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Renderings have been released for Studio Gang Architects' design of a 40-story tower at 160 Folsom Street in San Francisco for developer Tishman Speyer. John Hill

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, completes the final phase of the transformation of its 140-acre campus, centered on a Visitor Center designed by Tadao Ando. John Hill

Herzog & de Meuron's seventh project for the Swiss manufacturer of herb drops has been completed in Laufen. Notably, the building is considered the largest loam building in Europe. John Hill

Frank Gehry, designer of a mixed-use development in downtown Toronto for David Mirvish, scales down the project from three towers to two, saving some old buildings in the process. John Hill

George Lucas's selection of Chicago for the home of his planned museum launches speculation on how the city was selected over San Francisco, who will design the museum, and what it will mean for Chicago. John Hill

London's Design Museum has awarded Zaha Hadid’s Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Design Museum Design of the Year Award 2014. It is the first architectural project to be named Design of the Year in its seven-year history. John Hill

The jury for the Cosentino Design Challenge 2014 has announced the six winners – three in the architecture category and three in the design category – in the Cosentino Group's 8th international student competition. John Hill

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has named four regional winners – Americas, Asia & Australia, Europe, and Middle East & Africa – as best tall buildings in the world for 2014. John Hill

In lieu of cantilevering over the adjacent La Brea tar pits, Peter Zumthor's design for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art proposes to span Wilshire Boulevard. John Hill

The Midwestern American city will host the first Chicago Architecture Biennial in fall 2015, to be held at the Chicago Cultural Center overlooking Millennium Park. John Hill

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has selected Washington, DC's Oehme van Sweden & Associates (OvS) for its 2014 Landscape Architecture Firm Award, the organization's highest honor it bestows on a firm. John Hill

The Municipal Art Society of New York awards nine projects for excellence in architecture and urban design, giving "Building of the Year" to Caples Jefferson Architects' Weeksville Heritage Center, one of seven winning projects in Brooklyn. John Hill

Two new Manhattan projects by global superstars Tadao Ando and Herzog & de Meuron have been unveiled. John Hill

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed the winners of the 2014 RIBA National Awards, what it considers "the most rigorously judged awards for architectural excellence." John Hill

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Entasis have bested four finalists in the two-stage competition for a tower in Gothenburg, Sweden, that promises to be the tallest in Scandinavia. John Hill

Madrid's José Maria Sanchez Gàrcia has won the 2014 BSI Swiss Architectural Award, a biennial prize that aims to draw the public's attention to international architects under 50. John Hill

Zürich's CKÖ – Georg Krummenacher, Daniel Lütolf and Sara Widmer – wins the sole Architecture award in the 2014 Swiss Art Awards. John Hill

Italian lighting designer/manufacturer Davide Groppi has won Compasso d'Oro international design awards from the ADI Foundation for the Nulla recessed lamp and the Sampei floor lamp. John Hill

The Frick Collection, which turns 80 next year, has unveiled plans to renovate and expand its home on New York's Upper East Side with a six-story addition designed by Davis Brody Bond. John Hill

The International Union of Architects (UIA) awards its 2014 Gold Medal – its most prestigious award – to the Chinese born American architect, Ieoh Ming Pei. John Hill

In addition to the Gold and Silver Lion awards for National Participation, the jury of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition has awarded a Silver Lion best Monditalia research project and special mentions in all categories. John Hill

The jury of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale has awarded the Silver Lion for National Participation to Chile for "Monolith Controversies." John Hill

The jury of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale has awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation to Korea for "Crow’s Eye View: The Korean Peninsula." John Hill

World-Architects will be in Venice for the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, directed by Rem Koolhaas under the theme "Fundamentals." John Hill

Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, the architecture mentor in the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative for 2014-15, has selected Paraguayan architect Gloria Cabral as his protégé. John Hill

The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe present “Made in Europe”, an exhibition tracing 25 years of European architecture in the Palazzo Michiel from June 7th to August 4th, coinciding with Biennale Architettura 2014. John Hill

Five proposals vying to be Sweden's newest skyscraper, to be built in Gothenburg, have been selected in the Karlavagnstornet competition. John Hill

Tonight the Montreal Symphony Orchestra inaugurates the pipe organ at Maison Symphonique. The 6,489-pipe colossus is a collaboration between Jack Diamond of Diamond Schmitt Architects and Quebec-based organ manufacturer Casavant Frères. John Hill

The legendary graphic designer of everything from logos to signage, magazines, maps, and architectural monographs, died on May 27 at the age of 83. John Hill

A fire broke out on Friday in the basement of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's early 20th-century masterpiece. John Hill

Pezo von Ellrichshausen's Poli House wins the inaugural award from the Illinois Institute of Technology. John Hill

Reaction, Creation on Aarau, Switzerland's Schneider & Schneider is the first of a new series of monographs from W-A. John Hill

The founder of the Canadian Centre for Architecture will receive the prize from Venice Biennale director Rem Koolhaas. John Hill

Libeskind teams with photographer Edward Burtynsky and landscape architect Claude Cormier on Canada's monument. John Hill

Zoltan Pali is no larger part of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences museum in Los Angeles. John Hill

Frank Gehry becomes the sixth architect to win the prestigious Spanish award. John Hill