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Bonnie Burnham, President of World Monuments Fund, has announced that the two-decade restoration of Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia, has been awarded the 2014 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize. John Hill

The Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the 2014 Design Excellence Awards given in four categories: Distinguished Building, Interior Architecture, Divine Detail, and Unbuilt Design. John Hill

The winners of the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize were announced at a benefit dinner at the S.R. Crown Hall of the Illinois Institute of Technology on 22 October 2014. John Hill

Jaanila Country, a masterplan by KCAP Architects&Planners has been awarded with the Habitat award for the best residential public space design in the Leningrad region. The public space has been elaborated in cooperation with Felixx. KCAP and Felixx

LEAF International has announced the winners of the 11th annual LEAF Awards, which "demonstrate buildings that are setting the benchmark for the international architectural and design community." John Hill

At a recent ceremony in Beirut, the Holcim Foundation announced the winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 for Africa and the Middle East, which "illustrate how sustainable construction continues to evolve." John Hill

PRODUCTORA is a budding architecture studio with its headquarters in Mexico City, founded by architects from different countries: Abel Perles from Argentina, Wonne Ickx from Belgium, and Carlos Bedoya and Víctor Jaime from Mexico. Shortly after its beginnings in 2006, the studio came...

At a recent ceremony in Medellín, the Holcim Foundation announced the winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 for Latin America, which "illustrate how sustainable construction continues to evolve." John Hill

David Chipperfield has inserted 144 tree trunks inside the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, one year before the British architect's renovation of the museum designed by Mies van der Rohe in the 1960s. John Hill

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced the winners of 13 award categories on the second day of the event taking place in Singapore October 1 - 3, 2014. John Hill

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) has announced the winners of 16 award categories on the opening day of the event taking place in Singapore October 1 - 3, 2014. John Hill

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has announced the 34 professional awards selected from more than 600 entries. John Hill

Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and the Frankfurt Book Fair have selected 10 winners from 205 submissions in the 5th international DAM Architectural Book Award. John Hill

The third section of the High Line – called the High Line at the Rail Yards – opened to the public on September 21, bringing the total length of the elevated park to just under 1.5 miles (2.4 km). Here we present some photos from our weekend visit. John Hill

Lighting group Zumtobel AG has selected three projects in as many categories for its biennial architectural awards "promoting sustainability and humanity in the built environment." John Hill

Irish architects Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey have been named the 2015 recipients of the Royal Gold Medal, what RIBA calls "the world’s most prestigious architecture award." John Hill

The letter ‘Y’ is the shape of a new youth hostel in Bayreuth, Germany, designed by award-winning international architects LAVA for the Bavarian Youth Hostel Association. LAVA

At a recent ceremony in Toronto, the Holcim Foundation announced the winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 for North America, which "illustrate how sustainable construction continues to evolve." John Hill

At a public award ceremony and lecture in November, the National Building Museum will present broadcaster Charlie Rose its prize that recognizes "exemplary practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design." John Hill

At a recent ceremony in Moscow, the Holcim Foundation announced the winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 for Europe, which "illustrate how sustainable construction continues to evolve." John Hill

The Chicago Athenaeum has announced the recipients of the 2014 International Architecture Awards, which "honor the best, new significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built around the world." John Hill

CODA: Collaboration of Design + Art, an online community that celebrates design projects featuring commissioned artworks, has announced the winners of the 2014 CODA Awards in ten categories. John Hill

This weekend sees exhibitions ending at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona and the Materials & Applications outdoor space in Los Angeles. 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

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

Docomomo International is pleased to inform that the headquarters have been transferred from Barcelona (Mies van der Rohe Foundation) to Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico – Lisbon University). Docomomo International

LA-Based Moore + Friesl debuts elegant, award-winning C1 Credenza in new red and white matte finishes. A single piece of sheet metal supports wood drawers and 7-foot-wide span, without intermediate supports. Moore + Friesl

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

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

New York architect Steven Holl has been named a recipient of the Japan Art Association’s 2014 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists. John Hill

The Heschel School is a new $70,000,000 high-rise school, a 145,000 sf building, located in a developing urban neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. The project received 2014 SARA NY Bronze Award of Honor and achieved LEED Gold certification. IBI Group - Gruzen Samton

Aksarben Village is a mix of apartments, shopping, restaurants, entertainment, recreation and offices that bills itself as "Omaha's all-weather destination" about five miles west of downtown. The office spaces are particularly important for giving the new development some...

London's Design Museum has awarded Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Design Museum Design of the Year Award 2014. It is the first architectural project to be named Design of the Year in its seven-year history. John Hill

Site often determines a building's form, be it orientation, size, views, or materiality, among numerous characteristics. This cabin on the edge of Flathead Lake in western Montana finds inspiration in its site accordingly, also going so far as to echo the slope of the land in the green...

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has selected Washington, DC's Oehme van Sweden & Associates (OvS) for its 2014 Landscape Architecture Firm Award, the organization's highest honor it bestows on a firm. John Hill

The Municipal Art Society of New York awards nine projects for excellence in architecture and urban design, giving "Building of the Year" to Caples Jefferson Architects' Weeksville Heritage Center, one of seven winning projects in Brooklyn. John Hill