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The U.S. Department of State has announced that Ennead Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have been selected as design architects for new U.S. Embassies in, respectively, Ankara, Turkey, and Colombo, Sri Lanka. John Hill

Good architecture depends upon good clients, a fact not lost on Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NPC), as evidenced by the buildings gracing its four international campuses. This year NPC expanded its New Jersey campus with five new buildings. John Hill

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey has unveiled the new World Trade Center logo via the construction fences wrapping the 16-acre site. John Hill

Jeffry's House is a an installation at Ards Forest Park in County Donegal, Ireland, by architect Thomas O Brien and artist Emily Mannion. In this short film we see how the duo built the wood-and-thatch structure and how it fits into the surroundings. John Hill

Results for [AC-CA]'s [PARIS] River Champagne Bar competition have been announced. Here we highlight the three winners. John Hill

So much architectural photography has a perfected sheen to it, but the architectural images of Italian artist Nicolò Quirico, on display at Costantini Art Gallery in Milan, have a patina that arises from them being printed on pages from old books. John Hill

The official LEAF judging panel has announced its 2014 shortlist of entries, projects in 12 categories that "are setting the benchmark for the international architectural and design community." John Hill

Celebrity developer Donald Trump, working with Indian real estate developer Lodha Group, has unveiled his second foray into India (and first in Mumbai) with a 75+-story tower designed by Singapore's WOHA. John Hill

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced his appointment of Amale Andraos as the next dean of the University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. John Hill

Can't make it to Washington, DC, to see the BIG Maze at the National Building Museum? No worries, as you can own your own miniature replica of the installation. John Hill

The letters B-U-S stand 14-feet-high in the conceptual sculpture and bus stop created by the Spanish collaborative mmmm… as part of the initiative TRANSIT – Creative Placemaking with Europe in Baltimore. John Hill

The American Institute of Architects' Los Angeles chapter (AIALA) has announced that Platform for Architecture + Research will receive the highest honor they bestow on an emerging architecture firm for consistently producing innovative architecture. John Hill

Architecture for Humanity co-founder Cameron Sinclair launches the Dead Prize, which highlights the worst designs, projects that have caused harm to the environment. John Hill

To celebrate its new home designed by 2014 Pritzker Prize laureate Shigeru Ban, the Aspen Art Museum is holding a free 24-hour opening on August 9th and 10th with art, music, performance, film, tours, activities, talks, and food. John Hill

The Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation (BBP) has unveiled fourteen design proposals for two parcels at Pier 6, issued in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP). John Hill

Seven years after completing the Bloch Building, designed by Steven Holl Architects, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and New York's Weiss/Manfredi are imagining a cultural district anchored about the museum. John Hill

The exhibition on buildings designed by Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Richard Rogers and others opens on September 13, 2014, at the Carnegie Museum of Art's Heinz Architectural Center. John Hill

The Swiss Pavilion has posted clips from the marathon interviews "A stroll through a fun palace" curator Hans Ulrich Obrist performed during the vernissage of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. World-Architects has selected a few highlights. John Hill

The New York-based architect has been selected to design the building complex of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and TR Warszawa Theatre at Plac Defilad. John Hill

PAD Architectes' (Periot Architecture Durable) design for the headquarters of Beneteau in Givrand, France, is wrapped in a perforated facade made from HI-MACS acrylic stone. John Hill

Russia's Strelka Institute has selected MVRDV founder Winy Maas as the curator of the 2014/2015 academic year, where he will help formulate "ten fundamental questions about the future." John Hill

If "music is liquid architecture" and architecture really is "frozen music," as Goethe wrote, then what kind of music is the embodiment of Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut? John Hill

An eponymous exhibition on Korean artist Do Ho Suh opens at The Contemporary Austin on September 20, 2014. John Hill

Blair Wilson of Wilson Architects, the Brisbane, Australia firm that turned 130 this year, has passed away at the age of 83. John Hill

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. "wants to reward students who are determined to solve today’s most challenging design problems." Submission deadline is July 30, 2014. John Hill

China's MAD Architects and Chicago's Studio Gang Architects will design the building and landscape, respectively, for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (LMNA) in Chicago, according to an announcement released today. John Hill

The Australian Institute of Architects’ International Area Committee Jury has announced the winners of the 2014 International Architecture Awards. John Hill

On a visit to New York City's Governors Island to see the Spontaneous Interventions exhibition on Colonel's Row yesterday, we checked out CDR Studio Architects' winning submission for the annual City of Dreams Pavilion. John Hill

An apartment building designed by Elenberg Fraser in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, incorporates solar protection through bronze-colored mesh from GKD woven around the exterior. John Hill

In a statement posted on the CCA's website yesterday, Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza reveals where he will donate the archive of his "many years of activity dedicated to architecture." John Hill

The organizers of the 2012 Olympics in London have reached an out-of-court settlement with Atopia over the design of the Cauldron that was witnessed by close to one billion people during the opening ceremony. John Hill

De Unie Hasselt-Genk is billed as "a new and suprising art project" that, starting June 21, links the Belgian Limburg cities of Hasselt and Genk. John Hill

Architects Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, and Johnpaul Jones will receive medals from President Barack Obama on July 28, 2014. John Hill

Westadium, a consortium led by Brookfield Financial and John Laing, has unveiled their winning design for the new Perth Stadium, to be built on the Burswood Peninsula of the Western Australia city. John Hill

The opening of the Rose Pavilion, a multimedia pavilion developed by some young architects under the direction of Dimitry Demin with Prof. Ludger Hovestadt, the ETH Chair for CAAD, takes place at the ETH Polyterrasse in Zurich on July 23 at 8pm. John Hill

Zurich's E2A Piet Eckert und Wim Eckert Architekten have won the international competition for the new "Taz" office building in Berlin. John Hill