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Performance artist Reggie Watts, accompanied by actor Carolina Ravassa, gives viewers a bizarre 7-minute tour through Brasilia, "City of the Future." John Hill

Velenje was designed as a garden city and, as such, it had a lot of unoccupied ground-level surfaces. With the increase in the number of vehicles, these surfaces began to turn into car parks. ENOTA

eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of the 2015 Skyscraper Competition, which asked entrants to "challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments." John Hill

The residents of Vals, Switzerland, have unanimously approved the 381-meter-tall luxury hotel proposed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis for 7132 Ltd. John Hill

Tokyo-based Komada Architects Office designed this two-story wood-frame residence in a new residential development in Chiba Prefecture. By including a narrow band of windows between the top of the walls and the roof on both the first and second stories, the architects gave the building a feeling...

The Glasgow School of Art has selected a team led by local architect Page\Park for the restoration of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece that was damaged in a fire last year. John Hill

Doboz Bar is situated in the heart of Budapest’s entertainment district at the World Heritage site of the Old Jewish Quarter. 81font

Yesterday Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Faceboook that "we moved into our new Facebook building in Menlo Park, California," accompanied by a photo of the building's green roof. John Hill

Located near the north side of Chicago, Kids Science Labs is a learning and discovery center for children ages 2-12 built on the premise that learning science should be fun. Woodhouse Tinucci Architects

Harumi is an artificial island built on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay that saw the development of office and residential towers starting in the 1990s. That development will no doubt continue as the island is the site of the Olypmic Village for the 2020 Olympic Games. The announcement of...

Brussels Environment is the government authority in the field of environment and habitat in the Belgian Capital Region and is currently settling in one of the capital’s largest and most important urban renewal districts, the Tour&Taxis site on the Havenlaan. architectenbureau cepezed

Situated on the waterfront promenade of Tokyo Bay, this project is a focal point for the Harumi district. Richard Meier & Partners Architects

Early in March, architect Frei Otto died at the age of 89. He was announced posthumously as the winner of the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize – only the second German architect, after Gottfried Böhm, to receive this honor. Ulf Meyer looks back at the life of a visionary. Ulf Meyer

Artist Tomás Saraceno explores social and biological complexity through the manipulation of spider webs in a new exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York. John Hill

A finely designed and crafted personal environment is not only an expression of aesthetic sensibility – it enhances and restores wellbeing, clarity and harmony. Sagan Piechota Architecture

The NL*A Agency in Paris, working in partnership with property developer PITCH PROMOTION, has won a competition to build an office block in Nice. NL*A Paris

The IVB Operational Service Building is designed as a simple building that reacts to its environment. peterlorenzateliers

Developer Remo Stoffel has unveiled Morphosis Architects' design for an 82-story, 381-meter-high (1,250 feet) tower for the Swiss town of Vals that would become Europe's tallest building. John Hill

The latest design by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for the $600 million expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art sees a simplification of its form and other changes. John Hill

The Serpentine Gallery has released renderings of SelgasCano's chrysalis-like design for the 15th Pavilion, to be erected in London's Kensington Gardens this summer. John Hill

Paris is cautiously allowing tall buildings back into the city. The French agencies Hamonic+Masson and Comte et Vollenweider have just completed the first housing operation of 50 meters to be built in Paris since the 1970s. Hamonic+Masson and Comte Vollenweider

World-Architects got a sneak peek of the exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980, opening at the Museum of Modern Art on the 29th of March. John Hill

The metal "stealth emergency house," developed by Christ.Christ, is an art project. The architect sees it as a "discussion machine" in times of a raging economic crisis.

Al Maryah Island (formerly known as Sowwah Island) is a 114-hectare mixed-use development that serves as Abu Dhabi's International Financial Center. A key portion of the development is the five-building Abu Dhabi Global Market Square designed by Chicago's Goettsch Partners. The...

The facade of SEHW Architektur's design for the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) in Darmstadt, Germany, appears to form some kind of secret code, appropriate given the site's history. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

The Bazaar in Beverwijk, The Netherlands, the biggest indoor market of Europe, is our client. The Goud souk ("Gold souk") will be the new building for the gold dealers and goldsmiths, who now gather each week-end along the Goudstraat ("Goldstreet") at the Eastern Market of the... Liong Lie Architects

Chilean architect Smiljan Radić's design for the 2014 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion has been relocated to Hauser & Wirth's Durslade Farm in Somerset, England. John Hill

World-Architects organized and conducted the Guided Tours at the ISH 2015 in Frankfurt. World-Architects

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture has launched the online publication Schindler Lab, which documents their "initiative that prompts artists and architects to develop installations highlighting Rudolph M. Schindler's domestic experiment." John Hill

Havre is the largest of eleven public art commissions spread throughout the new MUHC (McGill University Health Centre) and the largest commission of the Quebec government’s Integration of art to architecture 1% policy realized to date. Linda Covit

A multi-facility municipal building with a primary school, an adult education center and a two-story underground public car park. The underground car park’s structural grid outlines the buildings above. SUMO Architects + Yolanda Olmo Alonso

The first installment in the Storefront for Art and Architecture's second season of Storefront TV features a one-hour "variety show" by Jimenez Lai and Michael Messner.

Spain's Mateo Arquitectura has designed the 46,000-square-foot Cultural Center to float above the Praça Largo da Devesa in Castelo Branco, Portugal. Mateo Arquitectura

The program of this rental property is conformed by offices on its first two levels and a residential loft on its upper floor. Arquidromo

A photo that landed in our inbox today shows the Nanjing International Youth Cultural Center in Nanjing, China, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and illuminated by 700,000 nodes of color-changing LED lights. John Hill

Wandsworth Council has revealed the 4 design teams selected from 74 submissions that will now proceed to the second stage of the Nine Elms to Pimlico bridge competition. John Hill