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Shigeru Ban Architects has been named the first prize winner in Tainan city government's international design competition for a new fine arts museum aimed at promoting the development of the Taiwanese city’s fine arts culture and industry. John Hill

From September 13-21, over 300 events and exhibitions take place as part of the London Design Festival, including Zaha Hadid's Crest. The temporary sculpture sits in the reflecting pool of the Victoria and Albert Museum's John Madejski Garden. John Hill

At a public award ceremony and lecture in November, the National Building Museum will present broadcaster Charlie Rose its prize that recognizes "exemplary practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design." John Hill

This project transforms the existing library and music venue "Trommen" into a cultural center. The conversion respects the existing building designed by architect Knud Munk in 1988, creating transparency and a house with various activities. Arkitema Architects

Nemetschek Vectorworks has announced the winners – fifteen students from eight countries – in is first annual design scholarship for students in architecture, landscape, and entertainment degrees. John Hill

Gehry and the Eisenhower Memorial Commission have unveiled the latest design for the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, DC, following the National Capital Planning Commission's rejection of the design in April of this year. John Hill

Dongjiao State Guest Hotel is an important Ambassador-level reception site in Shanghai. The new development project area is located on a narrow triangle site behind the No.1 Building. Dushe Architectural Design

The fourth installment of Al Jazeera's six-part Rebel Architecture series looks at Vo Trong Nghia attempts to return greenery to Vietnam's cities and design affordable homes for poor communities. John Hill

Rotorua’s new police station, designed by Leuschke Group Architects in association with Vincent Chrisp Architects of Melbourne, is anything but stock standard. Leuschke Group Architects

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

At 2pm on September 21, "a singular contemporary museum" – the Muze'um L, Light & Landscape – opens in Roeselare, Belgium. John Hill

A museum conserves and preserves a story, clarifies a thought and supports a pedagogical path. So the house of music too is witness, in the specific, of the musical world. It is an artistic container that assumes continually different connotations. 3TI_LAB Srl

California's Trimble, which bought SketchUp from Google in 2012, has announced its acquisition of Frank Gehry's software and consulting services business, Gehry Technologies. John Hill

What looks like a low-slung industrial box rising from the plains of Oklahoma, with oil derricks projecting from its roof, is in fact a library inspired by the natural and economic characteristics of the place. Designed by LWPB Architecture with Richard+Bauer, the building is an unabashed...

Regiocentrale Zuid is an office for water traffic control near the Dutch-Belgian border; its occupants oversee countless waterways from its curved upper story, which cantilevers up to 10 meters. Wiel Arets Architects

Like a beached whale of black steel, Polish artist Monika Sosnowska's Tower sculpture – all 110 feet (33-1/2 meters) of it – sprawls across the large gallery space of Hauser & Wirth's West 18th Street location in New York City. John Hill

A terrace house explores the use of interstitial spaces to bring light, air and water into the house. HYLA Architects

A porous skin of copper panels shields the fluid interior of the Louisiana State Museum and Sports Hall of Fame in Natchitoches. Over one thousand cast stone panels, provided by Advanced Architectural Stone, sculpt the multi-level foyer. John Hill

Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design has created the "100 Colors" installation in Tokyo's Shinjuku Central Park, on display from September 4 to September 11, 2014. John Hill

The non-profit Internet Archive has uploaded 2.6 million of a planned 14 million images to Flickr Commons, all culled from public domain eBooks. It is a treasure trove for those interested in architectural history. John Hill

The Chicago Athenaeum has announced the recipients of the 2014 International Architecture Awards, which "honor the best, new significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built around the world." John Hill

Lord Norman Foster, with Fernando Romero, has been selected to design Mexico City's new airport, while the Airports Commission has ruled out Foster’s Thames Hub proposal for a future London airport. John Hill

Located near Marbella, Spain, in a suburban area with private villas next to a golf course, the program is a house for a family with kids and guest rooms for visiting friends, totaling 480 m2 of enclosed area. Gus Wüstemann Architects

RoosRos Architecten has developed a striking contemporary headquarters, including office building and a storage unit, for Sanibell, manufacturer of quality ceramic hygiene ware, in Oud-Beijerland, The Netherlands. RoosRos Architecten

The third installment of Al Jazeera's Rebel Architecture heads to Israel to speak with architect and author Eyal Weizman and investigate architecture's role in Israel's occupation of Palestine. John Hill

Six of the twenty architects participating in the closed competition for the first Porsche Design residential tower in Europe have been named, with a winner to be chosen in early 2015. John Hill

Zaha Hadid Architects is working with developer Sunland Group on a 486-unit residential development with three towers next to the Brisbane River in Toowong. John Hill

This addition to a 100-year-old bungalow in Bay Village, Ohio (a small town west of Cleveland), is particularly striking for the way it melds architecture and landscape through the plants covering its wall and folded roof. Further, a sunken terrace helps to bring sunlight into the...

Leica Store in San Francisco was completed in time to celebrate 100 years of Leica photography. WZ Architecture

This home for a family of four designed by Naoi Architecture & Design Office sits in a farming-district-turned-suburban-subdivision in Shiga Prefecture. In order to enable a lifestyle in harmony with nature for the outdoors-loving residents, the architects kept the surrounding landscape...

Inspired by the recent unveiling of Bjarke Ingels Group's Zootopia proposal for Givskud Zoo in Denmark, we've assembled some recent projects from World-Architects member firms to get an idea of the state of zoo design in the 21st century. John Hill

On Monday the Alvar Aalto Foundation announced a collaboration with the search-engine company Google, so the public can virtually visit Aalto buildings and learn more about the Finnish architect's architecture and designs. John Hill

Minimalist design meets everlasting intellectual values. Temple of books shaped into a long brick house in the side of the Big-Proud Peak, Hungary, from Foldes Architects. Foldes Architects

CODA: Collaboration of Design + Art, an online community that celebrates design projects featuring commissioned artworks, has announced the winners of the 2014 CODA Awards in ten categories. John Hill

Norway's Snøhetta has designed a pair of beehives installed on a rooftop in Oslo's Vulkan area, in an effort to educate visitors and bring more bees to the city. John Hill

The second installmant of Al Jazeera's Rebel Architecture series looks at Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari's efforts to rebuild villages in the flood-stricken Sindh region. John Hill