Magazine

The 15th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, designed by Spain's SelgasCano, opens to the public on Thursday in London's Kensington Gardens. John Hill

Hauser & Wirth Somerset has announced that Alex Bank, Sam Casswell and Tom Graham, with their "The Garden Rooms" proposal, are the winner of the Shed Project, a competition for young architects. John Hill

The Bridge at Cornell NYC Tech, designed by Weiss/Manfredi, breaks ground and the world's first Passive House high-rise, designed by Handel Architects, is unveiled, as Cornell moves forward with its new campus on Roosevelt Island in New York. John Hill

Charles Correa, widely considered one of the most influential, prolific, and diverse Indian architects and planners, died in Mumbia on 16 June 2015 at the age of 84. John Hill

Brooklyn's Nomad Studio has installed Green Varnish in the courtyard of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM), the twelve-year-old building designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture. John Hill

Two new Maggie's Centres, designed by Steven Holl and Thomas Heatherwick, move forward with a groundbreaking and design unveiling, respectively. John Hill

The S-Bahn-Station Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz in Leipzig, Germany, is a wonderous space of concrete, glass block and light, the product of a collaboration between architect Max Dudler and lighting designer Andreas Schulz. John Hill

A five-minute film from developers Saif Sumaida and Amit Khurana explains 152 Elizabeth, a seven-story residential project designed by Tadao Ando, with interiors by Michael Gabellini, for a corner lot in Manhattan's Nolita (North of Little Italy) neighborhood. John Hill

The American Society of Landscape Architects has announced its 2015 honors recipients. Selected by the ASLA’s Board of Trustees, the honors include the Landscape Architecture Firm Award being given to The Office of James Burnett. John Hill

Politico Magazine presents a portrait of Southern Californian architect Teddy Cruz, who "has a new way of developing cities ... drawing inspiration from an unlikely place just across the border from his home in San Diego." John Hill

The TREExOFFICE co-working space launched today in Hoxton Square, the first initiative to be realized by the Park Hack project, which was set up to test innovative models that sustain and enhance public open spaces. John Hill

Artist Simon Terrill and architectural collective Assemble have teamed up to create full-scale "soft" versions of postwar British playgrounds inside the Architecture Gallery at RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) in London. John Hill

Bjark Ingels' design of Two World Trade Center for developer Larry Silverstein and tenants 21st Century Fox Inc. and News Corp has been made public via a Wired magazine article and a flashy three-minute video. John Hill

The London Festival of Architecture takes place throughout the month of June under the theme Work in Progress. We highlight ten of the installations, exhibitions, and events happening as part of the LFA. John Hill

The State Government of Western Australia has unveiled the winning design for a pedestrian bridge traversing the Swan River to connect East Perth with the new Perth Stadium on Burswood Peninsula. John Hill

The Architectural Review presents a 10-minute film by filmmaker Antonio Brasiliano and journalist Ursula Troncoso on Vigliecca & Associados's Parque Novo Santo Amaro V in São Paulo, which has evolved substantially since its 2012 completion. John Hill

The House of Music opened in Aalborg, Denmark, just over one year ago. Designed by Wolf Prix of Coop Himmelb(l)au, the building looks complex, but it is based on a simple courtyard building, as explained in a couple short films from Spirt of Space. John Hill

A 2-1/2-minute film from Spirit of Space takes viewers inside the timber-framed Tamedia Office Building in Zurich, Switzerland, designed by Shigeru Ban Architects. John Hill

The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has selected 5 teams to participate in the second stage of the Rail Corridor competition aimed at developing a conceptual master plan for a 24-kilometer-long former railway in Singapore. John Hill

After a setback last month, Google is moving forward with partial plans for an office expansion in Mountain View, California, designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studio. John Hill

Marc-Christoph Wagner from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art interviews Norman Foster, who turned 80 on 1 June 2015, about his childhood, path to architecture, hobbies, and approach to designing buildings. John Hill

The ETH Zurich Pavilion at the IDEAS CITY Festival in New York City (28-30 May 2015) is built of boards made from discarded beverage cartons, an example of turning waste into a resource, the "matter from which to construct or configure new cities." John Hill

Italian architects Filippo Pagliani and Michele Rossi of PARK have released PARK Mapp, a guide to modern and contemporary architecture in Milan, the city of Expo 2015. John Hill

Grüntuch Ernst Architekten has been named the first-prize winner in a competition to design the Porsche Design Tower, a new apartment building in Frankfurt. John Hill

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced that the Japanese practice of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa will design an expansion that will double the museum's size. John Hill

In commemoration of the Vienna Ringstrasse's 150th anniversary, Parabol Art Magazine has published a special edition with photos of Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank taken by Hagen Stier and a companion exhibition in the building. John Hill

On Monday, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, accompanied by His Highness the Aga Khan, officially inaugurated the Aga Khan Park in Toronto. John Hill

The Wall Street Journal reports on the headquarters of online game developer NetDragon Websoft in Changle, China, which is "shaped like Star Trek's Enterprise." John Hill

A team led by Mackenzy Vil fabricated the screens for MASS Design Group's GHESKIO Cholera Treatment Center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a "lo-fab" (locally fabricated) process documented in this four-minute film. John Hill

Memorial Day Weekend saw the opening of a two-block stretch of the Chicago Riverwalk, one of the most anticipated projects in the midwestern city. The riverwalk is designed by Ross Barney Architects (with Sasaki Associates), which World-Architects recently visited. John Hill

Take a look at some works from Perfect Home, the exhibition of Korean artist Do Ho Suh installed in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, through the lens of Nils Clauss. John Hill

The Ontario-based museum has shortlisted six architects/teams in a two-stage competition as part of their relocation to the Parks Canada Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site on the Trent-Severn Waterway. John Hill

The Architects Newspaper takes a look at the installation of a 135,000-square-foot (12,500-sm) green roof atop the SHoP Architects-designed arena that opened in Brooklyn in 2012. John Hill

The guest house Frank Gehry designed for Penny and Mike Winton in 1987 sold at auction in Chicago on 19 May after "lackluster bidding." John Hill

Steve Messam, a British artist, has created a self-supporting, walkable bridge from 20,000 sheets of brigh red paper in the green countryside of the Lake District, about midway between Glasgow and Manchester. John Hill, Katinka Corts

The groundbreaking of the Hunters Point Community Library in Long Island City took place last week, five years after Steven Holl Architects began working on the project. An exhibition at the Sculpture Center, and an online companion, celebrate this step forward. John Hill