Michael Leckie, founder of Vancouver, B.C.-based Leckie Studio, joins DESIGN:ED to discuss the design of Lantern House (a 2025 Record House) and how design can be influenced and informed by geographical context.
Now honored for a ‘radical’ housing complex for seniors, this is the second time that the firm has been awarded the UK’s top architecture prize following its 2013 win for the restoration of Astley Castle.
Shows to note include a survey of maps by Ursula K. Le Guin at London’s Architectural Association and the first U.S. exhibition dedicated to French architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York.
Following the September launch of the Florencia Rodriguez–curated ‘Shift,’ new installations by biennial participants will be unveiled November 7 at a vacant retail space on the Magnificent Mile.
Schjetnan and the Mexico City–based firm are the third recipients of the biennial prize for landscape architecture, following Julie Bargmann and Kongjian Yu.