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In a statement posted on the CCA's website yesterday, Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza reveals where he will donate the archive of his "many years of activity dedicated to architecture." John Hill

The organizers of the 2012 Olympics in London have reached an out-of-court settlement with Atopia over the design of the Cauldron that was witnessed by close to one billion people during the opening ceremony. John Hill

De Unie Hasselt-Genk is billed as "a new and suprising art project" that, starting June 21, links the Belgian Limburg cities of Hasselt and Genk. John Hill

Architects Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, and Johnpaul Jones will receive medals from President Barack Obama on July 28, 2014. John Hill

Westadium, a consortium led by Brookfield Financial and John Laing, has unveiled their winning design for the new Perth Stadium, to be built on the Burswood Peninsula of the Western Australia city. John Hill

The opening of the Rose Pavilion, a multimedia pavilion developed by some young architects under the direction of Dimitry Demin with Prof. Ludger Hovestadt, the ETH Chair for CAAD, takes place at the ETH Polyterrasse in Zurich on July 23 at 8pm. John Hill

Zurich's E2A Piet Eckert und Wim Eckert Architekten have won the international competition for the new "Taz" office building in Berlin. John Hill

The University Center adds 375,000 square feet of academic and student space to The New School’s Greenwich Village campus in Manhattan. John Hill, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura has made its contribution to "Time Space Existence," a collateral event of the Venice Architecture Biennale, available online. The installation is a panoramic film that tackles the exhibition's three-word theme. John Hill

Furniture manufacturer Herman Miller has announced it will acquire the modern furniture retailer Design Within Reach for an estimated $154 million in cash. John Hill

Today is Friday, which means we're heading to the Museum of Modern Art for their UNIQLO Free Friday Nights. One exhibition we're excited to see is Conceptions of Space: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Architecture, curated by Pedro Gadanho. John Hill

Architect Sean Godsell is designing the inaugural MPavilion that will be installed in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens from October 7, 2014 until February 1, 2015. John Hill

Los Angeles-based architect Randall Stout died on July 11 after a battle with cancer. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed the six projects shortlisted for the 2014 RIBA Stirling Prize. John Hill

New York architect Steven Holl has been named a recipient of the Japan Art Association’s 2014 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists. John Hill

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced that University of Zurich professor and freelance curator Martino Stierli is The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design. John Hill

In response to budget cuts and criticism of the scale of the main stadium for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Zaha Hadid Architects has tweaked their competition-winning design. John Hill

Herzog & de Meuron's newest residential project for Ian Schrager is located at 357 West Street in New York's West Village, overlooking the Hudson River. John Hill

KCAP Architects&Planners, in a team of international experts, was chosen from four international entries as the winning proposal in the architectural competition for a new RER E – Eole - station in Nanterre, France. John Hill

LUCEM's light-transmitting concrete finds its first Berlin application at the Prenzlauer Berg development by Wolf Architekten. Current lighting technology allows the street-level façade to change colors on demand. John Hill

Renderings have been released for Studio Gang Architects' design of a 40-story tower at 160 Folsom Street in San Francisco for developer Tishman Speyer. John Hill

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, completes the final phase of the transformation of its 140-acre campus, centered on a Visitor Center designed by Tadao Ando. John Hill

On vacation this week as part of an extended (U.S.) Independence Day, an architectural highlight was a bird blind built in the Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary by students from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University. John Hill

Over at Architect Magazine, Aaron Betsky takes a sneak peek at MVRDV's almost-completed Markthal (Market Hall) in Rotterdam, an arching building whose underside is covered in colorful prints by artist Arno Coenen. John Hill

Bjarke Ingels Group's aptly named labyrinth opened on July 4th inside the West Court of Washington, DC's National Building Museum (NBM). The 18-foot-tall, 60-foot-square BIG Maze is on display until September 1st. John Hill

Herzog & de Meuron's seventh project for the Swiss manufacturer of herb drops has been completed in Laufen. Notably, the building is considered the largest loam building in Europe. John Hill

Frank Gehry, designer of a mixed-use development in downtown Toronto for David Mirvish, scales down the project from three towers to two, saving some old buildings in the process. John Hill

George Lucas's selection of Chicago for the home of his planned museum launches speculation on how the city was selected over San Francisco, who will design the museum, and what it will mean for Chicago. John Hill

The Art Institute of Chicago pairs two unlikely architects in the fascinating exhibition Architecture to Scale: Stanley Tigerman and Andrew Zago, now on display until September 14, 2014. John Hill

London's Design Museum has awarded Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Design Museum Design of the Year Award 2014. It is the first architectural project to be named Design of the Year in its seven-year history. John Hill

Hy-Fi, a project by David Benjamin's The Living, opened recently in the courtyard of MoMA PS1. The installation, the winner of the museum's Young Architect's Program, is made from special bricks that will be composted at the end of the summer. John Hill

World-Architects traveled to Chicago last week to attend the 2014 AIA National Convention, where we spoke with architects, looked at some great architecture, went to some parties, and learned as much as possible about where the profession is heading. John Hill

Our visit to the 2014 AIA National Convention included many hours walking the Expo floor to find great products used in great projects. One local building is Nagle Hartray Architecture's... John Hill

The jury for the Cosentino Design Challenge 2014 has announced the six winners – three in the architecture category and three in the design category – in the Cosentino Group's 8th international student competition. John Hill

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has named four regional winners – Americas, Asia & Australia, Europe, and Middle East & Africa – as best tall buildings in the world for 2014. John Hill

It's a busy week for New York architect David Benjamin, as his winning entry in the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program opened to the public on Friday, and Autodesk announced it has acquired his firm, The Living, to create an Autodesk Studio. John Hill