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Five months after the jury for the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition selected six finalists from the initial 1,715 submissions, the finalists have developed their concept designs based on site visits and additional briefing. John Hill

Chicago's tallest towers sells for $1.3 billion, London will see 263 towers over 20 stories, and a proposal for a "No Shadow Tower also in London. John Hill

Tom Pritzker of the Hyatt Foundation announced today, one day after Frei Otto’s death, that the German architect is the 40th laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. John Hill

The University of St. Thomas · Minnesota has announced it will auction off the Frank Gehry-designed Winton Guest House in May, six years after the school relocated the building from its original site. John Hill

The New York Post reports that The Related Companies "has hired Rem Koolhaas to design their new High Line project on West 18th Street." John Hill

City officials in Chicago have unveiled an 88-story tower designed by Studio Gang Architects for Chinese developer Wanda Group. The zigzag tower would sit in Lakeshore East, the same development as the architect's famous Aqua Tower. John Hill

Exactly 112 years to the day after Andrew Carnegie moved into his mansion on New York's Upper East Side, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum reopens after a major, three-year renovation of the building. John Hill

Yesterday the Hudson River Park Trust and the Diller – Von Furstenberg Family Foundation Alliance announced plans to build Pier55, a public park and performance space designed by Thomas Heatherwick for Manhattan's West Side. John Hill

The National Library has unveiled Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron's preliminary design for the library's new home to be built on a government-allocated site in the National Precinct in Jerusalem. John Hill

On Monday Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and her Deputy Mayor in charge of urban planning, Jean-Louis Missika, launched an international contest calling on architects to propose innovative projects for 23 urban sites. John Hill

On Monday, the 104-story tower designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) opened in Lower Manhattan, and on the same day SOM launched a photo contest to celebrate the building's completion. John Hill

Ma Yansong, founder of MAD Architects, has unveiled his design for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art proposed for a lakefront site in Chicago. John Hill

The Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects has announced the winners of the 2014 Design Excellence Awards given in four categories: Distinguished Building, Interior Architecture, Divine Detail, and Unbuilt Design. John Hill

The U.S. Department of State has announced that Ennead Architects and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have been selected as design architects for new U.S. Embassies in, respectively, Ankara, Turkey, and Colombo, Sri Lanka. John Hill

Architecture for Humanity co-founder Cameron Sinclair launches the Dead Prize, which highlights the worst designs, projects that have caused harm to the environment. John Hill

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Entasis have bested four finalists in the two-stage competition for a tower in Gothenburg, Sweden, that promises to be the tallest in Scandinavia. John Hill

The Frick Collection, which turns 80 next year, has unveiled plans to renovate and expand its home on New York's Upper East Side with a six-story addition designed by Davis Brody Bond. John Hill

The late architect's contribution to Museum Island Hombroich near Düsseldorf, Germany, sits atop an unused NATO missile base. John Hill

Joshua David and Robert Hammond will receive the 15th award from the National Building Museum. John Hill

The President's Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force selects ten multidisciplinary teams for the Rebuild by Design competition. John Hill

Four architects—Diller Scofio + Renfro, H3 Hardy, SHoP Architects, SOM—envision new futures for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden. John Hill

CODA wins the MoMA PS1 Young Architect's Program, and Situ Studio is chosen by the Times Square Alliance for Heartwalk. John Hill

Developer L&L Holding Co. is holding an invited design competition for a skyscaper to replace a 1950s tiered glass box at 425 Park Avenue in New York City. John Hill