Richard "Priztker" Rogers

As is probably known by most people that read this page, Richard Rogers has been announced as the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate. This means he joins an elite list of past recipients, receives a medal in a ceremony in London on June 4, and gets $100,000 spending money. More coverage can be found at ArchNewsNow, yesterday and today.



Rogers is a fitting recipient, known for technologically-minded buildings -- the Centre Pompidou (with Renzo Piano), Lloyd's of London, and Channel 4 Headquarters -- and ecologically-minded theories of architecture and urbanism. Rather than pepper this post with images of these or other well-known projects, I thought I'd show images of an unbuilt submission for a 2004/5 competition for the British Antarctic Survey’s Hally VI research station in Antarctica, found here. Enjoy.