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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Paulo Mendes da Rocha, "Brazil’s most celebrated living architect," will receive the 2017 Royal Gold Medal. John Hill

AIA New York State, an organization of the American Institute of Architects, has awarded its 2016 Firm of the Year award to WXY architecture + urban design, the multi-disciplinary practice led by principals Claire Weisz, Mark Yoes, Layng Pew, and Adam Lubinsky. John Hill

Zupagrafika, the "Hispano-Polish creative design studio" of David Navarro and Martyna Sobecka, are the creators of a series of irresistible paper collections inspired by modernist and brutalist architecture. John Hill

In a fifteen-minute TED Talk from February 2016, Michael Murphy, co-founder of Boston's MASS Design Group, presents some of their "lo-fab" projects that embody "a holistic approach that produces community as well as (beautiful) buildings." John Hill

Tomorrow, 24 September 2016, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture will be dedicated in Washington, DC. To celebrate its much-anticipated opening, we present ten facts on the project through photos of the completed building. John Hill

Architect Santiago Calatrava has unveiled plans for a "cutting-edge office building" to be located next to the Calatrava-designed Stadelhofen rail station in Zurich. John Hill

Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, of Los Angeles architecture firm Johnston Marklee, have been named the artistic directors for the second Chicago Architecture Biennial. John Hill

New York architect Steven Holl and Swiss professor Marilyne Andersen have been named the 2016 laureates of The Daylight Award in the Architecture and Research categories, respectively. John Hill

The long-awaited National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), designed by David Adjaye, opens to the public in Washington, DC, on Saturday. A timelapse from EarthCam documents the building's construction. John Hill

Riehen/Basel's Fondation Beyeler has announced that Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner has been commissioned to design the extension to the successful museum that Renzo Piano Building Workshop completed in 1997. John Hill

"The Park," the first-ever park on the Las Vegas Strip, opened to the public in April. Designed by New York's !melk landscape architecture & urban design, the five-acre park is dotted with clumps of steel shade structures alongside some 250 trees. John Hill

One day Robert Bezeau, a Canadian transplant living on the island of Bocas Del Toro in Panama, woke up from a dream and decided to build an entire village out of plastic bottles. A short film goes behind their construction and features a couple getting ready to move into the first plastic-bottle... John Hill

British designer Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled his "passionate effort to leave a meaningful public legacy for New York" with the Vessel sculpture of stairs and landings, to be the centerpiece of New York's Hudson Yards project. John Hill

An Occupation of Loss, an installation and performance piece designed by OMA/Shohei Shigematsu in collaboration with artist Taryn Simon, runs at New York's Park Avenue Armory from 13 to 25 September 2016. John Hill

Today Vectorworks, Inc. released the English version of its 2017 BIM software for AEC, landscape and entertainment design industries. John Hill

Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been named a recipient of the Japan Art Association’s 2016 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists. John Hill

The Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA) has announced the four finalists of the third annual Finlandia Prize for Architecture: Lappeenranta City Theatre, Löyly, Railo and Suvela Chapel. John Hill

Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. To track progress on the rebuilding efforts, we present 15 pieces – built and in-progress – on the 16-acre site. John Hill

At a press conference this morning, officials unveiled the design for the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center designed by Joshua Prince-Ramus's firm REX. John Hill

Taking aim at the refugee crisis and issues of migration, among other things, the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale, which opens to the public today under the theme After Belonging, asks, "Where do we belong? How can architects intervene in the reconfiguration... John Hill

For a short three weeks – from 1 to 26 September 2016 – Philip Johnson's iconic Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, is covered in bright red polka dots courtesy of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. John Hill

In London's Shepherd's Bush area, Henning Stummel Architects has built a house whose rooms are arranged like monks' cells around a courtyard. The roofs and walls are clad in standing seam metal panels covered with a unique bio-based coating. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

London's Design Museum has announced the nominees in six categories – Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Graphics, Product and Transport – for the Beazley Designs of the Year. Here we highlight the thirteen projects in the Architecture category. John Hill

Amanda Levete's MPavilion, the temporary pavilion installed in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens last year, finds a permanent home in the city's Docklands City Park, designed by MALA studio. John Hill

MoMA PS1 invited German artist Katharina Grosse to transform an abandoned building at Fort Tidlen, a national park on the city's Rockaway peninsula. She explains the explosion of color in the landscape in a short film from the Museum of Modern Art. John Hill

Olana, the 19th-century home of landscape artist Frederic Edwin Church in New York's Hudson River Valley, invited 21 architects and landscape architects to imagine a 21st-century version of Church's unbuilt summer house. John Hill

Architects Advocate Action on Climate Change, a platform made up of "architects dedicated to healthy and livable communities, and guided by scientific consensus and reason," publicly launches on the first of September. John Hill

Earlier this month Oslo's Snøhetta won the competition for the new Banque Libano Francaise (BLF) headquarters in Beirut with a design that features large planted terraces carved into the checkerboard-clad tower. John Hill

On Friday the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies announced the winners of their 22nd annual American Architecture Awards. John Hill

German architect J. Mayer H. unveiled his new installation, XXX TIMES SQUARE WITH LOVE, in New York City's Times Square this morning. The pink seats reference the X-shaped street inersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue as well as the adult theaters that once populated... John Hill

The Harvard Art Museums, which holds a 32,000-strong collection of objects relating to the Bauhaus, "the 20th century’s most influential school of art and design," has unveild a digital catalog ahead of the legendary school's 100th anniversary in 2019. John Hill

Tomas Koolhaas's much-anticipated documentary on his father, 71-year-old OMA leader Rem Koolhaas, will premiere at the 73rd Venice Film Festival, which runs from 31 August to 10 September 2016. John Hill

California architect and digital innovator Greg Lynn gives viewer a tour of Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention, his third and last exhibition exploring architecture and digital technologies, on display at the Canadian Centre for Architecture until 16 October 2016. John Hill

Chicago's Studio Gang Architects recently uploaded a number of short films on some of their completed buildings. Here we highlight a handful of the films, including one on their breakthrough Aqua Tower. John Hill

Columbia University Medical Center’s new Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), in collaboration with Gensler, will open to faculty and students on 15 August 2016 for the start of the fall term. John Hill

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has released new renderings of Swiss architect Peter Zumthor's design for their $600 million expansion. John Hill