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LACMA sets April 2026 opening date for David Geffen Galleries

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The LA Times is reporting that the new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA will finally open to the public in April of 2026. Spaces inside the new building will be open to the public for a two-week period once the city grants a temporary certificate of occupancy (TCO) in May of 2025.

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Barcelona will be a Research Laboratory at the UIA World Architecture Congress 2026

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Image via Shutterstock The city of Barcelona , along with its metropolitan area, will become a research laboratory as the main venue for the World Congress of Architecture of the International Union of Architects (UIA), scheduled to take place from June 28th to July 2nd, 2026. Photography by TTstudio.

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Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026: 10 Blind Walls International Ideas Competition for Young Architects

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© Marcela Grassi As Barcelona gears up to be the World Capital of Architecture in 2026, it is calling on young architects under 35 to reimagine 10 permanent blind walls, one in each district, and transform them into new facades that will leave a legacy in the city.

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Gensler’s Culver Crossings Apple campus proposal goes under the planning microscope in Culver City

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Apple, currently the world's most valuable company based on market capitalization, faces a key test in its bid to construct a new office campus in Southern California, when the project goes before the Culver City Planning Commission this week for consideration. acre site at Venice and National Boulevards.

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Obama Presidential Center tops out in Chicago

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A ceremony held yesterday, June 11th, with the 44th President in attendance celebrated the progress on the TWBTA -led project as it reached its culmination at 225 feet height just two years before its expected completion in the spring of 2026. Once it is completed, the new landmark of the city’s South Side will anchor a 19.3-acre

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Lloyd's of London is mulling an exit from Richard Rogers' award-winning headquarters building

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Lloyd's of London (SOLYD.UL) is considering whether to remain in its flagship City of London headquarters and may make a decision this year, the commercial insurance market said on Tuesday. The news comes just over a month after the death of its Pritzker-winning architect in London at the age of 88. Interior view of the Lloyd's building.

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Iván Argote's viral new High Line plinth commission speaks to our impermanence as a species

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Iván Argote, Dinosaur, Rendering courtesy of the artist The bird itself was manufactured in Mexico and must make a pit stop in New Jersey on its migration journey before being installed on its five-foot plinth overlooking Tenth Avenue, a perch from which it will peer into the city until September of 2026.