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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings in the running for the 2023 RIBA Stirling Prize, considered "the UK’s most prestigious architecture award." John Hill

A new film from Jonathan Rose Companies celebrates the tenth anniversary of Via Verde, the affordable, sustainable housing project in the Bronx developed by Rose with Phipps Houses, and designed by Grimshaw and Dattner Architects. John Hill

Author, critic, curator, and editor Peter Buchanan died on August 23, 2023, at the age of 80 following a bout with cancer. John Hill

Of the ten tallest buildings in New York City only one of them is outside of Manhattan: Brooklyn Tower, designed by SHoP Architects for JDS Development. The tower recently reached a milestone, and World-Architects got a peek inside. John Hill

Tom Lee Park, a 31-acre green space along the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tennessee, opened to the public on September 2, 2023, following a major overhaul by Studio Gang and SCAPE. John Hill

The New York City Planning Commission has approved plans for the renovation of 60 Wall Street, a 1989 office building designed by Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo with a striking Postmodern lobby. John Hill

The Genius of the Place: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Bawa is a new documentary, directed by Sri Lankan native Afdhel Aziz, that explores the work of "Sri Lanka's most important architect" and "the greatest architect you've never heard of." John Hill

Watch Chicago-based multimedia artist Barbara Kasten construct some of her colorful and sculptural artworks and talk about her art in a 25-minute film from Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel. John Hill

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2023 National Design Awards, which “recognize design innovation and impact” in ten categories, including architecture and landscape architecture. John Hill

The Dallas Museum of Art has selected Spain's Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos to radically transform and sustainably preserve the institution's nearly 40-year-old Edward Larrabee Barnes building. John Hill

The European office of Oppenheim Architecture, based in Basel, has won the competition to turn the Toptani Residence in Tirna, the capital of Albania, into the Besa Museum. John Hill

In Berlin, the famed “Mäusebunker” (Mouse Bunker), previously under threat of demolition, has been given protected status, while in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Harry Weese's nearly 50-year-old Village Hall now faces a similar threat. John Hill

Architects Thom Mayne, Rienier de Graaf, and Peter Cook, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and other players involved in The Line, the controversial NEOM project unveiled in 2021, discuss the... John Hill

Concept designs by the six shortlisted firms in the “Reimagining the Dallas Museum of Art International Design Competition” have been revealed, with a winner to be announced in August. John Hill

Back in May, the winner of the inaugural divia award was announced in Berlin and then celebrated in Venice, the latter coinciding with the opening of this year's Architecture Biennale.... John Hill

The Royal Academy of Arts in London has announced that Irish architect Shane de Blacam is the recipient of the 2023 Royal Academy Architecture Prize, which recognizes architects who have made "a significant impact on society." John Hill

In a short film produced by Glenstone Museum, founders Emily and Mitch Rales, architect Thomas Phifer, artists Doris Salcedo, Glenn Ligon, and Jeff Wall, and numerous members of the Glenstone team discuss the museum located on 230 acres in Potomac, Maryland. John Hill

OPEN's sculptural Sun Tower topped out, appropriately, on June 21, the summer solstice. The 50-meter-tall structure in Yantai, China, is expected open to the public next year. Watch a time-lapse of its construction. John Hill

During a ceremony in Venice on EUmies Awards Day, June 29, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announced the three winners of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards in the Young Talent category. A fourth award given by the Mies Foundation was also... John Hill

Two decades in the making, the International African American Museum (IAAM) opened to the public on June 24, 2023, in Charleston, South Carolina, on “hallowed ground” — waterfront land that centuries ago served as a port of arrival for enslaved Africans. John Hill

The Moynihan Connector, a new L-shaped pedestrian bridge designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and James Corner Field Operations, opened to the public on June 22, 2023. It connects the High Line to Manhattan West and Moynihan Train Hall. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects has released a 17-minute film on Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari, the 2023 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal, RIBA's highest honor, in recognition of an individual's or collective's lifetime achievement. John Hill

Architects Ricardo Flores and Eva Prats have transported their studio on Carrer de Trafalgar in Barcelona to the Corderie building at the Arsenale, as part of the 2023 Venice Architecture... John Hill

One of the numerous exhibitions in Venice unrelated to the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale but taking place during its six-month run (see also: John Hill

Florida Senator Marco Rubio has introduced the ‘‘Beautifying Federal Civic Architecture Act,’’ which would effectively resurrect former US President Donald Trump's revoked executive order mandating classical styles for federal buildings. John Hill

As announced on Friday, June 9, when architects were gathering in San Francisco for the AIA Conference on Architecture, Frank Gehry's iconic, game-changing Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is the latest recipient of the AIA's Twenty-five Year Award. John Hill

Short video portraits of the recipients of the Prix Meret Oppenheim 2023 have been released, with two of relevance featured here: art historian Stanislaus von Moos and architecture platform Parity Group. John Hill

A recent visit to the Fondazione Querini Stampalia — always a must while in Venice for the Biennale — yielded an unexpected find: models by the winner and finalists in the DoorScape international architecture contest displayed in the ground-floor spaces remodeled by Carlo Scarpa. John Hill

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) has released a three-part oral history of Julie Bargmann, the founder of D.I.R.T. studio and recipient of the Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize in 2021. John Hill

The Smithsonian has announced that Perkins&Will will design the Bezos Learning Center at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, named for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos following his $200 million gift to the institution. John Hill

The 22nd Serpentine Pavilion opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on June 9, where it will host live music and other events until October 29, 2023. John Hill

The famous jeweler's flagship store at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street reopened at the end of April following the building's first comprehensive renovation since it opened in 1940. John Hill

The Whitney Museum of American Art is selling its landmark Marcel Breuer-designed building on Manhattan's Upper East Side to auction house Sotheby's for its new global headquarters. John Hill

One of the most unexpected contributions to a national pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale is the figural sculptures Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza made for the Holy See Pavilion on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. John Hill

Paolo Portoghesi died on May 30 at his home in Calcata, a medieval village north of Rome, at the age of 91. Though a prolific architect, historian and educator, Portoghesi will forever be known as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale who created the Strada Novissima. John Hill

The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, The Laboratory of the Future, opened to the public on May 20, 2023. Curated by Lesley Lokko, the ambitious exhibition shifted the focus of the Venice Architecture Biennale to Africa and many upstart practitioners. The exhibition offers... John Hill