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Located on the outskirts of a Dutch village and close to the sea, the W.I.N.D. House is backed by a sheltered wooded area and fronted by a large, open expanse of polder landscape. UNStudio

"The owners brief was to design a flexible contemporary family residence. The site was spectacular requiring a design that could respond to a challenging slopped corner site and its aspects" says Thaabe Ramabina of SAOTA. SAOTA

Bjarke Ingels Group has followed up last year's successful BIG Maze at the National Building Museum by ringing the building's atrium with 60 of their projects to take visitors on "an odyssey of architectural adaptation" from hot to cold climates. John Hill

American-Architects presented 49 projects in our Building of the Week 2014 feature, and recently we asked you to vote for your favorite. The votes have been tallied and here we present the public vote winner, the editors' choice and two runners-up. John Hill

Kanagawa-based architecture team Ryumei Fujiki and Yukiko Sato/F.A.D.S designed this home for an art appreciator and amateur artist who wanted a “house like an art museum.” Planned with careful consideration for air circulation as well as for the harsh, snowy climate of the Japan Sea...

World-Architects toured Princeton University earlier today, taking in the campus's appealing mix of old and new buildings. A standout was Rafael Viñoly's Carl Icahn Laboratory from 2003, which contains a conference room designed by Frank Gehry. John Hill

Both the Centre Pompidou and the Smithsonian announced this week that they are considering building new venues in Libourne, France, and London, respectively. John Hill

‘Self-Ornamentalize’ is a multidisciplinary installation​, challenging the resources limitation and experimenting on material manipulation, through a custom computational design of structure, skin and ornamentation. VINN PATARARIN, FAHPAV

Five local architecture firms have responded to Chicago magazine's challenge to design something – anything – for the site of Santiago Calatrava's failed Chicago Spire, what would have been the city's tallest building. John Hill

Hariri Pontarini Architects' competition-winning design for a temple for the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Chile is under construction on the outskirts of Santiago. John Hill

The World's Thinnest Steel Roof: Large budgets and enormous amounts of energy are spent on the upgrading of major Dutch railway stations in Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Rotterdam. Maxwan Architects + Urbanists

The Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art presents Sketch to Structure, an exhibition that promises to "lay out the architectural design process so that visitors can see with real clarity the ways in which buildings take shape." John Hill

Billed as Winnipeg's "winter fine dining experience," RAW:almond is a temporary restaurant located ON the frozen mouth of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers. The third annual installation is designed by UK's OS31. John Hill

The MIPIM Awards, which honor "the very best of the real estate industry," have shortlisted 40 finalist projects from 22 countries in 11 categories, including a Special Jury Award for the first time. John Hill

On 16 November 2014 the renovated and expanded Harvard Art Museums opened in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after six years of planning. Designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, in collaboration with Boston's Payette, the project consolidates three of Harvard University's museums –...

The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation today announced that they have selected teacher, author, curator and critic Aaron Betsky to lead the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, effective immediately. John Hill

Room On The Roof is located in the small tower on de Bijenkorf in Amsterdam, a unique spot in the historic heart of the city that has been converted into a cultural haven. i29 interior architects

The curators of BLUEPRINT, which opened Friday at New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture, have wrapped the facade by Steven Holl and Vito Acconci in white plastic. John Hill

In August 2014 Zaha Hadid sued The New York Review of Books and architecture critic Martin Filler over comments in a book review, and now the two sides have settled with Hadid donating the settlement money to a labor rights charity. John Hill

The central urban business location is transformed to become an intelligent and functional business park with urban flair. HOLODECK architects

News broke last weekend that the non-profit organization closed its San Francisco offices, and yesterday AFH issued an official statement announcing they will be filing for bankruptcy. John Hill

World-Architects got a sneek peek today of Bjarke Ingels Group's HOT TO COLD exhibition, opening Saturday at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. John Hill

Last week Snøhetta, with local architects SRA, were named the winner in a competition for Le Monde's new headquarters in Paris. John Hill

The documentary CONCRETE LOVE: The Böhm Family has its international premiere on the 26th of January at the Slamdance Festival in Park City, Utah, three days after architect Gottfried Böhm turns 95. John Hill

Artist John Edmark has created some hypnotic 3D printed sculptures that appear to move when spun under a strobe light. John Hill

Since 2012, Wolf-Gordon has created an annual site-specific installation for NeoCon as a means of highlighting the company’s products and adding an exclamation point to the “heart” of Chicago’s Merchandise Mart. John Hill

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has narrowed down the number of finalists vying for the Sydney Modern Project from twelve to five. John Hill

Resembling a simple glass-box office building from a distance, up close the 50-story FKI Tower reveals a simple yet ingenious wall section that incorporates solar panels angled to absorb more of the sun's rays than a strictly vertical surface. Further, a number of atriums and a rooftop...

The building is a part of the technological park of Coruña University. This technological park is formed by another six buildings interconnected among them. Angel Rico Painceiras, Manuel Vazquez Muiño

Antoni Gaudí's unrealized design for the Our Lady of the Angels chapel dates to 1915, nine years before the architect's death. A century later the chapel is set to be built in Rancagua, Chile, making it the first Gaudí building outside his native Spain. John Hill

This week, building design and construction professionals head to Munich for BAU 2015, the "world's leading trade fair for architecture, materials, systems." Here we highlight a few of BAU Blog's "Team Building" and "Talks About Tomorrow" features. John Hill

Nearly ten years after the completion of Hearst Tower in Manhattan, Norman Foster – aided by a small camera-equipped drone – gives a tour of the tower, from the James Carpenter fountain and "piazza" above it to the offices of Good Housekeeping. John Hill

To rebel with a cause: The big blank concrete central library of the Shoolini University in Solan, overlooks a beautiful green valley. Studio Archohm

The 2015 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, often considered architecture's highest honor, won't be known for a couple more months, but today we learned that British architect Richard Rogers will help decide the next recipient. John Hill

The Tagus Gás Headquarters, built in Parque de Negócios do Cartaxo, stands out as one of most innovative buildings in Portugal by its bold design based on sustainability characteristics, being the first office building certified by BREEAM in Portugal. Saraiva + Associados, Arquitectura e Urbanismo, S.A

This mixed-use development of urban market-rate homes, restaurants and shops continues the repair of the neighborhood fabric damaged by the removal of the Central Freeway. David Baker Architects