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Best known for the Graz Kunsthaus, which he designed with Sir Peter Cook, Colin Fournier was also a professor of architecture, was involved in the design of the Parc de la Villette, was a member of the avant-garde group Archigram, and planned entire cities. He died in Paris on September 4,...
Author, critic, curator, and editor Peter Buchanan died on August 23, 2023, at the age of 80 following a bout with cancer.
An exhibition at Werkraum Bregenzerwald in the Austrian village of Andelsbuch presents some 40 architectural models from the Atelier Peter Zumthor. Through the models exhibited and the building itself, this show gives a tangible impression of his architectural approach.
As part of its “Built Ecologies: Architecture and Environment” video series, MoMA's Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment presents a short film on the New England Aquarium, designed by Peter Chermayeff and completed in 1969.
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art spoke with British architect Peter Cook at his London studio in January, just before the opening of City Landscapes at the Danish Museum.
A big Peter Cook retrospective is now on display at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark. Peter Cook – City Landscapes opened on January 21, with the famed architect and founding member of Archigram in attendance. Ulf Meyer filed this report and spoke with Cook.
What do architects think about important future issues such as climate change or digitalization? How do they envision a sustainable building culture? What solutions do they have? What framework conditions do they need in order to fulfill their tasks and responsibilities in the best possible...
On March 20, Louis Vuitton opened its transformed Ginza Naminki store in Tokyo, where Jun Aoki has wrapped the building in wavy dichroic glass and Peter Marino has designed the interiors.
The hyperrealistic renderings of Peter Zumthor's design for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) that were recently made public focus on the gallery spaces that sit behind the glass walls of the curving plan.
In the midst of the city's COVID-19 quarantine, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is moving forward with the demolition of four of its buildings to make way for the new building designed by Peter Zumthor.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has revealed that the Los Angeles Public Works Committee has approved the air space vacation that will allow the Peter Zumthor-designed building for the museum's permanent collection to span Wilshire Boulevard.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has released new renderings of Peter Zumthor's design of the new building for the museum's permanent collection; the project gained county approval in early April and aims to open in 2023 — ten years after it was unveiled.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved to certify the final environmental impact report for Peter Zumthor's proposed expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Everything comes together in the bathroom, from the ambition to be a feel-good space for body and soul to the technologization of living. We talked to architect and interior designer Peter Ippolito from Stuttgart about the latest developments in the sophisticated bathroom area.
The Secular Retreat, designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for Living Architecture, has been completed and is available for holidays in South Devon, England.
London's V&A has announced it is acquiring a three-story section of Robin Hood Gardens, the 1972 housing project designed by Alison and Peter Smithson that is being demolished as part of the Blackwell Reach development.
Atelier Peter Zumthor and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) have released udpated renderings of the institution's $600 million expansion.
On the occasion of the Kunsthaus Bregenz's 20th birthday, its architect, Peter Zumthor, was invited to stage an exhibition. But those expecting Dear to Me to be a display celebrating the master architect's work will be disappointed.
On Thursday Swiss architect Peter Zumthor presented his design for the extension to the Renzo Piano-designed Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel. The extension is sited in the adjoining Iselin-Weber Park, which Fondation Beyeler recently acquired.
On Friday evening architect Peter Zumthor spoke with architecture critic Paul Goldberger in front of a packed house at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The event was the 34th iteration of Surface magazine's Design Dialogues series.
Peter Pichler Architecture, in collaboration with Arch. Pavol Mikolajcak, won a competition to design a new mountain hut at 2,000m in the Italian Dolomites in 2015. The new hut contains a restaurant and is located next to the cable station Oberholz in Obereggen with direct connection to the...
Riehen/Basel's Fondation Beyeler has announced that Atelier Peter Zumthor & Partner has been commissioned to design the extension to the successful museum that Renzo Piano Building Workshop completed in 1997.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has released new renderings of Swiss architect Peter Zumthor's design for their $600 million expansion.
In the third and final segment of our three-part survey of the major components of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, here are a seven of the Collateral Events and Special Projects that World-Architects visited in Venice.
In the latest installment in an interview series that explores the philosophical concerns of architects exhibiting at "TIME - SPACE - EXISTENCE," a collateral event at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, Peter Eisenman speaks about architectural education, history, drawing and meaning.
In her new book, The Inspired Lansdcape, landscape architect Susan Cohen explores the creative process of 21 leading international landscape architects. Here we present an excerpt from the book and highlight just a few of the projects found in its pages.
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel has compiled clips from some of its excellent interviews with architects to "share their inspirational thoughts on what it is that makes global architecture work."
The Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, visits Peter Zumthor at his studio in Haldenstein, Switzerland to present an illuminating, one-hour-long biographical video on the Pritzker Prize-winning architect.
Dutch journalist Peter Veenendaal presents archival photos, original construction footage, and interviews on Willem Marinus Dudok's De Bijenkorf department store in Rotterdam in the documentary City of Light.
The IVB Operational Service Building is designed as a simple building that reacts to its environment.
The latest design by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for the $600 million expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art sees a simplification of its form and other changes.
Morphosis Architects, headed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, has been selected in a competition to design a luxury hotel for 7132 Ltd in Vals, Switzerland, home to Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals.
The American Institute of Architects has announced the recipients of its annual Honor Awards: the Gold Medal, the Architecture Firm Award, the Topaz Medallion, the Edward C. Kemper Award, and the Whitney M. Young Jr. Award.
Cellist Isang Enders visits the Peter Zumthor-designed Bruder-Klaus Chapel in Mechernich, Germany, to perform the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1.
In lieu of cantilevering over the adjacent La Brea tar pits, Peter Zumthor's design for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art proposes to span Wilshire Boulevard.