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With the death of Frei Otto on Monday and the awarding of the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize to him on Tuesday, we take a look at a few short films on the German architect/engineer, his structures, and his working methods. John Hill

Tom Pritzker of the Hyatt Foundation announced today, one day after Frei Otto’s death, that the German architect is the 40th laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. John Hill

The Learning Hub at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), designed by Heatherwick Studio and executed by lead architect CPG Consultants, is a new educational landmark for Singapore. Heatherwick Studio

The construction of French artist Georges Rousse's installation Faro & Faro for the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda in Mexico City is documented in a short film. John Hill

Conversion of a former food market into a cultural center Dushe Architectural Design

Team Mei and Felixx are a prize-winner for the redevelopment of a post war residential area in Munich. Felixx / Mei

Boston's MASS Design Group burst onto the architecture scene with the 2011 completion of the Butaro Hospital in Rwanda. Their design responded to the African context through a grouping of buildings perched upon a hilltop, while the interiors addressed disease and patient comfort through...

Reviving Mies in The Buda Hills: Leftovers of a pine forest … and a squirrel. Architema

Hascher Jehle Architektur and artist Burghard Müller-Dannhausen treated the exterior and interior, respectively, of the new Rems-Murr-Klinikum hospital in Winnenden, Germany, with a range of colors to create a strong building identity. John Hill

Despite vehement cries for its preservation, legislators in Goshen, New York, failed to vote for protecting the Paul Rudolph's Brutalist building, therefore making its demolition and reconstruction a reality. John Hill

The AA School of Architecture has been busy uploading a wealth of lectures, conversations and documentaries lately, including a BBC documentary on American architect Bruce Goff. John Hill

In recent decades cities in China have grown at a tremendous speed. On their peripheries new real estate developments have produced huge housing complexes with uniform appearances. Many of these developments are a kind of speculative investment and as a result millions of the apartments are...

KKA together with Riksbyggen has won a land-use competition in Helsingborg, Sweden. The proposal treated one block in the expanding harbor area Oceanhamnen. Kjellander Kaminsky Architecture

Ennead Architects won the commission for the Shanghai Planetarium branch of the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (SSTM) with a design inspired by the astronomic principle of orbital motion. John Hill

Nueva School at Bay Meadows provides a variety of innovative educational environments woven together to form an integrated “ecology of learning” designed to inspire the 21st century student. Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects

In recent years, architectural practice has undergone deep transformations. In countries with a strong artisan tradition, as is the case of Spain, the old model of studying architecture that could lead to being in charge of projects of very different scales has been substituted by vast...

On the outskirts of the city of Buenos Aires, we have developed the Club House for the nautical neighborhood community of Nordelta in Tigre. Estudio Ramos

How to establish a clear spatial, material and social identity of the neighbourhood? dekleva gregorič architects

The University of St. Thomas · Minnesota has announced it will auction off the Frank Gehry-designed Winton Guest House in May, six years after the school relocated the building from its original site. John Hill

For David Zwirner’s second location in Chelsea, Selldorf Architects designed a 30,000 sf building that will be the first LEED certified commercial gallery in the U.S. Selldorf Architects

Pujalt is a township in l’Anoia region of Spain. The project connects new constructions and existing traditional buildings. Arriola & Fiol

The monotonous rhythm that is conformed by the facades of all the houses in Guadarrama Street is boldly interrupted by an architectonic manifesto: the habitual architecture evolves into Guadarrama House, a spatial poetry in the middle of a prose. Mayer Hasbani

Architect Zoka Zola may be based in Chicago, but her roots go back to Croatia, specifically to Rijeka, the country's third largest city. So it's fitting that one of her most recent projects took the architect back to her city of birth to design affordable housing after a competition...

On Saturday 28 February 2015, Delft’s new railway station officially opened to the public. The station sits atop a new train tunnel built in place of the old concrete viaduct that has divided the city in two since 1965.

World-Architects recently visited the Princeton, New Jersey, office of ikon.5 architects to speak with partners Joseph Tattoni, Arvind Tikku and Charles Maira about the firm's background and their working process, and to look at some new projects. John Hill

We are a team of specialists in different areas of architecture and construction. A team motivated and prepared to take each new project as a challenge that requires our most demanding and constant improvement. IF arquitectos

Designed by Hiroshima-based architecture firm Keisuke Kawaguchi +K2-DESIGN, Locomotive Hills is an adult day service center located partway up a gently sloping, forested hill. The shape of the building itself is patterned on a hill and is designed to continue the thread of green through the city....

Five of the six winning projects in this year's Progressive Architecture Awards were designed by World-Architects member firms. John Hill

"Simply ... the SilverWoodHouse ... any attempt to adjectives falls short of the final experience of contemplation ... congratulations and thanks Ernesto." These were the words of my clients Rui and Marisa when asked about SilverWoodHouse. Ernesto Pereira

Vincent Hecht, an architect and filmmaker from France who is based in Tokyo, has been lovingly documenting architecture in Japan for a few years. Here we present four of his short films on buildings by Fujimoto, Ishigami, Kuma and Sejima. John Hill

The New York Times is reporting that Google has hired the offices of Thomas Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels for a proposed new headquarters in Mountain View, California. John Hill

Stadium Database has announced the winners of its 2014 Stadium of the Year contest, this year inaugurating a special Jury Vote in addition to the usual Public Vote. John Hill

Any subject is fodder for Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein's sketch comedy show Portlandia. In this 90-second clip they portray a couple living in a Microhouse in a Microcommunity. John Hill

At a press conference in London today, the five finalists were announced for the 2015 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award. John Hill

The American Institute of Architects California Council has given Lawrence Scarpa, principal of Santa Monica's Brooks + Scarpa Architects, its 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award. John Hill

THE PINCH is a library and community center in Shuanghe Village, Yunnan Province, China. The project is part of a government led reconstruction effort after an earthquake in September 2012. The University of Hong Kong, Olivier Ottevaere and John Lin