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David Salmela's modern interpretations of regional architecture in Minnesota have garnered the architect plenty of awards, respect within the profession, and a number of primarily residential commissions. An important design is the Clure Project in Duluth, four dark boxes that are at odds...

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

Nature centers are a fairly specific building type that allow architects to enrich people's experiences of architecture, the natural environment, and their interaction. Nature centers also call for sustainable architecture of the utmost, due to their purpose and proximity to...

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

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

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 winners of the 23rd MIPIM Awards were announced in Cannes, France, on March 14. John Hill

Tucked into a quiet corner of Fukushima Prefecture’s Bandai Atami hot spring district, the baths at Hanare no Yado Yomogino resort have an 800-year history. After the Great East Japan Earthquake and related nuclear disaster in 2011, however, the owners suffered from the public’s fears...

Five finalists have been chosen from 335 works for the 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. John Hill

The Spanish architect is the recipient of an award created in 1963 in honor of German architect Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950). John Hill

The American Institute of Architects has selected 28 recipients from over 700 submissions for its honor awards in architecture, interior architecture, and regional & urban design. John Hill

China has an unbelievable 14,500 kilometers of coastline, not including the islands. From the north to the south, three different seas follow each other: The Yellow Sea with the Gulf of Bohai, the East China Sea and the South China Sea. Only the island of Hainan east of Vietnam is known in the...

Germany's ingenhoven architects beat out Frank Gehry and other finalists to win the International Highrise Award 2012 for 1 Bligh Street in Sydney. John Hill

Ulrich Franzen, an architect known for Brutalist building, died on October 6 in Sante Fe, New Mexico. John Hill

For the second year, Portuguese architects Bruno André and Francisco Salgado Ré (together known as AND-RÉ) have won the Iberian Urban Equipment Prize. Last year AND-RÉ won for the lighting design “Verso,” and this year's award in the “urban... John Hill

The New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects recently announced the recipients of 2012 Design Awards. One of the Honor Awards went to the Clyfford Still Museum by Allied Works, previously featured here as a

Cheered on by a large, chic crowd gathered from the worlds of design and fashion into Harbourfront Centre, Azure magazine editor Nelda Rodger unveiled her Toronto-based journal’s first AZ Awards for excellence in international architecture and design one hot evening a couple of weeks...

In 2006 the Gary Comer Youth Center designed by John Ronan Architects opened on Chicago’s underserved South Side. The colorful building housing recreational facilities received numerous awards and led to the recent Gary Comer College Prep, which forms a small campus with its...

Described by The New York Times five years ago as “the next cool New York City neighborhood,” Bushwick was a low-income area of Brooklyn that has undergone transformation via the influx of artists, then students, and now middle- income residents. One physical sign of this...

De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop is one of the recipients of The Architectural League’s 2011 Emerging Voices, an award that “spotlights individuals and firms with a distinct design ‘voice’ that has the potential to influence the discipline of architecture,...

The Beijing-based magazine World Architecture celebrated its 30th anniversary this autumn. Every second year the magazine organizes the WA Chinese Architecture Awards. The jury for the award in 2010 selected three prizes and five honorable mentions. Two school buildings in remote areas and a...

Los Angeles may be a city known more for its sprawl that its urban core, but downtown is home to a density of high-profile contemporary architecture by the likes of Frank Gehry, Rafael Moneo, and Morphosis. Across the street from the last’s Caltrans District 7 Headquarters is the Los...

A project for a centre for contemporary arts in Rome is now officially the best new building in the world. MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Italy, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, UK, has won global architecture’s most coveted accolade of ‘World Building of the...

This tiny retreat in Tennessee garnered Sanders Pace Architects a local AIA award. The architects answered some questions about the well-crafted structure.

The CEIEPAA animal production teaching and research center is located along the highway just five miles out of Tequisquiapan, Querétaro, on the way to Bernal, on a 147-hectare stretch of ranchland.