Author Archives: Raymund Ryan

At this mixed-use facility for cats and humans in Buffalo, NY, Davidson Rafailidis show their commitment to architecture that is incremental and progressive

Davidson Rafailidis’s latest house in Buffalo is a cocooned living area that spills out into a workshop, creating a slow and open-ended architecture

From a humble first commission to build a piggery for his father in County Cork, the Irish-born American architect went on to work with Eero Saarinen and – with his partner John Dinkeloo – build his own monumental works across the States, culminating in the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1982

Moira Gemmill shortlist: the delicate canopy oversailing the galleries and workshops of SO-IL’s Manetti Shrem Museum of Art fosters intimacy and welcome

Brutalism is certainly having a moment

In a United States dominated by foreign architects clustered around NYC and LA, Raymund Ryan finds a new American architecture in unexpected places

A stone’s throw from the 2006 Torre Cube, the Cube II responds to a neighbourhood that has since radically changed

Only the second Irish practice ever to take the coveted award, O’Donnell + Tuomey’s often surprising architectural moves are marked by a deep understanding of site, bravery and passion

Drawing a comparison between the architecture of prisons and museums, a study by Joe Day explores the duality of concealment and display in exhibition and incarceration

David Chipperfieldʼs first project in Latin America is a fortified castle for modern art set in the dislocating blare of Mexico City