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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

The recovery of the house located at Rua Dr. José Falcão aims to introduce a series of gains that would enable its full use, updating it according to the specific pretensions of a household that recently acquired the property. Nelson Resende, Architect

The aptly named Brock Commons Tallwood House – currently the world's tallest mass timber tower – opened on the University of British Columbia's Point Grey campus in July 2017. The building, designed by Acton Ostry Architects, delivers on the promise of mass timber and aspires... John Hill

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art has posted a 45-minute interview with Bjarke Ingels, titled "Different Angles," that traces the Danish architect's career from childhood to such recent projects as VIA 57 West in Manhattan. John Hill

Budapest's Hello Wood has created a handful of wooden Christmas trees in London, Vienna, and cities in Hungary, three of which are made of firewood that will be given to families in need for heating during the cold winter months. John Hill

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

Hariri Pontarini Architects worked in close collaboration with St. Thomas Commercial Developments Inc. to design 7 St. Thomas, a building that harmonizes retail and commercial design through an inventive interplay of form and light, blending Victorian and contemporary materials to create a... Hariri Pontarini Architects

More than a dozen years in the making, the Elmhurst Branch Library in New York City's borough of Queens is an important civic space that caters to the highly diverse community. Open since the last month of 2016, the library is a bustling space that uses color to orient patrons, landscape to... Marpillero Pollak Architects

The American Institute of Architects has announced that Minneapolis, Minnesota's Snow Kreilich Architects is the recipient of the 2018 AIA Architecture Firm Award, which "recognizes a practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years." John Hill

Stefano Boeri Architetti, architect of the award-winning Bosco Verticale in Milan, has created a short film that draws attention to the role of trees in mitigating climate change, released to coincide with the announcement of next year's inaugural World Forum on Urban Forests. John Hill

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has announced that architect Rem Koolhaas will mount an exhibition about the future of the countryside in the Manhattan museum's rotunda in fall 2019. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced that Caring Wood, designed by James Macdonald Wright and Niall Maxwell, is the RIBA House of the Year 2017. John Hill

FIFA has released renderings of the seventh of eight planned stadiums that will be built for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar. The design, by Fenwick Iribarren Architects, boasts of being the world's first demountable football stadium. John Hill

The Ankara Office Tower is a fourteen-story office building in Ankara, Turkey, that serves local and international high-tech companies engaging with leading universities and research institutes in the nation’s capital. Anmahian Winton Architects

The Southern Utah Museum of Art (SUMA) is part of the $39.1 mil, Beverley Taylor Sorenson Center for the Arts campus that includes visual and performing arts, live theatre, and arts education on the Southern Utah University campus in Cedar City, UT. The 5.5-acre master planned complex links... Brooks + Scarpa Architects

Barozzi / Veiga's extension to the Graubünden Museum of Fine Arts in Chur, Switzerland, is a strong architectural statement that relates to its predecessor through prefabricated concrete elements that cover its facade in a regular grid. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

Nine years from commission to completion is not unheralded for a work of architecture, but it is an exceptionally long timeframe for a 3,000-square-foot expansion of a small branch library in Queens, New York. Design and construction of the Kew Gardens Hills Library were so far apart that WORK... WORK Architecture Company

At a recent ceremony in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the LafargeHolcim Foundation announced the winners of the LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for Asia Pacific, projects that "deal with buildings for education – involving the community and sustainably improving neighborhoods." John Hill

Huangshan, located near the ancient villages of Hongcun and Xidi in China’s Anhui province, is home to one of the country’s most beautiful mountains. It is here that MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, has realized “Huangshan Mountain Village.” MAD Architects

Inspired by the ubiquitous board and batten siding prevalent in the region, this house in Vermont looks like a contemporary rendition of vernacular buildings. Dark and mirrored panels alternate with slender windows to create a rhythm broken up by expanses of glass that take advantage of the... Birdseye Design

A few recently completed buildings share a predilection for creating textured surfaces from that most humble and rectilinear of materials: brick. John Hill

London's V&A has announced it is acquiring a three-story section of Robin Hood Gardens, the 1972 housing project designed by Alison and Peter Smithson that is being demolished as part of the Blackwell Reach development. John Hill

Cortex Park brings together four programs under one roof by embracing students, researchers and staff with shared sports facilities and a strong urban identity. The result is a design that challenges both mind and body  - and establishes a closer relation between the building and its... ADEPT

What is the source of architectural innovation today? Increasingly it is found in the software that architects use to design, document, and coordinate their projects. A key component of this is parametric design, which is responsible for some of the most exciting recent developments in... John Hill

OMA has developed an integrated concept for the transformation of the 1992 Rijnstraat 8 office building based on a renewal of its existing architectural qualities. OMA’s design gives the building a new relation to the city of The Hague, connecting it to the city, both visually through... OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture

The 2010 destruction of Hastings Pier by fire was an opportunity to redefine what a pier could be in the 21st century; moving away from the accumulation of commercial booths of poor quality construction. The fire cleared the way for a new approach to creating a generous amenity space for Hastings... dRMM Architects

3XN has won a competition to design a waterfront condo that honors the waves. Tridel and Hines have commissioned 3XN to design a building on Toronto's formerly industrial East Bayfront area. 3XN

DDG recently completed a residential building at 12 Warren Street in New York City's Tribeca neighborhood. The twelve-story building is faced in bluestone blocks with a jagged appearance that recalls quarries or natural rock formations. John Hill

The New York Times is reporting that, one month after Barry Diller pulled the plug on Thomas Heatherwick's Pier 55, the billionaire businessman is reviving the project. John Hill

In Europe’s second largest baroque castle schneider+schumacher has just completed a modern study and conference centre for Mannheim Business School. Dug into the garden, the new intervention and the historic building together now form a remarkable unity that symbolizes not just the desire... schneider+schumacher

Students from four Swiss universities bested ten competitors to win the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon 2017 that took place recently in Denver, Colorado. John Hill

Keisuke Maeda's casaneiro is a timber-framed house that is organized with a series of parallel walls and highlighted by bold colors. Keisuke Maeda / UID

At a recent ceremony in Chicago, Illinois, the LafargeHolcim Foundation announced the winners of the LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for North America, projects that "show how the leading edge of sustainable design means reaching far beyond 'common sense'." John Hill

Countering a trend in Japanese residential architecture where "the outer shell becomes ever more fortified for insulation and earthquake safety," ikmo has designed a house in Nagareyama that incorporates a number of traditional techniques while providing modern spaces for its... ikmo

The pavilion exhibits a video art piece from the 32ª São Paulo Art Biennale by Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca. Surrounded by the gardens of Serralves in Porto, FAHR’s structure is an architectural object that explores the ambiguity between the presented work and... FAHR 021.3

The Centre for Music project in London has announced that New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro, working with London's Sheppard Robson, has ben selected to design the new Centre for Music near the Barbican. John Hill