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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

In 2009 Steven Holl Architects won a two-stage competition for a building to house the Glasgow School of Art's design department. Located across the street from Charles Rennie Mackintosh's 1909 Arts and Crafts landmark, Holl responded through contrast – glass instead of stone...

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

Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us some stunning photographs of a handful of the pavilions at the Expo Milano 2015.

The two lecture halls are faithfully superimposed over the layout of the existing parking lot, while clearing around itself a smooth space, manageable and comprehensible by its users. Atelier Zündel Cristea

This 118,000 sq. ft. (11,000 m²) office building recently completed construction in the El Golf section of Santiago. Handel Architects

The Cermak – McCormick Place station serves the country’s largest convention center and a stretch of the Green Line that has been without a station since 1978.

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

FAT (Fashion, Architecture, Taste), the UK firm of Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob, announced their closing in late 2013, with A House for Essex, designed in collaboration with artist Grayson Perry, serving as the studio's last completed commission. John Hill

The Design Museum in London has selected six Designs of the Year in its eighth annual awards. Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena and his firm Elemental have won in the Architecture category with the UC Innovation Center - Anacleto Angelini. John Hill

The glass box is the default form for office buildings in the 21st century, meaning that detailing and articulation – glass surfaces, spandrels, and mullions – are the most important means of expression. But what if a glass box is malleable? Handel Architects' design for...

Architects flocking to Atlanta last week for the AIA National Convention were treated to a new ground-floor headquarters designed by 5G Studio Collaborative for the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects. John Hill

New York-based writer Fred Bernstein traveled to Milan for the opening of the Expo Milano 2015 – themed "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life" – and sent us reviews of three pavilions: Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. Fred Bernstein

Diller Scofidio + Renfro has released preliminary concept renderings for the United States Olympic Museum, scheduled for a spring 2016 groundbreaking and an opening prior to the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, which will take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea. John Hill

Here we are in the heart of Paris, and in the 21st Century. The people who will reside in this establishment come for the most part from the surrounding neighborhoods; they were born and have lived their lives in Paris. Atelier Zündel Cristea

The templates imposed by sporting practices allow little room for complex manipulations of volume. Thus our pragmatic approach to the program, which we sought to keep as compact as possible. Atelier Zündel Cristea

The Dutch architects have won a competition to transform an abandoned section of highway in Seoul into an elevated park with over 250 species of trees, shrubs and flowers. John Hill

Balinese architect Elora Hardy's motto is, "Bamboo will treat you well if you use it right." In this ten-minute TED Talk, she explains how her firm Ibuku creates beautiful and sustainable buildings that "respect the material." John Hill

“Welcome to the world’s most equitable supermarket,” says a young man trained to greet guests in several languages. This supermarket is the centerpiece of the Swiss pavilion at the World Expo 2015 in Milan — where countries were asked to explore the theme “Feeding... Fred Bernstein

SecondMedia's Foamspace submission is the winner of Storefront for Art and Architecture’s 2015 Street Architecture Prize Competition, to be displayed as part of the IDEAS CITY Festival in New York City at the end of May. John Hill

Assemble, an 18-member "collective based in London who work across the fields of art, architecture and design," is one of four finalists in the Tate's prestigious Turner Prize 2015. John Hill

Two buildings with disparate functions and programing create an ensemble, in which an expanded field of potential experience is promoted. A monolithic, poured-in-place hardened concrete data center and a flexible, open steel frame office building, are positioned and shaped as sisters. Duvall Decker Architects

Artist Daan Roosegaarde has virtually flooded the Museum Square in Amsterdam with his Waterlicht installation, which "lets you experience how the Netherlands would look like without waterworks." John Hill

Germany’s pavilion, seen from the main route through the Expo, isn’t especially impressive. Indeed, it looks something like a boardwalk on which several tents have... Fred Bernstein

The 1100 m2 multi-purpose hall and the latest two-level addition to Gammel Hellerup High School just north of Copenhagen, provides existing students with generous spaces for social and creative unfolding, while increasing the capacity of the school in response to its growing popularity. BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group

Often the best buildings aren't the most flashy or iconic; they are the ones that fit into a city so well they seem to be forever a part of it. This isn't to say that Mecanoo's design for the offices of the Boston Public Schools Division doesn't have contemporary flourishes...

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, wants a green bridge crossing the Thames. Critics point out that the Garden Bridge would not be a public space. The fact that state funds are nevertheless channelled into its construction and maintenance has prompted them to take this case to court. Oliver Pohlisch

The European Commission, along with the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, announced today that Szczecin Philharmonic Hall is the winner of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. John Hill

The Catalan studio of Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, and Igor Urdampilleta has won for the Luz House, a single-family house born from the transformation of an existing structure in Cilleros, Spain. John Hill