Lacaton & Vassal Receives the 2023 Soane Medal
Discover Lacaton & Vassal: Reshaping Architecture with Resourceful Design Approach - Soane Medal Recipient
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Discover Lacaton & Vassal: Reshaping Architecture with Resourceful Design Approach - Soane Medal Recipient
It is the suitably low desk on which the 5ft 2in Victorian architect Augustus Welby Pugin designed the Palace of Westminster.
John Carr (“of York”, as he called himself and is still called) was born in 1723, 300 years ago, and as an architect left spectacular buildings such as the Crescent built in the 1780s in the spa town of Buxton. Its curve was deliberately made as enjoyable from the rear as at the front. Behind it are the vast colonnaded stables, built for 110 horses, and later covered by a huge dome.
The practice, founded in Paris by Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal in 1987, becomes the sixth recipient of the award, bestowed annually by Sir John
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