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Grade I-listed north wing and gatehouse to be opened up to more visitors

Source: Philippe Ruault Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are the winners of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The decision to give architecture’s biggest prize to the French duo, who founded Lacaton & Vassal in 1987, was announced by Tom Pritzker, chair of sponsor the Hyatt Foundation, this afternoon. Source: Laurent Chalet Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal The pair are best known for their large-scale housing and cultural projects which always focus on reuse and other principles of sustainability. “By prioritising the enrichment of human life through a lens of generosity and...

Saarinen’s building before work began David Chipperfield Architects’ redevelopment of the former US embassy in Grosvenor Square has taken a significant step forward with the appointment of a main contractor. Multiplex has won what is being described as one of the biggest London building jobs to be awarded this year, according to Building Design’s sister magazine Building. It revealed that the firm is now preferred bidder for Qatari Diar’s £400m scheme to turn Eero Saarinen’s former embassy on the west side of Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square into a luxury hotel, having beaten remaining...