French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal of Lacaton & Vassal have been awarded the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize, widely considered one of the industry s highest honors. Transformation of G, H, I Buildings, Grand Parc, 530 Units, Social Housing (with Frédéric Druot and.
France s Jean-Philippe Vassal and Anne Lacaton win Pritzker Architecture Prize 2021
Dubbed the Nobel Prize of architecture, the Pritzker Prize recognizes the work of exceptional architects. Here are the past 10 winners.
2021: Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
The Pritzker Prize was awarded to French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, renowned for their affordable, eco-friendly spaces. The modernist hopes and dreams to improve the lives of many are reinvigorated through their work that responds to the climatic and ecological emergencies of our time, as well as social urgencies, particularly in the realm of urban housing, said the jury.
2020: Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara
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Pyramid Stage designer Bill Harkin passes away
Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Bill Harkin (Photo: from the Pyramid Stage Glastonbury Festival website)
UK - Bill Harkin, designer of Glastonbury Festival’s iconic Pyramid Stage, passed away on Sunday 7th March. He was 83. Harkin grew up in Liverpool, attending secondary school in Sefton Park before embarking on painting and 3D construction studies, “with the occasional lunch time Beatles gig for 1 shilling at the Cavern.” Soon, Harkin was showing his work at The Liverpool Academy’s shows at the Walker Art Gallery as well as in art and architecture exhibitions for Liverpool University and The John Moores Painting Prize. “Then, somewhat briefly, I started a course in architecture,” he revealed in memoirs on the Pyramid Stage Glastonbury Festival website. “The tedium of course work was more than I could take, I was much more excited by the theatre and the new fabric structures of Frei Otto in Stuffgart.”
Even before the pandemic hit, many people were proactively opting out of the busy city lifestyle in exchange for a calmer, quieter, more community-focussed existence in the suburbs.
In our increasingly concrete world, the human species - prehistorically designed to exist like other mammals, in wide open spaces we could territorialise, hunt and raise young - has started to crave a connection with our fundamental roots. There’s a reason cities have been designed with green spaces in mind for centuries: it’s a basic human requirement to be able to get outside,
This has, of course, been accelerated in the midst of a pandemic that has forced many global populations to stare at the same four walls for the best part of a year. Strict lockdown restrictions limited outdoor access to once a day, in some instances meaning people had to choose between the UV lighting of the great outdoors or the UV lighting of supermarket aisles.