Pritzker prize, architecture’s Nobel, goes to Toyo Ito

The Pritzker jury announced the Pritzker laureate for 2013, the highest award in the profession of architecture. The the thirty-seventh recipient of the Pritzker Prize is Japanese architect Toyo Ito. Called by the Pritzker Jury “creator of timeless buildings,” Ito is the sixth Japanese architect to become a Pritzker Laureate – the first five being … Read more

Martell XO Exclusive Architect Edition by Christian de Portzamparc

Martell XO Exclusive Architect Edition, a special collaboration with a renowned architect, arrived at the second edition. French architect Christian de Portzamparc, the first French architect to receive prestigious Pritzker prize (in 1994), pays tribute to the noble Martell XO cognac.   “I wanted to make the liquid into a work of art and for … Read more

Wang Shu of China – the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate

The annual Pritzker Architecture Prize (founded in 1979) honors a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. The laureates receive a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion. This … Read more