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Aldo Rossi: The Architect and the Cities is a major retrospective opening on March 10 at MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome. The exhibition explores the architecture and theories of Italy’s “unusual architect.” Ulf Meyer

Reduction of per-unit costs to build 146 apartments for formerly homeless people in San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa)... René Ammann

Architect Junya Ishigami's design for Restaurant Noel in Yamaguchi, at the western end of Japan’s main island of Honshu, is a series of cave-like spaces seemingly carved into the earth. Construction photos of the project hint at the special qualities that will be on display when the restaurant... Ulf Meyer

Still life painted in three colour planes. The Italian painter Gorgio Morandi delighted in the small things of everyday life and the colour atmosphere of his still-lifes is world famous. He was obsessed with the interplay and the juxtaposition of objects. The colour palette builds on...

Can lighting design support a city’s identity and be individually adaptable? Who are the decision makers? Can a product be multifunctional and sustainable as well as meet our aesthetic demands? Is it possible to combine efficiency and emotion?

The hotel is situated in a prime location. On the roof terrace you can feel the proximity to the cathedral. When the sliding windows are opened, small doorways are created that offer a view of historic Cologne, the WDR buildings, the Rudolf Schwarz buildings and the Cologne Opera...

The main façade is plastered in a subtle grey tone. Grey has been used as an elegant colour, as an expression of simple refinement and as an invitation to the neighbours to cultivate togetherness. For the grey of the four buildings, O&O Baukunst has proposed the tones Jade 35, Moos...

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) has announced that MARABAR, Elyn Zimmerman's site-specific installation in Washington, DC, has been saved from demolition and will be moved to a new location. John Hill

As part of Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, now on display at MoMA, a sign bearing Philip Johnson's name has been covered by the manifesto of the Black Reconstruction Collective. John Hill

„Heute sind Bauten selten geworden, die durch ihre pure Größe den Stadtraum definieren können. ROSSIO heißt der erste Block, den man vom Zug aussieht, wenn man von Osten in Köln einfährt. In ein sanftes Rotorange eingetaucht, erstrahlt die geformte Stadtfigur.“

The Underline is a multi-phase transformation of the space beneath Miami’s MetroRail into a park, trail, and art destination. The first phase, a half-mile section in downtown, opened to the public on Friday, February 26. John Hill

ISH, the world’s leading trade fair for heating, water and air-conditioning solutions, will be held in a purely digital format with panels, matchmaking and product presentations from 22 to 26 March 2021. The programme also includes talks with architects, curated by... Martina Metzner

Foster + Partners has released a website with immersive tours of the exteriors and interiors of 22 of the firm's UK projects, from the 1966 Creek Vean House to the 2017 headquarters for Bloomberg. John Hill

Parkstadt Süd will be a “city with special characteristics”. Thanks to the new buildings the city can acquire a local face and a new identity. Sechtemer Strasse residential building integrates into Cologne’s urban fabric. It refers to the urban characteristics of the city and refines...

The site had been left undeveloped as it was a part of steep land. The form of the architecture, an angled volume, emerged from the topography of the site. Inside are five different levels, each one with a specific function.  Matsuyama Architect and Associates

A vibrant urban district demands mixed architecture. Getting stuck on staid academic views no longer offers an answer for democratic urban society. It is well worth devoting intense scrutiny to the challenge of such projects.

The latest film from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art features Marc-Christoph Wagner interviewing German architect Anna Heringer at her studio in Laufen, Germany, in September 2020. John Hill

Like most corporate campuses, Nike's large world headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, is served by numerous surface lots and parking structures. Two of the latter — the LA and NYC garages — were designed by SRG Partnership, who incorporated amenities not often found in parking structures. The... SRG Partnership, Inc.

Share of architects working on residential projects in the United States who reported receiving requests for home offices last year: 68% René Ammann

Metsä Group, Aalto University, and the Finnish Ministry of the Environment have announced the winners of the Urban Adaptation competition, which asked architects and students to design adaptable modular buildings made from wood. John Hill

It is a stable urban framework that allows for different uses. In order to regenerate the city at this prominent location between Cologne Cathedral and the Rhine, the urban space is configured with simple cubes that are restrained, unspectacular and flexible. The traditional city has...

Constructed of approximately 100,000 black LEGO bricks, artist Ekow Nimako's Kumbi Saleh 3020 CE is an Afrofuturist cityscape that "celebrates the cultures of the African diaspora" and is a new addition to the Aga Khan Museum's permanent collection. John Hill

The 760-page Atlas of Digital Architecture is an ambitious reference book about the myriad ways architects use computers. With contributions by two-dozen experts in the digitization of architecture and hundreds upon hundreds of illustrations, the book is a nearly complete picture of the... John Hill

US President Joe Biden has revoked Executive Order 13967, "Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture," that former President Donald Trump signed on December 18, 2020, one month before the end of his term. John Hill

Located in the fast-developing Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie borough of Montréal, deNormanville is part of the first wave of post-moratorium additions exploring new avenues for the transformation of the city’s disappearing one-story typology, commonly referred to as "shoeboxes." TBA / Thomas Balaban Architecte

The Chicago Architecture Biennial and the Danish Arts Foundation (DAF) have announced the winning team for DAF Open Call, a commission for Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood that is part of the fourth Biennial opening in September. John Hill

In 2018 artists Eric Fischl and April Gornik bought a 19th-century church in Sag Harbor, New York, hiring the firm of Lee Skolnick to help them transform it into a new arts center serving the East End of Long Island. The architects answered a few questions about the recently completed adaptive... SKOLNICK Architecture + Design Partnership

"A stealthy reimagining of urban public space" is the new TED Talk by architect Elizabeth Diller, partner at New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The ten-minute video, which discusses a few projects in New York and Moscow, is Diller's third TED Talk since 2007. John Hill

McGill University needed a new building to house three 1.5 MW emergency facilities, generators that will protect research activities in the event of a power outage. Les architectes FABG

Two years after Diller Scofidio + Renfro's competition-winning design was unveiled, the Centre for Music at the Barbican has been cancelled, with the City of London focusing on refurbishing the Barbican Centre instead. John Hill

Longwood Gardens, founded by Pierre S. du Pont more than 100 years ago on 1,100 acres west of Philadelphia, has unveiled Longwood Reimagined: A New Garden Experience, a transformation of its core area of conservatory gardens, with a short film. John Hill

TECLA is a project developed by Mario Cucinella Architects and WASP (World Advanced Saving Project) that addresses the housing crisis through 3D printing. Construction is underway on a prototype near Bologna, Italy. John Hill

Shanghai Huijian invited Wutopia Lab to design a welcoming stage in front of the sales center of their project in Huzhou. The only request from the client was to make it different. Wutopia Lab

A Story for the Future is a new exhibition that sees MAXXI, the contemporary art museum in Rome, looking back at its first decade of existence. Inside Outside, the Dutch firm of Petra Blaisse, designed the immersive exhibition as a response to the curved walls of the museum's Zaha Hadid... John Hill

The Tainan Public Library, designed by Dutch firm Mecanoo and Taiwan's MAYU architects, opened last month in Tainan City, in southern Taiwan. John Hill

In the Approximation House, the craftsmen express themselves through personalizing their way of shaping thousands of pieces of wood that are the main material for the façade. Habibeh Madjdabadi Architecture Studio