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KCAP Architects&Planners, in a team of international experts, was chosen from four international entries as the winning proposal in the architectural competition for a new RER E – Eole - station in Nanterre, France. John Hill

LUCEM's light-transmitting concrete finds its first Berlin application at the Prenzlauer Berg development by Wolf Architekten. Current lighting technology allows the street-level façade to change colors on demand. John Hill

Renderings have been released for Studio Gang Architects' design of a 40-story tower at 160 Folsom Street in San Francisco for developer Tishman Speyer. John Hill

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, completes the final phase of the transformation of its 140-acre campus, centered on a Visitor Center designed by Tadao Ando. John Hill

On vacation this week as part of an extended (U.S.) Independence Day, an architectural highlight was a bird blind built in the Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary by students from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University. John Hill

Over at Architect Magazine, Aaron Betsky takes a sneak peek at MVRDV's almost-completed Markthal (Market Hall) in Rotterdam, an arching building whose underside is covered in colorful prints by artist Arno Coenen. John Hill

Bjarke Ingels Group's aptly named labyrinth opened on July 4th inside the West Court of Washington, DC's National Building Museum (NBM). The 18-foot-tall, 60-foot-square BIG Maze is on display until September 1st. John Hill

Herzog & de Meuron's seventh project for the Swiss manufacturer of herb drops has been completed in Laufen. Notably, the building is considered the largest loam building in Europe. John Hill

Frank Gehry, designer of a mixed-use development in downtown Toronto for David Mirvish, scales down the project from three towers to two, saving some old buildings in the process. John Hill

George Lucas's selection of Chicago for the home of his planned museum launches speculation on how the city was selected over San Francisco, who will design the museum, and what it will mean for Chicago. John Hill

The Art Institute of Chicago pairs two unlikely architects in the fascinating exhibition Architecture to Scale: Stanley Tigerman and Andrew Zago, now on display until September 14, 2014. John Hill

London's Design Museum has awarded Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Design Museum Design of the Year Award 2014. It is the first architectural project to be named Design of the Year in its seven-year history. John Hill

Hy-Fi, a project by David Benjamin's The Living, opened recently in the courtyard of MoMA PS1. The installation, the winner of the museum's Young Architect's Program, is made from special bricks that will be composted at the end of the summer. John Hill

World-Architects traveled to Chicago last week to attend the 2014 AIA National Convention, where we spoke with architects, looked at some great architecture, went to some parties, and learned as much as possible about where the profession is heading. John Hill

Our visit to the 2014 AIA National Convention included many hours walking the Expo floor to find great products used in great projects. One local building is Nagle Hartray Architecture's... John Hill

The jury for the Cosentino Design Challenge 2014 has announced the six winners – three in the architecture category and three in the design category – in the Cosentino Group's 8th international student competition. John Hill

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has named four regional winners – Americas, Asia & Australia, Europe, and Middle East & Africa – as best tall buildings in the world for 2014. John Hill

It's a busy week for New York architect David Benjamin, as his winning entry in the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program opened to the public on Friday, and Autodesk announced it has acquired his firm, The Living, to create an Autodesk Studio. John Hill

In addition to last night's PechaKucha, we also headed over to the Columbia College Chicago Media Production Center for the AIA Central States party. John Hill

In addition to the keynotes, lectures, discussions, exposition and other opportunities for architects to learn at the AIA Convention, there are also the parties. Last night we attended the PechaKucha at Martyrs' in the North Center neighborhood. John Hill

One of the highlights on the expo floor at the 2014 AIA National Convention is Kreysler & Associates' composite façade panel for SNØHETTA's expansion of SFMOMA, now under construction. John Hill

We're in Chicago for the 2014 AIA National Convention. Read our posts from the convention on the Daily News for the rest of the week. John Hill

In lieu of cantilevering over the adjacent La Brea tar pits, Peter Zumthor's design for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art proposes to span Wilshire Boulevard. John Hill

Chilean architect Smiljan Radić's design for the 14th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion opens on Thursday in London's Kensington Gardens. John Hill

In addition to the three-part 14th International Architecture Exhibition, directed by Rem Koolhaas, a number of collateral events are taking place as part of the Venice Biennale. We highlight a few... John Hill

The Midwestern American city will host the first Chicago Architecture Biennial in fall 2015, to be held at the Chicago Cultural Center overlooking Millennium Park. John Hill

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has selected Washington, DC's Oehme van Sweden & Associates (OvS) for its 2014 Landscape Architecture Firm Award, the organization's highest honor it bestows on a firm. John Hill

The Municipal Art Society of New York awards nine projects for excellence in architecture and urban design, giving "Building of the Year" to Caples Jefferson Architects' Weeksville Heritage Center, one of seven winning projects in Brooklyn. John Hill

Two new Manhattan projects by global superstars Tadao Ando and Herzog & de Meuron have been unveiled. John Hill

On June 19 The Mound of Vendôme, an exhibition and research project by David Gissen, opens at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. The project revisits the brief Commune de Paris of 1871 and its demolition of Napoleon's column. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed the winners of the 2014 RIBA National Awards, what it considers "the most rigorously judged awards for architectural excellence." John Hill

Yesterday furniture manufacturer Vitra inaugurated the 100-foot-high (30.7-meter) Vitra Slide Tower on its Weil am Rhein campus. An art installation by German artist Carsten Höller, it also serves as a viewing platform and slide. John Hill

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Entasis have bested four finalists in the two-stage competition for a tower in Gothenburg, Sweden, that promises to be the tallest in Scandinavia. John Hill

The Fundamentals theme for the 14th International Architecture Exhibition consists of three components: Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014, Elements of Architecture, and Monditalia. Here we look at the national pavilions and Absorbing Modernity 1914-2014. John Hill

Madrid's José Maria Sanchez Gàrcia has won the 2014 BSI Swiss Architectural Award, a biennial prize that aims to draw the public's attention to international architects under 50. John Hill

This week's German-Architects eMagazine highlights the GIFs of Axel de Stampa, which take well-known works of contemporary architecture and animate them in creative ways inspired by their unique forms. John Hill