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Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets and Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) Director Dirk Denison have announced the MCHAP 2014/15 nominees and jury. John Hill

A combination of horizontal shelves, vertical fins and hidden LEDs dramatically illuminates the glasses within Bolon Eyewear's first flagship store, designed by Ippolito Fleitz Group with Pfarré Lighting Design. John Hill

A student team from TU Delft has developed and built a fully functional 3D-printed stainless steel bicycle. Watch its construction and assembly in a short film. John Hill

On Sunday the exhibition A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA, and Beyond at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City opens to the public. World-Architects got an early look and presents photos of just a few of the numerous models that make up the show. John Hill

Nowness presents a short look at Piet Oudolf, the planting designer of the High Line and one of the most influential landscape designers working today, and his "simple yet complex" garden in Hummelo, Netherlands. John Hill

The National Building Museum (NBM) in Washington, DC, has unveiled ICEBERGS, James Corner Field Operations' installation that will occupy the museum's huge Great Hall this summer. John Hill

FC Barcelona has announced that the Espai Barça jury has unanimously selected Nikken Sekkei + Pascual i Ausió Arquitectes  as the winning team for the design of the new Camp Nou. John Hill

Jeanne Gang has been named "Architect of the Year" by The Architectural Review, and her firm Studio Gang Architects has been selected to design the new U.S. Embassy Compound in Brasilia, Brazil. John Hill

Last week New York's $4 billion Transit Hub at the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan partially opened to the public devoid of any fanfare. John Hill

The competition-winning proposal by architects from VOA Architecture and engineers from Werner Sobek New York envisions the Pan Am Building (now the MetLife Building) at 200 Park Avenue in New York City covered in a patterned, double-glazed curtain wall. John Hill

In her new book, The Inspired Lansdcape, landscape architect Susan Cohen explores the creative process of 21 leading international landscape architects. Here we present an excerpt from the book and highlight just a few of the projects found in its pages. John Hill

Alejandro Aravena, director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice and recipient of the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize, hit the press circuit recently to discuss his Biennale theme, Reporting from the Front, and explain what exactly is going on in that photo... John Hill

Last night the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANY) announced the winners of the 2016 Design Awards in four categories: Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design. John Hill

Twenty-five years after an anonymous water tower in Milan's Porto Garibaldi was covered with a colorful palette of ceramic tiles, the team behind Torre Arcobaleno (Rainbow Tower) returned to refurbish the local landmark. John Hill

Rock Print, a collaborative installation of Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich, and MIT's Self-Assembly Lab, was one of the highlights of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Beinnial. A short film presents its dusty deinstallation. John Hill

About a year and a half after Chinese leader Xi Jinping called for an end to "weird architecture" in China, the country's State Council issued an official directive that says no to "oversized, xenocentric, weird" architecture devoid of cultural tradition. John Hill

French architect Odile Decq has won The Architectural Review's Jane Drew Prize, which "recognizes an architectural designer who through their work and commitment to design excellence has raised the profile of women in architecture." John Hill

In a new video consisting of clips culled from the Louisiana Channel's numerous interviews with architects, Liz Diller, Craig Dykers, Bjarke Ingels, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne, and Robert A.M. Stern discuss building in New York City. John Hill

Alejandro Aravena, director of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition has unveiled the list of national participations in the Venice Architecture Biennale as well as the participants in his "Reporting from the Front" exhibition. John Hill

Two weeks after being named the architect of the 2016 Serpentine Pavilion, the design by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group has been unveiled by London's Serpentine Galleries. John Hill

James F. Goldstein, owner of John Lautner's 1963 Sheats-Goldstein house, famous for being featured in the Coen Brothers' film The Big Lebowski, has agreed to donate the iconic house to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). John Hill

The New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects is conferring the Medal of Honor, its highest honor for an individual architect or firm, to Annabelle Selldorf, principal of the 65-person New York firm Selldorf Architects. John Hill

The American Institute of Architects has announced the three keynote speakers for the AIA Convention 2016 in Philadelphia: an Isreali designer, an actor who plays a fictional president, and a Pritzker Prize-winning Dutch architect. John Hill

PBS Studios' "blank on blank" program, which unearths lost interviews with famous people, animates Frank Lloyd Wright's September 1957 interview with journalist Mike Wallace as part of its Experimenters series. John Hill

Five new creations from Canada, United States, France and Switzerland have been selected by the jury for the International Garden Festival, to be presented at Les Jardins de Métis / Reford Gardens from 23 June to 2 October 2016.  John Hill

Announcing the YTAA - Young Talent Architecture Award, which joins the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award and the Emerging Architect Award in recognizing architectural talent in Europe. John Hill

GG-loop's renovation of a corner building in Altamura, Italy, features a bold, faceted red facade made from EIFS (Exterior Insulation and Finishing System), a system associated otherwise with bland, run-of-the-mill buildings. John Hill

London's Serpentine Gallery has announced the selection of Denmark's BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group to design the 16th pavilion in Kensington Gardens, to be accompanied by four summer houses designed by architects from Europe and Africa. John Hill

As part of its ongoing collaboration with Italian fashion house Prada, AMO (a research and design studio within OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture) has created a short film that takes place within "an artificial landscape where fiction and collection collide." John Hill

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and developer Tishman Speyer have unveiled renderings for a supertall skyscraper with a spiral of terraces overlooking the High Line and Hudson Yards in Manhattan. John Hill

Indian architect Bijoy Jain, of Studio Mumbai, follows in the footsteps of Sean Godsell and Amanda Levete to design the third MPavilion in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. John Hill

The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) opened its new Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed home on January 31st with the exhibition Architecture of Life, running until May 29th. John Hill

Following the November 2014 announcement by Mayor Anne Hidalgo and her Deputy Mayor in charge of urban planning, Jean-Louis Missika, to solicit ideas for 23 urban sites in Paris, the winning proposals have been revealed. John Hill

The FC Barcelona has announced that the team of HOK and TAC Arquitectes has been chosen as the winner of the architectural competition for the New Palau Blaugrana. John Hill, Silvia Pujalte Toledo

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Jeanne Gang's Studio Gang Architects have recently unveiled projects – a police station and a fire station, respectively – they are designing for the City of New York. John Hill

Escobedo Solíz Studio, the partnership of Lazbent Escobedo and Andres Solíz, has won the 17th edition of MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program with Weaving the Courtyard. John Hill