Paul Keskeys
A series of new interior renderings have been released for Zaha Hadid‘s One Thousand Museum co ndominium, the architect’s first residential skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere. The images reveal plush, futuristic residences, each one packed with high-end appliances, designer lighting fixtures and premium finishes. Luxury kitchen products by Dornbracht, Sub-Zero and Gaggenau are complemented by bespoke…
“You cannot bullshit about concrete,” says Kulapat Yantrasast, the renowned Thai architect behind on e of Los Angeles’ most exciting firms, wHY Architecture. With these words, the designer encapsulates the fundamental qualities of concrete, the material of choice for his contemporary home in Venice Beach. Exposed concrete possesses an innate sense of structural honesty and a…
Escobedo Soliz Studio has been announced the winner of MoMA PS1’s 17th annual Young Architects Progr am and will have its project constructed within the museum’s famous courtyard this spring. The young, experimental practice — founded in 2011 by Lazbent Pavel Escobedo and Andres Solíz — specializes in explorations of materials and construction techniques, demographic research…
The futuristic metropolis of Tokyo and its scenic bay have long invited outlandish concepts for dras tic development. For evidence, look no further than the gargantuan Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid. However, a recent proposal from Kohn Pedersen Fox and Leslie E. Robertson Associates takes architectural ambitions for this vast urban center to a whole new level. The…
“My purpose is to deliver thoughtful, original modern architecture that is as accessible as it is be autiful, as humanist as it is disciplined.” Richard Meier’s powerful words could well apply to any of his firm’s carefully detailed designs over the past 50 years, but yesterday he was referring to a project that is, in many…
It’s been a long journey, but Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will finally celebrate th e opening of its shimmering new addition this coming Sunday. An original proposal for the extension by Toyo Ito was thwarted by global economic turbulence and funding problems back in 2009, and New York-based firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro…
As the submission deadline approaches for this year’s A+Awards — the world’s largest awards program for architecture and products — we asked the winners from 2015 about the secrets behind their successes, the exciting new projects on their drawing boards, and their personal architectural inspirations. Up next, it’s architectural movie makers Spirit of Space, a…
the day after Architizer brings the best of architecture and design to NYC with our awards, the pane l at PSFK 2016 will host ceo marc kushner and share important industry insights. The themes that resonate in the A+ winners’ work have implications for anyone involved in the creative process, no matter what they produce. The…
While the architectural world is often preoccupied with awards that serve to adulate prominent indiv iduals within the profession, Architizer’s A+Awards brings it all back to what matters most: fantastic buildings. Focusing on the projects themselves helps architecture firms of all shapes and sizes earn global recognition, no matter where they hail from or what typology…