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Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism has unveiled plans for the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, a new museum designed by Mecanoo that is under construction in the UAE's Saadiyat Cultural District. John Hill

With construction wrapping up on 111 West 57th Street, the super-skinny supertall designed by SHoP Architects for JDS Development, we present some footage by The Dronalist that shows how it and its Billionaire's Row neighbors are reshaping the Manhattan skyline. John Hill

The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have announced that architectural critic and historian Kenneth Frampton is the recipient of the 2022 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. John Hill

The large campus of Morgan State, a historically black public university (HBCU) in Baltimore, Maryland, is broken up into five distinct campus zones. Anchoring the Morgan Commons in the center of campus is the new Calvin & Tina Tyler Hall, which was completed in September 2020 but wasn't... Teeple Architects, GWWO Architects

Before the pandemic, the team at HPP designed The Cradle office building for the INTERBODEN Group. Antonino Vultaggio is convinced that the flexibly usable timber hybrid building, which is designed to be recyclable and support a circular... world-architects

The pandemic has turned our everyday working lives upside down. But that doesn’t mean the office as a workplace is obsolete, says Ina Nikolova from the Berlin-based architectural office Kinzo. What is needed are sustainable and flexible concepts. world-architects.com

Two books and two exhibitions celebrate two decades of the Flemish government in Belgium commissioning architects for building projects through the Open Call, a unique "more-than-a-competition" process that has resulted in more than 300 completed buildings, landscapes, and infrastructural... John Hill

Under the direction of Ma Yansong, the office MAD Architects has realised its first social housing project. MAD Architects, known for spectacular forms and spaces in their projects, in... Eduard Kögel

Located in a Brooklyn neighborhood scarred by years of industrial pollution, the Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center was designed as a demonstration project for innovative approaches to sustainable design. Marble Fairbanks answered a few questions about the project that is on... Marble Fairbanks

Indian culture is known for its vivid use of color in traditional crafts, festivities, and clothing. India is the only country that annually celebrates Holi, a festival of color. Three of the most vivid primary colors — red, blue, and yellow — highlight the cantilevered balconies of each room,... Sanjay Puri Architects

Seven years after David Chipperfield Architects was selected to design a new wing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York — and five years after that project was put on hold — the Met has hired architect Frida Escobedo to renovate and expand its galleries of modern and contemporary... John Hill

Wineries give architects the opportunity to engage directly with nature, often finding inspiration in the vineyards that surround them. Alton Wines takes its cues from the landscape it is nestled into and the mountains that surround Walla Walla in the southeastern region of Washington.... GO’C

Every city has its own built fabric, which becomes interesting when incongruous elements are combined. The existing fabric is juxtaposed with the new in surprising ways that ultimately aim to become part of the whole.

In April 2021, Xu Tiantian and her office DnA_Design and Architecture were invited by the local authority of Jinyun County to develop ideas for the conversion of former quarries. Those... Eduard Kögel

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has revealed the more than 250 built works in the running for the MCHAP 2022 and MCHAP.emerge 2022 awards, plus the makeup of the jury that will decide the winners. John Hill

Last summer, students in the Architectural Association's nanotourism program built three interconnected interventions at Wörthersee, a predominantly privatized lake in the Austrian state of Carinthia, including a Sound Cannon that taps into the presence of the Vienna Boys' Choir Summer... John Hill

The Sharjah Architecture Triennial (SAT) has announced that architect Tosin Oshinowo, based in Lagos, is the curator of the its second edition, set to take place in 2023.  John Hill

Dan Graham, the "unclassifiable" artist known for glass pavilions that literally and figuratively reflected the cities they were part of, died this month at the age of 79. John Hill

Interstate 5 cuts a north-south course through Portland, Oregon, severing many east-west streets and forming the occasional dead end. The Outpost, a co-living project that is a departure from most residential buildings in the city, is located at the end of one such dead end street. Beebe... Beebe Skidmore Architects

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the eleven recipients of its 2022 Architecture Awards, the program that "celebrates the best contemporary architecture regardless of budget, size, style, or type." John Hill

Kol Rinah Synagogue is located on the edge of Downtown Clayton, a busy business district just west of St. Louis, Missouri. A new addition, designed by Patterhn Ives, houses the sanctuary in a box that is limestone outside, oak inside. Partner Anna Ives answered a few questions about the... Patterhn Ives

Housed in a 95-foot-diameter sphere, Free the Air: How to hear the universe in a spider/web is a multisensory experience that is the standout element of Tomás Saraceno: Particular Matter(s), the artist's new exhibition at The Shed in New York's Hudson Yards. John Hill

"City of the future" is what we often read. Technologies are conjured up that will fundamentally change our lives in the future and reshape cities. This was cleverly put into perspective at the symposium The Future of Cities: Not for Granted, which took place in Leipzig at the end of... Katinka Corts

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen visits Sent, Switzerland, to speak with Not Vital, the artist who has long been interested in building and in turn creates sculptural works that at times are as much architecture as art.  John Hill

On Saturday, January 29, the funeral of Lluís Comerón Graupera, president of the Superior Council of Architects of Spain, took place in Barcelona, at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Mar. The event was attended by a large crowd, a clear sign of the immense loss that this death represents to... Madeline Beach Carey

Price paid this month in Palm Beach, Florida, for a newer 3,988-square-foot (370 m2) house... René Ammann

At the center of the Beloit Powerhouse, Studio Gang's transformation of a former power plant into a student union for Beloit College, is a grand space that formerly housed turbines. Juliane Wolf, partner and design principal at Studio Gang, answered a few questions about the project, which... Studio Gang

Average floor area of a newly built house in the United States and Australia: 229 m2 (2,465 sf) René Ammann

A new McDonald's restaurant in Moscow is covered in mirrored glass panels that reflect its Pushkin Square locale. Designed by Landini Associates, the project sits on the site of the first ever Russian McDonald's, which opened on Pushkin Square on January 31, 1990. John Hill

A short film by 9sekunden presents the Kunsthaus Zürich extension that was designed by David Chipperfield Architects Berlin and opened in October 2021. Filmed during the preview last spring, the film highlights the contemplative nature of the building, which borders on the monastic as the... John Hill

On December 11, 2021, the City of Winter Park, just north of Orlando, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Winter Park Library and Events Center. Designed by the firm of Sir David Adjaye, the complex made up of three pavilions is marked by arching rose-pigmented concrete facades that... Adjaye Associates

Parallect Design's LIM Café at Suzhou Bay Sports Park in Suzhou, China, has traditional gabled forms that recall the wooden structure originally in its location and modern mirrored glass facades that reflect its setting on the edge of Taihu Lake. John Hill

MARABAR, Elyn Zimmerman's site-specific installation in Washington, DC, that was saved from demolition last year, has found a new home: the campus of American University, just four miles northwest of the monumental artwork's original location. John Hill

Interventions and Adaptive Reuse is a recently published that looks back at ten years of academic journalism focused on the “responsible practice” of adaptive reuse. Looking to the past, by virtue of an approach that has preservation at its heart, the book also provides perspectives... John Hill

Are there any new architectural space prototypes that can be discussed? This is the starting point of this experimental project. This space experiment is located near the river in the tourist area of Jiangxin Island in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province. In this project, architects give up the... LIN Architecture

The Board of La Biennale di Venezia has announced that Ghanaian–Scottish architectural academic, educator, and novelist Lesley Lokko will curate the next Venice Architecture Biennale, which will take place from May to November, 2023. John Hill