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The State of Qatar has announced that Frida Escobedo Studio, with Buro Happold and Studio Zewde, won an invited competition to design a new headquarters complex for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Doha waterfront.
Architect and photographer Gillian Hopwood, who moved from England to Nigeria in 1954 and practiced architecture with her husband, John Godwin, in Lagos for around 60 years, died on November 6, 2025. She was 97.
La Biennale di Venezia has announced that architects Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, founders of Hangzhou's Amateur Architecture Studio, will direct the Venice Architecture Biennale's 20th International Architecture Exhibition, making them the first curators of the exhibition from China.
For the first time in its 65-year history, the house designed by Pierre Koenig as part of Arts & Architecture magazine's Case Study Houses program, made famous through photographs taken by Julius Shulman, is up for sale.
The recipients of the 36th annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 22, 2025, during the 42nd Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia.
News has broke that Sperone Westwater, the 50-year-old art gallery based in New York City, is closing at the end of the year. This raises the question: What will become of the gallery's bespoke eight-story building on the Bowery designed by Norman Foster?
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has announced that it will open to the public on September 22, 2026—sixteen years after George Lucas first proposed such a museum, twelve years after he selected Ma Yansong and MAD Architects to design it, and eight years after construction began at Exposition...
The fourth edition of the Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival (BARQ) recently concluded with the announcement of E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea as the best feature film. The film, directed by Beatrice Minger and Christoph Schaub, won out among the seven...
On November 8, Sotheby's New York opened its new home in the Breuer Building, the 1966 brutalist masterpiece designed by Marcel Breuer for the Whitney Museum of American Art. The renovation of the modern landmark was carried out by Switzerland's Herzog & de Meuron with New York's PBDW...
The Ismaili Center, Houston, designed by Farshid Moussavi Architecture and Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects in partnerhsip with AKT II DLR Group, was inaugurated on November 6 as the first Ismaili Center in the United States and the seventh worldwide.
A list of 410 works nominated for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards (EUmies Awards) has been released by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. The nominations showcase the most significant built works in the EU...
Malcolm Reading Consultants has revealed the designs by the seven finalists in the Museum of Jesus’ Baptism at Bethany, Jordan – International Design Competition. The new museum will be located on the east bank of the Jordan River, adjacent to Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan,”...
Anchoring Harvard University's new Enterprise Research Campus (ERC) in Allston, Massachusetts, the David Rubenstein Treehouse is a new university-wide hub for convening and the first mass timber building on the Ivy League school's growing campus.
Six years after it opened to a mix of fanfare and controversy, the Hunters Point branch of the Queens Public Library in New York City has reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought over the inaccessibility of portions of building for people with disabilities, after modifications to...
Although it won't be 100% complete and fully occupied for some months, JPMorganChase opened its new 60-story global headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday, October 21, six years after the demolition of its predecessor, the 52-story Union Carbide Building, began.
Outrage has accompanied images of the East Wing of the White House in Washington, DC, being demolished to make way for US President Donald J. Trump's large addition of a 900-seat, $250 million ballroom.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winner of the 29th RIBA Stirling Prize: Appleby Blue Almshouse, a social housing complex in London for people over 65, designed by Witherford Watson Mann Architects.
The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and Frankfurt Book Fair have announced the winners of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2025, selecting the ten best architecture books published between June 2024 and July 2025.
Mexican landscape architect Mario Schjetnan and Grupo de Diseño Urbano (GDU), the interdisciplinary design firm he founded in 1977, are recipients of the 2025 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, the biennial $100,000 award organized by The Cultural Landscape...
Later this month the Dallas City Council will debate the fate of Dallas City Hall, the brutalist building designed by I. M. Pei that has accumulated close to $100 million in deferred maintenance costs since its completion in 1978.
The Chicago-based nonprofit organization formerly known as the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has rebranded as the Council on Vertical Urbanism (CVU), a name the group contends “more clearly reflects our expanded global vision and the future we're helping to shape.”
Ten months after scrapping plans by Switzerland's Herzog & de Meuron, the Vancouver Art Gallery has announced that two Canadian firms—Formline Architecture + Urbanism and KPMB Architects—have been selected to design the institution's new home.
The Monte Sant’Angelo Subway Station, which opened on September 11, is part of the larger infrastructure project coordinated by Achille Bonito Oliva.
Sir Terry Farrell, best known for designing the MI6 Building, the London headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service (and which made frequent appearances in James Bond films), died on September 28th at the age of 87.
Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, founder of the large Beijing firm Turenscape, was among four people killed in a plane crash in Brazil on Tuesday. The crash happened during the making of a documentary about Yu and his pioneering Sponge City Concept.
Of the ten proposals hoping to secure three coveted casino licenses for downstate New York, five of the teams have withdrawn their bids or had them voted down by so-called Community Advisory Committees. Of the five remaining bids, none are in Manhattan.
The Piranesi Award recognizes the best Central European buildings realized in the last two years. The call for proposals for the 2025 edition is now open, with a deadline of October 7.
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, the English architect best known for designing such high-tech buildings as the International Terminal Waterloo in London and the Eden Project in Cornwall, and the recipient of the 2019 RIBA Royal Gold Medal, died on September 14 at the age of 85.
Helsinki's JKMM Architects has won a high-profile international competition to design a new Museum of Architecture and Design on a prominent waterfront site in the Finnish capital.
Innovation QNS, the proposed five-block mixed-use development with apartments, office space, retail, open space, and an arts and culture hub next to the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, has been scrapped in favor of smaller developments.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings in the running for the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize, considered “the UK’s most prestigious architecture award.”
Seven projects have been announced as winners of the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The winners, ranging from an X in Y to a Z in ZZ, will split the $1 million USD prize.
Nikolaus Kuhnert played a decisive role in shaping German architectural discourse for decades: From 1972, the critical mind was part of the editorial team of the magazine ARCH+, founded in 1968, of which he became co-editor in 1982.
In an anticipated move, US President Donald J. Trump has issued an executive order that calls for classical and traditional architecture to be the preferred styles of federal public buildings in the United States. “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again” echoes a similar executive order...
Michael Benedikt, the celebrated University of Texas at Austin professor and author of numerous books of architectural theory, died on August 13 at the age of 78.
Despite the widespread attention given to the efforts of preservationists to convert the former Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, designed by Kenzo Tange, into a hotel, the governor of the prefecture is standing firm on plans to demolish the distinctive boat-shaped building built in 1964.