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The Museum of Modern Art has selected five finalists for its annual Young Architects Program at its MoMA PS1 outpost in Long Island City, Queens, and it has appointed Sean Anderson as Associate Curator, Department of Architecture and Design. John Hill

Ector Hoogstad Architects has transformed De Artillerie, an office complex on the Nieuwe Uitleg in The Hague built in a historicising style in the 1990s, into the new police headquarters. Ector Hoogstad Architecten

The American Institute of Architects has named the influential Postmodern architects from Philadelphia the 2016 recipients of the AIA Gold Medal, the first duo to receive the honor since the AIA allowed collaborations two years ago. John Hill

Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has won the international competition to design an 87,000 m2 masterplan in the area of Skøyen in central Oslo; they contend the scheme "will become a unifying urban development icon." John Hill

New Civic Centre and Redevelopment of the Surrounding Urban Area, Villacidro, Sardinia, Italy 3TI PROGETTI

The park is located at the interface between hard industrial plants of Thyssen Krupp Steel and the historical working-class quarter of Bruckhausen. The district is the link between a green belt and open spaces of Beeckerwerth Rönsberghof. r+b landschaft s architektur

‘Haat Beat’ was the starting point for this design competition entry in 2005. Delhi Tourism and Transportation Development Corporation had invited entries for a Dilli Haat in Janakpuri, a massive site with a large residential audience, in a part of Delhi that had very few places to go... Archohm

Strelka KB has announced a shortlist of six design teams that will take part in the second phase of the the international architectural competition for the new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University. John Hill

There is a yellow cloud covering Semtín (a factory producing Semtex explosives) again. It stings a little on the nose, but it's not worse than chopping fresh onions. Mjölk Architects

This week the Municipality of The Hague presented the vision for The International Park which will connect three existing parks - the Scheveningse Bosjes, the Waterpartij and the Westbroekpark - into one improved city park that rivals London's Hyde Park in size. LOLA landscape architects

Last week Wandsworth Council announced that the team led by Denmark's Bystrup Architecture Design and Engineering won the two-stage competition for the Nine Elms to Pimlico cycling and pedestrian bridge crossing the Thames in London. John Hill

The Creation of Architectural Garden through a Form of Broken Ice: The environment present in the city is the cityscape that creates the characteristics of the town. It is a form of elevation that our eye can capture. It may be an expression of our needs to survive in the town. Furthermore, it... THEEAE LTD

The Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, visits Peter Zumthor at his studio in Haldenstein, Switzerland to present an illuminating, one-hour-long biographical video on the Pritzker Prize-winning architect. John Hill

The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design invited PAR to design a temporary structure for their annual ForumFest benefit held at the Sixth Street Viaduct on October 25, 2015. PAR Los Angeles

After tying with Snøhetta in April of this year in the restricted international competition for the New National Gallery–Ludwig Museum in Budapest's 200-year-old City Park, SANAA has been selected to design the museum. John Hill

Strasbourg's Urbane Kultur has renovated one of France's "1,000 Pools" from 40 years ago, a distinctive dome set in the townscape. The dark exterior gives way to a light and bright interior covered partially with HI-MACS® acrylic stone. John Hill

The BigMat Group, distributors of construction materials, has announced the winners of the second BigMat ’15 International Architecture Award, with the Grand Prize going to Alberto Campo Baeza's office building in Zamora, Spain. John Hill

The recipients of the 27th Piranesi Awards were announced last week at the conclusion of the Piran Days of Architecture in Slovenia. John Hill

A new ten-minute documentary from the Irish Architecture Foundation "traces the Irish involvement in building Chicago, from the famous I&M canal to the rise of the Irish culturally and politically." John Hill

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group is designing a large, two-tower residential project for a prominently located empty parcel next to the High Line and across the street from Frank Gehry's IAC building. John Hill

Munich's HENN has won first prize in the competition for Zalando's Headquarters in Berlin. It is designed as an ensemble of two new buildings that form the heart of the corporate campus in Berlin-Friedrichshain. HENN

For Rotterdam's Timmerhuis, a new building for the city hall that will accommodate municipal services, offices, and residential units, OMA conceived a modular building with repeated units gradually set back from the street as they rise into two irregular peaks. OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture

REX, the Brooklyn firm headed by former OMA partner Joshua Prince-Ramus, has been selected to design the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, long a question mark in the sixteen-acre master plan. John Hill

Developers’ architecture, a crisis in ecological construction, misunderstood modernism, no stars – what are the concerns shaping contemporary German architecture at the moment? A polemic. Ulf Meyer

BAROQUE BAROQUE is a new exhibition in Vienna that brings together a selection of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson's artworks from private collections and places them into the baroque spaces of the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy. John Hill

Montreal grew rapidly during the first half of the 20th century and keeping pace was the construction of neighborhood schools, often designed by well-known architects of the time. NFOE et associés architectes

Taking into account the city’s urban tissue, the project is the renovation of a Brussels typical terraced house. Originally inhabited by a single family, the house appeared too big and difficult to take care of after the children grew up and left. Edouard Brunet and François Martens

In a ceremony last night overlooking the World Trade Center, the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies gave Santiago Calatrava its European Prize for Architecture. John Hill

The Aarhus School of Architecture has announced three pre-qualified candidates for the restricted design competition for a new school of architecture in Denmark. John Hill

The Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España (CSCAE - Higher Council of Architectural Colleges of Spain) has announced the winners of its Spanish Interational Architecture Prize 2015. John Hill

Steven Holl Architects has announced that their competition-winning 2008 project for two skyscrapers joined by a raised pedestrian bridge at Nordhavn Harbor has gained approval from the city of Copenhagen. John Hill

National Geographic has put together a helpful visual guide to Manhattan's building boom, which will add 47 skyscrapers to the island's crop of 28, pre-2004 buildings over 700 feet tall. John Hill

The 350-meter-long curved arch pedestrian bridge Weinberg crosses the Havel River to connect the Weinberg Park and the Optik Park, offering pedestrians a pleasant crossing in a beautiful garden landscape and views of the river. schlaich bergermann partner

Not many buildings require a ballistics consultant, but it is a necessity when it comes to shooting ranges. Berlin's magma architecture completed their second one this year, for the 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games (TO2015), following the shooting venues they...

The site is located in the area near Yamato River in Osaka. The existence building is in a corner of residential area. Jun Murata

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has selected Stefano Boeri's Bosco Verticale in Milan as the overall "2015 Best Tall Building Worldwide" at the 14th Annual CTBUH International Best Tall Building Awards Symposium and Dinner recently held in Chicago. John Hill