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WOHA's GARDEN CITY | MEGA CITY exhibition is on display at the Skyscraper Museum in New York City from 23 March until 4 September 2016. World-Architects editor John Hill got an opening-day tour from WOHA partners Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell and filed this report. John Hill

Following the death of Zaha Hadid – the world's most famous female architect – on 31 March at the age of 65, The New York Times conducted an informal online questionnaire asking female architects to "talk candidly about their experiences in the profession." John Hill

As part of "Rotterdam celebrates the city!" this spring, Winy Maas and MVRDV have designed a giant staircase with 180 steps leading from Stationsplein, outside Rotterdam Central Station’s entrance, to the top of the Groot Handelsgebouw, an important building from the... John Hill

The three winners of an open design competition will join three pre-qualified candidates – BIG, Lacaton & Vassal, and SANAA – for the restricted design competition for a new school of architecture in Aarhus, Denmark. John Hill

"A warmly glowing, floating metal sculpture" is how the architects at pape + pape describe the new bus station they designed for Gummersbach, Germany. Sited by the train station, the new structure creates a striking image at the entrance to the country town. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

Next week we'll have a write-up of the WOHA exhibition, GARDEN CITY | MEGA CITY, now on display at the Skyscraper Museum in New York, but in the meantime take a look at some drone footage of their recently completed SkyVille @ Dawson in Singapore. John Hill

Two new performance pieces explore architecture and planning in the middle of last century: A Marvelous Order, an opera about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs; and The Master Builder, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play now set in Pittsburgh. John Hill

At the United Nations yesterday, 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena announced, both during an afternoon press conference and a conversation with six other Pritzker laureates later in the evening, that his firm's plans for incremental housing are being made freely available online. John Hill

Strelka KB has announced the three finalists and unveiled their concept designs in the international architectural competition for the new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University. John Hill

The New York-based American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the five recipients of its 2016 Architecture Awards. John Hill

Mexico City's Productora has won the 2014/15 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) for emerging architecture for its Pavilion on the Zocalo in Mexico City. John Hill

With the sudden passing of Zaha Hadid yesterday at the age of 65, we look back at some of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's signifcant works through the unmistakable, dazzling, and often... John Hill

Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect who was the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize and was recently awarded RIBA's 2016 Royal Gold Medal, died from a heart attack today at the age of 65. John Hill

Nowness visits British architect Ian Simpson's Manchester home, a two-story penthouse in Beetham Tower, which he also designed. Standouts of the spacious, light-filled residence are the corner living room and the garden with 6-meter-high trees. John Hill

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, as part of the SPARK consortium, has won the competition to design a new educational facility at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands. John Hill

The Dutch architecture firm won with a proposal for a mixed-use development with offices, apartments, hotels, retail, restaurants and public open spaces. John Hill

The Obama Foundation has posted interviews with the seven finalists for the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) to be built on Chicago's South Side. Among other things, the architects were asked what their favorite Chicago building is and why. John Hill

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced the four finalists of the fourth open international Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 grant awarded annually to a single architect to support travel-based architectural research. John Hill

Aeon Video presents a 10-minute film directed by Stella Kyriakopoulos that follows Bob Gardner, a retired engineer from Hampton, Illinois, who dreams of visiting the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece – despite the fact he is blind. John Hill

Benthem Crouwel Architects, working with designer Irma Boom, have created a cycling and pedestrian "slow traffic corridor" at Amsterdam's Central Station that is clad on one side by nearly 80,000 Delft Blue tiles. John Hill

A team of architects from Seattle's Olson Kundig have won Blank Space's third annual Fairy Tales storytelling competition. Their architectural narrative, "Welcome to the 5th Facade," takes readers to "a future that is similar enough to our own, yet ripe with new challenges,... John Hill

Berlin-based photographer Malte Brandenburg's Stacked series of photographs presents frontal views of his city's post-war housing estates in order to show the variation found in the "fairly identical" buildings. John Hill

eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of the 2016 Skyscraper Competition, which asked entrants to "challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments." John Hill

German artist Thorsten Brinkmann has filled the Rice University Art Gallery with his distincly odd self-portraits but also detritus from Houston that creates hidden spaces, including a cinema built inside a shipping crate and a small tunnel that leads to a secret bedroom. John Hill

The new Australian Embassy in Jakarta, designed by Australian architects Denton Corker Marshall, was opened on Monday by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. John Hill

Steven Holl Architects has won the invited competition to design the new Rubenstein Commons at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. John Hill

The MIPIM Awards, which bill themselves as "the world's property market," were announced on 17 March 2016 at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France. John Hill

A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond opened to the public at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) on Sunday, March 13, running until Monday, July 4. World-Architects visited the exhibition to file this review. John Hill

Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets and Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) Director Dirk Denison have announced the five MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Finalists. John Hill

Luis Martínez Santa-María of Madrid has won the Fundació Mies van der Rohe's "Fear of Columns" competition with "I don't want to change the world. I only want to express it." His winning design will be realized as a temporary installation this summer. John Hill, Silvia Pujalte Toledo

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has uploaded a bunch of interviews that took place during its 2015 conference in New York. Here we present a handful of highlights. John Hill

SADAR+VUGA, HHF architekten and local consultant Archicon have received first prize for their proposal in the competition for the adaptation and reconstruction of Dom Revolucije (Home of Revolution) in Nikšić, Montenegro. John Hill

Korean architect Moon Hoon has teamed up with Tomeny Kisilewicz to bring the former's Wind House to life in the first episode of an animated series that is odd yet highly enjoyable. John Hill

Photographer and street artist JR will transform the Louvre's iconic glass Pyramid in Paris this summer, effectively making I.M. Pei's 1989 creation disappear through anamorphosis. John Hill

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, Foster + Partners, and Grimshaw Architects have been chosen by organizers of the Expo 2020 in Dubai to design the Opportunity, Mobility, and Sustainability theme pavilions, respectively. John Hill

Danish "architect of the moment" Bjarke Ingels recevied the 60 Minutes treatment on Sunday evening: Morley Safer spoke with Ingels about a handful of BIG's many projects underway around the world. John Hill