Diébédo Francis Kéré, architect, educator and social activist, has been selected as the 2022 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, announced Tom Pritzker, Chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the award that is regarded internationally as architecture’s highest honor.
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Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architects, have been named the 2020 laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize …
MOCA presents an outdoor installation by Los Angeles-based artist Larry Bell. Commissioned specifically for the Sculpture Plaza at MOCA Grand Avenue, Bill and Coo at MOCA’s Nest is a signature, space-defining work, at once creating a public art space while also echoing and highlighting the geometric forms that comprise the museum’s Pritzker Prize winning Arata Isozaki-designed building. This installation was generously gifted by MOCA Trustee Carol Appel, who has served on the board for four years, and her husband David Appel.
Ten years after its construction, the Tamedia building in Zurich is still one of the most visionary timber engineering structures in the world. Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban revealed the approach behind the outstanding construction to ubm magazin.
A design “grandmaster” was chosen by the Persian Gulf emirate to create an institution that celebrates its cultural heritage and landscape: the National Museum of Qatar in Doha. For this project, Pritzker prize-winner Jean Nouvel produced an avant-garde building inspired by the desert rose, an ornate formation of crystal clusters with overlapping discs primarily found in dry desert regions. And architect Koichi Takada continued this analogy with nature for the interior design of the gift shop.
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What happens when famous architects are brought together to design a hotel complex? Lake Garda is home to the result: five renowned architectural creators joined forces to create the exclusive Eden Reserve, a haven for design lovers.
The new showpiece unveiled by Swatch is not a watch, but office architecture at its finest. To create the reptilian curves of the new Swatch headquarters in Biel, star architect Shigeru Ban has built one of the world’s largest timber-framed constructions …
The recently opened boutique hotel “ME by Meliá” in Dubai is the only hotel building designed by award-winning architect Zaha Hadid both inside and out. The typical trademarks: breathtaking curves, sharp angles, bold materials and expressive colours …
Sydney’s new architectural icon, the 3XN-designed Quay Quarter Tower, was named World Building of the Year 2022 at the fifteenth annual World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Lisbon. It also won the International High-Rise Award 2022/23…
There is always a buzz of interest when leading design city Shenzhen announces a new project: over 70 architectural firms from all over the world submitted designs for the new Shenzhen Natural History Museum in China. In the end, the 3XN team was awarded the contract for their truly spectacular design …