Architect Farshid Moussavi on designing the Ismaili Center Houston – Monocle
The British artichect reflects on being tasked with planning the world’s seventh Ismaili Centre, and maintaining Islamic architectural identity in an American context. Source: Architect Farshid Moussavi on designing the Ismaili Center Houston – Monocle… Continue reading
Iwan Baan: Rome – Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses
In 2022, the American Academy in Rome organized From Las Vegas to Rome, an exhibition that revisited the relationship between Rome and Las Vegas through seventy photographs by Iwan Baan. Both cities carry heavily constructed images, and with them, polar assumptions: Las Vegas is surreal, thin, dishonest, new;… Continue reading
20 Years and $720 Million Later, Michael Govan Takes Us Inside the New LACMA Galleries
The museum director’s latest feat may be the most consequential of his career. He talked us through how it came to be. Source: 20 Years and $720 Million Later, Michael Govan Takes Us Inside the New LACMA Galleries… Continue reading
Dispatches from Egypt: Heneghan Peng on the Grand Egyptian Museum – Architecture Today
Róisín Heneghan and Shih-Fu Peng won the international competition for The Grand Egyptian Museum in 2003 against 1557 entries, with a practice of four. They turned to Snøhetta’s Craig Dykers and Nick Schumann for advice, and describe how the practice has changed since. Source: Dispatches from Egypt:… Continue reading
Iwan Baan: Rome – Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses – SCI-Arc
SCI-Arc Gallery March 20, 2026 – April 26, 2026 Opening reception and Artist Talk: March 20 at 6pm In 2022, the American Academy in Rome organized From Las Vegas to Rome, an exhibition that revisited the relationship between Rome and Las Vegas through seventy photographs by Iwan Baan. Continue reading
Smiljan Radić Clarke Awarded 2026 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Chile’s Smiljan Radić Clarke has been named the 2026 recipient of the heralded Pritzker Architecture Prize for his “optimistic and joyful” modern works. While the 60-year-old’s most recognized structure is likely the 2014 Serpentine Pavilion in London, his works span cultural institutions, civic spaces, commercial residences, and more. Source:… Continue reading
Chilean Architect Smiljan Radic Wins Pritzker Prize – The New York Times
“Through a body of work positioned at the crossroads of uncertainty, material experimentation and cultural memory, Smiljan Radic favors fragility over any unwarranted claim to certainty,” the jury’s citation said. “His buildings appear temporary, unstable or deliberately unfinished — almost on the point of disappearance — yet they… Continue reading
2026 Pritzker Prize goes to Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke : NPR
Smiljan Radić Clarke was named the newest Pritzker Prize-winner — an award often called the Nobel of architecture — Thursday morning. Source: 2026 Pritzker Prize goes to Chilean architect Smiljan Radić Clarke : NPR… Continue reading
Fenix: World’s Greatest Places 2026
After being carpet-bombed in World War II, Rotterdam rebuilt itself as a proving ground for ambitious, often unconventional architecture—some of it grappling with contemporary social issues. Its newest showstopper, Fenix, takes on one of the most charged of all: migration. Source: Fenix: World’s Greatest Places 2026… Continue reading
Take a look inside the world’s first women-only mosque
In the fall of 2025, the Al-Mujadilah Center and Mosque for Women opened its doors in Doha, Qatar. It is the first known mosque specifically designed for women anywhere in the world and was inspired by a figure in the Quran, Surat Al-Mujadilah, which means “She Who Discourses.” Source:… Continue reading
Interview: New York-Amsterdam studio SO–IL on pushing against design conventions
Co-founders Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg discuss their dynamic international approach, rethinking systems of space and moving beyond cookie-cutter housing International in makeup and output, Brooklyn-based practice SO–IL (Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu) is unafraid to question convention and experiment. Founded in 2008 by Florian Idenburg… Continue reading
Los Angeles museums on the cusp of new golden age – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
Could the city’s cultural cachet soon match that of New York? A slew of multi-million-dollar projects, from dramatic new museums to major renovations, suggest that it could Source: Los Angeles museums on the cusp of new golden age – The Art Newspaper – International art news and… Continue reading