Excavation work has now commenced on the FWFOWLE-designed Museum of the Built Environment in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as the prestigious firm approaches the end of the project’s design development stage. With the volume’s heaviest portion at the summit and a level of transparency over its lower floors, FWFOWLE has experimented with the formal concepts of the erosion and chiselling of natural rock. >>>

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill have brought us a plethora of architectural feasts over the years, many of which have been met by mixed reactions from WAN’s readers. From the ‘stilted’ and ‘rigid’ Beijing CBD, to the ‘simply magnificent’ Cathedral of Christ the Light, and of course the ‘iconic’ Burj Khalifa (which was also labelled as ‘way too much’), our users have never held back in relaying their responses to SOM's latest concepts. The firm's most recent offering comes in the form of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) Research Building in New York City; a fritted glass and... >>>