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The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) is now accepting entries for the third $100,000 RAIC International Prize, formerly... John Hill

It’s all about efficiency. Efficient and streamlined were oft-repeated words in the presentation Joseph Marshall and Brian Hores of Flansburgh Architects gave at the John Hill

Europe has a new center: Istanbul Airport. In the 19th century major train stations were celebrated as "cathedrals of traffic." Thus the new mega-airports in the Middle East could be called "mosques of... Ulf Meyer

Number of days Walter Chrysler, the founder of Chrysler company who gave the name to the Chrysler Building in New York City put on sale recently, René Ammann

Helsinki Central Library Oodi was inaugurated on December 5th, twenty years after it was first proposed. Oodi, as its known, was the subject of the Finnish Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and has been Ulf Meyer

Kasmin Gallery's new one-story building sits between Zaha Hadid's 520 West 28th condo building and the High Line, the immensely popular elevated park on Manhattan's West Side. Proximity to the High Line means the gallery's green roof looks like an extension of the park, while the... studioMDA

The Ford Foundation building in Midtown Manhattan, designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, celebrated its 50th anniversary this year with a careful $205 million renovation by Gensler.... John Hill

The work, which is framed within the global project of the Igualada’s Green Ring and aims at creating a set of pedestrian and bicycle itineraries in the form of a green belt on the perimeter of the city, recently won Batlle | Roig Architects

Monthly rent for an unfurnished, temporary 420-square-foot (39-square-meter) tiny home in the Dutch city of Rotterdam: €417 ($473) René Ammann

Singapore's WOHA describes its Kampung Admiralty, which won World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival 2018, as a "club sandwich," a stacking of functions... John Hill

Six hundred architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and entertainment designers from 18 countries flocked to sunny Phoenix, Arizona, in early November for the 2018 John Hill

Number of years it took Ahmedabad, an Indian city containing 6 million people, to acquire land for and build a 76-kilometer ring road: 4 years René Ammann

The recipients of the 30th Piranesi Awards, announced at the conclusion of the Piran Days of Architecture in Slovenia last week, include a gallery, a religious complex, a garage, and a project for industrial... John Hill

Price of Grand Central Terminal in New York City, the historic 1913 building, and its 67 tracks, more than any other train station: $35 million René Ammann

SEE-ING: The Environmental Consciousness Project is on display at the School of Architecture at University of North Carolina at Charlotte until November 16th. Curated by UNC... John Hill

Year when the term "social design" — the design of relationships, including those that are invisible and intangible ― fully entered the lexicon: 2006 René Ammann

Jorge Otero-Pailos, the artist and architectural preservationist known for The Ethics of Dust series, has completed a site-specific installation at New York City Center that celebrates the... John Hill

Lifespan of one of the 106 avant-garde houses built by Brad Pitt’s non-profit Make It Right organization in New Orleans that was recently demolished due to shoddy construction: 7 years René Ammann

Share of Singapore's population living in Housing and Development Board (HBD) public housing flats sold with 99-year leases, most built in the 1960s and... René Ammann

Three months after it was determined that Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece at the Glasgow School of Art would have to be dismantled following a major fire, the... John Hill

Number of the 96 iconic "Futuro Houses" designed in 1968 by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen that still exist today: 68½ René Ammann

Artist Matthew Mazzotta appears obsessed with transforming vernacular through dynamic interventions, something we discovered back in 2014 with "Open House," an abandoned house in rural Alabama that... Matthew Mazzotta

New drone, Steadicam, and time-lapse footage by photographer HG Esch takes us over, around, and beneath the parametric roof of Zaha Hadid Architects' impressive King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center ( John Hill

On 11 June 2018, architects Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) celebrated the completion of 3 World Trade Center in New York. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was the third at the World Trade Center site for an office tower, with four towers overlooking the 9/11 Memorial as part of Daniel... Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Earlier this month the American Institute of Architects awarded eleven winners of its 2018 Small Project Awards. One of them is the Rear Window House by Edward Ogosta Architecture, a small... Edward Ogosta Architecture

In a short film from PLANE—SITE, Biennale curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara explain their position behind the John Hill

In addition to the two FREESPACES in the Corderie, Biennale curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara have used other parts of the impressive Arsenale building to express the theme of... John Hill

Kennedy & Violich Architecture's Tozzer Anthropology Building at Harvard University, featured last year, includes an angled "digital brick wall" over the entrance. The... Kennedy & Violich Architecture

Developer Crown Group has selected the Japanese architecture firm Kengo Kuma & Associates, working with Australia's Koichi Takada Architects, to design a 19-story residential tower in Sydney's Waterloo. John Hill

Brick outside and wood inside, the Filson Historical Society's Owsley Brown II History Center narrates the history of the Ohio River Valley in a manner that is local yet contemporary. Nominated recently for the de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop

Architecture and art are aligned in this renovation and expansion of an old warehouse for Magazzino Italian Art in New York's Hudson Valley. Sparse materials and simple components house the art space's Arte Povera collection. Magazzino Italian Art, which won an honor award in the MQ Architecture

Architect Mell Lawrence is no stranger to designing structures for parks: in 2011 he completed the Cotillion Pavilion in Dallas, a rain shelter, sunshade, and weather vane that we featured as a... Mell Lawrence Architects

Iwan Baan visited Beijing in early August, when the summer heat and humid climate left a heaviness in the air – one that could be seen and felt. Over the course of the days he was scheduled to shoot “Chaoyang Park Plaza”, he was dealt less than ideal photographic conditions.... MAD Architects

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group's VIA 57 West, on Manhattan's West Side, has won the Emporis Skyscraper Award, having been judged the the best skyscraper completed in 2016. John Hill

The Vectorworks Design Summit 2017 took place in September in Baltimore, where World-Architects served as an Exclusive Media Partner and took in three days of keynotes, learning, and networking. Here we highlight a John Hill

This year's World Architecture Festival – its tenth anniversary – takes place in Arena Berlin, the same venue as last year. Here are some photos from a quick jaunt around the festival this afternoon. John Hill