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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

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

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

American-Architects member firm Architecture Is Fun is featured in the most recent Success Story from Nemetschek Vectorworks. John Hill

This weekend sees exhibitions ending at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona and the Materials & Applications outdoor space in Los Angeles. John Hill

New York Review of Books architecture critic Martin Filler has issued a letter of regret just days after architect Zaha Hadid filed a lawsuit with the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. John Hill

Located in the heart of the historic Little Italy neighborhood in Cleveland, the townhouse is one of a pair of urban single-family residences at the foot of a hill dividing Little Italy from Cleveland Heights. John Hill, Bucchieri Architects

Architect Zaha Hadid has sued The New York Review of Books and architecture critic Martin Filler over comments in a recent book review. John Hill

Last week Chicago's Graham Foundation announced the 42 recipients of its grants to organizations, $480,000 to "support projects that engage original ideas in architecture." We highlight ten standouts from the bunch. John Hill

The "LEGO House" experience center broke ground in Billund, Denmark, yesterday as three generations of the LEGO Group family laid foundation stones for the Bjarke Ingels-designed building set to open in 2016. John Hill

Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's first solo show at the Louisiana Museum of Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, opens today, running until January 4, 2015. John Hill

Urban Reef, the competition-winning design of Kaz Bremner, Jeremiah Deutscher, Michael Siy and Kenneth Navarra, has taken over one block of Vancouver's Robson Street with a curling sculpture that invites people to sit, relax and play. John Hill

The Moscow Times reports that the Shukhov Radio and Television Tower, threatened with demolition, has been placed on an official protected landmarks list. John Hill

The first installment in Al Jazeera's Rebel Architecture series looks at "self-build legend" Santiago Cirugeda's work in and around Seville, Spain. John Hill

As part of its BMW Tate Live 2014 series, London's Tate Modern presents Up Hill Down Hall: An Indoor Carnival, a new performance commission that will take place in the museum's turbine hall on Saturday, August 23. John Hill

Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association exhibits for the first time the architectural drawings from the private collection of Alvin Boyarsky. It opens at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis on September 12. John Hill

The U.S. Department of State has announced that Ennead Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have been selected as design architects for new U.S. Embassies in, respectively, Ankara, Turkey, and Colombo, Sri Lanka. John Hill

Good architecture depends upon good clients, a fact not lost on Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NPC), as evidenced by the buildings gracing its four international campuses. This year NPC expanded its New Jersey campus with five new buildings. John Hill

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey has unveiled the new World Trade Center logo via the construction fences wrapping the 16-acre site. John Hill

Jeffry's House is a an installation at Ards Forest Park in County Donegal, Ireland, by architect Thomas O Brien and artist Emily Mannion. In this short film we see how the duo built the wood-and-thatch structure and how it fits into the surroundings. John Hill

Results for [AC-CA]'s [PARIS] River Champagne Bar competition have been announced. Here we highlight the three winners. John Hill

So much architectural photography has a perfected sheen to it, but the architectural images of Italian artist Nicolò Quirico, on display at Costantini Art Gallery in Milan, have a patina that arises from them being printed on pages from old books. John Hill

The official LEAF judging panel has announced its 2014 shortlist of entries, projects in 12 categories that "are setting the benchmark for the international architectural and design community." John Hill

Celebrity developer Donald Trump, working with Indian real estate developer Lodha Group, has unveiled his second foray into India (and first in Mumbai) with a 75+-story tower designed by Singapore's WOHA. John Hill

Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger today announced his appointment of Amale Andraos as the next dean of the University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. John Hill

Can't make it to Washington, DC, to see the BIG Maze at the National Building Museum? No worries, as you can own your own miniature replica of the installation. John Hill

The letters B-U-S stand 14-feet-high in the conceptual sculpture and bus stop created by the Spanish collaborative mmmm… as part of the initiative TRANSIT – Creative Placemaking with Europe in Baltimore. John Hill

The American Institute of Architects' Los Angeles chapter (AIALA) has announced that Platform for Architecture + Research will receive the highest honor they bestow on an emerging architecture firm for consistently producing innovative architecture. John Hill

Architecture for Humanity co-founder Cameron Sinclair launches the Dead Prize, which highlights the worst designs, projects that have caused harm to the environment. John Hill

To celebrate its new home designed by 2014 Pritzker Prize laureate Shigeru Ban, the Aspen Art Museum is holding a free 24-hour opening on August 9th and 10th with art, music, performance, film, tours, activities, talks, and food. John Hill

The Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation (BBP) has unveiled fourteen design proposals for two parcels at Pier 6, issued in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP). John Hill

Seven years after completing the Bloch Building, designed by Steven Holl Architects, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and New York's Weiss/Manfredi are imagining a cultural district anchored about the museum. John Hill