In a large evening benefit dinner at IIT College of Architecture's S. R. Crown Hall in Chicago last night, Álvaro Siza and Herzog & de Meuron were announced as the winners of the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP).
Established by IIT architecture dean Wiel Arets and launched earlier this year with Phyllis Lambert and Dirk Denison, the MCHAP honors what is considered the best built works in the Americas.
— bustler.net
Siza received the MCHAP2000-2008 award for the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
For the MCHAP2009-2013 award, Herzog & de Meuron won for their 1111 Lincoln Road project in Miami Beach, Florida.
The MCHAP award also includes the MCHAP Chair at IIT College of Architecture for the following academic year, and a US$50,000 prize to support research and publication in contribution to "Rethinking Metropolis", the college's ongoing theme envisioned by Dean Arets.
Read more about the winning projects on Bustler.
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That Siza building is so damn beautiful.
The 1111 Lincoln Road project is pretty striking also.
Great these unknown american architects will finally be recognized
Two extraordinary projects. Kinda saw this coming with Frampton as head of jury. That guy loves Siza. But I still thought Seattle would have won...seems like THE American project of the last decade, at least for students in the USA.
^IIT has an OMA building, probably a reason to be skeptical about giving OMA an award...
Siza is one of the few mature architects who still gets better with age.
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