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Resolution: 4 Architecture's 2003 competition-winning prefab house – aka the "mother of all modern pre-fab design" – will be auctioned off on November 15th. John Hill

The purpose of this project is the complete renovation of a cabinet of physiotherapy with creation of water sources, furniture and a waiting space to replace a former consultation room. This waiting room is created as an intimate alcove totally out of season and different from the rest of... UBALT

A complex of 30 levels of mixed uses that has become the leading project in sustainability and comfort in the most important area of development in Puebla, Mexico. Mayer Hasbani

The American Institute of Architects Los Angeles (AIA|LA) announced the winners of its prestigious 2016 Design Awards program Monday night, October 24, 2016. Arshia Architects was selected for its MU77 project in Los Angeles. Arshia Architects

New York's ESI Design is responsible for two office lobby renovations carried out this year for Beacon Capital Partners: Terrell Place in Washington, DC, and 575 Fifth in Midtown Manhattan. Each lobby incorporates LED screens to add some movement and color to the spaces and lift the...

Gasholder No. 8 is a historic cast iron structure that has been transformed into Gasholder Park as part of the huge King's Cross development in London. A subtle yet dramatic lighting design by Speirs + Major ensures the striking structure has a strong presence at night. John Hill

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the three winners of the inaugural Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). The awards were given today during the “Shaping European Cities” debate in Venice. John Hill

We propose a building with a unique image for the campus. A building that breaks the existing gray monotony – referring not only about the pictorial issue of the Campus, but also about the “global crisis without end” – and that, at the same time, is able to captivate. Cláudio Vilarinho

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the six finalists in its inaugural RIBA International Prize, which replaces the RIBA Lubetkin Prize and is "open to all qualified architects anywhere in the world." John Hill

Four months after George Lucas ditched plans to build his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago, concept designs by Ma Yansong for sites in Los Angeles and San Francisco have been unveiled. John Hill

A Buddhist retreat in the Suffolk countryside has reopened, designed by Walters & Cohen Architects. Walters & Cohen Architects

NEXT turns a bridge into the ultimate experience: Dutch-Chinese Lucky Knot by NEXT architects connects, illuminates and entertains. NEXT architects

The Mirrorhouse is perched on the hillside of Beverly Hills with downtown views to the east and views to Palos Verdes and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The floor plan is developed around five offset volumes, enclosing the private spaces of the house. XTEN Architecture

Yesterday World-Architects toured inside Renzo Piano Building Workshop's Jerome L. Greene Science Center, which is set to open in spring 2017 as one of the first buildings on Columbia University's new Manhattanville campus. John Hill

As part of the eleventh edition of Nuit Blanche Toronto, which took place the first night of October, the anonymous art group Luzinterruptus covered a street with softly illuminated books, the latest iteration of their Literature vs. Traffic installation. John Hill

This project is part of the urban fabric of the Colonia Roma Norte in Mexico City. Arqmov Workshop

The Sante Fe Opera was faced with the need to expand, but when it came time to do so the work had to be done piecemeal, with construction taking place between seasons. Juan Matiz and his firm, MAD, master planned and designed the complex expansion, which consists of numerous public spaces as...

Sky Stage, a transformative building-scale public artwork, opens in the shell of a burned and boarded building. Heather Clark

The new Visual Arts facility for the University of Iowa's School of Art and Art History provides 126,000 sf of loft-like space for all visual arts media, from ancient metalsmithing techniques to the most advanced virtual reality technologies. Steven Holl Architects

The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, ARE WE HUMAN?: The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years,200 years, 200,000 years, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley opens tomorrow. John Hill

Port Melbourne Football Club (PMFC) has a proud history spanning 140 years, which makes it one of the oldest sporting clubs in Australia. k20 Architecture

SANAA's River Building, which snakes its way across the landscape of New Canaan, Connecticut, has won the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) that is given out every two years by the Illinois Institute of Architecture (IIT). John Hill

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe have announced the nine finalists, culled from thirty shortlisted projects, competing for the inaugural Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA). Three winners will be announced at a ceremony in Venice on 28 October 2016. John Hill

The New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) has announced the 26 architecture and design firms that will participate in the city's Design and Construction Excellence 2.0 Program, the fifth round overall since the program began in 2005. John Hill

Architekturzentrum Wien's Photo Award 2016, which goes under the motto "I LOVE ARCHITECTURE," sought photographs of buildings completed within the last fifty years. A jury selected ten winners that are featured here. John Hill

Seven firms have been selected for the second round of the Demain Montparnasse competition, which strives to give a new identity to Tour Montparnasse, the much-detested Parisian skyscraper. John Hill

The campus of Hochschule Ruhr West (HRW) - University of Applied Sciences in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, was opened recently by Hannelore Kraft, State Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. HRW is part of a nationwide development of new universities. HPP/ASTOC

LEAF International has announced the winners of the 13th annual LEAF Awards, which "recognizes innovative architectural design projects and celebrates excellence in building design on an international basis." John Hill

The Passive House standard, first developed in Germany in the 1990s, has led to tens of thousands of highly energy efficient buildings, most of them in and around Germany. Its popularity in the United States has been slow, but in recent years the number of Passive House-certified...

The ashes of the late, great Prince, have been interred in a model of his Paisley Park Studios, now on display within the full-sized building. John Hill

Surrounded by a rapidly urbanizing village settlement, the seven-acre site is on the outskirts of New Delhi. The site’s existing rocky terrain posed a significant challenge to the spatial planning of the site. Amit Khanna

An area of 45 square meters is not much for the planning of a house. Nevertheless L3P Architekten managed to make room for a family of four in Dielsdorf near Zurich – using the logic of the surrounding grapevines to articulate the structure. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

The effort to safeguard the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia has won the Buckminster Fuller Institute's 2016 Fuller Challenge, which awards a $100,000 prize "to support the development and implementation of one outstanding strategy." John Hill

Three winners of the new American Architecture Prize, which honors designs in the disciplines of architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture, were announced on October 3rd, World Architecture Day. John Hill

An international jury has selected Hala Wardé and HW Architecture to design BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art, a new musuem that will include a garden amphitheater, accessible public space, and a tower designed to house exhibitions and artist residencies. John Hill

Housing Cairo: The Informal Response, edited by Marc Angélil and Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, was published earlier this year by Berlin-based publisher Ruby Press. Recently it won a Fiona Shipwright