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Two new performance pieces explore architecture and planning in the middle of last century: A Marvelous Order, an opera about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs; and The Master Builder, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play now set in Pittsburgh. John Hill

The house is organized within one meandering form made of natural stone, creating three volumes with an open space interwoven between them. Marion Regitko Architects

Text by Eduard Kögel

At the United Nations yesterday, 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena announced, both during an afternoon press conference and a conversation with six other Pritzker laureates later in the evening, that his firm's plans for incremental housing are being made freely available online. John Hill

KAAN Architecten signs the Supreme Court of the Netherlands: Distinguished and functional, hard and ethereal, rough and refined: the new home of the highest court in the Netherlands exhibits a tight relationship between openness and security. KAAN Architecten

Strelka KB has announced the three finalists and unveiled their concept designs in the international architectural competition for the new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University. John Hill

MASS Lab has been named one of the four finalists in the Nordic Built Cities Challenge Competition in the Faroe Islands, for the construction of a masterplan in an area of ​​over 45,000 square meters. Mass Lab

Giardini in Silence: Metamorphosis in between art and architecture RAAAF, Marcel Moonen

The plot is located in a green ring around the historic city center. The building occupies half of the plot, the other half being used as a park. Menis Arquitectos

Like a flashback to America in the 1950s and 1960s, Chioco Design's design for Torchy's Tacos latest Austin outpost is unabashedly retro. Its angled columns, scalloped roofs and prominent signage harks back to the roadside architecture of those doo-wop decades. Chioco Design answered...

Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena will receive the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize in an award ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City starting at 7:30pm EST tonight. Watch the ceremony here live.

The New York-based American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the five recipients of its 2016 Architecture Awards. John Hill

Mexico City's Productora has won the 2014/15 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) for emerging architecture for its Pavilion on the Zocalo in Mexico City. John Hill

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

A Beam of Light on Vorob’evi Hills Architects of Invention

Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect who was the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize and was recently awarded RIBA's 2016 Royal Gold Medal, died from a heart attack today at the age of 65. John Hill

MoederscheimMoonen Architects recently presented the definite design for a new multi-tenant building next to Utrecht’s new Central Station. The building has been commissioned by Klépierre Retail Development. Part of the Hoog Catharijne shopping centre, the future building is commonly... MoederscheimMoonen Architects

Nowness visits British architect Ian Simpson's Manchester home, a two-story penthouse in Beetham Tower, which he also designed. Standouts of the spacious, light-filled residence are the corner living room and the garden with 6-meter-high trees. John Hill

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects, as part of the SPARK consortium, has won the competition to design a new educational facility at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Netherlands. John Hill

The first edition of the Durabilys Awards was held on Wednesday, March 23rd at the Palais des congrès and on this occasion Menkès Shooner Dagenais Letourneux Architectes won the Award of Excellence for theMaison du développement durable in the LEED... Menkès Shooner Dagenais Letourneux Architectes

Light+Building, the internationally most important trade fair for lighting and building services technologies is over. We have found many new things, discovered several unexpected products, missed expected solutions and, every now and then, we also learned something new. Our trade fair... Thomas Geuder

The Dutch architecture firm won with a proposal for a mixed-use development with offices, apartments, hotels, retail, restaurants and public open spaces. John Hill

The Obama Foundation has posted interviews with the seven finalists for the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) to be built on Chicago's South Side. Among other things, the architects were asked what their favorite Chicago building is and why. John Hill

A palette of brick, wood, glass and translucent wall panels defines the enclosure of Neumann Monson Architects' elegantly simple Career Academy of Pella in Iowa. The building is the first piece – and a very promising...

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced the four finalists of the fourth open international Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 grant awarded annually to a single architect to support travel-based architectural research. John Hill

Aeon Video presents a 10-minute film directed by Stella Kyriakopoulos that follows Bob Gardner, a retired engineer from Hampton, Illinois, who dreams of visiting the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece – despite the fact he is blind. John Hill

Benthem Crouwel Architects, working with designer Irma Boom, have created a cycling and pedestrian "slow traffic corridor" at Amsterdam's Central Station that is clad on one side by nearly 80,000 Delft Blue tiles. John Hill

The guiding principles of these student halls of residence were standardization, self-regulation and a maximization of internal space. Hamonic + Masson & Associés

A team of architects from Seattle's Olson Kundig have won Blank Space's third annual Fairy Tales storytelling competition. Their architectural narrative, "Welcome to the 5th Facade," takes readers to "a future that is similar enough to our own, yet ripe with new challenges,... John Hill

Berlin-based photographer Malte Brandenburg's Stacked series of photographs presents frontal views of his city's post-war housing estates in order to show the variation found in the "fairly identical" buildings. John Hill

The residence was built on a site that looks up Himeji Castle in a historical district in Himeji, Hyogo. Waro Kishi + K.ASSOCIATES

eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of the 2016 Skyscraper Competition, which asked entrants to "challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments." John Hill

German artist Thorsten Brinkmann has filled the Rice University Art Gallery with his distincly odd self-portraits but also detritus from Houston that creates hidden spaces, including a cinema built inside a shipping crate and a small tunnel that leads to a secret bedroom. John Hill

The Titus brothers reached out to MH Architects to explore the concept of a new winery facility located in Napa Valley in 2012. The client’s stated goal was to express the spirit of Titus Vineyards wine through the architectural components of the winery design. MH Architects

An intimate and cozy housing estate in Mikołów located on the quiet outskirts of the city. The project includes twelve houses. Zalewski Architecture Group

The new Australian Embassy in Jakarta, designed by Australian architects Denton Corker Marshall, was opened on Monday by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. John Hill