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on 07-03-2023
News reports reveal that Amazon is pausing construction on its second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, DC. The pause includes the spiraling Helix designed by NBBJ. John Hill
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on 07-03-2023
British architect David Chipperfield has been named the laureate of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize. He is the 52nd recipient of the award that is considered architecture’s highest honor. Ulf Meyer
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on 02-03-2023
The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have announced that Andrew Freear, director of Rural Studio in Newbern, Alabama, is the recipient of the 2023 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. John Hill
Headlines
on 01-03-2023
The designers of the installations that will fill the streets and parks of Columbus, Indiana, later in the year, unveiled their designs during presentations at a public forum on February 25. John Hill
Headlines
on 28-02-2023
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the 16 award-winning projects that “demonstrate design achievement, including a sense of place, purpose, history, and environmental sustainability.” John Hill
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on 27-02-2023
For the 9th winter in a row, the lifeguard stations at Woodbine Beach in Toronto have been transformed by architects, designers, and students into “bold designs that spark conversations.” John Hill
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on 21-02-2023
In a press conference held on Tuesday, February 21, curator Lesley Lokko described details of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, that will open in May. John Hill
Headlines
on 12-02-2023
Despite the efforts of preservationists, the decision has been made that the Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, designed by Kenzo Tange in 1964, will be knocked down. Ulf Meyer
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on 06-02-2023
Satellite imagery, an exhibition, and a promotional video illustrate that progress is being made on The Line, the flagship city for NEOM, the $500 billion megaproject in Saudi Arabia. John Hill
Headlines
on 19-01-2023
The City of Nantes has announced the three teams competing to design the Cité des Imaginaires (City of Imaginations), a major cultural project that will be home to the Jules Verne Museum. John Hill
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on 18-01-2023
London's Kingston University has announced that Grafton Architects, designers of the award-winning Town House on the university's Penrhyn Road campus, have been hired to design an academic building at the school's nearby Knights Park campus. John Hill
Headlines
on 09-01-2023
MVRDV has won the competition to design the new central library for Wuhan, China, describing their winning design as a "three-faced flowing shape [that] celebrates the position of the 'city of 100 lakes' at the confluence of two rivers." John Hill
Headlines
on 09-12-2022
The Jencks Foundation and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have announced that Forensic Architecture is the 2022 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award, named for the influential architecture critic and landscape designer. John Hill
Headlines
on 08-12-2022
The American Institute of Architects has announced that Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney is the winner of the 2023 AIA Gold Medal, which "honors an individual whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture." John Hill
Headlines
on 23-11-2022
Serpentine has announced that architect Lina Ghotmeh, born in Beirut and based in Paris, as designer of the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion and unveiled her design. It will open in London's Kensington Gardens next June. John Hill
Headlines
on 11-11-2022
Reports this week indicate that the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIMA) is reversing course and will not preserve the dormitories designed by Louis I. Kahn and completed in 1974. John Hill
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on 03-11-2022
OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture has released renderings of Harajuku Quest, a commercial and cultural center that just started construction on Tokyo's fashionable Omotesando, not far... John Hill
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on 01-11-2022
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, has announced that Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Selldorf Architects will modernize the building's interior and plaza. John Hill
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on 17-10-2022
World-Architects stopped by Beyond Territories – Made . Make . Making, the traveling exhibition that celebrates the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. John Hill
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on 13-10-2022
The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced that The New Library, Magdalene College, located in Cambridge and designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects, is the winner of the 26th RIBA Stirling Prize, making it "the UK’s best new building." John Hill
Headlines
on 12-10-2022
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe has announced that "Anna Bofill Levi. La arquitectura como contracanto: 1977-1996" by a quartet of Spanish architects is the recipient of the latest Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture. John Hill
Headlines
on 28-09-2022
Chicago architecture firm Brininstool + Lynch announced on their website and social media channels that founding partner Brad Lynch died on Monday, September 26. He was just 64. John Hill
Headlines
on 22-09-2022
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has announced that the Colosio Embankment Dam designed by by Loreta Castro Reguera and José Pablo Ambrosi of Taller Capital is winner of the 2022 MCHAP.emerge award. John Hill
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on 20-09-2022
The Getty Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced Conserving Black Modernism, a grant program that will award $3.1 million over two years to preserve historic modern architecture designed by Black architects. John Hill
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on 13-09-2022
The Montreal Holocaust Museum (MHM) has revealed that the team of KPMB Architects and Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker Architecture has been selected to design the museum's new downtown home following an international competition. John Hill
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on 05-09-2022
The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design have announced that Germany's ingenhoven associates is this year's recipient of... John Hill
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on 01-09-2022
The City of Helsinki and Helsinki Design Week have announced that Päivi Raivio is the recipient of the 2022 Helsinki Design Award, which recognizes "a designer or a design team for making Helsinki a better place to live in." John Hill
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on 05-08-2022
Snøhetta designs a tower for Tokyu Corporation in Tokyo that features a terraced roof topped with trees. Ulf Meyer isn’t buying it. [First published on July 28, 2022; updated with renderings on August 5.] Ulf Meyer
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on 27-07-2022
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has unveiled a trio of proposals that aim to keep the Chicago Bears pro football team at Soldier Field on the city's lakefront. John Hill
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on 01-07-2022
When we visited Mother's House, Robert Venturi's icon of postmodernism in Philadelphia, and told the resident, Agatha Hughes, that we were from Berlin, she replied, "How is Kristin?" That was in 1992. Since then, her fame in architectural circles has only grown. On July 1, Kristin Feireiss... John Hill, Falk Jaeger
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on 29-06-2022
FLUGT – Refugee Museum of Denmark, an international museum designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group that is devoted to stories about refugees, was inaugurated on June 25 by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II. John Hill
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on 27-06-2022
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced that the Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle, Washington, designed by Steven Holl Architects and completed in 1997, has been awarded the 2022 Twenty-five... John Hill
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on 21-06-2022
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) announced that the firm was victorious in the competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre in China's Shaanxi province.
Headlines
on 15-06-2022
A team led by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has been selected in a global competition to design the new Dock A at Zurich Airport, with a design that is "comprised predominantly of solid regional wood." John Hill
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on 01-06-2022
The Royal Academy of Arts in London has announced that French architect Renée Gailhoustet is the recipient of the 2022 RA Architecture Prize, which recognizes architects who have made "a significant impact on society." John Hill