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The construction of the residential tower The Cube in Beirut is finalized. Orange Architects designed the iconic tower for the Lebanese development corporation Masharii. Orange Architects

Studio Twenty Seven Architecture and Leo A Daly formed a joint venture to realize “La Casa,” the first permanent supportive housing project for the District’s Department of Human Services. A lively facade of glass and two types of wall panels makes the building...

With 20 percent of the votes, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture's (AS+GG) FKI Tower in Seoul, South Korea, has won the Building of the Year 2015 on American-Architects. John Hill

Stuttgart-based architects h4a have completed the new sports hall for the Kepler- and Humboldt-Gymnasiums in Ulm, a boxy building stacked with three gyms one above the other. The interior is elegantly blurred by a sculptural facade of twisting aluminum fins. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

The new planning measures leave the villa's historical park untouched and thus keep open the possibility of a careful and gradual development with respect to its historical condition. Levin Monsigny

This new iconic landmark is located on the Chalmers University campus in Gothenburg, Sweden and acts as an incubator for the stimulation of innovations in the construction sector as well as hub for collaboration between private, public and academic sectors. White arkitekter AB

Developers Saif Sumaida and Amit Khurana have unveiled a rendering of the 35-story, 80-unit residential tower that Pritzker Prize-winning, Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza is designing for 611 West 56th Street in Manhattan. John Hill

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel has compiled clips from some of its excellent interviews with architects to "share their inspirational thoughts on what it is that makes global architecture work." John Hill

In 2009 the central government began the so-named Go West campaign to improve infrastructure and stimulate industrial growth in western inland provinces. Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan province, is one of the centres identified by this campaign. More than ten million inhabitants live in this...

Nested on the edge of the River Seine in Paris, these housing units are now possible thanks to "La Loi Alur," a new legislation that allows urban "enheightement." Malka Architecture

The CTRI is a new research building on the site of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue Cégep (equivalent to a Junior College) dedicated to recycling industrial residue and other underutilized resources.  Groupe Conseil Trame / BGLA

The New York Times reports that "MoMA trims back some features of its planned renovation," being designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. John Hill

"The Weight of Sacrifice," by 25-year-old Chicago architect Joseph Weishaar and New York sculptor Sabin Howard, has been chosen as the winning design in the two-stage competition for a World War I memorial in Washington, DC. John Hill

As the first new-oriental style boutique hotel in Shenzhen, Duoduo Group cooperates with YANG Hotel Design Group to build this HUI HOTEL. Hotel is located beside Shenzhen Central Park which has a one-thousand meters green belt, close to Huaqiang Nort YANG Hotel Design Group

The design of our project was developed to focus on three strong intentions structured by the heirloom of this singular parcel. ECDM

The winery is composed into the scenic South Moravian countryside scattered with vineyards. Chybik+Kristof ARCHITECTS & URBAN DESIGNERS

The LeJeune Residence, located in the heart of the Plateau-Mont-Royal Borough of Montreal, Canada, was built in 1890. Its transformation carried out in 2013, involved a play between municipal constraints and the clients’ vision. Architecture Open Form

Architect Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein have completed their much-anticipated addition to the 19th-century Swiss National Museum, a jagged concrete mass that touches down in three points to connect the old and new buildings to the adjacent Platzspitz park. John Hill

The expansion of the private Khabele School's campus in Austin, Texas, started modestly for architect Tim Derrington: "simple additions, small permitting projects, even the design of a perimeter fence." But it blossomed into the school's first new building,...

What does the selection of Alejandro Aravena as the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate mean for the future of "architecture's Nobel"? World-Architects ponders the question and offers a handful of nominations for future Pritzker Prize juries to consider. John Hill

Dublin's Heneghan Peng Architects, with Toronto's Kearns Mancini Architects, has bested four other finalists to win the international competition for the new $45-million Canadian Canoe Museum in Ontario. John Hill

Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture have unveiled their redesign of Berlin's historic Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe), which makes the large department store comprehensible by breaking it into four quadrants, each with its own atrium. John Hill, Katinka Corts

Cuyperspassage is the name of the new tunnel at Amsterdam Central Station that connects the city and the waters of the IJ-river. Since the end of 2015 it has been used by large numbers of cyclists, some 15,000 daily, and pedestrians 24 hours a day. Benthem Crouwel Architects

New York's Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has unveiled its latest design for the transformation of McKim, Mead & White's James A. Farley Post Office into the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Train Hall across the street from Penn Station. John Hill

Ben van Berkel / UNStudio’s first completed project in Belgium – ‘Le Toison d’Or’ - has been realized in Brussels. UNStudio

The concept of this design is to ensure privacy and safety, and also create a living space which makes family members happy and easy. At night, the shadow of the houses will change according to the light of the moon and stars,  just like expressions on people’s face.  Architect Show co.,Ltd.

Less than a year after Bjarke Ingels's firm redesigned Two World Trade Center for 21st Century Fox and News Corp, the companies have decided to remain in Midtown Manhattan until 2025. John Hill

Much-loved children’s author Roald Dahl was the inspiration for a new dining hall and after school facility in Buckinghamshire’s Prestwood Infant School. The author – who lived locally – had already apparently based the headteacher Miss Trunchbull in his popular book... De Rosee Sa and PMR

Flanagan Lawrence has won an international competition to design a Summer Theatre in Szczecin, Poland. Flanagan Lawrence

Bureau SLA presents its monumental Fort Asperen Dome. The glass dome aims at preventing the rain from entering the fort, but also possesses a unique chasacteristic: openings that allow bats to enter the fort and seek shelter during the winter. Bureau SLA

A twentieth-century building, updated to XXI century: OOIIO won first prize in the public competition for the construction of the new Business Incubator Office Building in Madridejos, Toledo, Spain. OOIIO Architecture

Just BE is an apartment building located in Colonia Condesa, a neighborhood renowned for its social and commercial activity as well as its nightlife. The building sits on the same street as the Fondo de Cultura (Cultural Fund) and the old Bella Época cinema theatre, a 1940's... Arqmov Workshop

The 20th century witnessed the development of a number of philosophical movements addressing early childhood education, such as the Montessori and Reggio Emilia approaches, both born in Italy. In the latter, teachers facilitate the children's creative learning in environments that enable...

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the recipients of the 2016 Institute Honor Awards, 18 projects from approximately 500 submissions in three categories: architecture, interior architecture, and regional and urban design. John Hill

The motto of Expo 2015 in Milan, "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life," was translated in the French pavilion into a built landscape designed by Parisian architecture firm XTU, with lighting design by Bonn's Licht Kunst Licht. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

Our client wanted a solution that maximized floor area on a long narrow site on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. They did not want an all glass building, but wanted the benefits of large windows without compromising energy efficiency. Handel Architects