Articles by Paul Keskeys

Lebbeus Woods' architectural drawings are among the most arresting in history.

Renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando (together with American artist Elyn Zimmerman) has been named a winner of the 2016 Isamu Noguchi Award, which is awarded “to individuals who share [museum founder] Noguchi’s spirit of innovation, global consciousness, and East-West exchange.” Tadao Ando, 2004; via Wikipedia Past winners of the award include some prestigious names from…

Architizer’s A+Awards is the world’s premier awards program for architecture and products. Click her e to enter now, and act fast: the final entry deadline is january 29th. “We’re not here to build for other architects, we’re here to build for all of humankind.” Bjarke Ingels’ quote serves to remind everyone in the architectural profession about…

Upon visiting the High Line for the first time in May 2004, the team members of James Corner Field O perations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro entered a lost world, far removed from the New York City they were so accustomed to. A decade later, their transformation of this industrial relic into a stunning elevated park…

One of the standout installations at the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial is, undoubtedly, SP IRIT OF SPACE’s collaboration with OPEN Architecture. This innovative group of moviemakers teamed up with Li Hu’s Beijing-based firm to tell the story of the Garden School in the Chinese capital, and new footage has now been released with compelling commentary on…

The challenge of utilizing stone in a fresh and dynamic way has been something of a hot topic lately . Renzo Piano found ingenious ways to modernize the sandstone of Malta in his Valetta City Gate master plan, and there have been numerous examples recently of cool, contemporary designs harnessing the age-old technique of gabion walling.…

Danish firm Schimdt Hammer Lassen has won an international competition to design a new district in c entral Oslo, Norway, totaling almost one million square feet. According to the architects, Eureka Kvarteret has been conceived as a “unifying urban development icon” notable for its phased construction plan intended to create “fertile ground for the life between…

The greatest challenge facing architects when designing religious spaces pertains to the profundity of program: how do you create an atmosphere befitting such weighty functions as worshiping, professing faith, celebrating new life, or grieving death? One way in which many firms achieve answers to these questions is by harnessing an intangible element that possesses greater…

Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi have been announced joint winners of the 2016 AIA Gold Medal; hailed by the Institute for “built projects as well as literature that set the stage for Postmodernism and nearly every other formal evolution in architecture.” It is a fitting tribute to one of the most influential partnerships in…