Pritzker-Prize

Peter Zumthor’s June 2026 extension scheme for the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen is the first time another Pritzker laureate has been asked to expand a Renzo Piano museum. The handoff is unusually clean: Renzo Piano won the Pritzker in 1998, the year after his Beyeler building opened; Peter Zumthor won it in 2009; and the two now share the same six-hectare park on the Swiss-German border. The Fondation Beyeler is one of the small set of post-war private museums whose architecture is as legible as its collection, and the 2026 commission turns it into a two-author site without removing anything that already exists. ...

Taschen published Building Stories on 22 April 2026, a single-volume monograph of 26 Francis Kéré projects assembled by Diébédo Francis Kéré himself, and the book is the cleanest occasion in twenty-five years to read the full arc of Francis Kéré projects from the Gando Primary School clay-brick prototype that opened in 2001 to the Las Vegas Museum of Art baobab the studio is co-designing with SOM for a 2029 opening. Kéré won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004 for a single school in a Burkinabè village of roughly 3,000 people; he won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2022 as the first African and first Black laureate in the prize’s forty-three-year history; and he is now drawing a museum into the Red Rock Mountains. The book is the spine. The buildings are the vertebrae. ...