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WAA has begun construction on the Van der Valk Hotel in Amsterdam’s Zuidas District. The new 240 room hotel stands at a height of 55m; this location of this Dutch hotel chain, expands upon its twentieth-century motel-centric history, while updating its amenities for the twenty-first.

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The IJhal is a recently completed pedestrian passageway situated within Amsterdam’s central train station, on its the northern, waterside–which abuts the river it’s named for, the IJ.

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The mixed-use building is an integral component of a larger effort by the city of Zürich to rebrand its Escher-Wyss district through a metamorphosis of new development, including green spaces, bikes lanes, and a plethora of new housing.

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Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture Dean Wiel Arets and Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) Director Dirk Denison have announced the MCHAP 2014/15 nominees and jury.

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With last week's announcement of the international search for an architect to design the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, we take a look at 20 libraries designed by World-Architects member firms since 2004, the year of the striking Clinton Presidential Library designed by ennead architects.

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Wiel Arets Architects has won a competition to design 'Am Hirschgarten' located on the western edge of Munich. It is a campus-like cluster of four buildings, each of which entails a tower; the highest is 17 m, and cantilevers from its plinth.

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This compact residence is nestled within the dense expanse of Tokyo, in a neighborhood characterized by narrow streets and traditional low-rise houses and which borders a park heavily visited during the spring, when the city’s cherry trees bloom.