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Carlsberg Architectural Prize
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Carlsberg Architectural Prize (Danish: Carlsberg Arkitekturpris) was an architecture award founded by the Danish New Carlsberg foundation in 1991.[1] It was awarded three times between the years 1992–1998 “To recognize excellence in lasting architectural design”.[2] Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark acted as the patron of the prize. At the time of its foundation in 1991 the prize, being worth $235,000 was the biggest in the field of architecture.[3] The first recipient, Tadao Ando, donated the prize money for the Osaka Prefectural Government, later used to establish the Ando Fund administered by the Osaka Foundation of International Exchange.[4]
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Laureates
- 1992 - Tadao Ando
- 1995 - Juha Leiviskä
- 1998 - Peter Zumthor
References
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