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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

For our last Insight feature of 2016, World-Architects looks back – month-by-month and week-by-week – at the most important headlines, projects, competitions, features and products we... John Hill

One year ago, in our Year in Architecture 2015 roundup, we presented a dozen buildings that were under construction and set to open by the end of 2016. Here we revisit those buildings to see... John Hill

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

The Elbphilharmonie Hamburg has uploaded to its Facebook page a twelve-part illustration by Carlsen Verlag where "a number of famous... John Hill

As the year draws to a close we're presenting a selection of monographs on World-Architects member firms. Like last year's list, this baker's dozen illustrates that the architectural... John Hill

It's been over a year since we last checked in on the construction of Norman Foster's "spaceship" for Apple in Cupertino, California. Drone footage by Sexton Videography reveals that the end is near. John Hill

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

The New York Public Library has unveiled a rendering of the renovation of the Mid-Manhattan Library by Dutch architects Mecanoo with New York's Beyer Blinder Belle. John Hill

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and Hyperloop One have unveiled their vision for a high-speed tube connecting Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates through a short film highlighting the proposed 12-minute trip. John Hill

The 450-foot-tall "courtscraper" designed by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group for The Durst Organization on Manhattan's West Side has won the 2016 International Highrise Award, the biennial award given by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum,... John Hill

Housing Cairo: The Informal Response, edited by Marc Angélil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, was published earlier this year by Berlin-based publisher Ruby Press. Recently it won a Fiona Shipwright

Junya Ishigami, who won the 2016 BSI Swiss Architectural Award earlier this year, speaks in a short film about the three projects – Kanagawa Institute of Technology Workshop, Japanese Pavilion at 2008 Venice Biennale, and "House with Plants" – that the John Hill

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

Canadian architect Bing Thom, founding principal of Bing Thom Architects, died yesterday in Hong Kong after suffering a brain aneurism. John Hill

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

Earlier this year World-Architects met with Zurich-based interior designer Karsten Schmidt, an expert in the world of hospitality. We got a tour of one of his recent projects, the John Hill

Yesterday, New York City's Queens Library held a topping-out ceremony for Hunters Point Community Library in Long Island City. Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the library is on track to open next summer.... John Hill

Tomas Koolhaas's much-anticipated documentary on his father, 71-year-old OMA leader Rem Koolhaas, will premiere at the 73rd Venice Film Festival, which runs from 31 August to 10 September 2016. John Hill

We learned about Tucson, Arizona's DUST back in 2014 when we featured their Tucson Mountain Retreat as a Building of the Week. Just as that house integrates itself into the desert landscape...

Three years after a 2013 visit to the Office for Metropolitan Architecture's (OMA) New York office to speak with partner Shohei Shigematsu, World-Architects editor John Hill returned to 180... John Hill

The 2016 Serpentine Pavilion designed by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on Friday, accompanied by four 25sqm Summer Houses designed by other architects. John Hill

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) reopens on May 14th in its expanded home designed by Snøhetta. Watch the building's three-year construction in a one-minute time-lapse film from EarthCam. John Hill

World-Architects was there in November 2014 when the Fulton Center opened to the public in Lower Manhattan. The $1.4 billion project consists of a new head house building, station...

Last week Eva Franch i Gilabert, Chief Curator and Executive Director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, gave the keynote address at the Vectorworks Design... John Hill

Two years after David Chipperfield Architects, with their "Nobelhuset" entry, won the competition for the Nobel Center in Sweden, the Stockholm City Council has... John Hill

World-Architects is the Exclusive Media Partner of the Vectorworks Design Summit 2016, which takes place 25-27 April in Chicago. Here we give a brief background on the event and describe what takes place over the three days. John Hill

Eight architecture firms have been selected from the 26-strong long-list (announced in August 2015) in the three-stage competition to design the one-million-square-foot Art Mill in... John Hill

In addition to its annual Honor Awards, announced in January, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently announced the awards it gives out in the categories of housing and... John Hill

Photovoltaic panels distinctively wrap this recently completed public school in New York City's borough of Staten Island, a project we first learned about during a studio visit to...

With the sudden passing of Zaha Hadid yesterday at the age of 65, we look back at some of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's signifcant works through the unmistakable, dazzling, and often... John Hill