The Museum of London has announced today (4 April) the six architectural teams shortlisted to design its new museum in a Victorian market hall complex. The museum, which has a construction budget of around £150m (US$214, €188m), will be located in a 25,000sq m (269,000sq ft) collection of buildings in West Smithfield, providing much-needed extra space for its enormous archaeological archive and thousands of exhibits exploring the history of London.

The UK’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has revealed new details of its biggest ever international collaboration: a design museum in Shenzhen, China, created by Japanese architecture studio Maki & Associates. The new museum, called Design Society, is scheduled to open in early 2017 within a larger cultural complex called the Sea World Culture and Arts Centre. The V&A has now announced it will curate a special gallery devoted to

The Bavarian American Hotel – a landmark Cold War building which once housed judges and prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals – is set to reopen as a renaissance-inspired Park Plaza hotel. British architects Scott Brownrigg have drawn on the lives of local cultural icons, including painter Albrecht Dürer and explorer and globe-maker Martin Behaim, to “bring a fresh energy” to the Bavarian city. The hotel, which

Architects are being invited to submit “sustainable” stadium plans in a competition to design a new ground for non-league English football club Forest Green Rovers. The new stadium will be part of a £100m (US$142m, €124.9m) development – called Eco Park – which is a 100-acre sports and green technology business park which is being proposed for a site in Gloucestershire. Forest Green Rovers owner and chair Dales Vince, who

Rotterdam-based design initiative Collective Paper Aesthetics (CPA) have created a new activity for the DASA Working World Exhibition in Dortmund, using a molecular modular system to create a buildable cardboard structure. Designed for family participation at DASA’s first Maker Faire Ruhr, German company city2science invited CPA to create an installation that would offer a participatory low-tech experience. Using specially designed, easy to construct, interlocking cardboard shapes, the CPA installation took

Ever wanted to sleep surrounded by sharks? Airbnb and French design agency Ubi Bene believe that at least some people might, and have designed a special underwater bedroom in the shark tank at Paris aquarium. For three nights in April 2016, the winners of a one-off competition will be given the chance to experience life underwater, surrounded by 35 live sharks. The only thing separating guests with their toothy neighbours

The philosophy of feng shui has inspired an Issy les Moulineaux-based swimming pool, sports and wellbeing centre designed by French architecture practice Mikou Studio. The centre, located in the southern suburbs of Paris and known as Piscine du Fort, is clad in an wave-like double skin, with open and accessible façades that use rounded windows and skylights to filter in daylight. Design features are carefully positioned to create a sense

The residents of a luxury apartment building in London will be able to enjoy their very own exclusive David Bailey art gallery, as the worlds of leisure, fashion and high-end property collide. Development company Frogmore & Galliard Homes have said the permanent gallery – located at The Chilterns development in the inner-city Marylebone area – is the first in the city to be located within a private luxury apartment building.

Moody Nolan – experts in collegiate sport architecture – have been chosen to lead the design for a mixed-use on-campus football stadium for Temple University in Philadelphia. The stadio which was founded by president and chief executive Curtis J Moody has worked on more than 100 university projects, including sports facilities for DePaul, Indiana, Ohio State, Penn State, the University of Chicago and Vanderbilt. Working in collaboration with AECOM, Moody

The consortium lead by Anbang Insurance Group has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Starwood, paving the way for the Marriott/Starwood merger to move ahead. Anbang dropped its offer “as a result of market considerations” and does not intend to make another proposal, Starwood said in a statement. The statement also said that Starwood’s board of directors continues to unanimously support the existing merger with Marriott. A special meeting of Starwood

The 436-bedroom Grand Hyatt Rio de Janeiro has opened in Brazil, complete with a 1,150sq m (12,379sq ft) Atiaia Spa, named after the indigenous tupi-guarani word for luminosity. Created by interior designer Yabu Pushelberg with local assistance from Brazilian design firm Anastassiadis Arquitetos, the hotel aims to have a relaxed, care-free coastal living experience, with large balconies and floor-to-ceiling windows, along with stones and fabrics authentic to Brazil. The hotel

Dame Zaha Hadid, the world-renowned British architect, has died aged 65. Her practice, Zaha Hadid Architects, has confirmed that she died of a heart attack on Thursday (31 March) in a Miami hospital, where she was being treated for bronchitis. Hadid, who was one of the most acclaimed figures in world architecture, became the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004. She was also awarded the

A monumental turreted armoury in New York borough the Bronx could be transformed into the world's largest indoor ice rink complex, if funding can be raised for the project. According to US publication Politico New York, the city’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC), which owns the site, has given a consortium led by Canadian ice hockey legend Mark Messier a month to produce US$138m (€121m, £96m) for the project’s first phase.

The 2016 Pritzker Prize Laureate Alejandro Aravena will next week join several other past winners of architecture’s most prestigious accolade to discuss the challenges facing the built environment. Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Richard Meier are among the other big names who will participate in the discussion – called Pritzker Laureates' Conversation: Challenges Ahead for the Built Environment – at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 5 April.

