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The Royal Academy of Arts in London has announced that Irish architect Shane de Blacam is the recipient of the 2023 Royal Academy Architecture Prize, which recognizes architects who have made "a significant impact on society." John Hill

During a ceremony in Venice on EUmies Awards Day, June 29, the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announced the three winners of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards in the Young Talent category. A fourth award given by the Mies Foundation was also... John Hill

Two decades in the making, the International African American Museum (IAAM) opened to the public on June 24, 2023, in Charleston, South Carolina, on “hallowed ground” — waterfront land that centuries ago served as a port of arrival for enslaved Africans. John Hill

The Moynihan Connector, a new L-shaped pedestrian bridge designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and James Corner Field Operations, opened to the public on June 22, 2023. It connects the High Line to Manhattan West and Moynihan Train Hall. John Hill

Florida Senator Marco Rubio has introduced the ‘‘Beautifying Federal Civic Architecture Act,’’ which would effectively resurrect former US President Donald Trump's revoked executive order mandating classical styles for federal buildings. John Hill

As announced on Friday, June 9, when architects were gathering in San Francisco for the AIA Conference on Architecture, Frank Gehry's iconic, game-changing Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is the latest recipient of the AIA's Twenty-five Year Award. John Hill

The Smithsonian has announced that Perkins&Will will design the Bezos Learning Center at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, named for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos following his $200 million gift to the institution. John Hill

The 22nd Serpentine Pavilion opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on June 9, where it will host live music and other events until October 29, 2023. John Hill

The famous jeweler's flagship store at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street reopened at the end of April following the building's first comprehensive renovation since it opened in 1940. John Hill

The Whitney Museum of American Art is selling its landmark Marcel Breuer-designed building on Manhattan's Upper East Side to auction house Sotheby's for its new global headquarters. John Hill

Paolo Portoghesi died on May 30 at his home in Calcata, a medieval village north of Rome, at the age of 91. Though a prolific architect, historian and educator, Portoghesi will forever be known as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale who created the Strada Novissima. John Hill

Designs by Morphosis and other big-name architects for The Line, the flagship project of NEOM in Saudi Arabia, are on display in Venice as part of Zero Gravity Urbanism—Principles for a New Livability. John Hill

The City of New York is suing Steven Holl Architects over the additional costs needed to make parts of the Hunters Point Library, which the NYC firm designed and which opened in Long Island City, Queens, in 2019, fully accessible. John Hill

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Creative Europe announced the twelve finalists of the EUmies Awards Young Talent 2023 on May 19. The winners will be announced on June 29 during EUmies Awards Day. John Hill

On the morning of Saturday, May 20, the opening day of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, the international jury's choice for the exhibition's Golden Lions and other awards were announced. John Hill

In a press conference two days ahead of Saturday's opening of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition, curator Lesley Lokko addressed recent controversies over the Italian government's denial of visas to members of her team from Ghana. John Hill

The Golden Lions and other awards of the Venice Biennale's 18th International Architecture Exhibition will be decided by these five individuals and given on opening day, May 20, 2023. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari is the 2023 recipient of the Royal Gold Medal, which recognizes architects "who have had a significant influence on the advancement of architecture." John Hill

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and American Library Association (ALA) have announced the five winners of the 2023 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards, coming at a time when libraries in the United States are facing censorship and other challenges. John Hill

In a ceremony on the evening of April 23, the Ordre des Architectes du Québec (OAQ) unveiled the ten winners of its awards of excellence for 2023, including two Grand Prix d'Excellence. John Hill

Studio Gang's transformation of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) opens to the public on April 22, the first day in a week-long celebration of the newly reimagined museum. John Hill

Frank Gehry and Bjarke Ingels are the big names among the five architecture firms vying to design the planned National Museum of the U.S. Navy in an “artistic ideas competition.” John Hill

Artist Lauren Halsey's the eastside of south central los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I) is a monumental installation that combines motifs from South Central Los Angeles, ancient Egypt and other places, both real and imagined. John Hill

Restoration work is underway on the 165-foot-tall brick tower of Eliel Saarinen's First Christian Church, one of seven designated national historic landmarks in the small Indiana town of Columbus. John Hill

Architect William (Bill) Hellmuth, the Chairman and CEO of HOK and nephew of founding partner George F. Hellmuth, died on April 6, 2023, at the age of 69, following a long illness. John Hill

Portland's Waechter Architecture has completed Mississippi, a three-story commercial building that serves, in part, as the firm's own headquarters and is billed as the Pacific Northwest’s first “all-wood” mixed-use mass timber project. John Hill

Ahead of its fourth annual summit of “architecture’s now, near, and next,” to be held at the Guggenheim Museum on Earth Day (April 22), The World Around has announced its inaugural Young Climate Prize winners. John Hill

Heatherwick Studio has unveiled their design of a new public library in Columbia, Maryland, for the Howard County Library System. The studio's first public library, the project aims to “reflect the changed role of the library.”  John Hill

Filmmaker Michael Blackwood, who directed and/or produced over 150 documentary films, most of them focused on artists, architects, and musicians, died on February 24 at the age of 88. John Hill

Nigerian-born artist, designer and architect Demas Nwoko has been named the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by La Biennale di Venezia. He will receive the award at the inauguration of the Venice Architecture Biennale on May 20, 2023. John Hill

Two notable recent passings: Thomas Hacker, one of the most influential architects in the US state of Oregon, died on February 27 at the age of 81; and British architect Michael Wilford, longtime partner of James Stirling, died on March 10 at 84 years old. John Hill

The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has announced that Japanese architect Tadao Ando will design the next MPavilion, which will open in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens on November 16, 2023. John Hill

Michael Graves Architecture & Design, along with DeSimone Consulting Engineers and Wehr Constructors, is being sued by Humana Corporation over "latent defects" in its nearly 40-year-old postmodern headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, designed by Graves. John Hill

News reports reveal that Amazon is pausing construction on its second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington, DC. The pause includes the spiraling Helix designed by NBBJ. John Hill

Born in Uruguay and based in New York since 1979, architect Rafael Viñoly died unexpectedly on Thursday, March 2, at the age of 78.  John Hill

The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have announced that Andrew Freear, director of Rural Studio in Newbern, Alabama, is the recipient of the 2023 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. John Hill