

Unique bridge designed to house bats: "There is no other bridge like it that is specifically designed to house bats," claims Herman Limpens, international expert in the field of bats from the Mammal Society. NEXT architects

Located at a major high-end commercial district at the intersection of Changde Road and Nanjing West Road in Shanghai, a new façade is created for the fashion house Ports 1961's flagship store. UUfie

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...

The ETH Zurich Pavilion at the IDEAS CITY Festival in New York City (28-30 May 2015) is built of boards made from discarded beverage cartons, an example of turning waste into a resource, the "matter from which to construct or configure new cities." John Hill

Italian architects Filippo Pagliani and Michele Rossi of PARK have released PARK Mapp, a guide to modern and contemporary architecture in Milan, the city of Expo 2015. John Hill

This holiday house for a family of four is located in the north of Portugal. It's shape is defined by the same number of individual volumes. They have similar dimensions but distinct orientations. PROD Arquitectura

Grüntuch Ernst Architekten has been named the first-prize winner in a competition to design the Porsche Design Tower, a new apartment building in Frankfurt. John Hill

For more than 30 years, HPP Architects have been designing, planning and building offices on the Kolde-Ring Campus in Münster for LVM Insurances. The latest office tower on the campus, designed jointly by HPP and Duk-Kyu Ryang, can be viewed as a culmination of this ongoing work. HPP Architects

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced that the Japanese practice of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa will design an expansion that will double the museum's size. John Hill

The Velenje "Promenada" is an important city space and a vital city thoroughfare. It is one of the central axes of the centre of Velenje, a young town designed in the 1950s, based on the Modernist ideal of the garden city; as such, it is unique in the Slovene space. ENOTA

In commemoration of the Vienna Ringstrasse's 150th anniversary, Parabol Art Magazine has published a special edition with photos of Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank taken by Hagen Stier and a companion exhibition in the building. John Hill

On Monday, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, accompanied by His Highness the Aga Khan, officially inaugurated the Aga Khan Park in Toronto. John Hill

The Wall Street Journal reports on the headquarters of online game developer NetDragon Websoft in Changle, China, which is "shaped like Star Trek's Enterprise." John Hill

A team led by Mackenzy Vil fabricated the screens for MASS Design Group's GHESKIO Cholera Treatment Center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a "lo-fab" (locally fabricated) process documented in this four-minute film. John Hill

In 2009 Steven Holl Architects won a two-stage competition for a building to house the Glasgow School of Art's design department. Located across the street from Charles Rennie Mackintosh's 1909 Arts and Crafts landmark, Holl responded through contrast – glass instead of stone...

Memorial Day Weekend saw the opening of a two-block stretch of the Chicago Riverwalk, one of the most anticipated projects in the midwestern city. The riverwalk is designed by Ross Barney Architects (with Sasaki Associates), which World-Architects recently visited. John Hill

Take a look at some works from Perfect Home, the exhibition of Korean artist Do Ho Suh installed in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, through the lens of Nils Clauss. John Hill

The Ontario-based museum has shortlisted six architects/teams in a two-stage competition as part of their relocation to the Parks Canada Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site on the Trent-Severn Waterway. John Hill

The Architects Newspaper takes a look at the installation of a 135,000-square-foot (12,500-sm) green roof atop the SHoP Architects-designed arena that opened in Brooklyn in 2012. John Hill

The guest house Frank Gehry designed for Penny and Mike Winton in 1987 sold at auction in Chicago on 19 May after "lackluster bidding." John Hill

Steve Messam, a British artist, has created a self-supporting, walkable bridge from 20,000 sheets of brigh red paper in the green countryside of the Lake District, about midway between Glasgow and Manchester. John Hill, Katinka Corts

Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us some stunning photographs of a handful of the pavilions at the Expo Milano 2015.

The two lecture halls are faithfully superimposed over the layout of the existing parking lot, while clearing around itself a smooth space, manageable and comprehensible by its users. Atelier Zündel Cristea

This 118,000 sq. ft. (11,000 m²) office building recently completed construction in the El Golf section of Santiago. Handel Architects

The Cermak – McCormick Place station serves the country’s largest convention center and a stretch of the Green Line that has been without a station since 1978.

The groundbreaking of the Hunters Point Community Library in Long Island City took place last week, five years after Steven Holl Architects began working on the project. An exhibition at the Sculpture Center, and an online companion, celebrate this step forward. John Hill

FAT (Fashion, Architecture, Taste), the UK firm of Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob, announced their closing in late 2013, with A House for Essex, designed in collaboration with artist Grayson Perry, serving as the studio's last completed commission. John Hill

The Design Museum in London has selected six Designs of the Year in its eighth annual awards. Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena and his firm Elemental have won in the Architecture category with the UC Innovation Center - Anacleto Angelini. John Hill

The glass box is the default form for office buildings in the 21st century, meaning that detailing and articulation – glass surfaces, spandrels, and mullions – are the most important means of expression. But what if a glass box is malleable? Handel Architects' design for...

Architects flocking to Atlanta last week for the AIA National Convention were treated to a new ground-floor headquarters designed by 5G Studio Collaborative for the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects. John Hill

New York-based writer Fred Bernstein traveled to Milan for the opening of the Expo Milano 2015 – themed "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life" – and sent us reviews of three pavilions: Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. Fred Bernstein