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Preservationists are imploring Russian president Vladimir Putin to take decisive measures to restore Shabolovka Tower, a deteriorating Constructivist masterwork in Moscow.

The New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC) unveiled a revamped set of priorities March 9 for architects working on public facilities and infrastructure. These four new guiding principles—equity, sustainability, resiliency, and healthy living—align with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s environmental and economic policies.

Since the 1990s, the U.S. State Department has been barred from spending public funds on world expo pavilions. The result has been a series of disasters: the U.S. was a no-show at the expo in Hanover, Germany, in 2000; it then built lackluster, overly commercialized pavilions for the 2005 and 2010 expos in Aichi, Japan, and Shanghai, China.

Foster + Partners, Grimshaw Architects, and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) will design a trio of pavilions for Expo 2020 in Dubai. The three firms beat ten competitors in a global competition whose results were announced on March 12.

The newly opened Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery, the latest addition to the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District commercial boom, is a behemoth, occupying all 116,000 square feet of a former Pillsbury flour mill complex.

It’s not news that the architectural profession is demographically skewed. Despite moderate progress over the last decade, women and people of color continue to be underrepresented. However, a report released by the AIA yesterday puts these disparities into numbers.

Fresh off a string of high-profile commissions, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels and his firm, BIG, have been selected to design the 2016 Serpentine Pavilion in London this summer. And, for the first time, four other architects—Kunlé Adeyemi/NLÉ, Barkow Leibinger, Yona Friedman, and Asif Khan—will each create a summer house to accompany it.

Behind the somewhat awkward name of the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) in Shenzhen and Hong Kong—now in its sixth and fifth editions, respectively—lies a correspondingly awkward reality.e

Annabelle Selldorf will now serve as “restoration architect,” while William T. Georgis will design interiors.