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Thirteen years after winning first prize in an international competition, Coop Himmelb(l)au's design for the Musée des Confluences finally opened to the public in Lyon, France, on 20 December 2014. John Hill

City officials in Chicago have unveiled an 88-story tower designed by Studio Gang Architects for Chinese developer Wanda Group. The zigzag tower would sit in Lakeshore East, the same development as the architect's famous Aqua Tower. John Hill

The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the list of 420 projects from 36 countries competing for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. John Hill

Stereotank has been selected as the winner of the 2015 Times Square Valentine Heart Design, an invited competition organized by the Times Square Arts and the Architectural League of New York. John Hill

The University of Melbourne's Melbourne School of Design, designed by Boston's NADAAA and Victoria, Australia's John Wardle Architects (JWA), opened at the beginning of December, four months ahead of schedule. John Hill

Exactly 112 years to the day after Andrew Carnegie moved into his mansion on New York's Upper East Side, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum reopens after a major, three-year renovation of the building. John Hill

The American Institute of Architects has announced the recipients of its annual Honor Awards: the Gold Medal, the Architecture Firm Award, the Topaz Medallion, the Edward C. Kemper Award, and the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award. John Hill

The Presidio Trust has announced that James Corner Field Operations has been selected from among five finalists to design thirteen acres of new parkland overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. John Hill

Steven Holl Architects has bested seven finalists, including Zaha Hadid Architects and OMA, to design a new wing for the Mumbai City Museum, also known as Dr Bhau Daji Lad Museum. John Hill, Steven Holl Architects

Serpentine Galleries has announced that Spanish architecture practice SelgasCano, founded in 1998 by José Selgas and Lucía Cano, will design the 15th Serpentine Pavilion. John Hill

The Westminster City Council has granted planning approval for a pedestrian bridge designed by Thomas Heatherwick that would span the River Thames and connect Temple and Southbank in London. John Hill

The jury for the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition has selected six finalists from the 1,715 anonymous submissions submitted in October for the open competition's first stage. The finalists will develop their designs for the second stage. John Hill

The Prime Minister of Malaysia and the Mayor of London have unveiled the design by Bjarke Ingels Group for Malaysia Square at the mixed-use Battersea Power Station development in London. John Hill

At the close of the Media Architecture Biennale 2014 in Aarhus, Denmark, five projects in as many categories were acknowledged as "the world’s most outstanding accomplishments in the intersection between architecture and technology." John Hill

The recipients of the 26th Piranesi Awards were announced last week at the conclusion of the Piran Days of Architecture in Slovenia. John Hill

After Paris's city council narrowly rejected Herzog & de Meuron's proposed 42-story Triangle Tower for the city's Porte de Versailles area, Mayor Anne Hidalgo decried the vote as invalid and is calling for a second one. John Hill

While it's not yet December, World-Architects is already looking forward to a handful of buildings that will be opening in 2015. John Hill

Yesterday the Hudson River Park Trust and the Diller – Von Furstenberg Family Foundation Alliance announced plans to build Pier55, a public park and performance space designed by Thomas Heatherwick for Manhattan's West Side. John Hill

At a recent ceremony in Jakarta, the Holcim Foundation announced the winning projects of the Holcim Awards 2014 for the Asia Pacific, which "illustrate how sustainable construction continues to evolve." John Hill

The Smithsonian has unveiled BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group's proposed master plan for the institution's Washington, D.C. South Mall campus, made up of the museums and gardens along Independence Avenue S.W., from Seventh to 12th streets. John Hill

Wadden Sea Centre and the city of Esbjerg have announced Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter's proposal as the winning scheme for the extension and refurbishment of the Wadden Sea Centre in Vester Vedsted, Denmark. John Hill

The National Library has unveiled Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron's preliminary design for the library's new home to be built on a government-allocated site in the National Precinct in Jerusalem. John Hill

Atelier Jean Nouvel's One Central Park in Sydney, Australia, has been given the title "Best Tall Building Worldwide" by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) at the 13th Annual CTBUH Awards Ceremony and Dinner last week. John Hill

The Museum of the History of the Polish Jews, designed by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects has been named the 2014 Finlandia Prize for Architecture. John Hill

The Australian Institute of Architects’ 2014 National Architecture Awards were announced on 6 November at a ceremony hosted by Myf Warhurst at the Darwin Convention Centre. John Hill

The Architekturzentrum Wien has announced the prizewinners and special mentions in this year’s Az W Photo Award. The Photographs will be on display at the AzW, as part of "Eyes-On, the Month of Photography," until 1 December 2014. John Hill

The Chicago Architecture Biennial has announced the title of its 2015 inaugural edition – “The State of the Art of Architecture” – and its first participant, renowned photographer Iwan Baan. John Hill

On Monday Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and her Deputy Mayor in charge of urban planning, Jean-Louis Missika, launched an international contest calling on architects to propose innovative projects for 23 urban sites. John Hill

Austrian designers Gassner Redolfi and Swiss architect Alberto Alessi have won the Gold Medal of Design Austria's biennial award for the permanent exhibition Wood Perspectives at the Rubner Haus in Kiens, Italy. John Hill

On Monday, the 104-story tower designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) opened in Lower Manhattan, and on the same day SOM launched a photo contest to celebrate the building's completion. John Hill

Ma Yansong, founder of MAD Architects, has unveiled his design for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art proposed for a lakefront site in Chicago. John Hill

Bonnie Burnham, President of World Monuments Fund, has announced that the two-decade restoration of Alvar Aalto's Viipuri Library in Vyborg, Russia, has been awarded the 2014 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize. John Hill

Developer Larry Silverstein is moving ahead with the long-stagnant 3 World Trade Center, designed by British architect Richard Rogers, after selling tax-exempt bonds to finance the construction. John Hill

The newest design for the renovation of the convention center – originally intended to be a major redevelopment designed by OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture – has been unveiled by Fentress Architects and Arquitectonica. John Hill

The New York firm's design of Washington, DC's Constitution Gardens, with PWP Landscape Architecture, is approved, and their design of Minneapolis's Water Works park, with SCAPE / LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, is revealed. John Hill

The Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the 2014 Design Excellence Awards given in four categories: Distinguished Building, Interior Architecture, Divine Detail, and Unbuilt Design. John Hill