杂志

Japan has shelved Zaha Hadid's competition-winning design for the main stadium of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, citing costs that have ballooned to 252 billion yen ($2 billion USD). John Hill

A school, an apartment building, a cancer center, luxury housing, a university building, and a gallery: The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed the six projects shortlisted for the 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize. John Hill

The organizers of the second MPavilion have revealed AL_A’s design: "an enchanting, highly technical and weather-responsive forest canopy set among the trees and flowers of Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens." John Hill

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have announced the over 60 new buildings from 26 countries as winners of the Interational Architecture Awards for 2015. John Hill

The European Parliament has rejected the plan that would have restricted the so-called Freedom of Panorama, the right to use pictures of public buildings and sculptures without restriction. John Hill

PSA Publishers Ltd., the publisher of the World-Architects platform, announces a change of management as Renato Turri, Charles Ganz and Falk Romano accept, as part of a management buyout, the shares of majority shareholder and company founder Hans Demarmels. John Hill, Inge Beckel

The Studio Museum in Harlem has announced that David Adjaye is designing a new building for the museum on the site of the 1914 building it has occupied since 1982. John Hill

New York's Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP) has announced plans for two residential buildings designed by ODA New York for developer RAL Development Services and Oliver's Realty Group adjacent to the park's Pier 6. John Hill

Two years after Anthony Vidler stepped down as Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, the New York school has named Nader Tehrani of Boston's NADAAA to the position. John Hill

Eight months after rejecting it, Paris city councillors have voted in favor of the "Triangle Tower" proposed for the Porte de Versailles area, what would be the city’s first skyscraper since 1973. John Hill

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has named the four regional winners of the Best Tall Building Awards as part of the organization's annual awards. John Hill

The jury for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation's competition for a proposed Guggenheim museum in Helsinki, Finland, has chosen "Art in the City" by Paris's Moreau Kusonoki Architectes as the winner. John Hill

Hauser & Wirth Somerset has announced that Alex Bank, Sam Casswell and Tom Graham, with their "The Garden Rooms" proposal, are the winner of the Shed Project, a competition for young architects. John Hill

The Bridge at Cornell NYC Tech, designed by Weiss/Manfredi, breaks ground and the world's first Passive House high-rise, designed by Handel Architects, is unveiled, as Cornell moves forward with its new campus on Roosevelt Island in New York. John Hill

Charles Correa, widely considered one of the most influential, prolific, and diverse Indian architects and planners, died in Mumbia on 16 June 2015 at the age of 84. John Hill

Two new Maggie's Centres, designed by Steven Holl and Thomas Heatherwick, move forward with a groundbreaking and design unveiling, respectively. John Hill

The American Society of Landscape Architects has announced its 2015 honors recipients. Selected by the ASLA’s Board of Trustees, the honors include the Landscape Architecture Firm Award being given to The Office of James Burnett. John Hill

Bjark Ingels' design of Two World Trade Center for developer Larry Silverstein and tenants 21st Century Fox Inc. and News Corp has been made public via a Wired magazine article and a flashy three-minute video. John Hill

The State Government of Western Australia has unveiled the winning design for a pedestrian bridge traversing the Swan River to connect East Perth with the new Perth Stadium on Burswood Peninsula. John Hill

The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has selected 5 teams to participate in the second stage of the Rail Corridor competition aimed at developing a conceptual master plan for a 24-kilometer-long former railway in Singapore. John Hill

After a setback last month, Google is moving forward with partial plans for an office expansion in Mountain View, California, designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studio. John Hill

Grüntuch Ernst Architekten has been named the first-prize winner in a competition to design the Porsche Design Tower, a new apartment building in Frankfurt. John Hill

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has announced that the Japanese practice of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa will design an expansion that will double the museum's size. John Hill

On Monday, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, accompanied by His Highness the Aga Khan, officially inaugurated the Aga Khan Park in Toronto. John Hill

The Ontario-based museum has shortlisted six architects/teams in a two-stage competition as part of their relocation to the Parks Canada Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site on the Trent-Severn Waterway. John Hill

The guest house Frank Gehry designed for Penny and Mike Winton in 1987 sold at auction in Chicago on 19 May after "lackluster bidding." John Hill

The Design Museum in London has selected six Designs of the Year in its eighth annual awards. Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena and his firm Elemental have won in the Architecture category with the UC Innovation Center - Anacleto Angelini. John Hill

Diller Scofidio + Renfro has released preliminary concept renderings for the United States Olympic Museum, scheduled for a spring 2016 groundbreaking and an opening prior to the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, which will take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea. John Hill

The Dutch architects have won a competition to transform an abandoned section of highway in Seoul into an elevated park with over 250 species of trees, shrubs and flowers. John Hill

Assemble, an 18-member "collective based in London who work across the fields of art, architecture and design," is one of four finalists in the Tate's prestigious Turner Prize 2015. John Hill

The European Commission, along with the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, announced today that Szczecin Philharmonic Hall is the winner of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015. John Hill

The Catalan studio of Jonathan Arnabat, Jordi Ayala-Bril, Aitor Fuentes, and Igor Urdampilleta has won for the Luz House, a single-family house born from the transformation of an existing structure in Cilleros, Spain. John Hill

World-Architects is saddened to learn of the death of Los Angeles-based architect Austin Kelly of XTEN Architecture. He succumbed to cancer last month at only 49 years of age. John Hill

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2015 National Design Awards, including a posthumous lifetime achievement award to Michael Graves. John Hill

The "Tin House," which Frank Gehry designed for artist Ron Davis in the late 1960s and has been owned by actor Patrick Dempsey since 2009, has hit the market with an asking price of $14.5 million. John Hill

The team of Rogers Partners Architects+Urban Designers, ASD, and Ken Smith Landscape Architect has been selected for the redesigned St. Petersburg Pier in Florida. John Hill