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This joint school is designed for 1,500 students. Education reaches from kindergarten up to high school. The architecture follows the European regulations and DIN norms. [virtuarch]

Seven years after completing the Bloch Building, designed by Steven Holl Architects, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and New York's Weiss/Manfredi are imagining a cultural district anchored about the museum. John Hill

Docomomo International is pleased to inform that the headquarters have been transferred from Barcelona (Mies van der Rohe Foundation) to Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico – Lisbon University). Docomomo International

Breath Box - activates senses for the Festival of Lively Architecture along shoreline of La Grande Motte France. NAS architecture

Shou Sugi Ban is an old Japanese technique for charring wood to make it insect resistant and weatherproof it on the outside of buildings. The technique, which creates a wildfire-resistant shell, is one way that this retreat on a cattle ranch between...

The library is both a resource and social gathering place for a diverse community who were invested participants in the public design process. Koning Eizenberg Architecture

The exhibition on buildings designed by Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Richard Rogers and others opens on September 13, 2014, at the Carnegie Museum of Art's Heinz Architectural Center. John Hill

The Swiss Pavilion has posted clips from the marathon interviews "A stroll through a fun palace" curator Hans Ulrich Obrist performed during the vernissage of the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. World-Architects has selected a few highlights. John Hill

Designed as a first in a series of multi-designer pret stores, where the collections are themed and curated, Neel Sutra - The India Fashion Store is emblematic of Indian Design ethos. Architecture Discipline

It is our dream – with Givskud – to create the best possible and freest possible environment for the animals’ lives and relationships with each other and visitors.

The New York-based architect has been selected to design the building complex of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and TR Warszawa Theatre at Plac Defilad. John Hill

The new owners of this home had long dreamed of an Eichler remodel they would live in forever. Klopf Architecture

The Godfrey Hotel, designed by Valerio Dewalt Train Associates with a staggered truss structural framing system, opened in February in Chicago's River North neighborhood. Valerio Dewalt Train Associates

PAD Architectes' (Periot Architecture Durable) design for the headquarters of Beneteau in Givrand, France, is wrapped in a perforated facade made from HI-MACS acrylic stone. John Hill

Russia's Strelka Institute has selected MVRDV founder Winy Maas as the curator of the 2014/2015 academic year, where he will help formulate "ten fundamental questions about the future." John Hill

LA-Based Moore + Friesl debuts elegant, award-winning C1 Credenza in new red and white matte finishes. A single piece of sheet metal supports wood drawers and 7-foot-wide span, without intermediate supports. Moore + Friesl

If "music is liquid architecture" and architecture really is "frozen music," as Goethe wrote, then what kind of music is the embodiment of Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut? John Hill

An eponymous exhibition on Korean artist Do Ho Suh opens at The Contemporary Austin on September 20, 2014. John Hill

Blair Wilson of Wilson Architects, the Brisbane, Australia firm that turned 130 this year, has passed away at the age of 83. John Hill

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. "wants to reward students who are determined to solve today’s most challenging design problems." Submission deadline is July 30, 2014. John Hill

In the United States battlefields from the American Revolution and Civil War are considered sacred ground, preserved as open space and used as sites for education and interpretation. The American Revolution's Battle of Monmouth took place on a hot day in June 1778 in central New Jersey....

Rubber "schapenboet" with fishing nets: Benthem Crouwel Architects designs a holiday home on Texel. Benthem Crouwel Architects

China's MAD Architects and Chicago's Studio Gang Architects will design the building and landscape, respectively, for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (LMNA) in Chicago, according to an announcement released today. John Hill

The Australian Institute of Architects’ International Area Committee Jury has announced the winners of the 2014 International Architecture Awards. John Hill

Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport Terminal 2 adds 4.4 million square feet of new space to accommodate 40 million passengers per year, operating 24 hours a day. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

On a visit to New York City's Governors Island to see the Spontaneous Interventions exhibition on Colonel's Row yesterday, we checked out CDR Studio Architects' winning submission for the annual City of Dreams Pavilion. John Hill

An apartment building designed by Elenberg Fraser in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, incorporates solar protection through bronze-colored mesh from GKD woven around the exterior. John Hill

In a statement posted on the CCA's website yesterday, Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza reveals where he will donate the archive of his "many years of activity dedicated to architecture." John Hill

The organizers of the 2012 Olympics in London have reached an out-of-court settlement with Atopia over the design of the Cauldron that was witnessed by close to one billion people during the opening ceremony. John Hill

Sulzer needed a factory that contains different spaces, such as a warehouse with high production requirement and special equipment, an open office area, a canteen, and meeting rooms. [virtuarch]

De Unie Hasselt-Genk is billed as "a new and suprising art project" that, starting June 21, links the Belgian Limburg cities of Hasselt and Genk. John Hill

Architects Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, and Johnpaul Jones will receive medals from President Barack Obama on July 28, 2014. John Hill

For years, Switzerland has held a privileged position in the panorama of international architecture. The country (one of the richest in the world) boasts an excellent network of architecture schools, a modern architectural culture with a long tradition, a powerful publishing industry and...

Westadium, a consortium led by Brookfield Financial and John Laing, has unveiled their winning design for the new Perth Stadium, to be built on the Burswood Peninsula of the Western Australia city. John Hill

The opening of the Rose Pavilion, a multimedia pavilion developed by some young architects under the direction of Dimitry Demin with Prof. Ludger Hovestadt, the ETH Chair for CAAD, takes place at the ETH Polyterrasse in Zurich on July 23 at 8pm. John Hill

A private house on the Alassio hills, facing the picturesque Gulf of Alassio and located in a bright panoramic view, a nineteenth-century villa includes a ruined and abandoned 35 m2 wide dependence surrounded by a wide terraced park. Studioata