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The organizers of the second MPavilion have revealed AL_A’s design: "an enchanting, highly technical and weather-responsive forest canopy set among the trees and flowers of Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens." John Hill

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, Rotterdam's Shift has transformed the Tschumi pavilion in Groningen from a clear glass box to a kaleidoscope of color. John Hill

The Garden House is a new 179 sm house at the far end of the rear garden of a Victorian house in South West London. De Matos Ryan

What started as an effort to provide bicycles for some children in Zambia turned into something more substantial: a school, a health clinic, teacher housing, and landscaping on 100 acres in Chipakata Village. Designed by a trio of New York architects – Susan Rodriguez, Frank Lupo,...

At Expo Milano 2015, Spain's Zorrozua y Asociados's colorful box expresses the four geographical and culinary regions of Ecuador in the country's first pavilion at an international exposition. John Hill

The Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) fused nature and technology in their Research Pavilion 14-15, based on the nests of underwater spiders. John Hill

Consisting of primarily collective and social housing, the urban development project accommodating roughly 10,500 people and 50% of Lormont's population is now complete. LAN Architecture

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have announced the over 60 new buildings from 26 countries as winners of the Interational Architecture Awards for 2015. John Hill

The Paleisbrug is a raised park and pedestrian and cycle bridge in one. The bridge forms a 250-meter-long link across the railway tracks between the historic center of 's-Hertogenbosch and Paleiskwartier. Benthem Crouwel Architects

The IGN and Météo France Geosciences Center is a major renovation operation permitting the transformation of a 1980s block into a Very High Energy Performance (VHEP) building with a surface area of 15,900 sm. Architecture Patrick Mauger

The European Parliament has rejected the plan that would have restricted the so-called Freedom of Panorama, the right to use pictures of public buildings and sculptures without restriction. John Hill

PSA Publishers Ltd., the publisher of the World-Architects platform, announces a change of management as Renato Turri, Charles Ganz and Falk Romano accept, as part of a management buyout, the shares of majority shareholder and company founder Hans Demarmels. John Hill, Inge Beckel

As part of the activities of the Abierto Mexicano de Diseño 2014 (Mexican Open Design 2014), we presented Octágono as a prefab approach, in collaboration with Pirwi. It is a space cell, able to join other non-hierarchical, which makes it flexible, with the ability to react to... Dellekamp Arquitectos + Pirwi

The 10th edition of the Lively Architecture Festival (Festival des Architectures Vives) wrapped up last month, having attracted 15,000 visitors. Five of the FAV installations in Montpellier and La Grande Motte were given awards. John Hill

The complexity of the site called first of all for a detailed constructibility review. All constraints were modeled on the current PLU (plan local d’urbanisme – local urban development plan) – building heights, street alignments, distances from buildings on neighboring plots... Jacques Ferrier Architectures

The Studio Museum in Harlem has announced that David Adjaye is designing a new building for the museum on the site of the 1914 building it has occupied since 1982. John Hill

The principal idea in the site of the high school Honoré de Balzac de Castelnau-le-Lez was to reconquer space by a better distribution of constructions in order to create a scale of user-friendliness, as well in the buildings as in the outdoor areas. NBJ Architectes

Vector Architects from Beijing have designed a new library situated right on the beach on the north Chinese coast. The solid concrete block looks surreal in its natural environment. The site at Nandaihe is south of the established resort of Beidaihe, where in colonial times foreigners established...

With the evolution of technology in the industry, it puts into question the role of artisans in the construction of the design space to the extent that the trades are disappearing. Rojkind Arquitectos

REX's design of a building for two companies – Vakko and Power Media – in Istanbul is built upon two projects: one, an old design by the Brooklyn-based architects, and two, the physical concrete frame of an unfinished hotel on the site. The architects explain the complex yet...

The third and last leg of the exhibition Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio opened at the Cooper Hewitt in New York on 24 June, running until 3 January 2016. eMagazine Editor in Chief John Hill got a look at the exhibition and filed this report. John Hill

The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in Flushing Meadows Corona Park has reopened its Great Hall designed by Wallace K. Harrison for the 1964 World's Fair and recently restored by Ennead Architects. John Hill

Our clients wanted a glass house. The difficulty was that they wanted this house placed on a visually exposed 50’ x 100’ city lot that they owned in NE Portland. This posed the challenge of designing a glass house with privacy. Waechter Architecture

With beaches a few hours away from Washington, DC, the National Building Museum is bringing one to the city in the form of an "ocean" of nearly one million translucent balls courtesy of Snarkitecture. John Hill

Born from an extreme transformation of a typical 90s bungalow, the “Maison Terrebonne” is located on a vast wooded plot of land. la SHED architecture

New York's Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP) has announced plans for two residential buildings designed by ODA New York for developer RAL Development Services and Oliver's Realty Group adjacent to the park's Pier 6. John Hill

A project to transform the 13,700-square-meter of both buildings in Travesera de Gràcia and Amigó St into offices to rent, luxury apartments and a hotel for the British company Travelodge. Octavio Mestre Arquitectos

Two years after Anthony Vidler stepped down as Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, the New York school has named Nader Tehrani of Boston's NADAAA to the position. John Hill

Eight months after rejecting it, Paris city councillors have voted in favor of the "Triangle Tower" proposed for the Porte de Versailles area, what would be the city’s first skyscraper since 1973. John Hill

Architect Kazuhiko Kishimoto of the Kanagawa-based firm acaa designed this wood-framed ranch-style home in the snowy city of Kitakami, Iwate Prefecture. In order to adapt the home to the region’s harsh winter climate, Kishimoto says he took particular care in designing the structure and...

In one of the latest films from the Louisiana Museum of Art's Louisiana Channel, Dan Stubbergaard of COBE takes viewers around Copenhagen "to show and discuss what motivates their exciting socially conscious and highly innovative projects." John Hill

On Saturday, July 11, Open House New York and the Architectural League of New York are opening up more than forty New York architecture studios in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, all previous winners of the League's Emerging Voices awards. John Hill

An innovative reconsideration of school buildings and their role within the urban realm and the community, can provoke different ways of inventing the present and of planting seed for a better future. C+S Associati

On the occasion of the Making Africa exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has designed and installed a pop-up store for Camper within the Buckminster Fuller Dome on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. John Hill

NEXT architects and Rudy Uytenhaak architects worked together to design a new town hall for Bloemendaal municipality. Their design builds on the history of the property, the Bloemenheuvel country estate. NEXT architects

In Münster, Germany, HPP Architects have realized, together with Duk-Kyu Ryang, an office building for LVM that adds character to the city's skyline. Inside, employees can look forward to seasonal moods of color that emanate from the flooring. John Hill, Thomas Geuder