Articles by Suzanne Stephens

Cepezed

Places Architects Call Home: A firm uses custom prefab techniques to remodel a landmarked complex of three buildings.

August 16, 2015

The Dutch firm Cepezed Architects, founded in 1973, is known for its quick-assembly, on-site construction with factory-made elements. From 1999 until just recently, it occupied a glass and steel building it had designed that demonstrated the firm's commitment to a modernist method of fabrication.

CLS Architetti Studio in Chiesa San Paolo Converso

Places Architects Call Home: Architects' offices demonstrate a sensitivity to the historic setting in which they are located.

Suzanne Stephens

August 16, 2015

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The Milanese firm of CLS Architetti, founded in 1993 by Giovanna Cornelio, Massimiliano Locatelli, and Annamaria Scevola, has carved out a reputation for a modish modernismo style. Its portfolio includes fashion boutiques, offices, showrooms, apartments, and the Lia Rumma Contemporary Art Gallery in Milan (2009).

3XN Offices by 3XN Architects

Copenhagen, Denmark

Suzanne Stephens

August 16, 2015

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To accommodate its staff, the Denmark-based studio reimagines wood buildings once used by the Royal Danish Navy.

Newsmaker: Thomas Heatherwick

A leading designer discusses his thoughts on the creative process.

Suzanne Stephens

August 16, 2015

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Since Thomas Heatherwick conceived his puffy UK pavilion (known as the Seed Cathedral) for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, his London-based firm, Heatherwick Studio, has been on a roll. Its design for a park on Pier 55 on the Hudson River in New York (funded mostly by Barry Diller, the head of IAC/InterActiveCorp) has attracted attention—and stirred controversy.

Suzanne Stephens

June 25, 2015

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Photo courtesy Michael Graves Architecture & Design Shortly before he died on March 12, Michael Graves gave his last artwork to the Sir John Soane Museum in London. A longtime advisor to the fabled house museum’s New York-based fundraising foundation, Graves donated the acrylic-on-paper piece, 5.8 by 8.3 inches, as part of an auction to help the Soane digitize its extensive drawings collection. On June 22, Steven Holl found he was the new owner of the unframed work: His bid of $2,500 is being matched by the Leon Levy Foundation in this intensive effort to electronically archive 18,000 items. Holl

New Parkland Hospital

Raising the Bar: An interplay of volumes that seem to float animates a hospital's immense scale.

Suzanne Stephens

June 16, 2015

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An interplay of volumes that seem to float animates a hospital's immense scale. In designing a new, 2 million-square-foot facility for Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, the architect HDR + Corgan confronted significant functional and formal challenges.

Suzanne Stephens

May 18, 2015

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The Pritzker Architecture Prize is not given posthumously.

McCann New York by Gensler

New York City

Suzanne Stephens

May 16, 2015

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Karllson wanted the new design to reflect McCann's 100-year history yet create a setting that reflects today's work patterns and attitudes.

Collector's Edition: Chateau La Coste

In southern France, a real-estate investor and art patron reimagines a vineyard where architecture and sculpture thrive.

Suzanne Stephens

May 16, 2015

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It's not often that art, architecture, and wine-making come together as a cultural statement. Unless, of course it occurs in France, which prides itself on its own special savoir vivre. Ironically, the person behind this sensual conjunction at Chateau La Coste in Provence, where a winery has been enlivened with works of architecture and sculpture, is an Irishman, Patrick (Paddy) McKillen.