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A Modern Apartment Emerges From the Meeting of the Two Separately Perceived Prisms: Gokturk 118 John Hill, CM Mimarlik

In 2010, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects in a team with Skanska, Nordic Choice Hotels Akustikon and SLA won a competition to design the 54,000m2 concert, congress and hotel complex. Schmidt Hammer Lassen

The Barack Obama Foundation has released an RFQ (Request for Qualifications) for architects interested in designing the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) to be located on Chicago's South Side. John Hill

66MRN is a Zen-inspired house featuring strong architectural lines and shapes, belying a sophisticated living environment that maximizes views of nature. ONG&ONG

Following their design being scrapped in July, a 24-minute video from Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) argues that their winning design for the main venue of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics is ready to build and pursuing a new design is foolhardy. John Hill

White Concrete in Golden Ratio: The family chapel Maria Magdalena by the architect Gerhard Sacher is a spectacular sculptural object made of white SCC (Self Compacting Concrete) concrete. Sacher.Locicero.Architectes

News came in September 2014 that architect Isay Weinfeld would take his Brazilian modernism to a site next to the High Line in New York for luxury residences. Renderings have finally been released for the project. John Hill

Located in the trendy Sanlitun area, a 60-year-old auditorium that has seen multiple transformations now houses Crossboundaries’ new office. Crossboundaries

Buenos Aires's new Centro Cultural Kirchner is commonly known as Ballena Azul (Blue Whale) due to its whale-like concert hall designed by B4FS Arquitectos that is covered in metallic fabric from GKD. John Hill

Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Aurecon and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer were engaged in 2012 to design the new Riverbank Precinct Pedestrian Bridge, following a design competition run by the South Australian Government Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. Taylor Cullity Lethlean

The Park Tower was finished in November 2014 and is situated in a unique location within walking distance from the new MAS museum, the harbor district "Eilandje," the waterfront beside the river Scheldt, and the historic city center. Studio Farris Architects

Zürich's EM2N has won first prize in the competition for the New Museum of Natural History and State Archives in Basel with their "Zasamane" entry. John Hill

This is a two-story wooden house in a densely build-up area in Sakai-city, Osaka. arbol

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron are the winners of the 2015 RIBA Jencks Award. John Hill

The World War One Centennial Commission has announced that five design concepts for the National World War One Memorial at Pershing Park in Washington, DC  have been selected to proceed to Stage II of the design competition. John Hill

Within walking distance to Hamburg Central Station two hotels in the medium-class segment were being build: a 3-star ibis Hotel with 252 guest rooms and a 1-star ibis budget Hotel with 196 guest rooms. MPP Meding Plan + Projekt

BIG – Bjarke Ingel Group's design of a waste-to-energy plant under construction in Copenhagen incorporates an art piece that puffs a steam ring each time the plant burns one ton of carbon dioxide. John Hill

Paralleling the popularity of supertall skyscrapers that top 300 meters (984 feet), the New York Times looks at "giga coasters," roller coasters with drops of over 300 feet (91 meters). John Hill

"Tapioca Space" is how SsD (Single Speed Design - the firm of Jinhee Park and John Hong) creatively describe the in-between spaces of this Micro-Housing project they realized in Seoul, Korea. In addition to these small spaces that create the potential for shared connections...

Qatar Museums has announced the long-list of 26 architects selected from 489 submissions in the international search for the architect who will design the one-million-square-foot Art Mill in Doha. John Hill

At World-Architects we are big fans of art with an architectural twist, so we decided to focus on some artists who look to architecture and building as subjects for their paintings, sculptures, photographs, installations and films. John Hill

The Chicago Architecture Biennial has announced the final list of participants – over 100 architects and artists from more than 30 countries selected by Biennial Co-Artistic Directors Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda. John Hill

A stainless steel sculpture nearing completion in China's Xianjing region bears a striking resemblance to Anish Kapoor's famous Cloud Gate sculpture installed in Chicago's Millennium Park in 2006. John Hill

A new installation by Berlin's Barkow Leibinger "offers a space for public encounter and experience" inside a thicket of bundled stainless steel rods. John Hill

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), with Leonhardt Andra und Partner, has been named winner in the competition for a bridge in Taiwan that will be located at the mouth of the Tamsui River near the Taiwan Strait. John Hill

The site is located next to a branch of the Min River. The aim of the masterplan is the exploit the proximity of water by connecting to as many buildings as possible. NEXT architects

The former French Concession in the heart of Shanghai is known for its typical rectilinear development – the Li Long. Li stands for neighborhood, and Long refers to the narrow rectilinear streets separating the buildings. gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner

It's hard not to be charmed by the once-a-day paper buildings that Charles Young of Edinburgh has been creating since August 2014. John Hill

On 1 May 2015 the Pulitzer Arts Foundation opened with an expanded building and a new name. Previously known as the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, the institution that calls itself "a sanctuary for the ever-evolving experience of art" opened in 2001 in a building...

Design software developer Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc.'s second annual Vectorworks Design Scholarship program offers international students from all design disciplines the opportunity to win up to $10,000 USD. Submission deadline is 31 August 2015. John Hill

In the village of Zvizzhi in the Kaluzhskaya Region of Russia architects Sergei Tchoban and Agniya Sterligova have built a Museum of Rural Labor. With its silhouette of a silo tower, the object is implemented artfully to the landscape of the village. Sergei Tchoban and Agniya Sterligova

The OSA Group (Organization of Contemporary Architects) was an architectural association formed in the Soviet Union during the 1920s. It gathered important figures of what became known later as Constructivist architecture. BUREAU A

Frankfurter Allgemeine has posted some photographs of the completed facade of Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. John Hill

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced that this year’s winner of the 10 Year Award is Malmö’s Turning Torso, designed by Santiago Calatrava. John Hill

Industrial Architecture. A building within another. When designing a car service building the main challenge is to organize two very different functional programs. SAU taller d'arquitectura

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has announced that Ultramoderne, a collaboration between architects Yasmin Vobis and Aaron Forrest and structural engineer Brett Schneider, have won the BP Prize in the Chicago Architecture Biennial's Lakefront Kiosk Competition. John Hill