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Yesterday World-Architects toured inside Renzo Piano Building Workshop's Jerome L. Greene Science Center, which is set to open in spring 2017 as one of the first buildings on Columbia University's new Manhattanville campus. John Hill

The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, ARE WE HUMAN?: The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years,200 years, 200,000 years, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts and curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley opens tomorrow. John Hill

Seven firms have been selected for the second round of the Demain Montparnasse competition, which strives to give a new identity to Tour Montparnasse, the much-detested Parisian skyscraper. John Hill

The effort to safeguard the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia has won the Buckminster Fuller Institute's 2016 Fuller Challenge, which awards a $100,000 prize "to support the development and implementation of one outstanding strategy." John Hill

An international jury has selected Hala Wardé and HW Architecture to design BeMA: Beirut Museum of Art, a new musuem that will include a garden amphitheater, accessible public space, and a tower designed to house exhibitions and artist residencies. John Hill

Architecture critics that is, particularly Chicago's Blair Kamin and New York's Paul Goldberger. A recent article from Kamin highlights the instability of U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and his willingness to attack anybody who slights him. John Hill

Projects in Bangladesh, China, Denmark, Iran, and Lebanon are recipients of the prestigious award that is given out every three years "to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture." John Hill

Yesterday, New York City's Queens Library held a topping-out ceremony for Hunters Point Community Library in Long Island City. Designed by Steven Holl Architects, the library is on track to open next summer.... John Hill

AIA New York State, an organization of the American Institute of Architects, has awarded its 2016 Firm of the Year award to WXY architecture + urban design, the multi-disciplinary practice led by principals Claire Weisz, Mark Yoes, Layng Pew, and Adam Lubinsky. John Hill

Architect Santiago Calatrava has unveiled plans for a "cutting-edge office building" to be located next to the Calatrava-designed Stadelhofen rail station in Zurich. John Hill

Riehen/Basel's Fondation Beyeler has announced that Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner has been commissioned to design the extension to the successful museum that Renzo Piano Building Workshop completed in 1997. John Hill

British designer Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled his "passionate effort to leave a meaningful public legacy for New York" with the Vessel sculpture of stairs and landings, to be the centerpiece of New York's Hudson Yards project. John Hill

Taking aim at the refugee crisis and issues of migration, among other things, the 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale, which opens to the public today under the theme After Belonging, asks, "Where do we belong? How can architects intervene in the reconfiguration... John Hill

Olana, the 19th-century home of landscape artist Frederic Edwin Church in New York's Hudson River Valley, invited 21 architects and landscape architects to imagine a 21st-century version of Church's unbuilt summer house. John Hill

Architects Advocate Action on Climate Change, a platform made up of "architects dedicated to healthy and livable communities, and guided by scientific consensus and reason," publicly launches on the first of September. John Hill

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

Following the last month's selection of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects as the lead architect for the Obama Presidential Center, The Obama Foundation is expected to choose Jackson Park as the project's site. 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

Important works by modern masters Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer have been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List by their World Heritage Committee. John Hill

Completed in 1973 and considered one of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's early masterpieces, the Douglas House in Harbor Springs, Michigan, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior. 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

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA), with local architecture firm Interactive Design Architects (IDEA), have been selected by the Obama Foundation to design the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in Chicago. 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

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

On Saturday The Floating Piers, the first project completed by Christo since his wife, Jeanne-Claude, died in 2009, opened to the public at Lake Iseo in northern Italy. John Hill

The team of Adjaye Associates and AB3D with Plan A, AKTII, BuroHappold, Turner & Townsend, and Martha Schwartz Partners has won the two-stage competition for the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art in the historic center of Riga. John Hill

On 8 June, on Frank Lloyd Wright's 149th birthday, New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) announced the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive, which will be on display next year from 12 June to 1 October. John Hill

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

The Herzog & de Meuron-designed Schaudepot, a modest addition to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, opens to the public today. John Hill