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Six design teams have been shortlisted in an international design competition for the future restoration, reimagining and rebuilding of Clandon Park, an 18th-century Palladian house in Surrey. John Hill

Through the Artisan House project, Morphogenesis looks to revive and re-establish a patronage for traditional Indian artisanal skills. Morphogenesis

Shou Sugi Ban – the traditional Japanese technique that translates to "burnt cedar board" – covers the exterior of this house in Austin's Travis Heights neighborhood. Selected in response to the clients wishes and the unique characteristics of the sloped site, the wood... Tim Cuppett Architects

A new restaurant designed by RCR Arquitectes, the recipients of the 2017 Pritzker Archtecture Prize, with Pau Llimona features flooring and other sintered stone surfaces that immerse diners in an "enigmatic" environment derived from a watercolor. John Hill

Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit of Berlin's GRAFT together with German politician Marianne Birthler will curate the German Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. John Hill

Taking the elemental life-force of oxygen as its inspiration, Oxygen Park is a unique public space designed for health and wellbeing in a desert environment. It has been created with the local community in mind, providing an open space in which to exercise, rest, and play. Qatar Foundation, AECOM

Wild Bär Heule Architekten recently completed a residential tower in Winterthur. Architect Ivar Heule answers our questions. Wild Bär Heule Architekten

The Design Museum in London has announced the shortlist for its tenth annual exhibition and awards "celebrating the world’s best design." John Hill

The Latvian architect, who most recently designed the National Library of Latvia in Riga, died on Monday at the age of 92. John Hill

On October first, the Yayoi Kusama Museum of Art will be opening to the public in a five-story building designed by Kume Sekkei in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district. John Hill

Cle Elum is a small town located about a 90-minute drive east of Seattle. The Ellis family, having earlier commissioned Coates Design Architects to design their house on Bainbridge Island, hired the firm... Coates Design Architects

Four months after Mayor of London Sadiq Khan pulled funding for Thomas Heatherwick's Garden Bridge, the Garden Bridge Trust has announced the controversial project's closure. John Hill

The latest children's book by author and illustrator Jeanette Winter is about the life of Zaha Hadid and the famed architect's "triumph over adversity." John Hill

With high illiteracy rate in Indonesia and lack of reading facilities, SHAU started a mission: to rekindle interest in books by offering a designed place for reading paired with multiple community activities. SHAU

The feature film debut of director Kogonada not only finds inspiration in the architectural mecca of Columbus, Indiana – it makes the city an integral character in ​Columbus. John Hill

The winner of an AIA Small Project Award, an AZ Award (for under... Anmahian Winton Architects

The American Architecture Prize has announced the winners of its Firm of the Year Award 2017 in three categories: architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture. John Hill

An international collaboration led by California's wHY has won the two-stage competition for the £25m Ross Pavilion and West Princes Street Gardens project in Edinburgh, Scotland. John Hill

Buildings designed by Lina Bo Bardi, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Kenzo Tange, Frank Lloyd Wright and others are among the dozen recipients of The Getty Foundation's 2017 Keeping It Modern grants. John Hill

Two years after receiving the Gold Medal from the Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney has been named the recipient of AIA Chicago’s 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award. John Hill

One of the most distinctive new towers visible from the west side of Manhattan across the Hudson River is Jersey City Urby, which looks like a number of blocks stacked slighly askew. More than just a new residential tower, it is one of the first so-called Urby projects, which combine residences... Concrete

A unique building in a strategic location: Composed of curved angles and surrounded by undulating balconies, New’R pays homage to Oscar Niemeyer as well as to the architecture of the 1970s French Riviera (André Minangoy and Michel Marot’s Marina Baie des Anges, for example) and... Hamonic+Masson & Associés

NOWNESS presents ØDE, a collaboration between Eliot Lee Hazel and Petecia Le Fawnhawk that was originally exhibited on digital billboards in Downtown Los Angeles last November. John Hill

Two Viennese projects: an extension to Steirereck Restaurant and The future of the city exhibition at  Technisches Museum Wien. PPAG

Narrow residential lots are par for the course in such Chicago neighborhoods as East Village, where SPACECUTTER's Cut Triplex is located. The site of this particular house is special, though, since it abuts an east-west alley. Architect Alex Gil of SPACECUTTER took advantage of this... SPACECUTTER

The ski resort at Lake Songhua in the Jilin Province of northeast China attracts skiers and winter sports enthusiasts. Its slopes are open from the end of November until early March. The resort was renovated in 2014, and is now an important destination for winter tourism, with 31 km of slopes and... Eduard Kögel

Seven teams have been shortlisted in the competition to transform the Citroën Yser garage in Brussels into a cultural center with an art museum, architecture center, and public spaces. John Hill

Late last month Jenny Sabin Studio's Lumen opened at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. World-Architects visited today to get some impressions of the 2017 YAP installation. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the six shortlisted buildings for the 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize, aka "the UK's best new building." John Hill

The name given this residential renovation is a fitting one: A main feature of Los Angeles architect Dan Brunn's renovation of a 1975 Frank Gehry house is hidden behind a large pivoting wall. In addition to the "Hide Out," the project includes a sculptural wood stair that references... Dan Brunn Architecture

Today the UK's Royal Mail released a special issue of ten stamps that feature "some of the finest public buildings erected in the last 20 years." John Hill

Varde Museums, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, and Tinker Imagineers celebrate the opening of TIRPITZ – a sanctuary in the sand that acts as a gentle counterbalance to the dramatic war history of the site in Blåvand on the west coast of Denmark. BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group

The ASMA (American Society for Muslim Advancement) and Büro Koray Duman are working on a new cultural center prototype that aims for the full integration of American Muslims into society while promoting and enriching their religious identity. The new center will be in New York City and is... Büro Koray Duman Architects

Parametric design, building information modeling, computer-aided manufacturing – these terms represent the digital change in architecture and the building industry. Such architects as Jürgen Mayer H. and Tobias Wallisser, as well as engineers like Werner Sobek, are carrying out... Carsten Sauerbrei

In a letter to The New York Review of Books, cellist Yo-Yo Ma makes a plea to save Point Counterpoint II, a floating concert hall designed by Louis I. Kahn in the 1960s. John Hill

A high school is like a small estate made up of work, recreation, leisure, encounter and shared places. The access as streets, squares provides perspectives that give life to the estate. Ateliers 2/3/4/