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Architect William (Bill) Hellmuth, the Chairman and CEO of HOK and nephew of founding partner George F. Hellmuth, died on April 6, 2023, at the age of 69, following a long illness. John Hill

On 10 December 2022, the 9th Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale for Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) curated by Lu Andong, Prince Gong, and Aric Chen, opened at the newly converted Kingway Brewery, in the Luohu District in Shenzhen. The conversion of the brewery... Eduard Kögel

As part of its “Built Ecologies: Architecture and Environment” video series, MoMA's Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment presents a short film on the New England Aquarium, designed by Peter Chermayeff and completed in 1969. John Hill

The location of a former gas station in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood has been transformed by GO'C into a gallery and community center with an open-air courtyard and rooftop for gatherings. The architects answered a few questions about the project. GO'C

After Rio (2021), Seoul (2017), Durban (2014) and Tokyo (2011), the International Union of Architects (UIA) is holding its World Congress in the city of Copenhagen from July 2 to 6, 2023. Silvia Pujalte Toledo

Portland's Waechter Architecture has completed Mississippi, a three-story commercial building that serves, in part, as the firm's own headquarters and is billed as the Pacific Northwest’s first “all-wood” mixed-use mass timber project. John Hill

The latest monograph on Thom Mayne and Morphosis, M³: modeled works [archive] 1972-2022, is a 1000-page tome that presents their entire 50-year oeuvre exclusively in photographs of the physical models that have helped make the Southern California studio so influential. John Hill

Streaming services are in abundance but only one is devoted to architecture: Shelter. Is it worth the monthly investment? Our review. John Hill

Number of affordable housing units needed to meet India’s growing urban population — expected to reach 600 million by... René Ammann

Ahead of its fourth annual summit of “architecture’s now, near, and next,” to be held at the Guggenheim Museum on Earth Day (April 22), The World Around has announced its inaugural Young Climate Prize winners. John Hill

The DART Laboratory (Digital Architecture Research Technologies) at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College has unveiled a “groundbreaking advancement in creating an ultra-lightweight, 3D printed concrete wall.” A short film shows the design and construction of Shell Wall. John Hill

As spring brings the promise of warmer weather, many people's thoughts turn to outdoor activities such as sunbathing, swimming, and sand volleyball. Juanita Beach Park in Kirkland, Washington, is a year-round neighborhood amenity with these and other activities. A bathhouse with restrooms... EHDD

Heatherwick Studio has unveiled their design of a new public library in Columbia, Maryland, for the Howard County Library System. The studio's first public library, the project aims to “reflect the changed role of the library.”  John Hill

Price of a flat-pack home for landless people living in Bangladesh’s river deltas who are frequently forced to move to escape flooding, René Ammann

Filmmaker Michael Blackwood, who directed and/or produced over 150 documentary films, most of them focused on artists, architects, and musicians, died on February 24 at the age of 88. John Hill

Elyn Zimmerman's Marabar, a site-specific installation on the plaza of the National Geographic Society (NGS) in Washington, DC, has been relocated to the campus of the American University (AU) in DC. Zimmerman reworked the 450,000-pound artwork and gave it a new name: Sudama. John Hill

Edward Denison, professor at The Bartlett School of Architecture, delivered his inaugural lecture as part of the school's International Lecture Series on March 15. “End Time: Reflections on Design, Modernities, and the Anthropocene” reflects on Denison's 25-year career researching and... John Hill

Nigerian-born artist, designer and architect Demas Nwoko has been named the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by La Biennale di Venezia. He will receive the award at the inauguration of the Venice Architecture Biennale on May 20, 2023. John Hill

With their lookout tower in the Hardwald recreation area near Zurich, Nadja and Lukas Frei of Luna Productions have won our readers' choice for the Swiss-Architects... Elias Baumgarten

The new headquarters for Houston Endowment is located west of Downtown Houston in Spotts Park, on the banks of the city's Buffalo Bayou. Designed by Kevin Daly Architects (kdA) in collaboration with PRODUCTORA, the building was dedicated on October 11, 2022. The architects at kdA answered a... Kevin Daly Architects, PRODUCTORA

The third edition of The Sculpture Park at Madhavendra Palace, Nahargarh Fort in Jaipur, India, is on display within the courtyard and apartments of the 19th-century palace until December 1, 2023. Among the fourteen contributors is John Hill

The Manchester Museum has become home to the UK’s first permanent gallery for South Asian art, courtesy of an extension designed by Purcell, the firm that boasts “the world’s largest team of heritage experts.” Ulf Meyer

The remodeling and expansion of the Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City by Taller | Mauricio Rocha has been named the winner of the 2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), the biennial prize that recognizes a built work in the Americas that best embodies architectural excellence. Taller | Mauricio Rocha

Bonus on top of the commission to any agent who can bring a buyer for a seven-bedroom estate in Bel Air, California, priced at $27,995,000, before the city’s “mansion... René Ammann

Michael Maltzan Architecture led the two-decade-long transformation of the Hammer Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The newly named Lynda and Stewart Resnick Cultural Center opens to the public on March 26. Ulf Meyer

The exhibition COMMON LANDSCAPE. Re-Cultivating Industrial Sites by Shanghai’s Atelier Deshaus will open at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin on March 31, 2023. The exhibition’s curator, Eduard Kögel, spoke with founding partner Liu Yichun about the firm’s architecture in advance of... Eduard Kögel

Combining the the Museum of Central Finland and the Alvar Aalto Museum, the new Aalto2 Museum Centre opens to the public in May, when it will play a major part of the 125th anniversary of Alvar Aalto’s birth. Ulf Meyer

Once again, a host of innovations were on display at this year's ISH in Frankfurt. New developments from the industries promise to open up many possibilities for a construction industry capable of implementing a circular economy. Leonhard Fromm

An abandoned market in Taiping Xu, China, has been transformed by MAD's Ma Yansong for Guangdong Nanhai Art Field. In a short film, Yansong describes the art installation while the camera reveals the transformed spaces of the largest abandoned building in Taiping Xu. John Hill

Due to the pandemic, the last "real" BAU trade fair took place in 2019. Regardless of whether we are talking about BIM, energy, technology or simply standardization and legislation: the transformation of the building sector is in full swing and a four-year break is no mere trifle in... Thomas Geuder

Heatherwick Studio: Building Soulfulness opened on March 17 at Mori Art Museum's Tokyo City View gallery. The first exhibition in Japan devoted to the UK studio of Thomas Heatherwick, Building Soulfulness displays 28 major projects over the last three decades. Ulf Meyer visited... Ulf Meyer

Number of high-rise office buildings in the United States that sit on seismic base isolators, apart from the (W)rapper by... René Ammann

Two notable recent passings: Thomas Hacker, one of the most influential architects in the US state of Oregon, died on February 27 at the age of 81; and British architect Michael Wilford, longtime partner of James Stirling, died on March 10 at 84 years old. John Hill

As part of the 2022 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB2022) that ran from December 10, 2022 until March 12, 2023, Studio Link-Arc hung an inverted pyramid of 400 bricks made from mushrooms from the ceiling of a converted old brewery in Shenzhen. John Hill

The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced that Japanese architect Tadao Ando will design the next MPavilion, which will open in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens on November 16, 2023. John Hill

Michael Graves Architecture & Design, along with DeSimone Consulting Engineers and Wehr Constructors, is being sued by Humana Corporation over "latent defects" in its nearly 40-year-old postmodern headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, designed by Graves. John Hill