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The scheme by Stewart Hollenstein, with Colin Stewart Architects, has been chosen for the new library and plaza at Green Square Town Centre. John Hill

Seattle's NBBJ is designing Google's 1.1-million-square-foot "Bay View" complex in Mountain View, California. John Hill

In December World-Architects attended a BIM Boot Camp organized by Nemetschek Vectorworks. The increasingly important topic of Building Information Modeling (BIM) was tackled across seven presentations in nine hours, ranging from basic definitions of BIM to in-depth case studies. This article... John Hill

The recently departed Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute will serve as Creative Director of the 2013 Shenzhen Biennale. John Hill

A few months short of its completion, Russians are calling for the "Mariinsky 2"—the most expensive theater building in the world—to be demolished. John Hill

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

Paul Rudolph's Orange County Government Center is saved, but Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital will face the wrecking ball. John Hill

On March 1 the Storefront for Art and Architecture is holding its 30th Anniversary Gala in the magnificent 9-story atrium space of Temple Court at 5 Beekman Street in Lower Manhattan. John Hill

The 2012 Building of the Year on American-Architects is the Masonic Amphitheatre Project in Clifton Forge, Virginia, designed and consructed by the design/buildLAB at Virginia Tech School of Architecture + Design. John Hill

World-Architects visited the New York office of OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture, headed by partner Shohei Shigematsu. We talked with Mr. Shigematsu about his background and experience with OMA, got a tour of the SoHo office space, and looked at some in-progress projects. John Hill

The world’s first re-locatable research facility opened on February 5, one hundred years after Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic Antarctic expeditions. 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 1912 Cass Gilbert-design library has reopened after a $70 million renovation oversaw by Cannon Design. John Hill

Concrete is traditionally considered to be heavy and monolithic, but the addition of glass fibers changes concrete to something lightweight and even porous. The sculptural potential of this increasingly common method can be seen in the application of Rieder's Sculptural fibreC panels... John Hill

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, has selected Steven Holl Architects to design an expansion to its Edward Durell Stone-designed building. John Hill

Foster + Partners, working with the European Space Agency, is exploring the possibility of using 3D printing to build a lunar base from the moon's soil. John Hill

Voting for Building of the Year 2012 on American-Architects is closed. The winner will be announced in eMagazine #7/13 on February 11. John Hill

Is this a bird's eye view of Midtown Manhattan? Or a model of a planned city in China? No, it's actually a sculpture made entirely of scrap wood by James McNabb. John Hill

Voting for the 2012 Building of the Year at American-Architects, German-Architects, and Swiss-Architects ends on Thursday, January 31. John Hill

Janjaap Ruijssenaars is designing the "Landscape House" as a Möbius strip to be built from blocks made from a 3-D printer. John Hill

The team of Monadnock Development, Actors Fund Housing Development, and nARCHITECTS has won a competition for mirco-units in Manhattan. John Hill

Two weeks after his appointment, 2014 Venice Biennale curator Rem Koolhaas has chosen the title for the exhibition: Fundamentals. 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

Ziba's Portland, Oregon, office may be blessed with a 200-seat auditorium, but it one that is too compact for traditional folding chairs. So like any decent design and innovation consultancy, Ziba designed their own seats, the slender and aptly named JumpSeat, now manufactured by Sedia... John Hill

It's hard to not be charmed by this short animated film by Andrea Stinga and Federico Gonzalez that runs through 26 great architects and their most well known buildings, one for each letter of the alphabet. John Hill

CODA wins the MoMA PS1 Young Architect's Program, and Situ Studio is chosen by the Times Square Alliance for Heartwalk. John Hill

United Visual Artists' Always/Never is the result of their "recent investigations of the perception of time." John Hill

World-Architects visited the office of Studio Gang Architects in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood for a tour of the studio and a chance to talk with Jeanne Gang about her exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, the state of architecture in her hometown, and some in-progress projects in... John Hill

Zaha Hadid Architects' third project for SOHO China is in a race to finish before a copycat in Chongqing is completed. John Hill

On January 7 the great architecture critic died at the age of 91, less than one week after her last article was published. John Hill

The British architect, educator and writer died in December at the age of 91. John Hill

New York's Central Library Plan, which involves the demolition of seven stories of stacks in its main library to make way for a circulating collection from two nearby branches, has been controversial since being announced four years ago. The plan and Norman Foster's recently released... John Hill

Voting for the 2012 Building of the Year is now open at American-Architects, German-Architects, and Swiss-Architects. John Hill

The New York Public Library has released Norman Foster's schematic design for transforming its main building into a circulating library. John Hill

The world-renowned Brazilian architect died at the Hospital Samaritano in Rio just shy of his 105th birthday. John Hill

On December 12 the world-famous Louvre opens a branch museum in Lens, hoping to spur the development in the region of northern France. John Hill