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Dream the Combine has been named the 2018 winner of The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1’s annual Young Architects Program with Hide & Seek, which will be on display at the museum's Long Island City, Queens, location this summer. John Hill

The fourth MPavilion, designed by OMA partners Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten, has found a permanent home at Monash University in Melbourne. John Hill

Sou Fujimoto Architects has won an invited competition to design the HSG Learning Center on the Rosenberg estate for the University of St.Gallen. John Hill, Jenny Keller

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

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

London's Architectural Association School of Architecture has narrowed down the search for a new director to three candidates: Pippo Ciorra, Eva Franch i Gilabert, and Robert Mull. John Hill

The fifth annual MPavilion, commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation, will be designed by Spain's Carme Pinós, making it the first public project by a Spanish female architect in Australia. John Hill

The Serpentine Galleries has selected Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to design the 2018 Serpentine Pavilion, which will be on display in London's Kensington Gardens from 15 June to 7 October 2018. John Hill

Amanda Levete, founder and director of AL_A, has been named the 2018 recipient of the Jane Drew Prize by The Architects' Journal/Architectural Review. John Hill

London's Serpentine Galleries and Beijing's WF CENTRAL have announced a co-commission for the first Serpentine Pavilion outside of London. Designed by Jiakun Architects, the pavilion will open in May 2018. John Hill

Steven Holl Architects, in collaboration with Russia's Kamen, has won the international design competition for a large mixed-use development in Moscow's Tushino district. John Hill

Amazon announced today that is has narrowed down the list of cities vying to be home to its second North American headquarters from 238 to 20. John Hill

This year, for the first time, the Vatican will be participating in the Venice Architecture Biennale. The inaugural Holy See pavilion will exhibit ten small chapels designed by ten invited architects. John Hill

Apple's plan for a global flagship store at Melbourne's Federation Square, unveiled last month, is being met by opposition, due in part to the proposed plan's demolition of one of the buildings in the 15-year-old project. John Hill

In 2017 the Building of the Week feature on American-Architects presented nearly fifty buildings located in the United States. To bring this year's feature to a close, we are holding a Building of the Year poll – with just a few mouse clicks you can vote for your favorite building. John Hill

Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has been hired by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, to transform the lobby inside its Gordon Bunshaft-designed building -- the first cohesive redesign in the museum's 42-year history. John Hill

The Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) has announced highlights from its new acquisitions, including drawings of Peter Salter's recently completed townhouses on Walmer Road in West London. John Hill

Twenty years ago, Richard Meier's Getty Center opened to the public on a hilltop overlooking Los Angeles. The institution is celebrating its anniversary with an exhibition of photographs taken just before the project's completion. John Hill

The American Institute of Architects has announced that Minneapolis, Minnesota's Snow Kreilich Architects is the recipient of the 2018 AIA Architecture Firm Award, which "recognizes a practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years." John Hill

New York architect James Stewart Polshek has been named by the American Institute of Architects as the recipient of the AIA Gold Medal, which is given to "an individual or pair of architects whose significant body of work has had a lasting influence on the theory and practice of... John Hill

Vincent Scully, who taught history at Yale University for more than six decades, died on Thursday at his home in Virginia due to complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 97. John Hill

The second edition of the Young Talent Architecture Award has launched, inviting recently graduated architects, urban planners and landscape architects to submit projects created between August 2016 and the end of 2017.  John Hill

Three and a half years after the New York Public Library shelved Norman Foster's plan to dramatically transform the library's 1911 home in Midtown Manhattan, Mecanoo's pared-down master plan for the building has been unveiled. John Hill

Architect Rafael Viñoly kicked off the 2017 World Architecture Festival with a meandering and sobering keynote talk about the crises architects find themselves in and a way to move forward. John Hill

Steven Holl Architects and Rüssli Architekten have won an international competition to the new Geneva Operational Center for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) with a scheme titled Colors of Humanity. John Hill

Britain's top architecture prize has been awarded to dRMM's Hastings Pier, a major community-led regeneration project in Hastings & St. Leonards, East Sussex. John Hill

Snøhetta has released renderings of their renovation of 550 Madison Avenue, better known as the AT&T Building, designed by Philip Johnson and completed in 1984. John Hill

A tower designed by Zaha Hadid Architects for the Kushner Companies and Vornado Realty Trust at 666 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan appears to be dead. John Hill

Students from four Swiss universities bested ten competitors to win the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon 2017 that took place recently in Denver, Colorado. John Hill

New York's New Museum has announced their selection of OMA to design the institution's next phase of expansion: a new building next to SANAA's well known 2007 building on the Bowery. John Hill

The Centre for Music project in London has announced that New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro, working with London's Sheppard Robson, has ben selected to design the new Centre for Music near the Barbican. John Hill

At a recent ceremony in San José, Costa Rica, the LafargeHolcim Foundation announced the winners of the LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 for Latin America, projects with "innovative and often surprising proposals for ways to master the use of [water] in Latin America." John Hill

The fourth annual MPavilion, designed by OMA partners Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten, has opened to the public in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that "revered Modernist architect" Neave Brown is the recipient of the 2018 Royal Gold Medal, the UK's highest honor for architecture. John Hill

Chinese architect Zhang Ke has won the Alvar Aalto Medal, conferred by the Alvar Aalto Foundation, Museum of Finnish architecture, Finnish Architectural Society, Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA), and the City of Helsinki. John Hill

A trio of French architecture firms under the name Nouvelle AOM has won the competition to "create a powerful, dynamic and bold new identity for the Tour Montparnasse," one of the most unloved buildings in Paris. John Hill