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Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled their nature-inspired design for the Museum of Indigenous Knowledge in Manila, the Philippines. John Hill

The shopping mall at Brookfield Place in New York's Battery Park City, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, features two new highly transparent entrance façades supported by glass fins supplied by Sedak. John Hill

Burntwood School, a girls’ school in Wandsworth, London designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, has won the 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize, the 20th annual award for the UK’s best new building. John Hill

Photographer Hilla Becher, who famously documented industrial structures with her husband Bernd in and beyond their native Germany, has died at the age of 81. John Hill

The inaugural Hyundai Commission for the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall is Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas's Empty Lot, which consists of 240 triangular planters filled with soil collected from parks and gardens across London. John Hill

Designer and filmmaker Jamie Brightmore visited Banksy's much-hyped Dismaland "Bemusement Park" and put together what he calls the "official unofficial film" of the temporary art exhibition in Somerset, England. John Hill

Santiago Calatrava has been named the 2015 recipient of the European Prize for Architecture, awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. John Hill

The inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial opened to the public on 3 October 2015, running until 3 January 2016. Under the direction of curators Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda, the Biennial takes a look at "The State of the Art of Architecture" through more than 100 participating... John Hill

Chicago Horizon, the winning design in the international competition for one of four kiosks planned as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, has been built near the Museum Campus, where it will remain after the Biennial ends. John Hill

Called the River Building for its plan flowing across the landscape, the new building designed by the duo of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa for Grace Farms Foundation opened to the public this weekend in New Canaan, Connecticut. John Hill

In his contribution for the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto has placed found objects on spindly pedestals in a fourth-floor gallery of the Chicago Cultural Center, provoking the differences between "found" and "made" architecture. John Hill

Rotterdam's Neutelings Riedijk Architects have been commissioned to design the new ZIL Tower, so named as it will occupy the former ZIL automotive factory site close to the Moskva River and just five kilometers from Moscow's historic core. John Hill

An exhibition within an exhibition, BOLD: Alternative Scenarios for Chicago assembles 18 projects by Chicago-based architects as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial, now on display at the Chicago Cultural Center. John Hill

The contribution of Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich, and the Self-Assembly Lab, MIT, to the Chicago Architectural Biennial is an installation they call "the first architectural construction built by robotic machines using only rocks and thread, without any adhesive and mortar." John Hill

Yesterday the second MPavilion, designed by AL_A, the firm of British architect Amanda Levete, opened to the public in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. John Hill

New York's SO-IL – the duo of Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu – has inserted a series of portals made from steel studs over the ramps in the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. John Hill

Four architects/teams – MOS Architects, SelgaCano + Helloeverything, Tatiano Bilbao, and Vo Trong Nghia – have created full-scale dwellings inside the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. John Hill

Flanking the grand stairs near the main entrance to the Chicago Cultural Center is Studio Gang Architects' contribution to the Chicago Architecture Biennial: Polis Station, which proposes new ways of integrating police stations into their communities. John Hill

Most of the 100+ contributions to the Chicago Architecture Biennial take the form of displays that can only be looked at, but a few installations at the entrance to the Chicago Cultural Center, and one outside, invite people to sit for a while. John Hill

A facade with calligraphic letters set into light emitting concrete, designed and produced by LUCEM Lichtbeton, was recently completed at the Al Aziz Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE. John Hill

On Saturday the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial opened to the public at the Chicago Cultural Center under the theme "The State of the Art in Architecture." John Hill

A short film from Curry Stone highlights the work of Rural Urban Framework (RUF), the firm of Joshua Bolchover and John Lin that has been named the 2015 recipient of the Curry Stone Design Prize. John Hill

No worries if you missed it last year, the Vitra Design Museum recently posted a virtual tour of their major retrospective on Alvar Aalto, featuring commentary from curator Jochen Eisenbrand and Museum director Mateo Kries. John Hill

The Vancouver Art Gallery has unveiled Herzog & de Meuron’s conceptual design for a new 310,000-square-foot (28,800-sm) museum to be built out of wood in downtown Vancouver. John Hill

New York architect Deborah Berke has been named the next dean of the Yale School of Architecture (SOA), taking over for longstanding dean Robert A.M. Stern when he steps down next year. John Hill

World-Architects is excited to announce the launch of Catalan-Architects, the seventeenth platform under the World-Architects umbrella. The regional Catalan-Architects platform recognizes the amazing quality of buildings and landscapes produced in the region anchored by Barcelona. John Hill

The Ontario-based museum has unveiled the designs of five 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 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Dame Zaha Hadid will be the recipient of the 2016 Royal Gold Medal, what RIBA calls "the world’s most prestigious architecture award." John Hill

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations has shortlisted 6 design firms from the 48 firms under consideration in the two-stage selection process for the New U.S. Embassy Compound in Brasilia, Brazil. John Hill

John Wardle Architects has designed the inaugural Summer Architecture Commission, a new initiative of the National Gallery of Victoria's Department of Contemporary Design and Architecture. John Hill

The Linda Pace Foundation has unveiled plans for its new building designed by David Adjaye for a site along San Pedro Creek in San Antonio, Texas. John Hill

The recently completed Ryerson University Student Learning Centre in Toronto, designed by Snøhetta with Zeidler Partnership Architects, has a crystalline form accentuated by faceted panels with a prismatic finish at the building's entrance on Yonge Street. John Hill

After their competition-winning design for the 2020 Olympics stadium in Tokyo was scrapped due to rising costs, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has stepped down from the revised competition, unable to find a contractor to partner with. John Hill

Nearly one year after initial designs by China's Ma Yansong were unveiled to the public, refinements to the museum that filmmaker George Lucas is planning for a lakefront site in Chicago have been released. John Hill

Vitra Design Museum's Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design may have closed on September 13th, but for those who missed it the museum has a 25-minute tour of the exhibition from curator Amelie Klein. John Hill

The Dutch firm will lead the renovations of two Midtown-Manhattan libraries for the New York Public Library: the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building and the Mid-Manhattan Library, which sit across Fifth Avenue from each other. John Hill