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The American Academy in Berlin, founded in 1994 by Richard C.Holbrooke, Henry A. Kissinger, and Richard von Weizs.cker, is a vital and growing center for residential fellowships for American scholars, writers, policymakers, and artists, among them…

The open, international design competition for the museum buildings to be built in the Városliget (City Park), to be completely renewed by 2018, has been closed.

Based on the decision of the 11-member jury of prominent Hungarian and…

NASA Langley researchers want to get a better idea about conditions on our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus, so they have come up with HAVOC or a High Altitude Venus Operational Concept – a lighter-than-air rocket ship that would help send two…

The Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France, opening last week. The museum is designed by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, in coordination with local architects and engineers. The goal of the design is the development of a space that is at once a museum for…

A flawless gym is the central point around which the rest of the programme of this fantatic school is organised. Designed by Berrel Berrel Kräutler Architects, it is located in Vouvry, a small district at the foot of the Swiss Alps better known in…

In October 2015, the City of Chicago will launch the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, North America’s largest international survey of contemporary architecture. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, The Chicago Architecture Biennial, and The Chicago Park…

The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s multimedia presentation of Edgard Varèse’s Amériques launched the new in/SIGHT series at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The presentation of Amériques was led by conductor laureate Esa-pekka Salonen and accompanied by Refik…

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OMA’s first Canadian project, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) expansion has reached its highest point. Extending from Quebec’s Parc des Champs-de-Bataille to the Grande-allée, the cascading gallery’s three stacked volumes have…

The building reformed by Nieto and Sobejano, The Castillo de la Luz, is for the city of Las Palmas not only one of the…