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A library on the outskirts of Beijing, China, designed by architect Li Xiaodong, is the recipient of the inaugural $100,000 Moriyama RAIC International Prize. John Hill

The solo exhibition of Brooklyn-based Artist Roxy Paine on display at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City is highlighted by Checkpoint, a generic airport security screening area rendered in wood. John Hill

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo recently inaugurated the 19th century icon's new first floor, which includes a glass floor 57 meters (187 feet) above the pavement. John Hill

At a recent ceremony in Medellín, the Holcim Foundation announced the winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 for Latin America, which "illustrate how sustainable construction continues to evolve." John Hill

The Entre Deux Rives housing project, developed by the agency Philippon-Kalt, announces the start of the new Ile-Saint-Denis riverside green neighborhood. John Hill, Philippon-Kalt

Lincoln Center and the Public Art Fund have teamed up to present Irish artist John Gerrard's Solar Reserve (Tonopah, Nevada) on Lincoln Center's Josie Robertson Plaza from October 3 to December 1. John Hill

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced The Chapel, Vietnam, designed by a21studio, as the World Building of the Year in the finale of the event that took place in Singapore October 1 - 3, 2014. John Hill

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's design for The New School's University Center in New York City places classrooms, studios, labs, a library, a dormitory, a cafe, and an auditorium behind a façade of 5,277 hand-finished brass panels. John Hill

The first covered food market in the Netherldands, designed by MVRDV and also including 228 apartments and 1,200 parking spaces, was opened by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands on October 1. John Hill

David Chipperfield has inserted 144 tree trunks inside the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, one year before the British architect's renovation of the museum designed by Mies van der Rohe in the 1960s. John Hill

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced the winners of 13 award categories on the second day of the event taking place in Singapore October 1 - 3, 2014. John Hill

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced the winners of 16 award categories on the opening day of the event taking place in Singapore October 1 - 3, 2014. John Hill

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the 34 professional awards selected from more than 600 entries. John Hill

Today kicks off the 31 days of "Archtober" in New York City, the fourth annual month-long festival of architecture activities, programs and exhibitions. Here we highlight some of the Buildings of the Day designed by World-Architects member firms. John Hill

In a short film from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, Diébédo Francis Kéré, an architect from Burkina Faso who is based in Berlin, speaks about how he designs and builds for the people of his native country. John Hill

Alcatraz Island, site of a military fort, a federal prison, a Native American protest, and now a national park, plays host to new sculpture, sound, and mixed-media installations by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. John Hill

Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and the Frankfurt Book Fair have selected 10 winners from 205 submissions in the 5th international DAM Architectural Book Award. John Hill

The third section of the High Line – called the High Line at the Rail Yards – opened to the public on September 21, bringing the total length of the elevated park to just under 1.5 miles (2.4 km). Here we present some photos from our weekend visit. John Hill

Emmanuelle Moureaux's "100 Colors" installation was on display in Tokyo's Shinjuku Central Park for only one week in September. Here we share a short video that shows what you might have missed. John Hill

The sixth and final installment in Al Jazeera's Rebel Architecture series heads down to Brazil to see what informal builder Ricardo de Olivera and architect Luis Carlos Toledo are doing to improve the conditions in Rio's favelas. John Hill

The winning prize at the 8th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture is Auckland Waterfront - North Wharf Promenade and Silo Park, in Auckland, New Zealand, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL) and Wraight + Associates (WA). John Hill

Fifteen years in the making, the "museum of biodiversity" in Panama opens to the public on October 2. Frank Gehry's multicolored museum contains exhibits designed by Bruce Mau and sits in a Biodiversity Park designed in collaboration with Gehry. John Hill

Lighting group Zumtobel AG has selected three projects in as many categories for its biennial architectural awards "promoting sustainability and humanity in the built environment." John Hill

The Calgary Municipal Land Corporation has unveiled Snøhetta and Dialog’s competition-winning design for Calgary’s New Central Library. John Hill

Irish architects Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey have been named the 2015 recipients of the Royal Gold Medal, what RIBA calls "the world’s most prestigious architecture award." John Hill

The architect and educator will succeed architect Eric Owen Moss as the new Director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture starting September 2015. John Hill

The gin company's distillery and visitor center at Laverstoke Mill in Hampshire, England, which includes intertwining botanical glasshouses designed by Thomas Heatherwick, open to the public on October 1. John Hill

Architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu have spent six years researching and developing Shell Lace Structure, a tailored surface structural technique they are exhibiting at RIBA. John Hill

For London's Clerkenwell Design Week in May of this year, Studio Weave created the Smith pavilion, which showcased the innovative use of tools in making things – books, clocks, even coffee – but also fiber cement panels from Equitone. John Hill

At a recent ceremony in Toronto, the Holcim Foundation announced the winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 for North America, which "illustrate how sustainable construction continues to evolve." John Hill

The Guggenheim Foundation has announced it received 1,715 entries from 78 countries in an open competition to design a future Guggenheim Museum in the Finnish capital. John Hill

The first building in Belgian artist Xavier Delory's Pèlerinage sur la Modernité ("Pilgrimage on Modernity"), which imagines modern architectural masterpieces in states of abandon, is Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye outside Paris. John Hill

The fifth installment of six episodes in Al Jazeera's Rebel Architecture series travels to Nigeria to look at architect Kunlé Adeyemi's attempt to build a floating theater serving residents of Port Hartcourt. John Hill

The Getty Foundation has announced the first ten recipients of architectural conservation grants in its "Keeping It Modern" initiative focused on the conservation of modern architecture. John Hill

Toronto is graced with two new cultural buildings designed by renowned architects: the Ismaili Centre, by India's Charles Correa and the Aga Khan Museum, by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. John Hill

In recent years a number of popular tech companies – Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, and Twitter – have opened new headquarters in San Francisco's South of Market area. We take a look inside them for a side-by-side comparison of their workplace designs. John Hill