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Snøhetta has unveiled the world's largest climatized reading space with their new Beijing City Library. It is the firm’s latest innovation in the library typology, thirty-five years after they began work on Snøhetta

Buildner (formerly Bee Breeders) recently announced the winner of the Iceland Greenhouse Restaurant competition, awarding the first-place prize to architects Derin Kinacigil and Juan... Derin Kinacigil, Juan Franco

The James-Simon-Galerie serves as the new entrance building for Museum Island in Berlin, completing the ensemble between the Kupfergraben canal and Neues Museum. David Chipperfield Architects

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

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

De Flat Kleiburg in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is one of five finalists for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The winner will be announced in Brussels on May 12th. UPDATE: De Flat Kleiburg has won the 2017 EU Mies Award; NL Architects, XVW Architectuur

Disgruntled with "gray concrete boxes" in his home city, Moscow-based photographer Denis Esakov set his lens on them in a way that deliberately recalls Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs of industrial architecture. This... Denis Esakov

Nanjing Green Towers, promoted by Nanjing Yang Zi State-owned National Investment Group Co.ltd, will be the first Vertical Forest built in Asia. Located in Nanjing Pukou District (an area destined to lead the modernization of southern Jiangsu and the development of the Yangtze River economic... Stefano Boeri Architects

Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects are delighted to have been recognized by the Leading European Architecture Forum (LEAF) for their development at Pembury Circus, which has been awarded the title "Best Mixed Use Development" at the Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects

Fletcher Priest is delighted that One New Ludgate has won the Developer Project of the Year with our client Land Securities at the LEAF awards. Entries were received... Fletcher Priest Architects

Step right into the middle of this year’s Christmas tree at Utzon Center and get an experience out of the ordinary, designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), the architects behind the current Utzon Center exhibition, Sky’s... Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

At the foot of the impressive natural landscape of the UNESCO World Heritage Dolomites, the studio Perathoner Architects designed a house in a peculiar architectural style. Perathoner Architects

This 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture recipient, a new building for the American University of Beirut’s campus, is radical in composition but respectful... Zaha Hadid Architects

A multi-level bridge spanning a busy motorway has created a dynamic new urban space in this recipient of a 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Diba Tensile Architecture / Leila Araghian, Alireza Behzadi

This recipient of a 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture is a public space promoting integration across lines of ethnicity, religion and culture. BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, Topotek 1 and Superflex

This children’s library was selected as a 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for its embodiment of contemporary life in the traditional courtyard residences... ZAO / standardarchitecture / Zhang Ke

This recipient of a 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture is a community centre that makes a virtue of an area susceptible to flooding in rural Bangladesh. Kashef Chowdhury / URBANA

A refuge for spirituality in urban Dhaka, selected as a 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture recipient for its beautiful use of natural light. Marina Tabassum Architects

Germany’s pavilion, seen from the main route through the Expo, isn’t especially impressive. Indeed, it looks something like a boardwalk on which several tents have... Fred Bernstein