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The Harvard Art Museums, which holds a 32,000-strong collection of objects relating to the Bauhaus, "the 20th century’s most influential school of art and design," has unveild a digital catalog ahead of the legendary school's 100th anniversary in 2019. John Hill

Columbia University Medical Center’s new Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R), in collaboration with Gensler, will open to faculty and students on 15 August 2016 for the start of the fall term. John Hill

The Getty Foundation has announced the nine buildings that have been awarded Keeping It Modern grants, which are designed to preserve the modern architectural heritage at considerable risk. John Hill

The much-anticipated Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, will open to the public in January 2017, fourteen years after the Swiss architecs began the project. John Hill

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have announced the 132 projects from 43 countries that have won 2016 International Architecture Awards. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed the six projects in the running for the 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK's best new building. John Hill

The Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects, a modern Livery company that promotes quality architecture in the City of London and beyond, has named One New Ludgate by Fletcher Priest Architects and Two New Ludgate by Sauerbruch Hutton as City of London Building of the Year 2016. John Hill

Yesterday the LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction launched the $2 million Lafarge Holcim Awards 2016/2017, which "identifies the ideas with the highest potential to tackle today’s challenges to increasing urbanization and to improve quality of life." John Hill

The World Architecture Festival has announced the finalists in the 17 completed buildings categories that will be vying for Building of the Year at the 2016 festival taking place in Berlin from 16-18 November. John Hill

On June 17 at Toronto’s historic Evergreen Brick Works, Azure Magazine revealed the 18 winners of its 6th annual AZ Awards. John Hill

World-Architects got a sneak peek of The Hills, the second phase of West 8's design for Governors Island Park in New York City, which is opening to the public on 19 July 2016. John Hill

The seven finalists of the second biennial Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), which recognizes the best built works of architecture in the Americas realized from January 2014 through December 2015, have been announced. John Hill

Star Wars creator George Lucas has issued a statement announcing he is abandoning plans to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago, where lawsuits have delayed the project since it was unveiled in 2014. John Hill

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced the regional winners of the CTBUH 2016 Tall Building Awards culled from 132 submissions, the most entries to date. John Hill

Docomomo US has announced the winners of the 2016 Modernism in America Awards program with ten projects that raise "awareness of the importance to advocate, restore and celebrate the architecture, landscapes and typologies of postwar society in the United States." John Hill

White Arkitekter has won an international design competition for Skellefteå’s cultural centre and hotel, which will be completed in 2019. The design was selected from over 55 entries from ten countries. White arkitekter

The US Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Cynthia Davidson and Monice Ponce de Leon, sets its aim at Detroit to exhibit twelve speculative architectural projects for the post-industrial American city. John Hill

The Nordic Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale goes by the theme In Therapy: Nordic Countries Face to Face and features a wooden ziggurat that allows visitors to get close to the concrete beams of Sverre Fehn's 1962 masterpiece. John Hill

The 2016 Serpentine Pavilion designed by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on Friday, accompanied by four 25sqm Summer Houses designed by other architects. John Hill

In the run-up to the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, Christian Kerez did not disclose many details about his intervention in the Swiss Pavilion. Having visited it, we are slightly disillusioned. Jenny Keller

NEIGHBOURHOOD: Where Alvaro meets Aldo. Portugal presents its participation in the Bienal de Venecia 2016 with this suggestive title. The Portuguese Pavilion, curated by Nuno Grande and Roberto Cremascoli, is based on the work of architects Aldo Rossi and Alvaro Siza. Silvia Pujalte Toledo

Spain’s proposal for the Bienal de Venecia 2016 is entitled “Unfinished”: a compilation of unfinished architectures to provoke reflection on how Spanish architecture has responded to the post-boom real estate crisis. The intention of the project’s curators... Silvia Pujalte Toledo

Yesterday the Yale Center for Brisith Art, Louis I. Kahn's masterpiece that was completed in 1977, three years after the architect's death, reopened following the completion of the third phase of a decade-long, $33 million conservation project. John Hill

Nineteen projects have been shortlisted for the 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, culled from 348 projects nominated for the 13th cycle of the prestigious $1 million award. John Hill

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has announced the winners of the 2016 National Design Awards, including a lifetime achievement award to Moshe Safdie and the Architecture Design award to Marlon Blackwell Architects. John Hill

World-Architects is the Exclusive Media Partner of the Vectorworks Design Summit 2016, which takes place 25-27 April in Chicago. Here we give a brief background on the event and describe what takes place over the three days. John Hill

Eight architecture firms have been selected from the 26-strong long-list (announced in August 2015) in the three-stage competition to design the one-million-square-foot Art Mill in... John Hill

At the United Nations yesterday, 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena announced, both during an afternoon press conference and a conversation with six other Pritzker laureates later in the evening, that his firm's plans for incremental housing are being made freely available online. John Hill

The New York-based American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the five recipients of its 2016 Architecture Awards. John Hill

Mexico City's Productora has won the 2014/15 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) for emerging architecture for its Pavilion on the Zocalo in Mexico City. John Hill

Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect who was the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize and was recently awarded RIBA's 2016 Royal Gold Medal, died from a heart attack today at the age of 65. John Hill

The first edition of the Durabilys Awards was held on Wednesday, March 23rd at the Palais des congrès and on this occasion Menkès Shooner Dagenais Letourneux Architectes won the Award of Excellence for theMaison du développement durable in the LEED... Menkès Shooner Dagenais Letourneux Architectes

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced the four finalists of the fourth open international Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 grant awarded annually to a single architect to support travel-based architectural research. John Hill

eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of the 2016 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 new Australian Embassy in Jakarta, designed by Australian architects Denton Corker Marshall, was opened on Monday by Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. John Hill

The MIPIM Awards, which bill themselves as "the world's property market," were announced on 17 March 2016 at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France. John Hill