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New York City developments designed by teams including SHoP Architects, HKS and Perkins Eastman have been recommended to receive casino licenses, beating out a BIG project and others. At a meeting yesterday, the Gaming Facility Location Board recommended that two casino projects in Queens and one in the Bronx receive licenses from the Gaming Commission,

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Dezeen features editor Nat Barker has been named Architectural Journalist of the Year at the prestigious International Building Press Awards 2025. The award, which was given to Barker at a ceremony in central London last week, was presented for his “depth and craft in storytelling”. “Nat won this category because of his excellent and varied work, which

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Dutch studio MVRDV has unveiled plans for the Schieblocks office building in Rotterdam, which will comprise a series of stacked, colourful blocks beside Rotterdam Centraal station. Set to stretch 150 metres along the city’s railway line, Schieblocks will encompass 47,000 square metres of private office space, along with commercial space at ground level and a

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US architect Robert AM Stern, who was the long-time dean of Yale university, has passed away aged 86. Stern, who founded his studio, which is now known as RAMSA, in 1969, passed away today at his home in Manhattan, reported the New York Times. “Bob’s impact reverberates not just through RAMSA, but across the entire

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Bamboo scaffolding has been blamed for contributing to the spread of an enormous high-rise building fire in Hong Kong that has claimed at least 55 lives. The blaze broke out at the Wang Fuk Court residential apartment complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on Wednesday afternoon. It then spread across seven of the complex’s

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Amateur Architecture Studio founders Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu have been chosen as the curators of the 2027 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, with aims to combat “the death of architecture”. The two Chinese architects, who have won numerous awards, established their own studio in 1997 and also founded the architecture department at the China

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The Dallas city government has voted to explore relocating and selling the brutalist city hall designed by architect IM Pei, placing the building under increased threat of demolition. Earlier this month, Dallas City Council voted to review the status of the 1970s building as the government’s home. The city manager was tasked with determining the

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Loans available to architecture students in the USA will be reduced under the terms of president Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, as architecture will not be considered a professional degree. Under the terms of the One Big Beautiful Bill, the provision of student loans in the USA will be overhauled starting 1 July, 2026,

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