The World’s Most Famous Architects Are Building in Albania. I Had to Find Out Why | Architectural Digest
“I’ll try to focus on this, which is not the easiest thing today,” says Edi Rama, the embattled prime minister of Albania, after a night spent monitoring violent protests in the capital, Tirana. But Rama quickly warms to one of his favorite subjects. “Architecture,” he says, choosing his words… Continue reading
Architect Geoffrey Bawa was a ‘visual lyricist’ | THE WORLD OF INTERIORS
Recently, I found myself immersed in the gallerist Niru Ratnam’s beautifully wrought paean to his aesthetic forebear Geoffrey Bawa, and, perhaps, his own immigrant parents and a specific time and place. Swiftly, in my head at least, I stepped into his hired tuk-tuk, tottering about the end of the… Continue reading
Diller Scofidio + Renfro Reimagines the Humble Metal Shed as an Arts Hub at Rice University | Architectural Record
Last fall, Houston’s Rice University opened the Susan and Fayez Sarofim Hall, a 94,000-square-foot visual and performing arts hub designed by New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R). The new purpose-built structure, the form of which evokes the pre-engineered steel-framed “Butler buildings” that are ubiquitous across South Texas,… Continue reading
Herzog & de Meuron’s Ford Student Center & Dining Commons Opens at Amherst College | Architectural Record
Amherst College recently inaugurated the Ford Student Center & Dining Commons, transforming the lower levels of what had been a 1960s-era science building into a new campus gathering place topped by a mass-timber addition. Designed by Basel-based Herzog & de Meuron with Sasaki Associates as executive architect, the project combines adaptive reuse with… Continue reading
Huge Loan from The Broad to travel to Fondation Louis Vuitton
The Broad museum in Los Angeles will send 164 works to the Fondation Louis Vuitton, in Paris. It will be the most extensive exhibition the institution has ever mounted outside of Los Angeles. The show will run from April 21 through August 30 of next year. The art will… Continue reading
Beyeler Foundation: 120 Million Swiss Francs for a New Dimension
Designed by Peter Zumthor, the extension to the Basel-based institution – entirely funded by private donations totalling 120 million – not only increases its exhibition space by 40 per cent but also doubles the size of its Park, the Foundation’s other star attraction. Source: Beyeler Foundation: 120… Continue reading
Die Form folgt hier der Natur – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Einer der wichtigsten Vertreter der tropischen Moderne: Der Architekt Geoffrey Bawa hat in Sri Lanka eine Bauweise entwickelt, die Klima und Landschaft einbezieht. In Weil am Rhein wird nun eine Werkschau präsentiert. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung… Continue reading
Herzog & de Meuron’s Ford Student Center at Amherst College
Amherst College was founded in 1821 in the picturesque central Massachusetts town of the same name. Today it competes with other pedigreed liberal arts schools for academically or athletically gifted students, especially those whose parents can pay full tuition. That’s been good for architecture, as the colleges commission new… Continue reading
Peter Zumthor completes Fondation Beyeler extension
On the heels of LACMA’s highly-anticipated ribbon cutting in April, Peter Zumthor has completed his first project in Riehen, Switzerland near Basel—his childhood hometown. Source: Peter Zumthor completes Fondation Beyeler extension… Continue reading
Peter Zumthor Builds for the Long Term – German Design Council
With two new art museums in Riehen and Los Angeles, and Wim Wenders’ 3D documentary From Inside Out, in 2026 Peter Zumthor is in the spotlight more than he has been for years. His work demonstrates why materials, craftsmanship, and the sensory experience of a place still matter in… Continue reading
Diller Scofidio + Renfro Turned a Warehouse into New School of Design for MIT – Bloomberg
With its adaptation of a vast storage facility into MIT’s new School of Architecture, the firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro made the building a classroom lesson. Source: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Turned a Warehouse into New School of Design for MIT – Bloomberg… Continue reading
‘If it’s too slick, it looks like a fashion mag’: Peter Zumthor on his £110m rammed concrete gallery | Architecture | The Guardian
It is one of the world’s finest collections, full of Monets, Miros and Picassos. But is the great Swiss architect’s extension for the Beyeler Foundation a worthy addition Source: ‘If it’s too slick, it looks like a fashion mag’: Peter Zumthor on his £110m rammed concrete gallery |… Continue reading