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01.11.22
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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31.10.22
At 310 meters to its tip, Varso Tower, designed by Foster + Partners and engineered by Buro Happold, is now the tallest tower in the European Union. Ulf Meyer
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27.10.22
The philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour died on October 9 at the age of 75. His life’s work gave important impetus to architecture. In the context of the climate crisis, his idea of a political ecology also points to the future of architecture and urban planning. Stefan Kurath
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26.10.22
Social critic Mike Davis, best known for chronicling the dark side of sunny Los Angeles, died on October 25 at his home in San Diego from complications related to esophageal cancer. He was 76. John Hill
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25.10.22
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has revealed renderings of its competition-winning design for a large sports complex for Hangzhou's Future Science and Technology Cultural District. John Hill
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24.10.22
University of California Santa Barbara has released updated visuals of the proposed Munger Hall, the dormitory unveiled in November 2021 to protests over the lack of windows in most bedrooms. John Hill
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21.10.22
The transformation of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA), designed by Chicago's Studio Gang with Little Rock's Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects, is nearly complete, with an opening date of April 22, 2023, recently announced. John Hill
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20.10.22
Ten winners have been announced in the 14th iteration of the International DAM Architectural Book Award, given jointly by the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM). John Hill
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17.10.22
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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13.10.22
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
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12.10.22
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
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10.10.22
David Geffen Hall, home to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, opened its doors on October 8. World-Architects got a tour of the building's public spaces and acoustically improved theater. John Hill
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07.10.22
Designed by Morphosis Architects, the firm of Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne, the Orange County Museum of Art's new home in Costa Mesa, California, opens to the public on October 8, 2022. John Hill
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04.10.22
Radio Hotel and Tower, described by Rotterdam's MVRDV as a "colorful vertical village," opened in September in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. John Hill
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28.09.22
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
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27.09.22
OMA New York and Jacobs have unveiled their design for the headquarters of Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) in The 78, a large development underway on Chicago's Near South Side. John Hill
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26.09.22
Dance House Helsinki was inaugurated in February of this year as the first event venue in Finland dedicated to dance. Ulf Meyer visited the adaptive reuse and extension designed by JKMM Architects. Ulf Meyer
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22.09.22
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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21.09.22
The Piranesi Award recognizes the best Central European buildings realized in the last two years. The call for proposals for the 2022 edition is now open, with a deadline of October 18. John Hill
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20.09.22
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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19.09.22
Eleven years after the terrorist attacks on Oslo and Utøya, Norway, Haptic and Nordic have been selected to design the new National Government Quarter in Oslo. Ulf Meyer
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16.09.22
Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA have been named recipients of Japan Art Association’s 2022 Praemium Imperiale, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists. John Hill
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14.09.22
The United States chapter of Docomomo has announced the twelve recipients of the 2022 Modernism in America Awards: 6 Awards of Excellence and 6 Citations of Merit. John Hill
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13.09.22
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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13.09.22
Inspireli Awards, the international contest for students of architecture, has announced the winners of its Beirut Port Competition, which asked students to develop innovative solutions for rebuilding the site of the August 4, 2020 explosion in Beirut. John Hill
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11.09.22
New York architect James Stewart Polshek, former dean of Columbia University GSAPP and founder of Polshek Partnership, the precursor to Ennead Architects, died at his Manhattan home on September 9 at the age of 92. John Hill
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08.09.22
Five anonymous design proposals for the Bezos Learning Center at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, are now available for public comment by September 19. John Hill
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07.09.22
The board of trustees of the nonprofit Calder Gardens has unveiled the design for a new building and landscape in Philadelphia for displaying the work of artist Alexander Calder. Ulf Meyer
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07.09.22
New York's Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2022 National Design Awards, which recognizes design excellence and innovation in nine categories. John Hill
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05.09.22
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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01.09.22
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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01.09.22
"The year’s best new skyscraper," according to the jury of the Emporis Skyscraper Award 2021, is the Valley, a mixed-use tower in Amsterdam whose design was inspired by mountainous landscapes. John Hill
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29.08.22
After acquiring it for 1.15 million Swiss francs, the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds has taken possession of Villa Fallet, opening the first house worked on by Le Corbusier to the public. John Hill
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28.08.22
Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie is donating his extensive archive of sketchbooks, drawings, and models to McGill University, where he first designed what became his breakout Habitat 67 project. John Hill
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23.08.22
New aspects of Hotel Iveria, renovated by GRAFT in 2009 as the Radisson SAS Iveria Hotel, are featured in a new exhibition at Architektur Galerie Berlin. Ulf Meyer