Architecture News
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Aspendos Excavation Uncovers 6,000-Year-Old Settlement Traces Near Antalya
Digs beneath Aspendos shop floors turned up Chalcolithic pottery and tools, pushing the site's known history back roughly 6,000 years.
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Vitra Museum Stages First Major Geoffrey Bawa Retrospective in Decades
Vitra Design Museum opens the first major Geoffrey Bawa retrospective in 20 years, ahead of a 2027 run at M+ Hong Kong.
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Neom Stadium, the Elevated 2034 World Cup Venue, Reportedly Shelved by Saudi Arabia
Two sources told Reuters that Saudi Arabia has put the 46,000 seat Neom Stadium on hold indefinitely. Officials have not confirmed it, and...
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Groupwork Completes 10-Storey Loadbearing Granite Flats in London
Groupwork's Petra Heights on Finchley Road is a 10-storey block of 22 flats whose structure is carried entirely by loadbearing Norwegian granite.
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Ai Weiwei Installs 500 Cast-Iron Helmets Outside Sydney Museum
Ai Weiwei's 500 cast-iron helmets opened outside Sydney's MCA on 25 September, a work he calls a warning rather than a joke.
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Isamu Noguchi at Lever House Traces Sculptor’s Decades-Long Collaboration with Bunshaft
Lever House's new exhibition pairs Noguchi sculptures with unbuilt garden designs made for Gordon Bunshaft's landmark tower.
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Relocated Maya Structures at Mexico’s Balam Tun Memory Park Face Legal Challenge
INAH archaeologists have filed a complaint against 26 officials over Balam Tun Memory Park, where 47 Maya structures moved for the Maya Train...
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Heather Roberge, UCLA Architecture Professor and Murmur Founder, Dies at 55
UCLA professor and Murmur founder Heather Roberge, a 2026 AIA LA Educator of the Year, has died at 55.
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