At the start of every week, we highlight some of the most recent news in competition-winning projects, commissions, awards, shortlists, and events on the newly redesigned Bustler from the previous week that are worth checking out. 

Here's recap #106 for the week of April 25-29, 2016.

AIA UK honors 2016 Excellence in Design Awards winners, pays tribute to Zaha Hadid

The AIA UK chapter recently celebrated the winners of the 2016 Excellence in Design Awards, which included projects from Students, Young Architects, and Professionals. AIA UK President Frederick Grier paid tribute to the late Zaha Hadid, highlighting her extensive involvement in the awards and other chapter events.

Zaha Hadid Architects to design Sberbank Technopark in “Russia's Silicon Valley”

In more recent ZHA news, Zaha's first posthumous competition win is the proposed Sberbank Technopark in Moscow. The 131,000 square-meter office park will be located in “Russia's Silicon Valley”.

Kengo Kuma's “Odensean” concept for the new Hans Christian Andersen Museum

A few months after being commissioned to design the new Tokyo Olympic stadium, Kengo Kuma has another notable project in tow for 2020: the new Hans Christian Andersen Museum in the Danish city of Odense. The new museum will focus on H.C. Andersen's magical universe of fairy tales.

schmidt hammer lassen + Architectus-led team to redesign iconic State Library of Victoria

Selected out of a competitive shortlist of four teams, the winning schmidt hammer lassen/Architectus-led team will be in charge of redesigning all the elements of the historic State Library of Victoria, Australia's oldest — and busiest — public institution.

“National culture builders” ARM Architecture wins the 2016 Australian Gold Medal

Stephen Ashton, Howard Raggatt, and Ian McDougall have left a lasting impression in the Australian contemporary architecture scene since they founded ARM Architecture in 1988. Their contentious body of work recently earned them the honorable 2016 Gold Medal in the Australian Achievement in Architecture Awards.  

See the latest Pershing Square Renew finalist proposals

Now that the Pershing Square Renew competition is down to its final weeks, the four finalist teams publicly presented their updated proposals last week. Which one do you think will win? Do you think plans to renew the historic park will move forward?

Architects envision a new public aquarium and waterfront park for NYC

As the number of high-end residential buildings on New York City's waterfront increases, so does the need for retaining accessible public spaces in the city. In response to this, architects and designers worldwide were called upon to send their ideas for a public aquarium complex for an underused waterfront site.

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