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As part of the 55th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is exhibiting three large-scale works including Bang, which immerses visitors amongst hundreds of wooden stools balanced precariously. John Hill

Broad Sustainable Building's Sky City is set to start construction in June—with completion seven months later! John Hill

We've assembled some of our favorite products, designs, and booths from last week's International Contemporary Funiture Fair in NYC. John Hill

The bright pink "Dreamhouse Experience" opened on May 16 to smiling girls as well as protesters. John Hill

The rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece is transformed this summer into Aten Reign, one of artist James Turrell's signature Skyspaces.  John Hill

A European Museum of the Year Award, a new design gallery, and a new metro station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. John Hill

As we were putting together the awards, competitions, completed buildings, exhibition, and monographs for our biannual Selected News from Selected Architects, one of the projects that stood out is Min | Day's design for the Bemis InfoShop in Nebraska. John Hill

The Dutch architect has been appointed Director of the Berlage Center for Advanced studies in Architecture and Urban Design at the Delft University of Technology. John Hill

Workers in Belize partially destroyed a 2,300-year-old pyramid to use the crushed rock for road fill. John Hill

A major RIBA exhibition in London presents the architect's five-decade-long career. John Hill

To recognize the achievements of firms profiled on World-Architects.com, we present the second biannual roundup of Awards, Competitions, Completed Buildings, Exhibitions, and Monographs; carefully selected, just like the profiles. John Hill

Brooklyn's Gia Wolff is the recipient of the first traveling fellowship open to architects outside of Harvard GSD since 1935. John Hill

Switzerland's Studio Zimoun are masters at manipulating space and sound through the use of repetitive elements and kinetic devices. Three recent installations in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland, documented through short films, really convey the sensory qualities that result from... John Hill

The Museum of Modern Art has selected Diller Scofidio + Renfro to design its expansion, potentially incorporating the former Folk Art Museum. John Hill

The Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum has announced the recipients of its 2013 National Design Awards. John Hill

Soo Sunny Park's Unwoven Light, on display until August 30 at Rice University Art Gallery in Houston, bathes the gallery in brilliant colors via artificial and natural light refracted through the Plexiglas pieces. John Hill

Daniel Libeskind beat out Ann Hamilton and Jaume Plensa for a Holocaust memorial at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. John Hill

On April 25, the new Messe Basel building opened its doors for Baselworld, the World Watch and Jewelry Show, what is the driving force behind the new three-story addition designed by Herzog & de Meuron. With its top two floors perched above a glass base and straddling a roadway, the... John Hill

Harpa - Reykjavik Concert Hall & Conference Centre in Iceland wins 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award. John Hill

Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman's sculptures aim to bring a smile to anybody's face. His Rubber Duck is docked in Hong Kong's Harbour City from May 2 to June 9, 2013. John Hill

The American-born architect based in London died on April 20 after a short illness. John Hill

Architecture and other undergraduate students at the longtime tuition-free school will pay up to $20,000 in yearly tuition. John Hill

This short film, edited by ViaViLi (Khaled Morgan and Elnaz Anzalchi), pieces together 20 clips of famous architects talking about architecture. It is a who's who of architects from the dawn of the television to our age of the Internet, spanning from the boastings of Frank Lloyd Wright to a... John Hill

On September 19, 2012, the new Folkwang Library opened on the Essen-Werden campus of the Folkwang University of the Arts. The boxy building, designed in a 2006 competition by Max Dudler, holds a 200,000-strong musicological collection behind a translucent skin that looks like stone but is in fact... John Hill

Not surprisingly the library, museum, and policy institute for the 43rd U.S. President is designed by Robert A.M. Stern. John Hill

It was 20 years ago this spring that the demolition of Kowloon Walled City near Hong Kong's former Kai Tak Airport began. On this anniversary, the South China Morning Post publishes a feature accompanied by a highly detailed inforgraphic. John Hill

After a three-year restoration, Norway's 1952 gift to the United Nations reopened in a ceremony last week. John Hill

Architect Renzo Piano's preliminary design for a $300 million museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles includes a "soap bubble." John Hill

In Australian photographer Ben Thomas's latest series, Accession, he inverts views of cities to create odd alternate realities.  John Hill

The transformation of Tour Bois le Prêtre in Paris, by Frédéric Druot and Lacaton & Vassal, wins in the architecture category. John Hill

As part of the 2013 Milano Salone (April 9-14), Panasonic commissioned architect Akihisa Hirata to design an installation occupying an arcade at the University of Milan. John Hill

The sixth World Architecture Festival (WAF) will take place October 2-4, 2013 at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. With the awards submissions process underway (the deadline for entry is May 24), World-Architects thought it a good time to interview Paul Finch, the driving force behind WAF and... John Hill

Architekturbild e.v. has announced the winners of its biennial award, to be exhibited at DAM in Frankfurt. John Hill

The Vancouver property of late Canadian architect Arthur Erickson is being eyed for development. John Hill

On April 13, after a 10-year restoration and renovation headed by Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos of Seville, the "Museum of the Netherlands" in Amsterdam opens its doors. John Hill

The architect says she deserves "a Pritzker Prize inclusion ceremony" during an event on women in architecture. John Hill