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13/10/22
The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced that The New Library, Magdalene College, located in Cambridge and designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects, is the winner of the 26th RIBA Stirling Prize, making it "the UK’s best new building." John Hill
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12/10/22
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe has announced that "Anna Bofill Levi. La arquitectura como contracanto: 1977-1996" by a quartet of Spanish architects is the recipient of the latest Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture. John Hill
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10/10/22
David Geffen Hall, home to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, opened its doors on October 8. World-Architects got a tour of the building's public spaces and acoustically improved theater. John Hill
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7/10/22
Designed by Morphosis Architects, the firm of Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne, the Orange County Museum of Art's new home in Costa Mesa, California, opens to the public on October 8, 2022. John Hill
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4/10/22
Radio Hotel and Tower, described by Rotterdam's MVRDV as a "colorful vertical village," opened in September in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. John Hill
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28/9/22
Chicago architecture firm Brininstool + Lynch announced on their website and social media channels that founding partner Brad Lynch died on Monday, September 26. He was just 64. John Hill
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27/9/22
OMA New York and Jacobs have unveiled their design for the headquarters of Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) in The 78, a large development underway on Chicago's Near South Side. John Hill
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22/9/22
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has announced that the Colosio Embankment Dam designed by by Loreta Castro Reguera and José Pablo Ambrosi of Taller Capital is winner of the 2022 MCHAP.emerge award. John Hill
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21/9/22
The Piranesi Award recognizes the best Central European buildings realized in the last two years. The call for proposals for the 2022 edition is now open, with a deadline of October 18. John Hill
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20/9/22
The Getty Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced Conserving Black Modernism, a grant program that will award $3.1 million over two years to preserve historic modern architecture designed by Black architects. John Hill
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16/9/22
Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA have been named recipients of Japan Art Association’s 2022 Praemium Imperiale, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists. John Hill
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14/9/22
The United States chapter of Docomomo has announced the twelve recipients of the 2022 Modernism in America Awards: 6 Awards of Excellence and 6 Citations of Merit. John Hill
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13/9/22
The Montreal Holocaust Museum (MHM) has revealed that the team of KPMB Architects and Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker Architecture has been selected to design the museum's new downtown home following an international competition. John Hill
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13/9/22
Inspireli Awards, the international contest for students of architecture, has announced the winners of its Beirut Port Competition, which asked students to develop innovative solutions for rebuilding the site of the August 4, 2020 explosion in Beirut. John Hill
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11/9/22
New York architect James Stewart Polshek, former dean of Columbia University GSAPP and founder of Polshek Partnership, the precursor to Ennead Architects, died at his Manhattan home on September 9 at the age of 92. John Hill
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8/9/22
Five anonymous design proposals for the Bezos Learning Center at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, are now available for public comment by September 19. John Hill
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7/9/22
New York's Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2022 National Design Awards, which recognizes design excellence and innovation in nine categories. John Hill
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5/9/22
The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design have announced that Germany's ingenhoven associates is this year's recipient of... John Hill
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1/9/22
The City of Helsinki and Helsinki Design Week have announced that Päivi Raivio is the recipient of the 2022 Helsinki Design Award, which recognizes "a designer or a design team for making Helsinki a better place to live in." John Hill
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1/9/22
"The year’s best new skyscraper," according to the jury of the Emporis Skyscraper Award 2021, is the Valley, a mixed-use tower in Amsterdam whose design was inspired by mountainous landscapes. John Hill
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29/8/22
After acquiring it for 1.15 million Swiss francs, the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds has taken possession of Villa Fallet, opening the first house worked on by Le Corbusier to the public. John Hill
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28/8/22
Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie is donating his extensive archive of sketchbooks, drawings, and models to McGill University, where he first designed what became his breakout Habitat 67 project. John Hill
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19/8/22
Andrés Jaque, founder of Madrid- and New York-based Office for Political Innovation, has been appointed the next Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). John Hill
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27/7/22
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has unveiled a trio of proposals that aim to keep the Chicago Bears pro football team at Soldier Field on the city's lakefront. John Hill
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21/7/22
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings in the running for the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize, considered "the UK’s most prestigious architecture award." John Hill
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19/7/22
The famed artist known for oversized sculptures of everyday objects, many carried out with his wife Coosje van Bruggen (1942–2009), died on July 18 at the age of 93. John Hill
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12/7/22
The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has unveiled renderings for the ninth MPavilion, designed by Bangkok's all(zone) and set to open in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens on November 17. John Hill
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10/7/22
The new, long-awaited Sixth Street Viaduct in Los Angeles, designed by Michael Maltzan Architecture, opened to the public on July 9. John Hill
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7/7/22
Azure Magazine has revealed the 24 winners of its twelfth annual AZ Awards competition. John Hill
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1/7/22
When we visited Mother's House, Robert Venturi's icon of postmodernism in Philadelphia, and told the resident, Agatha Hughes, that we were from Berlin, she replied, "How is Kristin?" That was in 1992. Since then, her fame in architectural circles has only grown. On July 1, Kristin Feireiss... John Hill, Falk Jaeger
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30/6/22
MVRDV is slated to turn Herman Hertzberger's Centraal Beheer office building into housing, while RSHP is reportedly exploring the transformation of its own iconic Lloyd's of London building into a hotel. John Hill
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29/6/22
FLUGT – Refugee Museum of Denmark, an international museum designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group that is devoted to stories about refugees, was inaugurated on June 25 by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II. John Hill
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27/6/22
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced that the Chapel of St. Ignatius in Seattle, Washington, designed by Steven Holl Architects and completed in 1997, has been awarded the 2022 Twenty-five... John Hill
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23/6/22
Baiziwan Social Housing is a large 12-building project spanning six blocks near Beijing's CBD. The design by Ma Yansong's MAD Architects accommodates 4,000 families. John Hill
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16/6/22
The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has announced the 38 Outstanding Projects culled from the more than 250 works nominated for the 2022 MCHAP and MCHAP.emerge awards. John Hill