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Houston's Rothko Chapel breaks ground on 2026 expansion

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Houston’s iconic Rothko Chapel is expanding for 2026 and recently broke ground on Phase 2 of its $42 million campus plan. The initiative will yield two new buildings designed by Brooklyn-based Architectural Research Office (ARO) and an outdoor garden from Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. certification.

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Obama Presidential Center pushes opening to 2026, Moody Nolan's athletics center to break ground this month

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Project updates were reported late last week by the Chicago Sun-Times on the occasion of former President Obama's visit to McCormick Place to see a half-scale mockup of the 88-foot "Power of Words" video installation, the largest of 50 that will grace the Obama Presidential Center when it opens at a recently revised date in 2026.

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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. acre campus with a landscape design from Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates.

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Studio Gang's Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center breaks ground in the Hudson Valley

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By summer 2026, the new 14,850-square-foot permanent home for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare company from Studio Gang , the Samuel H. Nelson Byrd Woltz is included for the landscape program of the surrounding site, which had been previously been used as a golf course.

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Open Call 2026 Barcelona World Capital of Architecture

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Barcelona has been named by UNESCO-UIA World Capital of Architecture ”ÖÜ The Capitality is a great event focused on the dissemination of values and the transformative capacity of architecture, urbanism and landscaping. It is an opportunity to promote.

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Exciting architecture fellowships to apply to in January 2024

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Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, invites applications for a two-year Emerging Architect Fellowship Award in areas of architectural research and design, with particular focus on topics that address issues of climate and the built environment. Learn more here.

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

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Blind walls in the city of Barcelona Barcelona City Council , through the Municipal Institute of Urban Landscape and Quality of Life (IMPU) , has counted around 6,000 blind walls with a strong presence in the city’s public spaces.