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One month after giving it preliminary approval with requests for revisions, the Commission of Fine Arts granted final approval for US President Donald Trump's 250-foot-tall arch proposed for Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery—with most of the requests ignored by Trump and his...
One month after US President Donald Trump had the federal government take control of the much-needed renovation of Penn Station in Manhattan, a developer has been chosen—but not the one many people were expecting.
The expansion of Wrightwood 659, an exhibition space in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando nearly a decade ago, is facing opposition from a neighbor—a holdout trying to block the expansion via a lawsuit.
Six months after architects Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, founders of Hangzhou's Amateur Architecture Studio, were named the curators of the 2027 Venice Architecture Biennale, the pair have revealed their exhibition theme: Do Architecture – For the Possibility of Coexistence Facing a Real...
The Villum Fonden, Velux Fonden, and Velux Stiftung sister foundations have announced the 2026 winners of The Daylight Award, the biennial award that honors and supports daylight research and daylight in architecture. Architects Momoyo Kaijima and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow are the...
Camden Highline—the proposed transformation of a a disused railway viaduct in London into a new local park, garden walk, and wildlife corridor—has paused due to rising construction costs, general inflation, and “the emerging 2026 energy shock.”
The Storefront for Art and Architecture has named DAAR—Decolonizing Architecture Art Research, the art/architecture practice of Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, as the inaugural recipient of the Kyong Park Prize for Art and Architecture, which recognizes practitioners working at the...
Powerhouse has announced that its latest museum, the new Powerhouse Parramatta in Western Sydney, will open to the public in late 2026, a full seven years after the team of Moreau Kusunoki and Genton
During an event on Monday, April 27, the organizers and curators of the UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona presented the full program for Becoming: Architectures for a Planet in Transition, which will take place at multiple venues across Barcelona over five days, from June...
On the occasion of Earth Day, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced the Ambasz-MoMA Annual Prize for Nature-Reconciled Architecture, a new $200,000 prize enabled by a major gift from the Legacy Emilio Ambasz Foundation.
Ennead Architects, the 160-person New York City architecture firm born from the Polshek Partnership, is merging with CannonDesign, the 1,600-person architecture, engineering, and consulting practice with twenty offices in North America and India.
Twenty years in the making, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partners with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, open to LACMA members on April 19 and the general public on May 4.
The European Commission and Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the two winners of the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award: the Charleroi Palais des Expositions by AgwA and architecten jan de vylder inge vinck is the Architecture Winner, and...
US President Donald Trump's latest Washington, DC folly is a big one: a 250-foot-tall arch that would be placed at Memorial Circle, halfway between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, and become the tallest triumphal arch in the world if built. The seven-member Commission of...
Ten years in the making, the V&A East Museum opens at East Bank, the new cultural quarter in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, on Saturday, April 18. The building designed by O’Donnell + Tuomey is a sister site to the nearby V&A East Storehouse that opened last May.
The Getty Center's nearly 30-year-old campus, perched on the San Gabriel Mountains overlooking Los Angeles, will close to the public from March 2027 until spring 2028 for what the institution calls “the most significant series of modernization initiatives since its 1997 opening.”
Kengo Kuma and Associates, with BDP and MICA, has won a competition to design a new wing at the National Gallery, part of the 200-year-old London institution's £750 million Project Domani.
As expected, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) overwhelmingly approved plans for the new State Ballroom at the East Wing of the White House. Only one dissenting vote was cast in a meeting that took place two days after a judge ordered construction of the 89,000-square-foot...
On Tuesday, March 31, US District Court Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that construction of President Donald Trump's ballroom at the White House needs to stop, since it lacks the proper approvals from Congress. The ruling came a couple days ahead of the National Capital Planning Commission's...
In response to the anticipated closure of the Kennedy Center in July for a two-year renovation, eight cultural and architectural organizations—including the American Institute of Architects and the National Trust for Historic Preservation—have filed suit against the Trump administration so it...
The renovation of the Central Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, closed since late 2024, has been completed and will reopen for the Biennale Arte 2026 in May. The project's architectural design was carried out by Labics and architect Fabio Fumagalli.
The centerpiece of the 2026 UIA World Congress of Architects, taking place in Barcelona in late June and early July, is the three-day conference that will find more than 250 speakers in over 100 sessions addressing the curatorial theme Becoming: Architectures for a Planet in Transition....
The latest piece in US President Donald Trump's transformation of the White House is a proposed security facility the US Secret Service would use to screen visitors to the White House for tours and events.
The Obama Foundation has announced that the Obama Presidential Center’s grand opening celebrations will take place from June 18 to June 21, with the campus and museum opening to the public on the 19th—aka Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), which was expected to approve plans for US President Donald Trump's ballroom at the East Wing of the White House on Thursday, March 5, has postponed the vote until April 2 “given the large amount of public input on the project.”
Designs by five teams led by big-name European architects have been unveiled in the competition for the €240 million “Shift Landmark” in Rotterdam's new Waterkant district.
The last vacant commercial parcel at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan will be filled by American Express, which announced that it will own and occupy 2 World Trade Center, a 55-story tower being designed by Foster + Partners.
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2026 National Design Awards, which “recognize the innovation and impact of individual designers and organizations across 10 categories,” including architecture and landscape architecture.
Snøhetta has shared photos of the Shanghai Grand Opera House that is nearing completion on the banks of the Huangpu River. The building with publicly accessible rooftop is set to open in the second half of 2026.
The seven members of the US Commission of Fine Arts (CFA)—all of whom were appointed by President Donald Trump in January—have approved plans for a $400 million ballroom to replace the White House's East Wing that was demolished last fall. Approval by the National Capital Planning Commission...
Here we touch on some recent headlines in the realm of architectural preservation, including awards, grants, and a passing of note.
The Foundation for the Development of the Lands Adjacent to the Baptism Site has announced that the team led by Níall McLaughlin Architects (NMLA) has won the Museum of Jesus’ Baptism at Bethany, Jordan – International Design Competition, besting the six other finalists in the two-stage...
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have announced the seven works in the running for the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award: five projects for the Architecture prize and two projects vying for the Emerging prize.
US President Donald Trump is continuing his reshaping of Washington, DC, with headlines in recent days indicating he will close the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for a two-year “reconstruction” and big-name firms are submitting designs to redesign Washington Dulles International...
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has named Swiss-born Irish architect Níall McLaughlin the 2026 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal, which is given annually, on behalf of His Majesty the King, “to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence on the advancement...
The OBEL Award, the annual prize founded by the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation in 2019 to honor architectural contributions to human development all over the world, has announced the focus of its eighth cycle: “Systems' Hack.”