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GMP Architekten has won a competition to design a 1.2 million-square-metre exhibition centre for Tianjin, China (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Architecture firm Grimshaw has completed an ecological park in South Korea where tropical plants, waterfalls and penguins are housed within huge glass and steel biomes (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design the new National Gallery of Greenland in the country’s capital city, Nuuk. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects Bureau SLA have connected two houses in Leerdam, Holland, with four overlapping bridges to create a continuous gallery. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Mexican studio TEN Arquitectos have recently completed a laboratory for studying genomics in in Irapuato, Mexico. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

World Architecture Festival 2013: the Future Project of the Year award at the World Architecture Festival has been given to a museum for China's maritime heritage, proposed in Tianjin. (more...) View the full article

A subterranean museum in Poland with a huge public space on its roof has won the title World Building of the Year 2016 at the World Architecture Festival. Read more View the full article

French architect Jean Nouvel has unveiled his design for the new National Museum of Qatar. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture that embodies a country's values can help improve communication between feuding nations, says Jean Nouvel as the National Museum of Qatar opens in Doha. Read more

This maple-veneered staircase twists and turns between the floors of an Olympic Museum in Georgia refurbished by UK and Georgia firm Architects of Invention. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The National Organization of Minority Architects has called on the architecture profession to "condemn racism and take an active role in eliminating racial biases" following the death of George Floyd in police custody. Read more View the full article

London's Natural Portrait Gallery has unveiled a newly commissioned portrait of Jony Ive, the departing chief design officer at Apple, taken by acclaimed German photographer Andreas Gursky. Read more

News: a memorial museum designed by architecture firm Snøhetta on the former World Trade Centre site in New York will be inaugurated by US president Barack Obama tomorrow (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Shooting events during the 2016 Olympic Games will take place at this timber and concrete complex in north-west Rio by Brazilian studio BCMF Arquitetos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Serie Architects and Multiply Architects have built a design school in Singapore that is net-zero and sustainable, with breezy open-air learning spaces. Read more

US brand Native Shoes has developed a sneaker that is entirely made from one continuous sheet of algae-enriched EVA in a bid to clean up the footwear industry. Read more View the full article

Canadian footwear brand Native Shoes has released a unisex sneaker made entirely from vegan-friendly materials including eucalyptus, pineapple husk and dried hevea milk. Read more

This charging cable by product design company Native Union uses a weight to stay anchored in place. Read more View the full article

London designer Héctor Serrano presents a series of lamps and vases combining glass and cork at Maison&Objet in Paris this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designer Héctor Serrano presents this series of jars with cork lids at Maison&Objet, which opens today in Paris. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: London interior designers and stylists Studio Toogood invited food and design collective Arabeschi di Latte to serve black food to guests at midnight dinners in a darkened apartment in Milan last week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro has sent us these photographs documenting growing architectural metropolises in several Asian cities. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Faceted rock-like walls line a towering atrium inside a museum of natural history that opened this week in Salt Lake City. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Osko+Deichmann of Berlin have covered a series of domestic objects in a coating normally applied to street furniture in order to prevent vandalism. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Glazed walls, a large metal roof and a vast central atrium feature in an academic building designed by architecture firm Foster + Partners for an emerging medical campus in Ohio. Read more View the full article