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The Chicago Architecture Biennial, directed by curators Joseph Grima and Sarah Herda, has announced the preliminary list of participants for the inaugural event taking place from 3 October 2015 to 3 January 2016. John Hill

The building was originally an old wooden shed in very poor condition – a strong candidate for demolition. The challenge was to find ways to develop and optimize the spaces within a volume that could not be modified due to planning by-laws. Chevallier Architectes

In June 2013, Women for Women International opened the first-ever Women’s Opportunity Center in Kayonza, Rwanda, "to create economic opportunity and rebuild social infrastructure for women," according to the organization that began working in the country in 1997, three years...

Gender equality in architecture has been an increasing concern in recent years, most overtly since Denise Scott Brown called for a retroactive Pritzker Prize in 2013. To get some impressions on the current state of women in the architecture profession, we surveyed eleven women-owned,... John Hill

Patrik Schumacher, Director at Zaha Hadid Architects, took to Facebook on Friday with a 1,400-word rant targeting architecture critics as "superficial and ignorant." John Hill

The first 21st century pavilion in Venice’s Giardini della Biennale, the Australian Pavilion designed by Denton Corker Marshall, opens to the public next month when the 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, takes place. John Hill

For the 10th edition of the Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier, the Pavilion will be created by NAS Architecture, Hadrien Balalud de Saint Jean, Guillaume Giraud and Johan Laure. FAV / NAS Architecture

Transparent administration: the architecture of the Vocational School of Administration by AllesWirdGut demonstrates closeness to citizens, openness, and transparency. AllesWirdGut

Canadian artist Steve McDonald's forthcoming book Fantastic Cities, published by Chronicle Books, invites readers to color the real and imagined places he has carefully depicted. John Hill

The organizers of MPavilion have announced that AL_A, the studio of British architect Amanda Levete, has been selected to design the second annual pavilion for Melbourne's Queen Victoria Memorial Gardens. John Hill

Last year, for its Summer Block Party, the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, used its Great Hall for the BIG Maze by Bjarke Ingels Group. This summer they will fill it with "The BEACH," with some help from Snarkitecture. John Hill

Valentino is pleased to announce the opening of its new and largest Flagship Store. The new store is situated in Piazza di Spagna, next to sixteenth century Palazzo Mignanelli, creative headquarters of the Valentino Maison. Valentino / David Chipperfield Architects

Soon after moving into its Frank Gehry-designed headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Facebook has revealed plans for two adjacent buildings also designed by Gehry. John Hill

Learn a little bit about activity-based working (ABW) by taking a look inside the New York headquarters of GLG designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects. John Hill

Adolfsson & Partners' design for the office of King, the maker of the wildly popular Candy Crush Saga and other games, takes the playfulness of tech company workplace design to an extreme in what the designers call "The Kingdom." John Hill

Next week is the annual Salone del Mobile in Milano, where product designer and interior architect Gert-Jan Soepenberg is launching Vase #2, a tribute to the design and form of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum. John Hill

The 2015 Building of the Week feature on American-Architects is focusing on U.S. architects building overseas, so it's not surprising to see the importance of collaboration coming to the fore. The Melbourne School of Design is a particularly good example of this, since it is the result...

A large oculus designed by James Carpenter Design Associates, Grimshaw, and Arup reflects sunlight into the subterranean spaces of the Fulton Center subway station in Lower Manhattan. John Hill

For fifteen years, the Dutch architectural office cepezed resided in a self-designed, clean-lined office building on the western fringes of the historical Delft city center. architectenbureau cepezed

Sou Fujimoto Architects, Manal Rachdi OXO Architectes, and Nicolas Laisné Associés have won the first prize for the new Learning Centre of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris-Saclay. Sou Fujimoto Architects, Manal Rachdi OXO Architectes, Nicolas Laisné Associés

KWR Watercycle Research Institute is a renowned research institute in the field of water and water cycles, which develops expertise and makes it accessible to various national and international organizations such as drinking water companies, regional water boards, local governments and trade and... architectenbureau cepezed

Walters & Cohen have announced the successful completion of Regent High School (formerly called South Camden Community School), a co-educational secondary school on a tight urban site in Somers Town in the London Borough of Camden. Walters & Cohen

Performance artist Reggie Watts, accompanied by actor Carolina Ravassa, gives viewers a bizarre 7-minute tour through Brasilia, "City of the Future." John Hill

Velenje was designed as a garden city and, as such, it had a lot of unoccupied ground-level surfaces. With the increase in the number of vehicles, these surfaces began to turn into car parks. ENOTA

eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of the 2015 Skyscraper Competition, which asked entrants to "challenge the way we understand vertical architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments." John Hill

The residents of Vals, Switzerland, have unanimously approved the 381-meter-tall luxury hotel proposed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis for 7132 Ltd. John Hill

Tokyo-based Komada Architects Office designed this two-story wood-frame residence in a new residential development in Chiba Prefecture. By including a narrow band of windows between the top of the walls and the roof on both the first and second stories, the architects gave the building a feeling...

The Glasgow School of Art has selected a team led by local architect Page\Park for the restoration of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh masterpiece that was damaged in a fire last year. John Hill

Doboz Bar is situated in the heart of Budapest’s entertainment district at the World Heritage site of the Old Jewish Quarter. 81font

Yesterday Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Faceboook that "we moved into our new Facebook building in Menlo Park, California," accompanied by a photo of the building's green roof. John Hill

Located near the north side of Chicago, Kids Science Labs is a learning and discovery center for children ages 2-12 built on the premise that learning science should be fun. Woodhouse Tinucci Architects

Harumi is an artificial island built on reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay that saw the development of office and residential towers starting in the 1990s. That development will no doubt continue as the island is the site of the Olypmic Village for the 2020 Olympic Games. The announcement of...

Brussels Environment is the government authority in the field of environment and habitat in the Belgian Capital Region and is currently settling in one of the capital’s largest and most important urban renewal districts, the Tour&Taxis site on the Havenlaan. architectenbureau cepezed

Situated on the waterfront promenade of Tokyo Bay, this project is a focal point for the Harumi district. Richard Meier & Partners Architects

Early in March, architect Frei Otto died at the age of 89. He was announced posthumously as the winner of the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize – only the second German architect, after Gottfried Böhm, to receive this honor. Ulf Meyer looks back at the life of a visionary. Ulf Meyer

Artist Tomás Saraceno explores social and biological complexity through the manipulation of spider webs in a new exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York. John Hill