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The House in the Woods project site was an interesting challenge for the working team Officina29 Architetti, where the strong, powerful presence of oak trees and the sloping terrain imposed the design that blurs the boundary between building and land Officina29 Architetti

The 80-story Oakwood Tower would become, at 300 meters, the world's tallest timber-framed building if built next to the Barbican Centre on London's South Bank. John Hill

This luxury hot spring resort is built around the hilltop of Luo Fu Shan, in Sichuan Province. AIM Architecture

Oops, he did it again: For the second time, "conceptual photographer" Xavier Delory has virtually changed the architecture of a Le Corbusier building, covering the surfaces of the Chapel in Ronchamp with murals from Villa E-1027 on the Côte d’Azur. John Hill, Jenny Keller

Interior designer Martine Brisson designed a spacious, balanced patio for two people with a deep passion for contemporary design. The project won the award for best home terrace at Quebec’s Grands Prix du Design 2015. Martine Brisson

WOHA's GARDEN CITY | MEGA CITY exhibition is on display at the Skyscraper Museum in New York City from 23 March until 4 September 2016. World-Architects editor John Hill got an opening-day tour from WOHA partners Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell and filed this report. John Hill

Daniel Libeskind has unveiled the design for The Kurdistan Museum in Erbil, Iraq. The building will become the first major center in the Kurdistan Region for the history and culture of the Kurdish people. Studio Libeskind

Following the death of Zaha Hadid – the world's most famous female architect – on 31 March at the age of 65, The New York Times conducted an informal online questionnaire asking female architects to "talk candidly about their experiences in the profession." John Hill

As part of "Rotterdam celebrates the city!" this spring, Winy Maas and MVRDV have designed a giant staircase with 180 steps leading from Stationsplein, outside Rotterdam Central Station’s entrance, to the top of the Groot Handelsgebouw, an important building from the... John Hill

At the end of 2015, A+M was invited to enter a two-stage design competition for a new station of the legendary Moscow Metro. A+M won Stage I. Shown below is the Stage II proposal, driven by A+M’s search for meaning and beauty in everything that is common, ubiquitous, always in plain... Austin+Mergold

Located in Saint-Louis (Alsace, France) in the "Three Borders" region and in the inner suburb of Basel, the "Forum" dedicated to replace the old "Palais des fêtes" of the town, is a cultural facility designed to host associative, sporting and cultural events.  Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

The Wild Walk lifts visitors above the treetops of The Wild Center and the surrounding Adirondacks in Upstate New York. Designed by Linearscape and open since July 2015, the Wild Walk echoes the surrounding pine trees through the form of Cor-ten steel posts that support the walkways. The...

The three winners of an open design competition will join three pre-qualified candidates – BIG, Lacaton & Vassal, and SANAA – for the restricted design competition for a new school of architecture in Aarhus, Denmark. John Hill

An old household rubbish tip in the middle of an industrial zone swept by dynamic east-west flows (trains, cars, barges, river, wind) defines the vibrant setting of the technical centre for the Public Waste Collection Service and its Support Department. atelier arcau

"A warmly glowing, floating metal sculpture" is how the architects at pape + pape describe the new bus station they designed for Gummersbach, Germany. Sited by the train station, the new structure creates a striking image at the entrance to the country town. John Hill, Thomas Geuder

Next week we'll have a write-up of the WOHA exhibition, GARDEN CITY | MEGA CITY, now on display at the Skyscraper Museum in New York, but in the meantime take a look at some drone footage of their recently completed SkyVille @ Dawson in Singapore. John Hill

Inspired by the work of Parley for the Oceans and their collaborative work with Adidas, and G Star Raw and Pharrell Williams using recycled ocean waste to create innovative products, SPARK’s beach hut is fabricated from discarded plastic collected from the beaches and seas of South East Asia. SPARK

GRAFT has designed a single-family house and two semi-detached houses, all of them environmentally friendly buildings that join mobility, energy and health.  GRAFT

Two new performance pieces explore architecture and planning in the middle of last century: A Marvelous Order, an opera about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs; and The Master Builder, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play now set in Pittsburgh. John Hill

The house is organized within one meandering form made of natural stone, creating three volumes with an open space interwoven between them. Marion Regitko Architects

Text by Eduard Kögel

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

KAAN Architecten signs the Supreme Court of the Netherlands: Distinguished and functional, hard and ethereal, rough and refined: the new home of the highest court in the Netherlands exhibits a tight relationship between openness and security. KAAN Architecten

Strelka KB has announced the three finalists and unveiled their concept designs in the international architectural competition for the new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center at Tel Aviv University. John Hill

MASS Lab has been named one of the four finalists in the Nordic Built Cities Challenge Competition in the Faroe Islands, for the construction of a masterplan in an area of ​​over 45,000 square meters. Mass Lab

Giardini in Silence: Metamorphosis in between art and architecture RAAAF, Marcel Moonen

The plot is located in a green ring around the historic city center. The building occupies half of the plot, the other half being used as a park. Menis Arquitectos

Like a flashback to America in the 1950s and 1960s, Chioco Design's design for Torchy's Tacos latest Austin outpost is unabashedly retro. Its angled columns, scalloped roofs and prominent signage harks back to the roadside architecture of those doo-wop decades. Chioco Design answered...

Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena will receive the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize in an award ceremony at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City starting at 7:30pm EST tonight. Watch the ceremony here live.

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

With the sudden passing of Zaha Hadid yesterday at the age of 65, we look back at some of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's signifcant works through the unmistakable, dazzling, and often... John Hill

A Beam of Light on Vorob’evi Hills Architects of Invention

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

MoederscheimMoonen Architects recently presented the definite design for a new multi-tenant building next to Utrecht’s new Central Station. The building has been commissioned by Klépierre Retail Development. Part of the Hoog Catharijne shopping centre, the future building is commonly... MoederscheimMoonen Architects

Nowness visits British architect Ian Simpson's Manchester home, a two-story penthouse in Beetham Tower, which he also designed. Standouts of the spacious, light-filled residence are the corner living room and the garden with 6-meter-high trees. John Hill