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Richard Rogers awarded with Pritzker Prize

Rogers and Piano - Pompidou Centre

Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

British architect Richard Rogers awarded with Pritzker Prize

March 29th 2007 – The British architect Richard Rogers (born in Florence , July 23rd 1933) has been awarded with the Pritzker Architecture Prize, commonly known as the “architectural Nobel”, as the Hyatt Foundation has announced.

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Considered as one of the most important architects of the high tech era, Rogers has projected numerous buildings, such as the Lloyd’s building in London (1979) the Millennium Dome in the same city (1999) or, more recently, the Barajas Airport terminal T4 in Madrid . But his most famous work, in collaboration with Italian architect Renzo Piano (winner of the Pritzker in 1998) is the Pompidou Centre in Paris , a building that attracts critics at that time, but now considered as one of the most important buildings of the second half of the 20 th century.

Richard Rogers joins James Stirling and Norman Foster as the only British architects awarded with the Pritzker Prize -whose winner receives $100,000- since the award was created in 1979.

 

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Richard Rogers awarded with Pritzker Prize