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Article: Richard Rogers wins Pritzker.(FRONT PAGE)(Brief article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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British architect Richard Rogers has won this year's $100,000 Pritzker Prize, given by the Hyatt Foundation. Rogers first gained acclaim for the Pompidou Center (1977) in Paris, which he co-designed with then partner Renzo Piano (who won the Pritzker in 1998). As with the Pompidou, many of Rogers's designs emphasize a building's structural components. The Lloyd's of London headquarters (1986) has elevators and escalators on the exterior, and the Millennium Dome (1999) in Greenwich appears to be suspended from steel supports and cables. More recent projects include the National Assembly for Wales, which features a cantilevered undulating roof sheltering a naturally ...
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