New Zealand–based Bossley Architects, led by founder Pete Bossley, offers a range of architectural and interior design services. The award-winning firm is best known for its work in galleries, museum, residential, and retail spaces, but Bossley’s public projects showcase his practical approach to making architecture for the greater good of society. Bossley believes, at least …
Sibling rivalry is not an option for Austrian architects Karim and Rames Najjar. The brothers founded their architectural firm in Vienna in 1999, and have completed “a range of designs from naval architecture to commercial buildings, to villas and their beloved ‘research’ projects,” according to the firm’s profile. Their style can be as varied as …
Southwestern American architect Antoine Predock designs buildings that weave past with present and respond to their surroundings. His desert houses helped him to achieve international acclaim, and he credits those early projects, beginning in the late 1960s, with teaching him how to respond to place—there, in the desert, an architect must consider sun, rainfall, and …
Boundaries—in design and in life—do not seem to be a concern of Zaha Hadid. The Baghdad-born British architect has been breaking them since before she stepped onto the international architecture scene, and continues to do so with each new idea, from her dynamic sketch-paintings and earliest built works to her upcoming Miami skyscraper. She is …
Richard Meier has been designing modern buildings—with generous use of glass walls and white—since the 1960s. His firm, Richard Meier & Partners Architects, is constantly in the press, featured in museum exhibitions, honored with a range of awards, and it has built projects around the world. One of his first residential projects—and some claim …
When a city wants a landmark building that achieves both critical and popular success—which often do not go hand in hand—it might turn to Frank Gehry. He has designed internationally recognized structures around the world, from Bilbao, Spain, to Weil-am-Rhein, Germany, to Los Angeles, California, to New York; and his products range from museum-worthy, innovate …
United Network Studio, or UNStudio as the Dutch architecture firm is more commonly known, experiments with design on a variety of scales, from conceptualizing how to renovate and revitalize an entire city area to determining the best chairs for different purposes. In addition, the firm has domestic, commercial, institutional, and interior design built projects in …
Korean firm Samoo Architects and Engineers was ranked ninth in the world this year in BD World Architecture’s Top 100 architectural practices. Many of Samoo’s designs have a touch of what fifty years ago would have been deemed futuristic—and apparently that aesthetic of upwardly curving lines, twisting forms, and sleek surfaces did indeed represent the …