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The Chicago Park District welcomed employees and the public inside its new Headquarters in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the city's Southwest Side in June. The bold design by John Ronan Architects is a circular building that sits within a new park. Ulf Meyer visited over the summer and... Ulf Meyer, John Ronan Architects

Born in Munich, architect Florian Busch founded Florian Busch Architects (FBA) in 2009, after working in the office of Toyo Ito. In the first part of a two-part interview, Busch talks with Ulf Meyer about his... Ulf Meyer

Chappe is a new “art house by the sea” that opened earlier this year in Tammisaari, in southern Finland. The small building was designed by JKMM Architects for the Albert de la Chapelle Art Foundation. Ulf Meyer

The sixth and final exhibition in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s “The Architect’s Studio” series presents the Kenyan architectural studio Cave Bureau (stylized as cave_bureau), founded by Kabage Karanja and... Ulf Meyer

Even though the National Portrait Gallery in St. Martin’s Place boasts the world’s largest collection of portraits, it was sometimes overlooked relative to the other great art museums in London. A new transformation hopes to change that. Ulf Meyer

Norman Foster, the massive monographic exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris until August 7, 2023, looks back at six decades of arguably the world’s most successful architect. Ulf Meyer asks if it is a premature obituary. Ulf Meyer

After winning first prize in an architectural design competition, New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro will design the Pina Bausch Zentrum in Wuppertal, a city in Western Germany. Ulf Meyer

Vienna's AllesWirdGut has completed the Račianska Residential High-Rise Complex (aka GUTHAUS) in nearby Bratislava, Slovakia. Ulf Meyer

Turkey’s first museum of modern and contemporary art opens the doors to its new home on Thursday, May 4. Designed by Genoa, Italy's Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), Istanbul Modern is located on the waterfront in Istanbul’s Karaköy quarter, right where the Bosphorus and Golden Horn meet. Ulf Meyer

Toranomon Hills Station Tower is a mixed-use tower in Tokyo designed by OMA / Shohei Shigematsu for the Mori Corporation. When it opens to the public in fall 2023, it will be OMA’s first tower in Tokyo. Ulf Meyer looked at the project in-progress and sent us his impressions. Ulf Meyer

The Manchester Museum has become home to the UK’s first permanent gallery for South Asian art, courtesy of an extension designed by Purcell, the firm that boasts “the world’s largest team of heritage experts.” Ulf Meyer

Combining the the Museum of Central Finland and the Alvar Aalto Museum, the new Aalto2 Museum Centre opens to the public in May, when it will play a major part of the 125th anniversary of Alvar Aalto’s birth. Ulf Meyer

Heatherwick Studio: Building Soulfulness opened on March 17 at Mori Art Museum's Tokyo City View gallery. The first exhibition in Japan devoted to the UK studio of Thomas Heatherwick, Building Soulfulness displays 28 major projects over the last three decades. Ulf Meyer visited... Ulf Meyer

Last month David Chipperfield Architects won the competition to expand the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Ulf Meyer spoke with David Chipperfield and Alexander... Ulf Meyer

Despite the efforts of preservationists, the decision has been made that the Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, designed by Kenzo Tange in 1964, will be knocked down. Ulf Meyer

The Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) in Bangalore is celebrating its grand opening on February 18, 2023. The museum is housed in a five-story building designed by Mathew & Ghosh Architects. Ulf Meyer

Oslo’s LPO Architects and New York and London’s GRECODECO have turned a 1930s headquarters for a utility company into Oslo’s trendiest hotel. Ulf Meyer visited and sent us this report. Ulf Meyer

Ole Scheeren: Spaces of Life is a large solo exhibition now on display at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Presenting the work of Karlsruhe-born architect Ole Scheeren, the exhibition aims to explore “how today’s architecture creates prototypes for living tomorrow.” Ulf Meyer... Ulf Meyer

In the exhibition Translated Traditions – Public Courtyards and Urban Platforms at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin, Shanghai’s Scenic Architecture Office shows how it translates traditions. Ulf Meyer

An international symposium recently held online as part of Encounters with Southeast Asian Modernism (SEAM) revealed interesting details about German-trained Indonesian Architects. Ulf Meyer

The Sydney Modern expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales opens on December 3. It is the first building in the Southern Hemisphere for SANAA, the studio of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. Ulf Meyer

Swiss Llife Arena, host to the Zurich Lions ice hockey team, is the largest project to date for London’s Caruso St John Architects, the firm of Adam Caruso and Peter St. John. The Lions played their first match in the new arena in October. Ulf Meyer traveled to Zurich to see the building and... Ulf Meyer

Reflective Nostalgia is an exhibition at Aedes Architecture Forum that presents the work of Neri&Hu, the Shanghai firm (with studios in London, Paris, and Milan) of Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu. Ulf Meyer visited the Berlin gallery and sent us his impressions. Ulf Meyer

Dance House Helsinki was inaugurated in February of this year as the first event venue in Finland dedicated to dance. Ulf Meyer visited the adaptive reuse and extension designed by JKMM Architects. Ulf Meyer

Along the Minett Trail that runs through the eleven municipalities within the Minett UNESCO Biosphere in Luxembourg, eleven young architects have designed eleven lodgings for hikers and other visitors to the region. Ulf Meyer, who spent the night in one of them, explains the... Ulf Meyer

In Year Zero to Economic Miracle: Hans Schwippert and Sep Ruf in Postwar German Building Culture, Lynnette Widder compares two intriguing architects. Ulf Meyer delves into the recently published book. Ulf Meyer

Snøhetta designs a tower for Tokyu Corporation in Tokyo that features a terraced roof topped with trees. Ulf Meyer isn’t buying it. [First published on July 28, 2022; updated with renderings on August 5.] Ulf Meyer

The Valley in Amsterdam is a new type of high-rise cluster. The design by MVRDV uses its publicly accessible namesake “valley” to unite the mixed uses of the 75,000-m2 project. Ulf Meyer toured the recently completed development and sent us his impressions. Ulf Meyer

June is Pride Month, marking June 28, 1969, when a group of LGBTQ+ people rioted following a police raid of New York’s Stonewall Inn. Fittingly, this June sees the release of Gay Architects: Silent Biographies, from 18th to 20th Century, which finds two German experts, Wolfgang Voigt... Ulf Meyer

Boonserm Premthada, Thailand’s most interesting architect, argues that “architecture is the physical creation of an atmosphere, serving to heighten our awareness of our natural surroundings.” Premthada revealed other interesting aspects of his unique approach to architecture in his... Ulf Meyer

Earlier this month Shigeru Ban spoke at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin as part of the "On the Duty and the Power of Architecture" lecture series. Ulf Meyer sat down with the Japanese architect after the talk,... Ulf Meyer

John Ronan became world famous with the Poetry Foundation and Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship, two elegant orthogonal buildings in Chicago. Now, with the headquarters for the Chicago Park District under construction, he is on to something else. Ulf Meyer

Two new initiatives are aiming to add more modern architecture to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Ulf Meyer reports on a recent symposium focused on the built heritage of Erich Mendelsohn. Ulf Meyer

On March 15, Francis Kéré was named the 2022 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered by many as architecture's highest honor. Ulf Meyer visited Kéré in his Berlin office to speak with the architect about the Pritzker, his career, and some of the buildings his firm is working... Ulf Meyer

Architect Lee Jeong-hoon is building a pavilion on the roof of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Korea in Gwacheon. Ulf Meyer

Construction is now underway on the Kéré Architecture-designed Goethe Institute in Dakar, Senegal, with the new cultural center set to open its doors in the summer of 2023. Ulf Meyer