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Photographer Hilla Becher, who famously documented industrial structures with her husband Bernd in and beyond their native Germany, has died at the age of 81. John Hill

Santiago Calatrava has been named the 2015 recipient of the European Prize for Architecture, awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. John Hill

Called the River Building for its plan flowing across the landscape, the new building designed by the duo of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa for Grace Farms Foundation opened to the public this weekend in New Canaan, Connecticut. John Hill

Rotterdam's Neutelings Riedijk Architects have been commissioned to design the new ZIL Tower, so named as it will occupy the former ZIL automotive factory site close to the Moskva River and just five kilometers from Moscow's historic core. John Hill

Yesterday the second MPavilion, designed by AL_A, the firm of British architect Amanda Levete, opened to the public in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. John Hill

On Saturday the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial opened to the public at the Chicago Cultural Center under the theme "The State of the Art in Architecture." John Hill

The Vancouver Art Gallery has unveiled Herzog & de Meuron’s conceptual design for a new 310,000-square-foot (28,800-sm) museum to be built out of wood in downtown Vancouver. John Hill

New York architect Deborah Berke has been named the next dean of the Yale School of Architecture (SOA), taking over for longstanding dean Robert A.M. Stern when he steps down next year. John Hill

The Ontario-based museum has unveiled the designs of five architects/teams in a two-stage competition as part of their relocation to the Parks Canada Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site on the Trent-Severn Waterway. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Dame Zaha Hadid will be the recipient of the 2016 Royal Gold Medal, what RIBA calls "the world’s most prestigious architecture award." John Hill

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations has shortlisted 6 design firms from the 48 firms under consideration in the two-stage selection process for the New U.S. Embassy Compound in Brasilia, Brazil. John Hill

The Linda Pace Foundation has unveiled plans for its new building designed by David Adjaye for a site along San Pedro Creek in San Antonio, Texas. John Hill

After their competition-winning design for the 2020 Olympics stadium in Tokyo was scrapped due to rising costs, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has stepped down from the revised competition, unable to find a contractor to partner with. John Hill

Nearly one year after initial designs by China's Ma Yansong were unveiled to the public, refinements to the museum that filmmaker George Lucas is planning for a lakefront site in Chicago have been released. John Hill

The Dutch firm will lead the renovations of two Midtown-Manhattan libraries for the New York Public Library: the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building and the Mid-Manhattan Library, which sit across Fifth Avenue from each other. John Hill

French architect Dominique Perrault has been named a recipient of the Japan Art Association’s 2015 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists. John Hill

Sydney-based landscape architectural practice McGregor Coxall has been appointed to work with the Art Gallery NSW and Japanese architects SANAA to develop the landscape design concept for the Sydney Modern Project. John Hill

FC Barcelona has announced the finalists in the architectural competition for the Espai Barça, which aims to be the "biggest and best sports facility that the world has ever seen in a city center." John Hill

Five finalists have been named in the Finnish Association of Architects' (SAFA) 2015 Finlandia Prize for Architecture, with the winner to be selected by composer Kaija Saariaho. John Hill

Northerly Island, a park designed by Studio Gang Architects and SmithGroupJJR for the Chicago peninsula that formerly served as Meigs Field, opens to the public on Friday, twelve years after Mayor Richard M. Daley closed the airport. John Hill

A month and a half after being appointed director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has defined "Reporting from the Front" as the theme of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. John Hill

The Barack Obama Foundation has released an RFQ (Request for Qualifications) for architects interested in designing the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) to be located on Chicago's South Side. John Hill

Following their design being scrapped in July, a 24-minute video from Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) argues that their winning design for the main venue of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is ready to build and pursuing a new design is foolhardy. John Hill

Zürich's EM2N has won first prize in the competition for the New Museum of Natural History and State Archives in Basel with their "Zasamane" entry. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are the winners of the 2015 RIBA Jencks Award. John Hill

The World War One Centennial Commission has announced that five design concepts for the National World War One Memorial at Pershing Park in Washington, DC  have been selected to proceed to Stage II of the design competition. John Hill

Qatar Museums has announced the long-list of 26 architects selected from 489 submissions in the international search for the architect who will design the one-million-square-foot Art Mill in Doha. John Hill

The Chicago Architecture Biennial has announced the final list of participants – over 100 architects and artists from more than 30 countries selected by Biennial Co-Artistic Directors Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda. John Hill

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), with Leonhardt Andra und Partner, has been named winner in the competition for a bridge in Taiwan that will be located at the mouth of the Tamsui River near the Taiwan Strait. John Hill

Design software developer Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc.'s second annual Vectorworks Design Scholarship program offers international students from all design disciplines the opportunity to win up to $10,000 USD. Submission deadline is 31 August 2015. John Hill

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced that this year’s winner of the 10 Year Award is Malmö’s Turning Torso, designed by Santiago Calatrava. John Hill

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has announced that Ultramoderne, a collaboration between architects Yasmin Vobis and Aaron Forrest and structural engineer Brett Schneider, have won the BP Prize in the Chicago Architecture Biennial's Lakefront Kiosk Competition. John Hill

The official LEAF judging panel has announced its 2015 shortlist of entries, projects in 14 categories that "are setting the benchmark for the international architectural and design community." John Hill

Norway's Snøhetta has won SIGNA Group's Bolzano Cable Car competition, which will make the Virgolo/Virgl mountain in Bolzano, the capital of South Tyrol in Italy, accessible to visitors for the first time since its historic funicular closed in 1976. John Hill

WOHA's PARKROYAL on Pickering in Singapore has won the 2015 Urban Habitat Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). John Hill

An icon of Postmodern architecture, the Vanna Venturi House that Robert Venturi designed for his mother in 1964, is up for sale for the first time since 1973. John Hill