Matt Hickman is senior news/digital editor at Architectural Record. Previously, he served as Senior Editor at The Architect’s Newspaper and has over a decade of experience as a freelance writer and editor specializing in historic preservation, public space, and the intersection of the natural world and built environment. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Matt holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing from The New School.
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.
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.
The Swiss firm was on the job for more than a decade until a riff with the museum over ballooning costs brought the project back to square one in late 2024.
Best known for designing London’s 1990s-era SIS Building and Embankment Place, Farrell’s death follows the recent passing of his former partner, Nicholas Grimshaw.
The $85 million project expands the Treasure Coast institution’s exhibition, education, and event spaces while lifting the museum above a beautiful but flood-prone site.
While the facade of the landmark 1960 building on Grosvenor Square remains familiar, much of the interior has been significantly altered in its conversion to the high-end Chancery Rosewood.
The practice’s ‘Kumma’ concept was selected in a high-profile international competition that brought in 624 proposals—roughly a fifth of them from Finnish firms.