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ArchDaily’s Readers Select Who Should Win the 2026 Pritzker Prize

Reyyan Dogan — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:30:00 +0000

As the architecture community looks ahead to the announcement of the 2026 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, anticipation once again gathers around what is widely regarded as the profession's highest honor. Founded in 1979 by Jay Pritzker and administered by the Hyatt Foundation, the prize recognizes a living architect whose body of work demonstrates a consistent and significant contribution to humanity and the built environment.

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Announces 2024 MCHAP Emerging and Outstanding Projects

Maria-Cristina Florian — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 06:30:00 +0000

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) at the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology has announced the shortlist of 53 Outstanding projects. The 5th cycle of awards celebrates built works completed in North, Central, and South America in 2022 and 2023, striving to bring visibility to those projects that best address the demands of our time and work towards building resilient communities.

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects Reveals Detroit Music Hall Expansion

Nour Fakharany — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 05:30:00 +0000

The Detroit Music Hall has just announced an expansion project designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. As a cherished cultural institution in the heart of Detroit’s vibrant performing arts community, the project aims to become a central and accessible hub for music programming, production, and education. Ushering a new era of cultural enrichment, the project is focused on revitalizing downtown Detroit and the surrounding area.

The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago to Break Ground in 2021

Eric Baldwin — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 08:30:00 +0000

After 4 years of delay, the groundbreaking of the Obama Presidential Center could happen in August 2021, and preliminary work could start as of April, according to the Chicago Tribune. In fact, former President Barack Obama confirmed yesterday on his Facebook account that "the Obama Presidential Center will break ground in 2021" and construction will most likely take about four years.

ArchDaily Editors Select 20 (More) Amazing 21st Century Museums

AD Editorial Team — Mon, 18 May 2015 09:00:24 +0000

In honor of International Museum Day we’ve collected twenty compelling museum projects. In this round up you’ll find a truly global selection; from Wang Shu's Ningbo Historic Museum in China and Tod Williams + Billie Tsien's Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia to Monoblock's Contemporary Art Museum in Buenos Aires, see all of our editors’ favorites after the break!

Tod Williams Devastated Over Folk Art Museum's Fate

Karissa Rosenfield — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Tod Williams has broke his silence in his first interview since the Museum of Modern Art announced their decision to raze the former Folk Art Museum, expressing devastation that the building will be “reduced to a memory.”

Dear MoMA, Couldn't the Nouvel Tower Save the American Folk Art Museum?

Rory Stott — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 08:00:00 +0000

In this Metropolis Magazine post on MoMA's planned demolition of the American Folk Art Museum, Karrie Jacobs asks a strangely unasked question: How has the Nouvel Tower - in its day the most controversial of MoMA's expansion plans - not been brought into the debate? The Jean Nouvel-designed tower was predicated up a circulation plan that, by necessity, ignored the (then occupied) Folk Art Museum entirely. Why is this plan no longer possible? Read the fascinating argument here.

Win a Copy of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's Newly Released "Wunderkammer"

Karissa Rosenfield — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks to our friends at Yale University Press, one of our readers has the opportunity to win a copy of the newly released book Wunderkammer by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects Design Ice Rink for NYC

Katherine Allen — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

After sitting derelict for years, the Kate Wollman Memorial Rink in Brooklyn's Prospect Park is poised for something of a rebirth. Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's plans for a sports complex, known as Lakeside, is expected to restore the rink's role as the park's chief attraction. Michael Kimmelman recently stopped by the site to explore the project as it nears completion - click here to read his thoughts on what he calls one of the last "parting gifts of the Bloomberg era to the city."

AIA 2013: Conscious Capitalism and the Future of Business

Karissa Rosenfield — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Thousands have flocked to the Mile High City in Colorado to attend the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2013 National Convention. The three-day event was enthusiastically kickstarted this morning by AIA president Mickey Jacobs who honored Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects with the 2013 Architecture Firm Award; highlighted this year's theme of leadership; and featured words of advice from TOMS founder and chief shoe giver, Blake Mycoskie.

Designers React to Folk Art Museum's Imminent Demolition

Vanessa Quirk — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

As we reported yesterday, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced their plans to demolish the 12-year old American Folk Art Museum, designed by Tod Williams & Bille Tsien. The MoMA, which has planned a new expansion on either side of Williams & Tsien’s building, claims that the building will prevent the floors from lining up and thus must be demolished. Moreover, officials claim that the building's opaque facade isn’t in keeping with the MOMA’s glass aesthetic.

After 12 Years, Tod Williams & Billie Tsien's NYC Gem To Be Demolished

Vanessa Quirk — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

“There are of course the personal feelings — your buildings are like your children, and this is a particular, for us, beloved small child. But there is also the feeling that it’s a kind of loss for architecture, because it’s a special building, a kind of small building that’s crafted, that’s particular and thoughtful at a time when so many buildings are about bigness.” - Billie Tsien, quoted in The New York Times

Venice Biennale 2012: Wunderkammer / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects

Nico Saieh — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:28:47 +0000

At the gardens of the Arsenale designed by Piet Oudolf, a small pavilion, the Casa Scaffali, encloses a fantastic world of smells, textures and artifacts, a Wunderkammer (wonder-room) curated by NY-based Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.

Museum Closure Exposes Financial Risk of Signature Architecture

Samuel Jacobson — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:00:01 +0000

NEW YORK–Although the American Folk Art Museum has avoided dissolution thanks to a cash infusion from trustees and the Ford Foundation, the institution’s ongoing financial troubles raise difficult questions about the relationship between signature architecture and cultural capital.

The Barnes Foundation on the Parkway / Tod Williams + Billie Tsien

Sofia Balters — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:30:10 +0000

The last chance to see the Barnes Foundation’s artwork in its original setting has passed. It is now being prepared for the move to its new home in downtown Philadelphia. Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien designed the new building for the Barnes Foundation with respect for its strong history and as a reflective addition of the foundation’s mission. The building is scheduled for completion in late 2011. More after the break.

American Folk Art Museum / Tod Williams + Billie Tsien

Adelyn Perez — Sun, 30 May 2010 13:00:45 +0000

“You do not have to look at it for long before you realize that this is as sensual a building as New York has seen in a very long time,” stated Pulitzer-prize winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger of the American Folk Art Museum. Completed by architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien in 2001 the museum is 40 feet wide and 100 feet long and is surrounded by the Museum of Modern Art on three sides. It was the first new museum built in New York in over three decades.

Logan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, University of Chicago / Tod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates

David Basulto — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:00:39 +0000

Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects, a renowned practice with expertise in public/cultural buildings, just unveiled the details for the new Reva and David Logan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Chicago.