Indian architects Studio Ardete have attempted to “define a new language for exercise and training centres” with a "whimsical" gym, spa and indoor cycling studio called Moksha. The practice were commissioned to extend an existing gym in the Indian district Panchkula by creating the new facilities in the building’s 2,000sq ft (186sq m) basement. The limited space and a restricted budget forced the architects to look beyond traditional gyms for

Mecanoo co-founder Francine Houben has told CLAD about the studio’s plans for their US$300m (€264m, £208m) renovation of New York’s iconic public library. In an exclusive interview featured in the latest issue of CLADmag, Houben revealed how the Dutch multidisciplinary practice are approaching the project – the latest in a string of high-profile libraries they have worked on. “We will approach the New York Public Library project the same way

Coventry Council has unveiled the first images of the city’s new £36.7m (US$51.8m, €46.4m) waterpark – designed by a team including British architects Faulkner Browns – which will replace the existing Grade II-listed 1966 central swimming pool when it opens in 2019. The new building will house a waterpark, 25-metre swimming pool, gym, climbing wall, squash courts, dance studio and day spa. The circular building’s ribbon-like exterior, designed to reflect

International architects Ingenhoven have revealed construction will soon begin on a leisure complex that doubles as a vertical park in the heart of German city Düsseldorf. The studio – who last year unveiled a jungle-infused skyscraper project in Singapore – won an international design competition in 2014 for the project and are preparing to start on site in the next few weeks. Called Kö-Bogen 2, the complex’s buildings will sit

English Heritage have announced the architectural team led by Ney & Partners have won the design competition to build a new footbridge at Cornwall’s Tintagel Castle, a site long associated in the UK with the legend of King Arthur. The firm beat 136 others – including shortlisted firms Wilkinson Eyre, Marks Barfield Architects and Niall McLaughlin Architects – in the two-stage international design concept competition to secure the commission for

The new Populous-designed home of Major League Baseball (MLB) team Atlanta Braves will boast a zip line across its concourse, according to reports in the US city. Derek Schiller, the franchise’s executive vice president of sales and marketing, confirmed the attraction for the forthcoming SunTrust Park while speaking at a Business of Sports Summit in Atlanta, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. The zip line would begin from behind the

The James Beard Foundation has released the list of nominees who may taste glory at its 2016 Restaurant Design Awards in May. The organisation – which celebrates America's culinary heritage – will hand out awards in three categories: restaurants with 75 seats and under, those with 76 seats and over, and an honourary Design Icon Award – which will be presented to the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York. The

Ben van Berkel and his architecture practice, UNStudio, have won a design competition to create four high-rise towers in Frankfurt, Germany, for a high-profile mixed-use project designed to “invigorate the city.” The winning concept visualises a new urban quarter formed of two office towers and two residential towers sat atop a vast plinth, which will house hotels, restaurants, bars, shops and open public spaces. The complex is to be located

Plans for a new elevated urban park in London along an abandoned coal railway line, have advanced, with architects Adams & Sutherland selected to launch a feasibility study for the project. From April to November 2016, the practice – who designed the Greenway cycle network near the Queen Elizabeth Olympic park – will outline how best to transform the the disused 900m stretch of coal sidings in Peckham, southeast London,

The Chinese consortium led by Anbang Insurance Group that is trying to buy Starwood has upped its offer, making it “reasonably likely to lead to a ‘Superior Proposal’ as defined in Starwood’s merger agreement with Marriott International,” Starwood said in a statement. Marriott agreed to buy Starwood in November 2015 for US$12.2bn, but a rival offer from Anbang on 18 March threatened the deal. Marriott then came back with a

Populous – the architects behind the London 2012 Olympic Stadium – have appointed ex-Informa chief executive Peter Rigby as co-chair. Rigby joins existing chair Rod Sheard, who is the founder of the studio, in overseeing its business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He spent 30 years at the multinational in a leadership capacity. During his tenure, the company increased its market capitalisation to £3bn (US$4.3bn, €3.8bn). In

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano is designing the Andaz Am Belvedere hotel, set to open in Vienna’s new Quartier Belvedere district in 2019. The project is a joint venture between Hyatt Hotels and Signa, who previously collaborated on the Park Hyatt Vienna. The hotel will be located opposite the 21er Haus – formerly the Museum of Modern Art – and Vienna’s Schweizergarten, next to the Belvedere Palace. The 300-room Andaz

Dutch football club Feyenoord has pinpointed a preferred site for its new stadium and surrounding complex. Working with architects OMA, financial advisors First Dutch and infrastructure expert Operatie NL, the 14-time Dutch champions have developed the concept for the Feyenoord City development, which will include the stadium, shops, houses, offices, hotels, cultural spaces and the new premises of the football club. Feyenoord and the Municipality of Rotterdam have chosen the