NEWS
KRJDA Office Photo Album is online
04.04.2013
The KRJDA Office Photo Album from the years 1987-2012 is now available for viewing and purchase through Viovio. To view and purchase the album it is necessary to register and create an account. Click here to access link.
RITZ-CARLTON MILLENIA SINGAPORE is rated in Top 5 for World's Best: City Hotels in Asia 2012 by Travel+Leisure
07.18.2012
"Of the numerous five-star hotels lining the marina frontage, the Ritz-Carlton is the most thoroughly impressive. The dramatic tone is set as soon as you enter
the light-filled atrium foyer, capped by a massive, swirling-yet-geometric Frank Stella mobile, and continues with smiling, attentive........."
CONVENTION CENTRE DUBLIN wins Best Conference Events Venue and Best Event Venue at Event Industry Awards 2012
06.22.2012
"Nick Waight, CEO of The CCD, said 'I am incredibly proud of the recognition that our peers, within the Irish events and hospitality industry, gave The CCD last night. To have won 'Best Conference Events Venue' and 'Best Event Venue' was fantastic, but the award I am most proud of is 'Best....."
ARCHITECTURE WEEK reviews Lafayette Tower 801 17th Street
06.20.2012
"Designed by Kevin Roche, the building at 801 17th Street was the first in Washington, D.C. certified as LEED Platinum for Core and Shell, and in May, 2009, one of only 63 buildings worldwide with that status, among 731 total LEED Platinum certified projects, and 11,961 LEED certified projects ..."
KEVIN ROCHE: ARCHITECTURE AS ENVIRONMENT Opens at National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
06.14.2012 - 12.02.2012
"This exhibition explores how the founding design partner at Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates (KRJDA) has approached and solved design challenges for the nation's leading corporations and institutions from IBM, Union Carbide, and Merck to the United Nations, the Ford Foundation,...."
HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY Kevin Roche
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06.14.2012
"Kevin Roche, the Irish-born, Pritzker prize-winning architect, celebrates his 90th birthday on 14 June.Even at 90, Kevin Roche is still working on new projects - just as Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius did and Oscar Niemeyer, the architect of Brasilia, is still doing at the age of 104. In........”
BOUYGUES HEAD OFFICE PARIS is featured in The Scandinavian Architecture Blog
05.14.2012
“This seven-story headquarters building houses the chairman and senior executives of the Bouygues SA group. The site, located on the Avenue Hoche in Paris, is two blocks from the Arc de Triomphe. Avenue Hoche is considered one of the finest prime areas in central Paris. It is an avenue of l.......”
CONVENTION CENTRE DUBLIN is First Irish Venue to Win Access Excellence Award
04.05.2012
“We were delighted to be recognized as the first Irish venue to win an award for Access Excellence,' said Nick Waight, CEO, The Convention Centre Dublin. 'As we developed the venue, we had the opportunity to incorporate equipment and features to ensure that The CCD is accessible by all.......”
IRISH ECHO: "Kevin Roche Puts his Stamp on Architecture"
03.14.2012
“Kevin Roche is not resting on his laurels. That much was evident at a panel discussion on his work in January at the Museum of the City of New York. The institution at 103rd Street and 5th Avenue was at the time exhibiting “Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment,” which originated at.....”
CONVENTION CENTRE DUBLIN Wins two awards
03.05.2012
"The Convention Centre Dublin (The CCD) won two Gold awards at last night’s Meetings and Incentive Travel Industry Awards 2012. It scooped Gold for “Best Overseas Conference Centre” and Gold for “Access Excellence”. The CCD CEO Nick Waight accepted the prestigious awards during....”
NEW YORK TIMES reviews the new American Painting Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art[top of page]
01.15.2012
"How do the updated galleries look? Sensational, which is news, because the old ones didn't. They had a warehouse atmosphere, with pictures stacked up on the walls, sculpture plunked down wherever and narrative logic disrupted because the collection was split between two floors. Now all the ..."
WALL STREET JOURNAL reviews the new American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
01.12.2012
"In case anyone has forgotten, in the rash of overwrought, over-the-top museum additions following but never equaling Frank Gehry's spectacularly successful Bilbao Guggenheim, the art and architecture of museums should have more than an adversarial relationship in which a game of ............"
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD features Kevin Roche exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York
01.10.2012
"He is frequently overshadowed by his former employer, Modernist giant Eero Saarinen, but at the Museum of the City of New York in Manhattan, a new exhibition attempts to make a case that Kevin Roche is, in the words of chief curator Sarah Henry,“the quintessential architect of the .................."
URBAN DESIGN REVIEW explores Architecture as Environment exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York
12.05.2011
"Few architects have sustained the creative energy required to successfully practice architecture for sixty years while so completely exploring a wide range of ideas about the purpose, use, construction and appearance of their projects. Despite examples of his work all around the United States.."
KEVIN ROCHE: Architecture as Environment at the Museum of the City of New York[top of page]
09.27.2011 - 02.05.2012
"Drawing on material originally presented at the Yale School of Architecture, the exhibition has been expanded to highlight Roche's contributions to the fabric of New York City, including the Ford Foundation Headquarters and more than four decades of master planning, design, .......................... "
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS publishes Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen's book Kevin Roche: Architecture as Environment
03.21.2011
"Pritzker Prize-winner Kevin Roche is one of the most critically acclaimed architects of the postwar era, distinguished for the pioneering urban structures he designed in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Oakland Museum of California and the Ford Foundation Headquarters in New York....... "