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on 2018-01-17
This year, for the first time, the Vatican will be participating in the Venice Architecture Biennale. The inaugural Holy See pavilion will exhibit ten small chapels designed by ten invited architects. John Hill
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on 2018-01-12
The American Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the 2018 AIA Institute Honor Awards: nine awards in architecture, five awards in interior architecture, and three awards in regional and urban design. John Hill
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on 2018-01-12
In the overnight hours of January 10, demolition crews bulldozed the building at 341 Central Avenue in Whitefish, Montana, that Frank Lloyd Wright designed as a medical clinic in 1958. John Hill
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on 2018-01-10
Neave Brown, the pioneering architect of modern social housing and the 2018 recipient of RIBA's Royal Gold Medal, died from cancer on Tuesday at the age of 88. John Hill
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on 2018-01-09
Last night the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANY) announced the winners of the 2018 Design Awards in four categories – Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design – plus a Best in Competition winner. John Hill
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on 2018-01-09
For the first time in the prize's history, the American Institute of Architects will not be awarding a Twenty-five Year Award. John Hill
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on 2018-01-04
Apple's plan for a global flagship store at Melbourne's Federation Square, unveiled last month, is being met by opposition, due in part to the proposed plan's demolition of one of the buildings in the 15-year-old project. John Hill
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on 2018-01-04
The Oslo Architecture Triennale has announced the chief curators for OAT 2019, which will investigate "a potential architecture of degrowth" under the theme Common Future. John Hill
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on 2018-01-03
In 2017 the Building of the Week feature on American-Architects presented nearly fifty buildings located in the United States. To bring this year's feature to a close, we are holding a Building of the Year poll – with just a few mouse clicks you can vote for your favorite building. John Hill
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on 2018-01-01
Atlanta's John C. Portman, Jr., pioneer of the modern atrium hotel, died on Friday, 29 December 2017 at the age of 93. John Hill
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on 2017-12-27
Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has been hired by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, to transform the lobby inside its Gordon Bunshaft-designed building -- the first cohesive redesign in the museum's 42-year history. John Hill
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on 2017-12-21
The Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) has announced highlights from its new acquisitions, including drawings of Peter Salter's recently completed townhouses on Walmer Road in West London. John Hill
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on 2017-12-14
Take a peek at the U.S. Embassy London at 33 Nine Elms Lane. The building was designed by KieranTimberlake and will open for business on 16 January 2018. John Hill
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on 2017-12-13
Twenty years ago, Richard Meier's Getty Center opened to the public on a hilltop overlooking Los Angeles. The institution is celebrating its anniversary with an exhibition of photographs taken just before the project's completion. John Hill
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on 2017-12-12
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced a 62-strong longlist for its second biennial RIBA International Prize. John Hill
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on 2017-12-07
The American Institute of Architects has announced that Minneapolis, Minnesota's Snow Kreilich Architects is the recipient of the 2018 AIA Architecture Firm Award, which "recognizes a practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years." John Hill
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on 2017-12-07
New York architect James Stewart Polshek has been named by the American Institute of Architects as the recipient of the AIA Gold Medal, which is given to "an individual or pair of architects whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of... John Hill
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on 2017-12-05
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group's VIA 57 West, on Manhattan's West Side, has won the Emporis Skyscraper Award, having been judged the the best skyscraper completed in 2016. John Hill
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on 2017-12-01
Vincent Scully, who taught history at Yale University for more than six decades, died on Thursday at his home in Virginia due to complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 97. John Hill
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on 2017-11-29
The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced that Caring Wood, designed by James Macdonald Wright and Niall Maxwell, is the RIBA House of the Year 2017. John Hill
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on 2017-11-29
FIFA has released renderings of the seventh of eight planned stadiums that will be built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar. The design, by Fenwick Iribarren Architects, boasts of being the world's first demountable football stadium. John Hill
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on 2017-11-28
The second edition of the Young Talent Architecture Award has launched, inviting recently graduated architects, urban planners and landscape architects to submit projects created between August 2016 and the end of 2017. John Hill
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on 2017-11-24
At a recent ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the LafargeHolcim Foundation announced the winners of the LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for Asia Pacific, projects that "deal with buildings for education – involving the community and sustainably improving neighborhoods." John Hill
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on 2017-11-22
The recipients of the 29th Piranesi Awards, announced at the conclusion of the Piran Days of Architecture in Slovenia last week, include a chapel, a kindergarten, a community center, and a floating pool. John Hill
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on 2017-11-22
Three and a half years after the New York Public Library shelved Norman Foster's plan to dramatically transform the library's 1911 home in Midtown Manhattan, Mecanoo's pared-down master plan for the building has been unveiled. John Hill
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on 2017-11-21
Attendees at the tenth World Architecture Festival in Berlin last week voted on the winner of the Architectural Photography Awards 2017, organized by Arcaid Images and sponsored by Sto. John Hill
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on 2017-11-17
On Friday night the World Building of the Year and other winners in the three-day World Architecture Festival were announced in Berlin. John Hill
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on 2017-11-17
For the day-two evening keynote at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin, architect Charles Jencks and critic Pierre de Meuron spoke about the new Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. John Hill
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on 2017-11-17
Following the second day of keynotes, project presentations, tours, and other events at the 2017 World Architecture Festival in Berlin, the winners in fourteen categories were announced. John Hill
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on 2017-11-16
After a full first day of keynotes, project presentations, tours, and other events at the 2017 World Architecture Festival in Berlin, the winners in seventeen categories were announced. John Hill
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on 2017-11-15
The Marina Abramovic Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art (MAI), unveiled by the artist and the New York office of OMA - Office for American Architecture in 2012, has been cancelled, after its budget swelled and matching funds could not be raised. John Hill
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on 2017-11-15
Architect Rafael Viñoly kicked off the 2017 World Architecture Festival with a meandering and sobering keynote talk about the crises architects find themselves in and a way to move forward. John Hill
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on 2017-11-10
London's V&A has announced it is acquiring a three-story section of Robin Hood Gardens, the 1972 housing project designed by Alison and Peter Smithson that is being demolished as part of the Blackwell Reach development. John Hill
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on 2017-11-09
Steven Holl Architects and Rüssli Architekten have won an international competition to the new Geneva Operational Center for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) with a scheme titled Colors of Humanity. John Hill
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on 2017-11-08
Last week the controversial Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, designed by Frank Gehry, held a ceremonial groundbreaking on its four-acre site on Independence Avenue in Washington, DC. John Hill