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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced the FBI will be moving its headquarters from the brutalist J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, DC to the neoclassical Ronald Reagan Building, also in DC, the former home of the shuttered USAID.
Curator Vyjayanthi Rao and associate curator Tau Tavengwa have revealed “Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures” as the theme for the 3rd Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT03), which will launch in November 2026.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) invited the public into its new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Peter Zumthor in collaboration with SOM, for a summer preview of the building that is set to open in April 2026.
A number of parks and other public spaces in New York City have made headlines in recent weeks. Here we highlight four of them: a beloved community green space, a waterfront park, an informal skate park, and a piece of pedestrian infrastructure.
Foster + Partners has been selected to design the National Memorial to Queen Elizabeth II in St James’ Park, London, beating out Heatherwick Studio, WilkinsonEyre, and other shortlisted firms.
During a ceremony in Venice on EUmies Awards Day for Young Talent, June 19, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announced the three winners of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards in the Young Talent category, and the recipient of the Young...
One year after the tenth MPavilion, designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, extended its run in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens for an additional year, the Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced that the structure will remain in place for five more years—until 2030.
Under the thematic focus “Ready Made,” the 2025 OBEL Award has been awarded to HouseEurope!, a registered nonprofit and European Citizens’ Initiative aimed at incentivizing renovation over demolition and new...
Coinciding with the AIA Conference on Architecture & Design that was held in Boston last week, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the winners of its 2025 awards, including the ten winners of its Architecture Awards.
Nineteen projects in fifteen countries have been shortlisted for the 2025 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, culled from 369 projects nominated for the 16th cycle of the prestigious $1 million award.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is reopening its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, with galleries dedicated to the arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania, following a nearly decade-long transformation by Kulapat Yantrasast of WHY Architecture.
A few months after the UK government announced the five shortlisted teams in the two-stage competition for the design of a national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II, their design concepts have been revealed, with the winner to be announced in early summer.
New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) recently designated two modern buildings with Interior Landmark status: the former Whitney Museum of American Art, designed by Marcel Breuer, and Paul Rudolph's Modulightor Building Apartment Duplex.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has revealed the preliminary design for the Amsterdam Avenue side of its famed campus on New York's Upper West Side. The plaza and streetscape improvements are designed by Hood Design Studio, WEISS/MANFREDI, and Moody Nolan.
McFarlin Building Company, the Tulsa-based developer with a number of adaptive-reuse projects in its portfolio, purchased the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, earlier this month, ending nearly a year of uncertainty over Frank Lloyd Wright's only built skyscraper.
The Thaden School in Bentonville, Arkansas, designed by Marlon Blackwell Architects, EskewDumezRipple, and Andropogon Associates, has won the fifth cycle of the MCHAP Americas Prize.
As co-founder of Tropical Space in Ho Chi Minh City, Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn designs residential, commercial, and cultural projects with a deep response to the tropical climate of Vietnam and an embrace of traditional materials and techniques. She has been named the winner of the DIVIA Award 2025.
On the morning of Saturday, May 10, the opening day of the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, the international jury's choice for the exhibition's Golden Lions and other awards were announced.
The Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) has announced that anthropologist, writer, and artist Vyjayanthi Rao will serve as curator, with Tau Tavengwa as associate curator, for SAT's third edition set to take place in 2026.
The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) has announced that Dutch architect and educator Winka Dubbeldam has been appointed the next director and chief executive officer of SCI-Arc, a role she will assume in September.
Following a two-stage competition, Kansas City, Missouri's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has selected WEISS/MANFREDI Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism as the lead architect for the museum’s upcoming expansion and transformation project.
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced that the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) will be leading the renovation of Penn Station, removing New York State's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) from the project.
The Frick Collection, the beloved 90-year-old art museum housed in the historic Henry Clay Frick mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, has been closed since 2020 for a comprehensive renovation and enhancement carried out by
On Monday, April 14, Pope Francis declared Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí “venerable”—the second of four steps in canonizing the designer of Barcelona’s world-famous Sagrada Família—one year ahead of the basilica's expected completion and the centenary of Gaudí's death.
Lina Ghotmeh — Architecture has won an international competition to design the permanent Qatar Pavilion in the Giardini of La Biennale di Venezia. When built, it will be just the third new national pavilion added to the Giardini in the last half-century.
American philosopher Donna Haraway, author of “A Cyborg Manifesto,” has been named the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by La Biennale di Venezia. She will receive the award at the inauguration of the Venice Architecture Biennale on May 10, 2025.
The Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma—notable as the only built skyscraper designed by Frank Lloyd Wright—is being auctioned in May through a Chapter 7 bankruptcy sale, a couple months after it was supposed to be sold to a developer for $1.4 million.
On March 26, the New York City Council passed a vote reforming the rules governing scaffolding and sidewalk sheds, the latter of which have become ubiquitous across Manhattan, with some of the structures in place for more than five years. The reforms target the sheds' appearances, frequency of...
David M. Childs, a longtime partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), and most famously the lead designer of One World Trade Center, the tallest tower at the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, died on March 26 at the age of 83.
First dreamed up by one of its residents more than twenty years ago, the National Public Housing Museum is finally opening next month inside the last remaining building from the Jane Addams Homes, the first public housing development in Chicago.
The winners of this year's Best Book Design from all over the World competition, organized by Stiftung Buchkunst (German Foundation for Book Design), have been announced. The five-member jury has selected Stéphanie Baechler's Forget Me Not, which explores 19th-century textile-drying...
The Kistefos Museum, a sculpture park and post-industrial campus located about one hour north of Oslo, is planning a new site-specific gallery that will open in 2031. The museum, working with Malcolm Reading Consultants, has selected eight firms to advance to the next phase of an invited...
The finalists in the second DIVIA Award—the biennial award promoting diversity in architecture—have been announced: seven women architects in more than six countries on four continents.
The Wolf Foundation, which “both celebrates and promotes exceptional achievements in the Sciences and the Arts worldwide,” is giving its 2025 Wolf Prize in Architecture to Xu Tiantian, founding principal of Beijing's DnA_Design and Architecture.
Ricardo Scofidio, the New York City architect, educator, and co-founder of the influential interdisciplinary practice Diller Scofidio + Renfro, died on March 6, 2025, at the age of 89.
Architect Liu Jiakun, a native of Chengdu, China, has been named the 2025 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, long considered architecture's highest honor. Today's announcement describes Liu as an architect who continues to practice and reside in Chengdu, “prioritizing the everyday...