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The recipients of the 25th Piranesi Awards were announced last week at the conclusion of the Piran Days of Architecture in Slovenia. From the 40 nominated projects culled from 8 countries in the Alpe Adria region and Central Europe, the Piranesi Award was given to Ring Road Bressanone-Varne in... John Hill

An incident kills two people at the São Paulo stadium set to host the opening ceremony of the Brazil World Cup next year. John Hill

Frank Gehry moves forward on plans for two large-scale projects in his adopted and native hometowns. John Hill

The 500,000 square meter (5.3 million sf) terminal designed by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas opens November 28. John Hill

Removing the buildings from architectural photography may not seem like something to celebrate in the age of Photoshop, but there is something appealing about the photos of famous buildings hand-cut by Mexican artist Jose Dávila, 90 of them assembled in the new book There But Not. John Hill

Studio Mishin approached Arup's Materials Consulting and Lighting Design teams for help in engineering a perforated copper stair in the center of the Villa Mallorca in Spain. The pleated planes of the three-story-high staircase are made from 200 square meters (2,150 square feet) of copper... John Hill

This short film by Nathan Eddy, a journalist based in Germany, touches on the various issues surrounding the preservation of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital, through interviews with critics and preservationists on the one hand, and the client and a lawyer on the other. John Hill

Musician and architecture enthusiast Kanye West stopped by Harvard GSD to talk with students and give away some concert tickets. John Hill

According to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in a new interactive infographic, the answer to this Churchill-esque question is: "Yes." The value of architects, per the AIA, lies in how they "can affect the mental and physical health of everyone that comes into... John Hill

The Nobel Foundation has selected three schemes in the competition to design its new home in Stockholm. John Hill

The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada honors the founder and chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network. John Hill

The CTBUH's ruling makes One World Trade Center the tallest building in North America. John Hill

Artist Greg Shapter has created an installation on the brick party wall of the Domus showroom in Clerkenwell, London, that resembles architect Zaha Hadid. The catch is that "I Am Zaha" can only be grasped fully from one spot, which the artist has marked with an "X" on the... John Hill

The Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop builds upon the town's past and present through a 500-strong collection of paintings and sculptures by local artists housed in five interconnected one-room galleries designed by Staab Architekten. The TECU® Brass cladding from KME gives the museum a strong image... John Hill

Italian company Zamperla has unveiled plans to transform landfilled San Biagio Island into an amusement park. John Hill

On October 20 the Sydney Opera House turned 40, celebtrating the milestone birthday of Jørn Utzon's masterpiece with a month of festivities: an anniversary concert, exhibitions, an architecture & design symposium, a website, a series of short films, and of course operas. Here we... John Hill

The Wall Street Journal gives its 2013 architecture and design honors to David Adjaye and Thomas Woltz. John Hill

The studio flats in the 1926 Bauhaus Dessau are now available as hotel accommodations for travelers. John Hill

Santiago Calatrava has released renderings of his design of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church. John Hill

While many cities around the world are furnished with cookie-cutter bus stops that are often emblazoned with advertising, the village of Krumbach, Austria, is taking a much different approach, inviting seven international architects to design one-of-a-kind shelters. John Hill

To recognize the achievements of firms profiled on World-Architects.com, we present the third biannual roundup of Awards, Competitions, Completed Buildings, Exhibitions, and Monographs; carefully selected, just like the profiles. John Hill

A Usonian house Frank Lloyd Wright designed in 1939 is finally realized, the 13th Wright building at FSU. John Hill

Most of the participating architects in "Architecture for Dogs" are from Japan—such as Kazuyo Sejima, Toyo Ito, Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, Atelier Bow-Wow, and project director Kenya Hara—so it's fitting that the final leg of the project's world tour takes place at... John Hill

To mark the release of its Dekton "ultra-compact surface," Cosentino is holding an exhibition (until October 31) at the Center for Architecture in New York City. The show highlights Daniel Libeskind's "Beyond the Wall" sculpture being realized at Cosentino's global... John Hill

The 45-story Torre David in Caracas, Venezuela, that is now home to an informal community of more than 750 families is a far cry from the high-profile commissions Iwan Baan is normally commissioned to photograph. It is one of the "ingenious homes in unexpected places" he discusses in... John Hill

The two big-name architects will design the residential buildings that make up Phase 3 of London's Battersea Power Station development. John Hill

The Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) selected two innovative community projects—in Palestine and USA—for its 2013 awards. John Hill

Developer Cathedral Group has asked 20 architects and designers to design dolls' houses for the 21st century. Each will be auctioned off next month to raise money for KIDS, a UK charity that helps disabled children and their families. John Hill

The award will be presented to the architect on Tuesday 19 November at a lecture she will give at RIBA in London. John Hill

Maryn Hekker is the recipient of the Best Overall Submission award in the Nemetschek Vectorworks competition. John Hill

While in Singapore for the 2013 World Architecture Festival, World-Architects visited local firm WOHA to check out their five-story office, chat about some of their projects in the city, and look at some in-progress projects. Here is our report. John Hill

On Saturday the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that Team Austria, made up of students from the Vienna Institute of Technology, is the winner of the 2013 Solar Decathlon, held at Orange County Great Park in Irvine, California.  John Hill

No, this short film—one of five made by Architectuul for the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Close, Closer—is not about architects falling in love with each other. It's about an architect and the building he loves, in this case Robert Slinger of Kapok Architects and John... John Hill

Preservationists have successfully halted demolition of M. Paul Friedberg's modernist landscape in Minneapolis. John Hill

The proliferation of building façades covered in apparently random rectangles of color should be called "the Swisspearl effect," due to the colorful spectrum offered by the Swiss company for its fiber cement rainscreen panels. Yet some architects use the colors more selectively... John Hill

Chinese investors are helping to resurrect Joseph Paxton's famous 1851 creation in its namesake park in London. John Hill