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Decades in the making, and with a final price tag of $11 billion, the East Side Access project opened on January 25, delivering riders from Long Island to the new Grand Central Madison terminal in East Midtown, Manhattan. John Hill

Dr. Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, the recipient of the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2022 RIBA Royal Gold Medal and other honors, died in Ahmedabad, India, on January 24, 2023, at the age of 95. John Hill

Camden Highline, the proposed transformation of a stretch of unused railway in London into an elevated park, has received its first planning approval, giving the James Corner Field Operations design the green light to move forward with construction. John Hill

The City of Nantes has announced the three teams competing to design the Cité des Imaginaires (City of Imaginations), a major cultural project that will be home to the Jules Verne Museum. John Hill

London's Kingston University has announced that Grafton Architects, designers of the award-winning Town House on the university's Penrhyn Road campus, have been hired to design an academic building at the school's nearby Knights Park campus. John Hill

La Biennale di Venezia has announced the first-ever Biennale College Architecture, which will take place this summer during the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, curated by Lesley Lokko. John Hill

Last month the Kunstmuseum Bern, one of Switzerland's oldest museums, revealed the 39 architectural teams selected for the two-stage competition to reimagine the "Museum of Fine Arts Bern of the Future." John Hill

MVRDV has won the competition to design the new central library for Wuhan, China, describing their winning design as a "three-faced flowing shape [that] celebrates the position of the 'city of 100 lakes' at the confluence of two rivers." John Hill

Artist Refik Anadol has filled the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art in New York with a large video wall displaying images of artworks from the MoMA collection mutated by artificial intelligence software. Obviously timely, the installation is also beautiful to behold. John Hill

Vectorworks has announced the winners – 22 projects by 30 students from 11 countries – in this year's scholarships for students in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, and entertainment. John Hill

The ninth MPavilion, designed by (all)zone, the Bangkok studio founded by Rachaporn Choochuey, opened on December 8 in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens, where it will host free events until April 6, 2023. John Hill

The Jencks Foundation and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have announced that Forensic Architecture is the 2022 recipient of the RIBA Charles Jencks Award, named for the influential architecture critic and landscape designer.  John Hill

The American Institute of Architects has announced that Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney is the winner of the 2023 AIA Gold Medal, which "honors an individual whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture." John Hill

Consecrated this Fourth of July, the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center finally opened to the public on Tuesday, December 6, for the Feast of Saint Nicholas. John Hill

Despite vocal opposition from UK preservationists and architects, and from Denise Scott Brown herself, Westminster City Council voted unanimously in approval of Annabelle Selldorf's remodeling of The National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing. John Hill

The recipients of the 33rd annual Piranesi Awards were announced on Saturday, November 26, during the 39th Piran Days of Architecture held in Portorož, Slovenia. John Hill

Serpentine has announced that architect Lina Ghotmeh, born in Beirut and based in Paris, as designer of the 22nd Serpentine Pavilion and unveiled her design. It will open in London's Kensington Gardens next June. John Hill

Spanning five blocks in the neighborhood of Astoria, the mixed-use development called Innovation QNS was approved by the New York City Council on Tuesday, two years after it was unveiled and following weeks of uncertainty. John Hill

The reimagined public space at the base of 550 Madison, designed by Snøhetta as part of Olayan Group's transformation of Johnson/Burgee's iconic AT&T Building, opened to the public on November 16. John Hill

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has named The David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago the 2022 Best Tall Building Worldwide, besting other considerably taller contenders. John Hill

The Fondation Giacometti has announced it will turn the former Invalides train station in the heart of Paris into the Giacometti Museum & School, set to open in 2026. John Hill

Architect Peter Barber, known for the design of affordable housing in London, is the fifth recipient of the Soane Medal, which has been awarded annually by the Sir John Soane’s Museum since 2017. John Hill

Reports this week indicate that the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIMA) is reversing course and will not preserve the dormitories designed by Louis I. Kahn and completed in 1974. John Hill

As announced by the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), and DekaBank, 3XN's Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney, Australia, is the "world’s most innovative high-rise" for 2022/23. John Hill

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture has released renderings of Harajuku Quest, a commercial and cultural center that just started construction on Tokyo's fashionable Omotesando, not far... John Hill

Ennead Architects has released renderings of its competition-winning design for Wuxi Art Museum, proposed for Shangxianhe Wetland Park in the port city of Wuxi, China. John Hill

The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, has announced that Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Selldorf Architects will modernize the building's interior and plaza. John Hill

Social critic Mike Davis, best known for chronicling the dark side of sunny Los Angeles, died on October 25 at his home in San Diego from complications related to esophageal cancer. He was 76. John Hill

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has revealed renderings of its competition-winning design for a large sports complex for Hangzhou's Future Science and Technology Cultural District. John Hill

University of California Santa Barbara has released updated visuals of the proposed Munger Hall, the dormitory unveiled in November 2021 to protests over the lack of windows in most bedrooms. John Hill

The transformation of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA), designed by Chicago's Studio Gang with Little Rock's Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects, is nearly complete, with an opening date of April 22, 2023, recently announced. John Hill

Ten winners have been announced in the 14th iteration of the International DAM Architectural Book Award, given jointly by the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM). John Hill

World-Architects stopped by Beyond Territories – Made . Make . Making, the traveling exhibition that celebrates the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced that The New Library, Magdalene College, located in Cambridge and designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects, is the winner of the 26th RIBA Stirling Prize, making it "the UK’s best new building." John Hill

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe has announced that "Anna Bofill Levi. La arquitectura como contracanto: 1977-1996" by a quartet of Spanish architects is the recipient of the latest Lilly Reich Grant for Equality in Architecture. John Hill

David Geffen Hall, home to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, opened its doors on October 8. World-Architects got a tour of the building's public spaces and acoustically improved theater. John Hill