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The 450-foot-tall "courtscraper" designed by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group for The Durst Organization on Manhattan's West Side has won the 2016 International Highrise Award, the biennial award given by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum,... John Hill

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the people's-choice winners of its I Look Up Film Challenge, in which 47 competing teams produced short films within only one month. John Hill

Resolution: 4 Architecture's 2003 competition-winning prefab house – aka the "mother of all modern pre-fab design" – will be auctioned off on November 15th. John Hill

Gasholder No. 8 is a historic cast iron structure that has been transformed into Gasholder Park as part of the huge King's Cross development in London. A subtle yet dramatic lighting design by Speirs + Major ensures the striking structure has a strong presence at night. John Hill

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the three winners of the inaugural Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). The awards were given today during the “Shaping European Cities” debate in Venice. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six finalists in its inaugural RIBA International Prize, which replaces the RIBA Lubetkin Prize and is "open to all qualified architects anywhere in the world." John Hill

Four months after George Lucas ditched plans to build his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago, concept designs by Ma Yansong for sites in Los Angeles and San Francisco have been unveiled. John Hill

Yesterday World-Architects toured inside Renzo Piano Building Workshop's Jerome L. Greene Science Center, which is set to open in spring 2017 as one of the first buildings on Columbia University's new Manhattanville campus. John Hill

As part of the eleventh edition of Nuit Blanche Toronto, which took place the first night of October, the anonymous art group Luzinterruptus covered a street with softly illuminated books, the latest iteration of their Literature vs. Traffic installation. John Hill

The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, ARE WE HUMAN?: The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years,200 years, 200,000 years, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley opens tomorrow. John Hill

SANAA's River Building, which snakes its way across the landscape of New Canaan, Connecticut, has won the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) that is given out every two years by the Illinois Institute of Architecture (IIT). John Hill

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the nine finalists, culled from thirty shortlisted projects, competing for the inaugural Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). Three winners will be announced at a ceremony in Venice on 28 October 2016. John Hill

The New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) has announced the 26 architecture and design firms that will participate in the city's Design and Construction Excellence 2.0 Program, the fifth round overall since the program began in 2005. John Hill

Architekturzentrum Wien's Photo Award 2016, which goes under the motto "I LOVE ARCHITECTURE," sought photographs of buildings completed within the last fifty years. A jury selected ten winners that are featured here. John Hill

Seven firms have been selected for the second round of the Demain Montparnasse competition, which strives to give a new identity to Tour Montparnasse, the much-detested Parisian skyscraper. John Hill

LEAF International has announced the winners of the 13th annual LEAF Awards, which "recognizes innovative architectural design projects and celebrates excellence in building design on an international basis." John Hill

The ashes of the late, great Prince, have been interred in a model of his Paisley Park Studios, now on display within the full-sized building. John Hill

An area of 45 square meters is not much for the planning of a house. Nevertheless L3P Architekten managed to make room for a family of four in Dielsdorf near Zurich – using the logic of the surrounding grapevines to articulate the structure. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

The effort to safeguard the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia has won the Buckminster Fuller Institute's 2016 Fuller Challenge, which awards a $100,000 prize "to support the development and implementation of one outstanding strategy." John Hill

Three winners of the new American Architecture Prize, which honors designs in the disciplines of architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture, were announced on October 3rd, World Architecture Day. John Hill

An international jury has selected Hala Wardé and HW Architecture to design BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art, a new musuem that will include a garden amphitheater, accessible public space, and a tower designed to house exhibitions and artist residencies. John Hill

Architecture critics that is, particularly Chicago's Blair Kamin and New York's Paul Goldberger. A recent article from Kamin highlights the instability of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and his willingness to attack anybody who slights him. John Hill

Junya Ishigami, who won the 2016 BSI Swiss Architectural Award earlier this year, speaks in a short film about the three projects – Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop, Japanese Pavilion at 2008 Venice Biennale, and "House with Plants" – that the John Hill

Caruso St John's gallery in Vauxhall, south of London, which serves as a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst's private art collection, has won the annual prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) that honors the UK's best new building. John Hill

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the thirty shortlisted projects competing for the inaugural Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). Three winners will be announced at a ceremony in Venice on 28 October 2016. John Hill

Canadian architect Bing Thom, founding principal of Bing Thom Architects, died yesterday in Hong Kong after suffering a brain aneurism. John Hill

The third MPavilion, commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation and designed by Indian architect Bijoy Jain, began its four-month run today in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens. John Hill

Projects in Bangladesh, China, Denmark, Iran, and Lebanon are recipients of the prestigious award that is given out every three years "to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture." John Hill

Earlier this year World-Architects met with Zurich-based interior designer Karsten Schmidt, an expert in the world of hospitality. We got a tour of one of his recent projects, the John Hill

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, designed by Hargreaves Associates, has been awarded the Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize, which was given out last week as part of 9th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture under the theme "Tomorrow Landscapes." John Hill, Silvia Pujalte Toledo

Italian architect Cino Zucchi has covered the new automated warehouse for furniture company Pedrali with aluminum fins in three shades of green in reference to the countryside that surrounds the building. John Hill

Yesterday, New York City's Queens Library held a topping-out ceremony for Hunters Point Community Library in Long Island City. Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the library is on track to open next summer.... John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Paulo Mendes da Rocha, "Brazil’s most celebrated living architect," will receive the 2017 Royal Gold Medal. John Hill

AIA New York State, an organization of the American Institute of Architects, has awarded its 2016 Firm of the Year award to WXY architecture + urban design, the multi-disciplinary practice led by principals Claire Weisz, Mark Yoes, Layng Pew, and Adam Lubinsky. John Hill

Zupagrafika, the "Hispano-Polish creative design studio" of David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka, are the creators of a series of irresistible paper collections inspired by modernist and brutalist architecture. John Hill

In a fifteen-minute TED Talk from February 2016, Michael Murphy, co-founder of Boston's MASS Design Group, presents some of their "lo-fab" projects that embody "a holistic approach that produces community as well as (beautiful) buildings." John Hill