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Model Behavior is an exhibition of models — architectural and otherwise — on display at The Cooper Union's Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture in New York City. Curated by Anyone Corporation, the exhibition of 55... John Hill

Radio Hotel and Tower, described by Rotterdam's MVRDV as a "colorful vertical village," opened in September in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood. John Hill

The City of Frankfurt, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), and DekaBank have announced the five finalists for the 2022/23 Internationale Hochhaus Preis (International High-Rise Award). The winner will be announced in November. John Hill

Chicago architecture firm Brininstool + Lynch announced on their website and social media channels that founding partner Brad Lynch died on Monday, September 26. He was just 64. John Hill

OMA New York and Jacobs have unveiled their design for the headquarters of Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) in The 78, a large development underway on Chicago's Near South Side. John Hill

The Culvert Guesthouse is a storage facility for furniture, artworks, and other artifacts sitting in a thick pine forest in Japan's Nagano Prefecture. The design by Nendo is pure minimalism made with prefabricated concrete box culverts that are typically used in infrastructure projects. John Hill

Developed by a team of students and researchers at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), TOVA is a 3D-printed prototype for housing that can be built with local materials, local labor, and zero waste. John Hill

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) has announced that the Colosio Embankment Dam designed by by Loreta Castro Reguera and José Pablo Ambrosi of Taller Capital is winner of the 2022 MCHAP.emerge award. John Hill

Six projects have been announced as winners of the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The winners, ranging from an international airport in Indonesia to a riverfront landscape in Bangladesh, will split the $1 million USD prize. John Hill

The public can vote on their favorite among the 32 short films in the running for the AIA Film Challenge 2022. Deadline is October 14, with the winners to be announced on October 25. John Hill

The Piranesi Award recognizes the best Central European buildings realized in the last two years. The call for proposals for the 2022 edition is now open, with a deadline of October 18. John Hill

The Getty Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have announced Conserving Black Modernism, a grant program that will award $3.1 million over two years to preserve historic modern architecture designed by Black architects. John Hill

Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA have been named recipients of Japan Art Association’s 2022 Praemium Imperiale, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists. John Hill

Out of the Clouds is a new book that presents more than one thousand sketches by Wolf dPrix, head of Vienna's Coop Himmelb(l)au. The big book traces five decades of the studio's projects through the loose sketches born from Prix's brain and drawn by his hand. John Hill

The United States chapter of Docomomo has announced the twelve recipients of the 2022 Modernism in America Awards: 6 Awards of Excellence and 6 Citations of Merit. John Hill

The Pritzker Architecture Prize has released a short film with highlights from this year's award ceremony honoring architect, educator and social activist Diébédo Francis Kéré. John Hill

The Montreal Holocaust Museum (MHM) has revealed that the team of KPMB Architects and Daoust Lestage Lizotte Stecker Architecture has been selected to design the museum's new downtown home following an international competition. John Hill

Inspireli Awards, the international contest for students of architecture, has announced the winners of its Beirut Port Competition, which asked students to develop innovative solutions for rebuilding the site of the August 4, 2020 explosion in Beirut. John Hill

New York architect James Stewart Polshek, former dean of Columbia University GSAPP and founder of Polshek Partnership, the precursor to Ennead Architects, died at his Manhattan home on September 9 at the age of 92. John Hill

Five anonymous design proposals for the Bezos Learning Center at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, are now available for public comment by September 19. John Hill

New York's Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2022 National Design Awards, which recognizes design excellence and innovation in nine categories. John Hill

OPEN Architecture, the Beijing studio of LI Hu and HUANG Wenjing, has created OPEN Metropolis, an urban research and design project presented as a series of eight short films. John Hill

The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design have announced that Germany's ingenhoven associates is this year's recipient of... John Hill

Seven years in the making, the upgrading of the concert hall at the Sydney Opera House was completed and reopened earlier this summer. Designed by Peter Hall inside Jørn Utzon's iconic exterior, the concert hall was refurbished by ARM Architecture. John Hill

The City of Helsinki and Helsinki Design Week have announced that Päivi Raivio is the recipient of the 2022 Helsinki Design Award, which recognizes "a designer or a design team for making Helsinki a better place to live in." John Hill

"The year’s best new skyscraper," according to the jury of the Emporis Skyscraper Award 2021, is the Valley, a mixed-use tower in Amsterdam whose design was inspired by mountainous landscapes. John Hill

After acquiring it for 1.15 million Swiss francs, the town of La Chaux-de-Fonds has taken possession of Villa Fallet, opening the first house worked on by Le Corbusier to the public. John Hill

Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie is donating his extensive archive of sketchbooks, drawings, and models to McGill University, where he first designed what became his breakout Habitat 67 project. John Hill

The Frank Lloyd Wright Trust has released a 13-minute virtual tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, which was built in Tokyo in 1923, famously and survived an earthquake the same year, but was demolished in... John Hill

World-Architects spent the morning of World Photography Day (August 19) watching the sunrise from SUMMIT One Vanderbilt, a three-story immersive experience more than 1,000 feet above the sidewalks of Midtown Manhattan. John Hill

Andrés Jaque, founder of Madrid- and New York-based Office for Political Innovation, has been appointed the next Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). John Hill

In Project Without Form: OMA, Rem Koolhaas, and the Laboratory of 1989, ZHAW professor Holger Schurk delves inside the Office of Metropolitan Architecture when it was working on three competition submissions in one year. OMA has not been the same since. John Hill

The Donum Estate in Sonoma, California, has inaugurated Vertical Panorama Pavilion, a colorful canopy designed by John Hill

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has unveiled a trio of proposals that aim to keep the Chicago Bears pro football team at Soldier Field on the city's lakefront. John Hill

In a talk given at the TED Conference in Vancouver in April of this year, British designer Thomas Heatherwick argues against boring architecture and in favor of architectural diversity and a "global humanizing movement." John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six buildings in the running for the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize, considered "the UK’s most prestigious architecture award." John Hill