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The new reception building at Saurierpark (Dinosaur Park) in Bautzen, Germany, was designed by Hamburg's rimpf ARCHITEKTUR to resemble mitosis. John Hill

Artist Lawrence Weiner spoke with PLANE—SITE in the eighth video of a series leading up to the GAA Foundation's Time-Space-Existence exhibition, planned as a collateral exhibition of the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. John Hill

Forensic Architecture, the research agency based at University of London that architect Eyal Weizman started in 2011, has been named one of the four finalists for the Tate's prestigious Turner Prize. John Hill

The nave of the neo-Gothic Christuskirche Köln (1894) was demolished in 2014 to make way for a new worship hall flanked by five-story wings containing apartments and commercial space designed by Hollenbeck Architektur and Maier Architekten. Frank Schoepgens Fotografie

Kennedy & Violich Architecture's Tozzer Anthropology Building at Harvard University, featured last year, includes an angled "digital brick wall" over the entrance. The... Kennedy & Violich Architecture

The world of design is focused on Milan this week. As part of the Salone del Mobile, COS's Open Sky installation doesn't reflect a person's new clothes. Instead it mixes the beauty of the Milanese sky with the historic architecture of the Palazzo Isimbardi. John Hill, Jenny Keller

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, curators of the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, have selected architect, historian, critic and educator Kenneth Frampton to receive the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. John Hill

BowWow Haus London features around 70 custom dog kennels designed by architects, artists and designers to raise funds for charity. Here we highlight a half-dozen kennels made from wood. John Hill

Lichen prevalent on the Oaks on an 8.5-acre site in Glen Ellen, north of San Francisco, inspired the design of the aptly named Lichen House. Schwartz and Architecture (S^A) designed a T-shaped plan to fit the site and roof overhangs with metal fins that create lichen-like shadows. The architects... Schwartz and Architecture

Daniel Libeskind, architect of the Jewish Museum Berlin and World Trade Center Master Plan, spoke with PLANE—SITE in the seventh video of a series leading up to the GAA Foundation's Time-Space-Existence exhibition, planned as a collateral exhibition of the 2018... John Hill

Developer Crown Group has selected the Japanese architecture firm Kengo Kuma & Associates, working with Australia's Koichi Takada Architects, to design a 19-story residential tower in Sydney's Waterloo. John Hill

The exhibition Kengo Kuma: a LAB for materials in Tokyo reveals the goals and failures of contemporary Japanese avant-garde architecture. Ulf Meyer

As architects, ARCHETONIC are inspired to make the most of the pre-existing infrastructure of Mexico city. This led them to design U-125, which recycles a house located in Lomas de Chapultepec and was originally built in the 1950s. ARCHETONIC

The transformation of a disused elevated railway on Manhattan's West Side into the popular High Line has sparked development in the form of attention-getting architecture by the likes of Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Jean Nouvel. But relatively sedate gems also parallel the park, such as 860... James Carpenter Design Associates

Christopher Hawthorne, the former LA Times architecture critic recently appointed as chief design officer for the City of Los Angeles, takes on the mantle of writer/director for a one-hour documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright's patterned concrete-block houses in LA. John Hill

The concept for the siting and construction of the new visitor center for Seigneurie-des-Aulnaies, a registered Quebec cultural heritage site, is grounded in the characteristic elements of the surrounding landscape: the river, bridges, forest and stone buildings. The architects opted for a Land... Anne Carrier architecture

Chicago-based developer Convexity Properties, along with architect Goettsch Partners (GP) and hospitality design firm TAL Studio, pay homage to the history of Chicago with thoughtfully curated architecture, design, art and style for an exceptional experience with the new Viceroy Chicago. Goettsch Partners

Since its founding in 2001, the I-Park Foundation has hosted over 850 artists-in-residence on its more than 400 acres of rolling hillside in East Haddam, Connecticut, about two hours north of New York City. Fiedler Marciano Architecture recently completed two visual arts studios for I-Park, part... Fiedler Marciano Architecture

Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture — now on display at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, from 18 March to 17 June 2018 — presents dozens of photographs by famous artists and architectural photographers. Editor in Chief John Hill walked... John Hill

The Vatican has released some details on the inaugural Holy See pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which will consist of ten chapels by ten architects and a pavilion inspired by Gunnar Asplund's famous Woodland Chapel in Stockholm. John Hill

Moshe Safdie, the AIA Gold Medal-winning architect best known for Habitat 67 in Montreal, spoke with PLANE—SITE in the sixth video of a series leading up to the GAA Foundation's Time-Space-Existence exhibition, planned as a collateral exhibition of the 2018 Venice... John Hill

Located in an area of neighborhoods called Jardins, with single-family houses and green areas listed as heritage, this house has 550m2 of built area divided into two levels, the ground and upper floors. The original land had a four-meter slope height in relation to the level of the street. Drucker Architecture

Last week, 90-year-old Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi was named the 2018 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the profession’s highest honor. Here we highlight three of Doshi’s masterpieces: a university realized over five decades; low-cost housing; and his own... John Hill

Coinciding with International Women's Day, Architectural Review/Architects' Journal has posted videos from last week's Women in Architecture luncheon, when Amanda Levete and Madelon Vriesendorp received their Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable Prizes, respectively. John Hill

Tom Pritzker, Chairman of Hyatt Foundation, has announced that Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi is the 2018 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. John Hill

The Chicago Architecture Biennial and Mayor Rahm Emanuel have announced that Yesomi Umolu, Exhibitions Curator at the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, will serve as the Artistic Director of the third Chicago Architecture Biennial, taking place in late 2019. John Hill

Brick outside and wood inside, the Filson Historical Society's Owsley Brown II History Center narrates the history of the Ohio River Valley in a manner that is local yet contemporary. Nominated recently for the de Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop

The Architectural Association Search Committee has announced its selection of Eva Franch i Gilabert, the Chief Curator and Executive Director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture, as the next Director of the AA School. John Hill

As part of their 2018 Women in Architecture awards, The Architectural Review and The Architects’ Journal have announced Sandra Barclay as Architect of the Year and Gloria Cabral as the winner of the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture. John Hill

The Fair-Haired Dumbell is a speculative office building by Guerrilla Development in Portland, Oregon, east of Burnside Bridge. Designed by FFA Architecture + Interiors and covered in a mural by Los Angeles artist James Jean, the project embodies the city's unofficial motto, "Keep... John Hill

Spain's a+t, the publisher of numerous high-quality architecture books on housing and density, has released a deck of cards with 50 floor plans from recent collective housing buildings. John Hill

Entries are now open, and the jury has been announced, for the 2018 World Architecture Festival. After two years in Berlin, WAF will take place in Amsterdam in November.  John Hill

Sir David Adjaye has been named the 2018 recipient of the University of Virginia's Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. Is the Pritzker Architecture Prize next? John Hill

A few architecture-related stories making headlines this week in New York City. John Hill

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture has won a competition to to design the Palais de Justice in Lille, France. John Hill

The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) College of Architecture has announced the nominated works in the third cycle of The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP). John Hill