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Glenn Murcutt, Australia’s most famous architect: MPavilion 2019 news – recipient of 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize: “Quintessentially Australian and ahead of his time, Glenn’s thoughtfulness about people, place making and the environment continues to inspire us all.”
Austrian architect and designer Hans Hollein, a winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize has died. The architect was 80. Hans Hollein has received numerous awards, among them, the Pritzker Architecture Prize; the Reynolds Memorial Award; the Prize of the City of Vienna for Architecture; the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architects news – Renewal by HBRA Architects, Chicago, of The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of SOM in 1963. The building is a Modernist masterpiece.
Historic Willow Tea Rooms building is of the greatest significance for Scotland’s design heritage, the only tea room where celebrated Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh was in control of exterior and interior.
Rafael Moneo Architecture, Spanish Building Projects, Madrid Design Practice, Spain, Images Rafael Moneo, Espana : Architect Contemporary Spanish Architect Studio: Architecture Office Information + News post updated 21 Feb 2020 Rafael Moneo – Latest Building added Novartis HQ, Basel, Switzerland photo : building owner Novartis HQ Basel – added 3 Jun 2011 Rafael Moneo – … Read more
Hoskins Architects news: re-structured to better reflect its growing international business and, at the same time, transitioned to employee-ownership in a move that enshrines a long-held company ethos
ShoP Architects news: key building designs by this New York City architect office, established 1996: NYC design studio led by Sharples Holden Pasquarelli, hence the studio title.
The work of Norway’s most prominent architect is exhibited in 25 built and unbuilt projects selected by himself. Included are the Norwegian Pavilion at the Brussels World fair 1958 and the Norwegian National Museum – Architecture in Oslo, built 2008.
Grafton Architects, Dublin, Ireland – Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Dublin, selected as the 2020 Pritzker Prize Laureates, announced The Hyatt Foundation, known internationally as architecture’s highest honor
Delugan Meissl architects news – flexible housing unit in Austria, which consists of a prefabricated wood structure designed for turnkey implementation at any designated site. Maximum flexibility and spatial quality are the key elements in its concept of development.
Berthold Lubetkin Architect moved to London, England form Paris in 1930. He directed Tecton until 1947. Architectural influences included Auguste Perret and Le Corbusier. He was the RIBA Gold Medal 1982 Winner. The msot famous Lubetkin building is the Penguin Pool at London Zoo, Regent’s Park.
Peter Eisenman Architect – buildings, American Postmodern architecture, New York design studio – Peter Eisenman: Postmodern designs, Wexner Center architect
LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture), architects studio in Australia / Germany: recipient of the European Prize for Architecture 2016 awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
Scottish architect Alan Dunlop shortlisted for Sir John Soane Museum GSA Architecture Drawing Prize: “An incredibly dramatic watercolour. The most dramatic drawing we’ve ever seen in this competition” – Alan also designed the Celtic Crossing / Irish Sea Link from Scotland to Northern Ireland
John McAslan + Partners architecture news – Glasgow’s A-listed Burrell Museum building, Scotland, reopens after controversial refurbishment and redisplay: it houses a unique collection in a beautiful woodland setting
Hawkins\Brown architects, UK – refurbishment of Edinburgh College of Art buildings, Scotland: works to increase the university’s capacity through rationalising and consolidating key facilities, allowing for more flexible studio spaces and workshops.
Peter Stutchbury Australian architect – architecture studio: buildings & designs – designer of the Wall House in Japan for famous fashion designer Issey Miyake: contemporary houses in Australia