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Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke is the fifty-fifth laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

The honour has been awarded to Swiss-born Irish architect, educator and writer Níall McLaughlin, recognising the “resounding impact he has had on the profession”.

The 2026 pavilion, titled A Serpentine, will be unveiled at the Serpentine South Gallery in London on 6 June 2026.

Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu were appointed to curate the twentieth edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, opening in May 2027.

The American-Canadian architect, known for his unorthodox and adventurous projects across the globe – including a university building in Sydney – has passed away.

Highly esteemed British architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw has died aged 85.

The 2025 Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm Marina Tabassum Architects, opens to the public on 6 June.

During the final leg of the tour, participants discovered that Barcelona’s beauty lies not in aesthetic cohesion, but in the city’s imperfections and rich layering of styles, ideas and histories.

Australia’s housing crisis stems from sprawl; the Netherlands’ from a lack of land. Recipients of the 2025 Australian Institute of Architects Dulux Study Tour noted that despite their differing circumstances, both nations need urban densification.

On the first leg of the tour, discussion between the winners consistently circled back to the very Danish idea that architecture must return to the public what it takes, offering value in exchange for space and presence.

The jury praised the way Liu “constructs new worlds, free from any aesthetic or stylistic constraint.”

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that Japanese architecture firm SANAA will receive the Royal Gold Medal 2025 for architecture, with their design for Naala Badu in Sydney applauded in the accompanying citation.

Bangladeshi architect and educator Marina Tabassum and her firm, Marina Tabassum Architects, have been revealed as the designers of the 24th Serpentine Pavilion.

Joseph Rykwert, the prominent architectural historian, author and 2014 recipient of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, has died aged 98.

The London tube line has been commended as the UK’s best new building, winning the Royal Institute of British Architects’ 2024 Stirling Prize.

In reflecting on their time in Spain, the 2024 Dulux Study Tour winners found that the most successful architectural projects are culture-led, rather than design-led.

The 23rd Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Korean architect Minsuk Cho and his firm Mass Studies, has now opened to the public in London’s Serpentine South gardens.

The architects participating in the 2024 Dulux Study Tour consider Berlin’s contrasting architecture as a testament to the city’s tumultuous history, reflecting periods of prosperity, division and reunification.

The five early-career architects on the 2024 Dulux Study Tour reflect on the level of high-quality craftsmanship they have observed in Tokyo.

The president of La Biennale di Venezia Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and exhibition curator Carlo Ratti have jointly announced the theme for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Riken Yamamoto is the 53rd Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the ninth to hail from Japan.

Acclaimed Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator, author, racial advocate, and curator, Lesley Lokko is the first woman of African descent to receive the Royal Gold Medal 2024 for architecture.

Seoul-based Korean architect Minsuk Cho and his firm, Mass Studies, have been revealed as the designers of the 23rd Serpentine Pavilion in London.

Carlo Ratti, an esteemed architect, engineer, and academic, has been appointed by the board of directors of La Biennale di Venezia to curate the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in 2025.

A visit to the Aalto House in Finland, designed in 1936 by a young Alvar and Aino Aalto, is a lesson in experimentation and delighting in the imperfect.

The final leg of the Australian Institute of Architects’ 2023 Dulux Study Tour was like an architectural amazing race from Zürich to the Alpine Rhine Valley, back to Zürich, ending at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

The 2023 Dulux Study Tour makes its way to Lisbon, a city where the time-space continuum is written into the urban fabric.

The first leg of the 2023 Dulux Study Tour visited Helsinki: traditionally a city of red granite, copper and experiments with new materials.

The 2023 Pritzker Prize has been awarded to English architect David Chipperfield “for the rigour, integrity and pertinence of a body of work that – beyond the realm of the architecture discipline – speaks for his social and environmental commitment,” said the jury.

The Architectural Review and Architects Journal (AJ) have named the winners of the 2023 Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable prizes.

Indian modernist architect, and winner of the 2018 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Balkrishna Doshi has died at his home in Ahmedabad aged 95.

Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has passed away at his home in the prefecture of Okinawa, aged 91.

London’s Serpentine Galleries has announced the recipient of the 22nd pavilion commission is Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect Lina Ghotmeh, whose structure will occupy the gardens of Serpentine South from June 2023.

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of Japanese architecture practice SANAA were awarded the prize for architecture in recognition of their contribution to the profession.

Travelrite’s architecture tour of Japan returns following the Japanese government’s recent move to permit specialized group tours to enter the country.

The president of La Biennale di Venezia Roberto Cicutto and exhibition curator Lesley Lokko have jointly announced the theme for the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.

A central oculus in Theaster Gates’s Black Chapel emanates a single source of light to create a “sanctuary for reflection, refuge and conviviality”.

Architect, educator and social activist Diébédo Francis Kéré has been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2022.

An icon of modernist residential architecture could be at risk, after the City of Los Angeles approved a development on the lot below the clifftop it sits on.

Designs have been unveiled for the 21st Serpentine Pavilion in London by Chicago artist Theaster Gates with architectural support from Adjaye Associates.