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Last year the Pritzker Prize, the closest thing architecture has to an Oscar, went to the architectural equivalent of an indie star: Paul Mendes da Rochas, a Brazilian architect who was greatly gifted but not exactly a household name. This year it goes to the architectural equivalent of Paul Newman. At the age of 73, Richard Rogers is so well known, with so many major projects under his belt, that a lot of people will be surprised to hear he didn't have the bronze medallion already. But if it's hard not to think of him as a safe...
...Rogers trademark. In that, he was an original, but also a great synthesizer. He drew inspiration from the engineering-as-architecture of London's 19th-century Crystal Palace, a place as stripped down and functional as a suspension bridge, but also from the Expressionism of Erich Mendelsohn, the German architect who brought a sensual component to Modernism. What Rogers arrived at was a way to make high tech not just lucid but surprising. Modernism expelled applied ornament. But by making an explosive aesthetic use of the raw, unadorned elements of a building, Rogers showed that, all by itself, the elemental...
...More, Jeremy Northam's gentle humanist. When the two measured advisers talk their hawkish young King away from the brink of a costly war with France, they're savvy enough to let the boss take credit for the newfangled peace-treaty idea. "Your majesty would be known as an architect of a new and modern world," Wolsey says, managing up expertly...
...quiet collector of these cool conceptualists, and Puppy's original benefactor, is John Kaldor. With his relaxed slate-blue suit and glasses, Kaldor appears more like a gentleman academic or architect. Yet in the dozen years since Puppy, the former Sydney textile magnate has fashioned for himself one of the more influential roles in contemporary art-and one with more bite than bark. As founder of Kaldor Art Projects and reigning commissioner for Australia's representation at the Venice Biennale, Kaldor is part impresario, part philanthropist. "John's role is more precisely defined as someone who is the visionary," explains...
...first hotel in Sri Lanka to construct a wetland system with lakes, reed beds and imported forest. Accommodation is in vast villas - the bathroom alone, which boasted its own lily pond, was about the size of my apartment. Designed by Sunela Jayawardene, Sri Lanka's leading environmental architect, the villas combine wood, granite, thatch and concrete in a haven of elegant simplicity: a haven, in fact, for man and beast...