It's one of many creations the ironworker and combat veteran has welded together through his art brand, Metal Health Artwork. "This guy has full movement and expression," said Kost. "I'm going to ...

Florigami in the Garden is an exhibit of museum quality metal sculptures inspired by origami. Throughout the Tulsa Botanic Garden, there are 20 displays of these larger than life sculptures.

Ahead of his largest-ever exhibition in the U.S., the dissident artist reflects on collecting jade and living below ground.

Another example is the Department of Sculpture at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, which features protruding upper levels designed to maximise available floor space. Liu was selected as the 2025 ...

The firm’s early projects laid a blueprint for understanding Liu’s ethos. His Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum, which opened in Chengdu in 2002, sits serenely in a bamboo forest ...

Liu Jiakun, an architect based in his native city of Chengdu, China, has won the 2025 Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor. His career stretches over 40 years, with more than 30 projects ...

Architect Liu Jiakun of the People’s Republic of China was named the 2025 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize—an award regarded internationally as architecture’s highest honor.

A 1993 solo exhibit of the work of a former classmate, Tang Hua, at the Shanghai Art Museum reignited his passion for architecture as a form of self-expression. Liu founded his firm, Jiakun ...

Born in 1956, three years before China’s (and arguably the world’s) most devastating famine, Liu’s childhood revolved around the Chengdu hospital where his mother worked. He demonstrated an early ...