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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Department of Aviation have released renderings for the design of Satellite Concourse One at O’Hare International Airport, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ( John Hill

The new home for the Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) opened at the end of April. It was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) to be “the computing crossroads of the MIT campus.” John Hill

The Vessel, the 150-foot-tall climbable sculpture designed by Heatherwick Studio for Hudson Yards on Manhattan's West Side, has been closed since 2021, following four suicides in just two years. Related Companies, the developer of Hudson Yards, will reopen the attraction later this year,... John Hill

A US federal judge has halted the demolition of Greenwood Pond: Double Site, a 1996 work of environmental art in Des Moines, Iowa, by Mary Miss, and a German court has ruled that Ravensburger can continue to produce jigsaw puzzles bearing the iconic image of Leonardo da Vinci's... John Hill

The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has announced that the team of Hood Design Studio, Weiss/Manfredi, and Moody Nolan has been selected to reimagine the Amsterdam Avenue side of its famed Upper West Side campus. The selection is part of an ongoing participatory planning process that... John Hill

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto has revealed renderings of a sweeping architectural transformation of its main floor and Bloor Street entrance by Hariri Pontarini Architects. OpenROM, as the project is being called, aims to make the museum more opening and accessible. John Hill

BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group and developers Soloviev Group and Mohegan have unveiled Freedom Plaza, a proposed mixed-use development on three blocks south of the United Nations that could be the site of New York City's first casino. John Hill

Terminal 2 at Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (BLR), which was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and opened to passengers last year, recently received a special prize from Prix Versailles for its stunning bamboo-lattice interior. John Hill

Brett Steele, who moved from the Architectural Association in London to the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture in 2017, has been named the new dean of the USC School of Architecture, a post he'll assume in February 2024. John Hill

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has completed a restoration of Lever House, designed by SOM in 1952, as part of a $100 redevelopment of the Midtown Manhattan office tower by Brookfield Properties and WatermanClark. John Hill

The Glass House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has announced the comprehensive restoration of the Brick House, designed by Philip Johnson at the same time as the iconic Glass House. The restoration will be complete next year, in time for the Glass House's 75th... John Hill

Construction of the tower designed by David Chipperfield Architects for a site near Hamburg's Elbe bridges was interrupted at the end of October. An investor's financial difficulties are the cause — a solution has yet to be determined. Manuel Pestalozzi

Anthony Vidler, architectural historian and former dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, died on October 19 at the age of 82. And on October 25 artist Robert Irwin, known for site-specific, architectural interventions, died at the age of 95. John Hill

Eight months after Britain's Supreme Court ruled in favor of the residents of Neo Bankside, whose apartments sit next to a 10th-floor observation deck at Tate Modern, it's been determined the Tate will restrict access on that level, putting “an end to the nuisance.” John Hill

Tom Lee Park, a 31-acre green space along the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tennessee, opened to the public on September 2, 2023, following a major overhaul by Studio Gang and SCAPE. John Hill

The Moynihan Connector, a new L-shaped pedestrian bridge designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and James Corner Field Operations, opened to the public on June 22, 2023. It connects the High Line to Manhattan West and Moynihan Train Hall. John Hill

The Whitney Museum of American Art is selling its landmark Marcel Breuer-designed building on Manhattan's Upper East Side to auction house Sotheby's for its new global headquarters. John Hill

Kengo Kuma & Associates has won the international design competition for a visitor center for the Butrint National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on Albania’s Ionian coast. Ulf Meyer

Decades in the making, and with a final price tag of $11 billion, the East Side Access project opened on January 25, delivering riders from Long Island to the new Grand Central Madison terminal in East Midtown, Manhattan. John Hill

The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, has announced that Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Selldorf Architects will modernize the building's interior and plaza. John Hill

Social critic Mike Davis, best known for chronicling the dark side of sunny Los Angeles, died on October 25 at his home in San Diego from complications related to esophageal cancer. He was 76. John Hill

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe has announced that "Anna Bofill Levi. La arquitectura como contracanto: 1977-1996" by a quartet of Spanish architects is the recipient of the latest Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture. John Hill

Designed by Morphosis Architects, the firm of Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne, the Orange County Museum of Art's new home in Costa Mesa, California, opens to the public on October 8, 2022. John Hill

OMA New York and Jacobs have unveiled their design for the headquarters of Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) in The 78, a large development underway on Chicago's Near South Side. John Hill

Inspireli Awards, the international contest for students of architecture, has announced the winners of its Beirut Port Competition, which asked students to develop innovative solutions for rebuilding the site of the August 4, 2020 explosion in Beirut. John Hill

The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced that Bangkok's (all)zone, led by co-founder and design director Rachaporn Choochuey, has been selected to design the next MPavilion, which will open in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens in November. John Hill

Celebrated Canadian architect Claude Provencher, co-founder of the practice Provencher_Roy and instrumental in the creation of the Conseil du patrimoine culturel du Québec, died on May 6, 2022, at the age of 72. John Hill

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has announced the completion of 800 Fulton Market, a mixed-use office tower in Chicago's booming Fulton Market District. Ulf Meyer finds in it a return to structural expression for SOM. Ulf Meyer

Just over a year after Blair Kamin left his post at the Chicago Tribune, leaving the architecturally significant city with no architecture critics, the Chicago Sun-Times has announced Lee Bey... John Hill

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

The General Services Administration (GSA), which overseas the design and construction of federal buildings in the United States, has approved Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s (SOM) design concept for a new $191 million federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. John Hill

The tech giant has bought the Central Saint Giles development, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) more than a decade ago for a site near Covent Garden in central London, for £730 million, or $1 billion. 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

Hiroshi Sugimoto's redesign of the Hirshhorn Museum's Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, has been approved by the National Capital Planning Commission, allowing the Hirshhorn to move forward with site development plans that have been years in the making. John Hill

As part of PastForward, the National Preservation Conference, held virtually from November 2–5, the United States' National Trust for Historic Preservation announced the recipients of the 2021 National Preservation Awards. John Hill

The Aspen Art Museum has announced that My Dear Mountains, a site-specific artwork by Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce, will cover the facade of the museum's Shigeru Ban-designed building next year.