Paul Keskeys
For the last 50 years, designs for company headquarters have been dominated by thick slices of moder nism in steel and glass, from SOM’s iconic Lever House in Manhattan to Kohn Pedersen Fox’s glittering Samsung HQ in Seoul. The brief for such projects remains the same today — to formulate a structure that can come to…
Few architects have had as great an influence on the design of our built environment over the last h alf a century than Le Corbusier, so it is unsurprising that the modernist’s work is still being celebrated today, 50 years on from his death. This new interactive map from infographic magicians Timescape provides a comprehensive overview…
We recently covered the phenomenon of star architects disowning their projects, but this year’s bigg est story in the profession is about defending a design to the death. London-based firm Zaha Hadid Architects was hit with an almighty blow last month when their competition-winning proposal for the Tokyo National Stadium — the subject of two years…
Brooklyn-based studio Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu, otherwise known as SO – IL, is coming home. T hey have designed a new hybrid space for exhibiting and creating art in a nearby neighborhood, blending their idiosyncratic style with the urban fabric of New York City’s most populous borough. The Artes Amant Gallery will house “the production,…
When William Morris completed the Red House in 19th-century London, he may not have realized the inf luence it would have on Arts and Crafts architecture across Britain, let all alone the rest of the world. However, the ideals associated with that movement have traversed the globe in the succeeding decades, and this is no more…
We’ve gotten used to lofty infinity pools and some pretty astonishing cantilevered baths, but aqueou s ideas are being taken to a whole new level in London courtesy of Arup Associates. In collaboration with HAL Architects, the global design and engineering firm has taken on one of its most challenging structural challenges yet: the Sky Pool,…
With cities growing as fast as lightning in the current climate, it seems we are forever negotiating scaffolding and construction hoardings on every sidewalk. Typically, these utilitarian structures are not pretty: they are designed to function as necessary, formed by tunnels of plywood, canopies of plastic sheets and netting, and a spider’s web of steel…
French architects have an abundance of colorful characters throughout their country’s history to tak e inspiration from, from Charles Garnier and Gustave Eiffel to Philippe Starck and Jean Nouvel. Indeed, those practicing in Gallic lands are spoiled for choice when discussing the impact on contemporary architecture from Calais to Cannes, and Strasbourg-based studio Dominique Coulon and…
Architecture can generally be differentiated from every other design discipline as a result of one, particularly significant characteristic: scale. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe once exclaimed that furniture design could be even more challenging than conceiving a skyscraper, given the attention to detail necessary on smaller objects. But what if solutions devised at the human…