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Alcatraz Island, site of a military fort, a federal prison, a Native American protest, and now a national park, plays host to new sculpture, sound, and mixed-media installations by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. John Hill

Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and the Frankfurt Book Fair have selected 10 winners from 205 submissions in the 5th international DAM Architectural Book Award. John Hill

The third section of the High Line – called the High Line at the Rail Yards – opened to the public on September 21, bringing the total length of the elevated park to just under 1.5 miles (2.4 km). Here we present some photos from our weekend visit. John Hill

Emmanuelle Moureaux's "100 Colors" installation was on display in Tokyo's Shinjuku Central Park for only one week in September. Here we share a short video that shows what you might have missed. John Hill

The sixth and final installment in Al Jazeera's Rebel Architecture series heads down to Brazil to see what informal builder Ricardo de Olivera and architect Luis Carlos Toledo are doing to improve the conditions in Rio's favelas. John Hill

Rhode Island may be the smallest state in the U.S., but its architecture has warranted studies by historians Henry-Russell Hitchcock in Rhode Island Architecture and Vincent Scully in The Shingle Style with the Stick Style. The latter is mentioned by architects Estes/Twombly...

The winning prize at the 8th International Biennial of Landscape Architecture is Auckland Waterfront - North Wharf Promenade and Silo Park, in Auckland, New Zealand, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL) and Wraight + Associates (WA). John Hill

Fifteen years in the making, the "museum of biodiversity" in Panama opens to the public on October 2. Frank Gehry's multicolored museum contains exhibits designed by Bruce Mau and sits in a Biodiversity Park designed in collaboration with Gehry. John Hill

Seoul is one of the most exciting cities in the world. The Architecture Forum Aedes has dedicated a major exhibition to the capital of South Korea in Towards a Meta-City: Recent Urban Projects in Seoul. Ulf Meyer

Lighting group Zumtobel AG has selected three projects in as many categories for its biennial architectural awards "promoting sustainability and humanity in the built environment." John Hill

The project of the Elisabeth and Helmut Uhl Foundation has been realized thanks to a restricted international architectural competition held in 2009, which saw the participation of 15 architectural teams from Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. modostudio

The Calgary Municipal Land Corporation has unveiled Snøhetta and Dialog’s competition-winning design for Calgary’s New Central Library. John Hill

The workshop of O-office Architects in Guangzhou was built on top of an old silo building that was part of a brewery. Its views go south across the river towards downtown and north towards a generic new high-rise housing estate. The architects reused the industrial space with basic but radical...

Irish architects Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey have been named the 2015 recipients of the Royal Gold Medal, what RIBA calls "the world’s most prestigious architecture award." John Hill

The letter ‘Y’ is the shape of a new youth hostel in Bayreuth, Germany, designed by award-winning international architects LAVA for the Bavarian Youth Hostel Association. LAVA

The architect and educator will succeed architect Eric Owen Moss as the new Director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture starting September 2015. John Hill

The gin company's distillery and visitor center at Laverstoke Mill in Hampshire, England, which includes intertwining botanical glasshouses designed by Thomas Heatherwick, open to the public on October 1. John Hill

"Urban unfill" is the term that Spillman Farmer Architects uses to describe its "non-building" for Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. The Arts Plaza transforms an old auto-repair facility into a raw, open-air space for the school's art students. Architectural...

Architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu have spent six years researching and developing Shell Lace Structure, a tailored surface structural technique they are exhibiting at RIBA. John Hill

Constellations Bar is an outdoor venue which includes a bar, food truck, art space and community garden. H. Miller Bros.

For London's Clerkenwell Design Week in May of this year, Studio Weave created the Smith pavilion, which showcased the innovative use of tools in making things – books, clocks, even coffee – but also fiber cement panels from Equitone. John Hill

At a recent ceremony in Toronto, the Holcim Foundation announced the winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 for North America, which "illustrate how sustainable construction continues to evolve." John Hill

The Guggenheim Foundation has announced it received 1,715 entries from 78 countries in an open competition to design a future Guggenheim Museum in the Finnish capital. John Hill

We love it when clients aren’t afraid to share their grand dreams for their home, even if it seems to defy what’s possible for the location. Turett Collaborative Architects

The first building in Belgian artist Xavier Delory's Pèlerinage sur la Modernité ("Pilgrimage on Modernity"), which imagines modern architectural masterpieces in states of abandon, is Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye outside Paris. John Hill

The fifth installment of six episodes in Al Jazeera's Rebel Architecture series travels to Nigeria to look at architect Kunlé Adeyemi's attempt to build a floating theater serving residents of Port Hartcourt. John Hill

The Getty Foundation has announced the first ten recipients of architectural conservation grants in its "Keeping It Modern" initiative focused on the conservation of modern architecture. John Hill

To understand Nishinoyama House, a small apartment complex on the outskirts of Kyoto, it helps to understand its roof. Fred Bernstein

Toronto is graced with two new cultural buildings designed by renowned architects: the Ismaili Centre, by India's Charles Correa and the Aga Khan Museum, by Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. John Hill

The new Office Technical and Education Building (OTE) is the central facility in the new Illinois Accelerator Research Center (IARC) at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Ross Barney Architects

Team Arkitema’s master plan includes a recreational loop, meeting places and varied housing clusters. These elements will help to make NærHeden something completely different from the functionally divided and monotonous suburbs that we know today. Arkitema Architects

Following our intent to make buildings last longer through the utility of longer life-span materials, the Discovery Centre exhibits cultural continuity and creates built form that need not be conditioned and spruced up timely. Architecture Discipline

LA-based Moore + Friesl introduces C2 Credenza featuring ultra high-gloss white Senoplast finish, rear LED lighting, integrated recessed handle, matte painted interior, brushed stainless steel adjustable feet and customizable options. Moore + Friesl

Single-family homes in the United States tend to be one- or two-story buildings that sprawl across the land. Another tactic is taken in the aptly named Tower House designed for a steep and narrow Portland lot by architect Benjamin Waechter. Building up four floors allows for economical...

The new tropical conservatory at the Botanical Gardens in Aarhus is like a drop of dew in its green surroundings. Sustainable design, new materials and advanced computer technology went into the creation of the hothouse's organic form. C. F. Møller Architects

In recent years a number of popular tech companies – Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, and Twitter – have opened new headquarters in San Francisco's South of Market area. We take a look inside them for a side-by-side comparison of their workplace designs. John Hill