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Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture (JPDA) has completed the new Dwana Smallwood Performing Arts Center (DSPAC) – a community resource that celebrates dance education in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Generous support from Oprah Winfrey allowed dancer Dwana Smallwood to... Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture

This project is a rebuild of an existing post 1991 Fire-storm house. Situated high on top of the Eastbay mountain range overlooking the city of Oakland, the site has unobstructed view’s toward the southwest Bay and Golden Gate. It was designed for a young family, who desired an open plan... Terry & Terry Architecture

Grand Mall Park is a 700m long park located in "Minato Mirai," a seaside urban area in Yokohama. stgk inc.

Qianfoya Cliff Inscriptions in Guangyuan, Sichuan Province date back to about 1700 years ago in North Wei Dynasty (4th Cn. AD). Due to their severe deterioration, the National Administration of Cultural Heritage firstly approved an experimental project of conservation architecture to protect a... Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University

Drexel University’s Hillel House is sheathed in local red brick as textured fabric draped in an abstract menorah that terraces down to the street. Arranged on four interconnected levels, the square building has thickened side walls which contain services, and four central columns which... Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Inc.

The SIX is a 52-unit LEED Platinum affordable housing project that provides a home, support services and rehabilitation for previously homeless and/or disabled veterans. It is located in the MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles. Brooks + Scarpa

The house is located on the French Riviera, at the very end of a small road, in a old hamlet built around a local spring that has been known since before the XIXth century. ELLENA MEHL Architects

Eray Carbajo announces Urban Rural, a new dwelling typology for a sustainable transformation strategy that will become exemplar for Istanbul's future redevelopment, with construction completion in 2019. Eray Carbajo

Located in a village in the south of France, the project of "quiet villa" meets a very particular context. Artelabo

Kannikegården in Ribe, Denmark, is one of five finalists for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The winner will be announced in Brussels on May 12th. Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects

Ely Court in London, England, is one of five finalists for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The winner will be announced in Brussels on May 12th. Alison Brooks Architects

The transformation of a former car show room on the outskirts of a housing estate into a site of the MY DVA group, focusing on the production of office, school and metal furniture, represents another finished structure of the young architecture firm CHYBIK + KRISTOF Architects & Urban... CHYBIK + KRISTOF Architects & Urban Designers

In forthcoming years, the University of Montréal, one of the city’s major institutions, will be opening a second campus located on a former railway yard. civiliti

10 DESIGN has been appointed as Lead Design Architect, following an international design competition for this landmark mixed use development in Hengqin. 10 DESIGN

De Flat Kleiburg in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is one of five finalists for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The winner will be announced in Brussels on May 12th. UPDATE: De Flat Kleiburg has won the 2017 EU Mies Award; NL Architects, XVW Architectuur

The Katyn Museum in Warsaw, Poland, is one of five finalists for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The winner will be announced in Brussels on May 12th. BBGK Architekci, Jerzy Kalina, Maksa

The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum in Rivesaltes/Ribesaltes, France, is one of five finalists for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The winner will be announced in Brussels on May 12th. Rudy Ricciotti

Chicago-based developer Riverside Investment & Development celebrated the debut of the 150 North Riverside office tower, which opened for business in February, with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony on 20 April 2017. Goettsch Partners

The architect Jean-Pierre Lott has just delivered the new media library of Vitrolles. Located in the heart of the district of Les Pins, it symbolizes the renewal of the town center. John-Pierre Lott

In 1891 the city of Paris registered this 100-meter passageway, open two years prior on the property of sieur Delessert, between the Rue Pierre Dupont and the Quai de Valmy. AAVP Architecture

The project is a new community hub for the UBC Dairy Research Centre in Agassiz, British Columbia. The project offers quality faculty and student housing in addition to common social, research and infrastructure spaces, arranged around a common courtyard to create a vibrant community. LWPAC - Lang Wilson Practice in Architecture Culture

The client for this project has a large art collection, and wanted to start a new chapter in life with his family in a house with museum-like qualities that would take advantage of this collection. The neighborhood surrounding the site is quiet, so in order to keep noise to a minimum and not... APOLLO / Satoshi Kurosaki

Synthesis Design + Architecture and IBM Watson Analytics have collaborated to merge data analytics, parametric modelling, and digital fabrication to create Data Moiré, a large scale interior feature wall recently completed for the IBM Watson Experience Center in San Francisco, California. Synthesis Design + Architecture

The bold form of the extension linking the two existing buildings, has been abstracted from the existing roof forms and respectfully acknowledges the heritage dwelling and streetscape. Damian Rogers Architecture

Today, the NYC Department of Transportation, Department of Design and Construction, Snøhetta, and the Times Square Alliance celebrate the completion of a reinvented Times Square, as the revamped “Crossroads of the World” embraces its role as a stage for public life and freedom... Snøhetta

This Contemporary Music Centre (SMAC) is a musical complex consisting of two auditoriums of very different kinds and recording studios, linked by a public space called the deck, running from one side of the building to the other. Hérault Arnod Architectes

The striking residence, a monolith designed of insulating concrete is located on a quiet street with little traffic in the village of Pliezhausen, a good 30 km south of Stuttgart. Steimle Architekten

SPARK has completed the design of Gateway One, a 71,600-square-meter mixed-use development and transportation hub for China Merchants. SPARK

The Double Duplex was created in response to the cities growing need for alternative housing models due to the rising cost of urban real estate and the need for urban densification within Toronto's established residential neighborhoods. Batay-Csorba Architects

London-based practice Architects of Invention has submitted a design proposal for 500 residential units in Birmingham’s Digbeth area. The practice was approached by Chinese private equity fund PGC- Capital whose The Jewel Court, 77 one-two bed luxury apartments, is already on site in... Architects of Invention

The media library "Third Place" is located in the northern French city Thionville. The architecture firm Dominique Coulon & associés from Strasbourg has not only developed a building, but a public space. JUNG

During the design phase we strived to preserve the scales of the village. We chose the archetypical form of rural houses. Small independent pavilions were the bases of our spatial system which envelopes all three functions: a nursery, health visitor centre and a surgery. Földes Architects

The Dutch architectural firm Studio Komma, in close collaboration with concept-developer The Men of Foam, is the winner of the ‘’Kavel 2 ‘Urban Lab’ Challenge’’ in The Hague, The Netherlands. Studio Komma / The Men of Foam

Civic, a young Dutch architecture firm that was recently founded by members of The Cloud Collective, developed a new concept for history museums. The concept was tested and applied in their proposal for the new national museum of Cyprus competition, which involves a 20.000 m2 archeology museum in... Civic Architects

Located in the suburbs of Beirut along the coastal highway to Byblos, the Aïshti Foundation has become a focal point in the previously industrial neighborhood. A mix of commercial and cultural programs defines the building. Julien Lanoo

While renovating the landmarked Landtag (state parliament) in Baden-Württemberg — the first construction of a parliament building in Europe after the Second World War — the plenary hall is to be naturally lit and opened up to the adjacent foyer. Staab Architekten