Revista

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 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 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

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

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

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

Paris's Atelier 37.2 has installed New Horizon, an inhabited sculpture for the 4th annual Sculpture by the Sea Aarhus festival that frames the landscape as "two monochromatic, ever-changing Rothko paintings." John Hill

The 15th Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, designed by Spain's SelgasCano, opens to the public on Thursday in London's Kensington Gardens. John Hill

Brooklyn's Nomad Studio has installed Green Varnish in the courtyard of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM), the twelve-year-old building designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture. John Hill

The TREExOFFICE co-working space launched today in Hoxton Square, the first initiative to be realized by the Park Hack project, which was set up to test innovative models that sustain and enhance public open spaces. John Hill

Italian architects Filippo Pagliani and Michele Rossi of PARK have released PARK Mapp, a guide to modern and contemporary architecture in Milan, the city of Expo 2015. John Hill

In commemoration of the Vienna Ringstrasse's 150th anniversary, Parabol Art Magazine has published a special edition with photos of Otto Wagner's Postal Savings Bank taken by Hagen Stier and a companion exhibition in the building. John Hill

The Wall Street Journal reports on the headquarters of online game developer NetDragon Websoft in Changle, China, which is "shaped like Star Trek's Enterprise." John Hill

Steve Messam, a British artist, has created a self-supporting, walkable bridge from 20,000 sheets of brigh red paper in the green countryside of the Lake District, about midway between Glasgow and Manchester. John Hill, Katinka Corts

Photographer Iñigo Bujedo Aguirre has sent us some stunning photographs of a handful of the pavilions at the Expo Milano 2015.

The groundbreaking of the Hunters Point Community Library in Long Island City took place last week, five years after Steven Holl Architects began working on the project. An exhibition at the Sculpture Center, and an online companion, celebrate this step forward. John Hill

FAT (Fashion, Architecture, Taste), the UK firm of Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob, announced their closing in late 2013, with A House for Essex, designed in collaboration with artist Grayson Perry, serving as the studio's last completed commission. John Hill

SecondMedia's Foamspace submission is the winner of Storefront for Art and Architecture’s 2015 Street Architecture Prize Competition, to be displayed as part of the IDEAS CITY Festival in New York City at the end of May. John Hill

Artist Daan Roosegaarde has virtually flooded the Museum Square in Amsterdam with his Waterlicht installation, which "lets you experience how the Netherlands would look like without waterworks." John Hill

Even with rainy skies and protests in the streets, the long-awaited and much-criticized Expo Milano 2015 opened this first day of May. John Hill

Yesterday, MIT dedicated a new memorial to Sean Collier, a campus police officer killed in the line of duty in April 2013. John Hill

On 1 May 2015 the new home of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Cooper Robertson, opens its doors to the public right next to the southern tip of the High Line. John Hill

Snarkitecture, the art/architecture duo of Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham, in collaboration with COS (Collection Of Style), have created an immersive environment where visitors to the Salone del Mobile "are invited to relax, interact and recharge among the chaos of the festival." John Hill

As part of Milan Design Week 2015, United Nude and 3D Systems have asked five architects/designers, including Ben van Berkel and Zaha Hadid, to "re-invent shoes" using 3D printing technology. John Hill

The first 21st century pavilion in Venice’s Giardini della Biennale, the Australian Pavilion designed by Denton Corker Marshall, opens to the public next month when the 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, takes place. John Hill

Canadian artist Steve McDonald's forthcoming book Fantastic Cities, published by Chronicle Books, invites readers to color the real and imagined places he has carefully depicted. John Hill

Last year, for its Summer Block Party, the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, used its Great Hall for the BIG Maze by Bjarke Ingels Group. This summer they will fill it with "The BEACH," with some help from Snarkitecture. John Hill

Adolfsson & Partners' design for the office of King, the maker of the wildly popular Candy Crush Saga and other games, takes the playfulness of tech company workplace design to an extreme in what the designers call "The Kingdom." John Hill

Next week is the annual Salone del Mobile in Milano, where product designer and interior architect Gert-Jan Soepenberg is launching Vase #2, a tribute to the design and form of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum. John Hill

Artist Tomás Saraceno explores social and biological complexity through the manipulation of spider webs in a new exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York. John Hill

World-Architects got a sneak peek of the exhibition Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980, opening at the Museum of Modern Art on the 29th of March. John Hill

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture has launched the online publication Schindler Lab, which documents their "initiative that prompts artists and architects to develop installations highlighting Rudolph M. Schindler's domestic experiment." John Hill

A photo that landed in our inbox today shows the Nanjing International Youth Cultural Center in Nanjing, China, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and illuminated by 700,000 nodes of color-changing LED lights. John Hill

Four years after the earthquake and tsunami that hit the eastern coast of Japan, we take a look at some of the buildings completed under the Home-for-All program started by architect Toyo Ito in response to the disaster. John Hill

Guadalajara-based Estudio Macías Peredo has filled the small space of LIGA with 33 tons of raw volcanic stone for the 17th exhibition at the Mexico City architecture gallery, on display until May. John Hill

Japanese artist Takahiro Iwasaki has suspended an intricate wooden model of the Shinto shrine of Itsukushina in the National Gallery of Victoria as part of his Reflection Model series. John Hill