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The aptly named Crystal Houses in Amsterdam, designed by the Dutch architects at MRVDV, features a replica facade made of traditional terracotta bricks that dissolve into solid glass bricks at street level. John Hill

In a narrow time frame of just 21 months, a four-storey institute building has been both designed and built for the University of Saarland, creating a gatehouse situation for the eastern entrance of the University. Veauthier Architekten

The Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has posted the 30-minuted talk Bjarke Ingels gave at their conference in New York City in October 2015. In it he presents a handful of BIG's projects – in NYC and elsewhere. John Hill

Architectural quality and sustainability permeate two rental apartment blocks in solid wood in Fristad, outside Borås in Sweden. The buildings are based on the concept "Wood right through" for the municipal housing company FRIBO. Tengbom

Eight architecture firms have been selected from the 26-strong long-list (announced in August 2015) in the three-stage competition to design the one-million-square-foot Art Mill in... John Hill

The new city hall in Deventer unites the old historical city hall with a new city office. The new building complex is located at the ‘Grote Kerkhof’ and extends as far as the ‘Burseplein’. Neutelings Riedijk Architecten

In addition to its annual Honor Awards, announced in January, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently announced the awards it gives out in the categories of housing and... John Hill

Built in Caraquet village, les Jumelles are two small sister constructions link in order to create a single family holiday house oriented towards the grandiose scenic view of the Baie-des-Chaleurs. YH2

La Mantilla answers the functional mix programme defined for the mixed development zone Jacques Cœur in Montpellier. With an approximately 32,000 m2 surface area, it provides shops, restaurants, housing, a student residence, offices and a public car park. Jacques Ferrier Architecture

Three weeks after Hadid died at the age of 65, ZHA has issued a statement indicating, among other things, that the firm will move forward without its namesake founder. John Hill

Delays caused by an ongoing lawsuit have prompted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to propose tearing down McCormick Place's Lakeside Center in order to keep George Lucas's planned museum in the city. John Hill

The installation conceived by Migliore+Servetto Architects, B&B Italia / The Perfect Density, identifies the concept of density as the narrative fulcrum to celebrate the 50th anniversary of B&B Italia. Migliore+Servetto Architects

This home is partially sunken into a bluff where a wooded site meets the ocean. The living spaces within span the overlap between the forest and water’s edge – form and detail exploring the tension between the natural and the man-made. Leroy Street Studio Architecture

Photovoltaic panels distinctively wrap this recently completed public school in New York City's borough of Staten Island, a project we first learned about during a studio visit to...

The House in the Woods project site was an interesting challenge for the working team Officina29 Architetti, where the strong, powerful presence of oak trees and the sloping terrain imposed the design that blurs the boundary between building and land Officina29 Architetti

The 80-story Oakwood Tower would become, at 300 meters, the world's tallest timber-framed building if built next to the Barbican Centre on London's South Bank. John Hill

This luxury hot spring resort is built around the hilltop of Luo Fu Shan, in Sichuan Province. AIM Architecture

Oops, he did it again: For the second time, "conceptual photographer" Xavier Delory has virtually changed the architecture of a Le Corbusier building, covering the surfaces of the Chapel in Ronchamp with murals from Villa E-1027 on the Côte d’Azur. John Hill, Jenny Keller

Interior designer Martine Brisson designed a spacious, balanced patio for two people with a deep passion for contemporary design. The project won the award for best home terrace at Quebec’s Grands Prix du Design 2015. Martine Brisson

WOHA's GARDEN CITY | MEGA CITY exhibition is on display at the Skyscraper Museum in New York City from 23 March until 4 September 2016. World-Architects editor John Hill got an opening-day tour from WOHA partners Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell and filed this report. John Hill

Daniel Libeskind has unveiled the design for The Kurdistan Museum in Erbil, Iraq. The building will become the first major center in the Kurdistan Region for the history and culture of the Kurdish people. Studio Libeskind

Following the death of Zaha Hadid – the world's most famous female architect – on 31 March at the age of 65, The New York Times conducted an informal online questionnaire asking female architects to "talk candidly about their experiences in the profession." John Hill

As part of "Rotterdam celebrates the city!" this spring, Winy Maas and MVRDV have designed a giant staircase with 180 steps leading from Stationsplein, outside Rotterdam Central Station’s entrance, to the top of the Groot Handelsgebouw, an important building from the... John Hill

At the end of 2015, A+M was invited to enter a two-stage design competition for a new station of the legendary Moscow Metro. A+M won Stage I. Shown below is the Stage II proposal, driven by A+M’s search for meaning and beauty in everything that is common, ubiquitous, always in plain... Austin+Mergold

Located in Saint-Louis (Alsace, France) in the "Three Borders" region and in the inner suburb of Basel, the "Forum" dedicated to replace the old "Palais des fêtes" of the town, is a cultural facility designed to host associative, sporting and cultural events.  Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

The Wild Walk lifts visitors above the treetops of The Wild Center and the surrounding Adirondacks in Upstate New York. Designed by Linearscape and open since July 2015, the Wild Walk echoes the surrounding pine trees through the form of Cor-ten steel posts that support the walkways. The...

The three winners of an open design competition will join three pre-qualified candidates – BIG, Lacaton & Vassal, and SANAA – for the restricted design competition for a new school of architecture in Aarhus, Denmark. John Hill

An old household rubbish tip in the middle of an industrial zone swept by dynamic east-west flows (trains, cars, barges, river, wind) defines the vibrant setting of the technical centre for the Public Waste Collection Service and its Support Department. atelier arcau

"A warmly glowing, floating metal sculpture" is how the architects at pape + pape describe the new bus station they designed for Gummersbach, Germany. Sited by the train station, the new structure creates a striking image at the entrance to the country town. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

Next week we'll have a write-up of the WOHA exhibition, GARDEN CITY | MEGA CITY, now on display at the Skyscraper Museum in New York, but in the meantime take a look at some drone footage of their recently completed SkyVille @ Dawson in Singapore. John Hill

Inspired by the work of Parley for the Oceans and their collaborative work with Adidas, and G Star Raw and Pharrell Williams using recycled ocean waste to create innovative products, SPARK’s beach hut is fabricated from discarded plastic collected from the beaches and seas of South East Asia. SPARK

GRAFT has designed a single-family house and two semi-detached houses, all of them environmentally friendly buildings that join mobility, energy and health.  GRAFT

Two new performance pieces explore architecture and planning in the middle of last century: A Marvelous Order, an opera about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs; and The Master Builder, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play now set in Pittsburgh. John Hill

The house is organized within one meandering form made of natural stone, creating three volumes with an open space interwoven between them. Marion Regitko Architects

Text by Eduard Kögel

At the United Nations yesterday, 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena announced, both during an afternoon press conference and a conversation with six other Pritzker laureates later in the evening, that his firm's plans for incremental housing are being made freely available online. John Hill