Paul Keskeys
More than perhaps any other city in Canada, Toronto has called upon the stars of the architectural w orld to solidify its status as a center of cultural and artistic significance in North America. Ever since Will Alsop’s outlandish OCAD Sharp Center for Design was completed just over a decade ago, the big names have been…
A short while ago, we published an in-depth feature on designs for the dead covering every typology from Thomas Willson’s towering, pyramidal mausoleum to Katrina Spade’s highly organic alternative. It appears that architects have come a long way since Willson’s outlandish monument to mortality; just as Spade illustrated that a contemporary approach to the handling…
The English countryside is known for its rolling hills, green fields and luscious gardens, but Briti sh designer Thomas Heatherwick’s studio is located in the most urban of settings, near King’s Cross Station in the heart of London. Despite this, it appears that the multidisciplinary artist is always in touch with the natural context surrounding this…
Don your pads, grab your bat, and prepare your wicket … it is season for cricket, and it appears the sport is occupying the collective minds of entire nations at present. In England and Australia, all eyes are on the current Ashes series, while in Sri Lanka, the country’s Board of Investment is reminiscing about…
With 90+ categories and 300+ jurors, the Architizer A+Awards is the world’s definitive archite ctural awards program. Following the culmination of the 2015 program in May, we are pleased to showcase at some of the 100+ winners. In partnership with Cadillac, this series of profiles offers an exclusive look at several firms that push the boundaries…
After revealing some fairly fantastical renderings of a contemporary stone pyramid for Jerusalem las t week, one might be forgiven for thinking that Daniel Libeskind lives in the realm of pure architectural fantasy. However, the Polish-American architect has recently returned to reality in Brazil, completing his first project in South America for real estate giants JSHF.…
Neat stacks of freshly pressed paper. Glittering sugar cubes. A sculptor’s pristine plaster casts. W hatever metaphor you might bestow upon the brilliant white forms of Kichi Architectural Design, there is no denying their meticulous, minimalist appeal. This young firm has adopted an aesthetic very much in keeping with the modernist ideals of many of contemporary…
“There’s so many things I love about architecture.” Cory Taylor, architect at Belzberg Architects, f eels pretty lucky. The first architect to become a partner with Hagy Belzberg, founder of Belzberg Architects, Taylor has found a career that he is passionate about and a job in which he can exert a positive influence on the world around him at an organization that is generating fresh new approaches to design each day. Life in this profession is anything but predictable — more than ever these days for those working at the Santa Monica, Calif.-based studio.
Around 8,700 miles (14,000 kilometers) separates Chicago from Ho Chi Minh City, but certain architec tural typologies are known to transcend borders and travel extraordinary distances. Some 42 years since Skidmore Owings and Merrill oversaw the completion of the iconic Willis Tower in the Windy City, a new skyscraper with a very similar language is now…