Tuesday 30 March 2010 Designers of the Glass Pavilion, Toledo Museum of Art, have won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize
The new Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, lead architects of SANAA Ltd., and completed in 2006, has won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The international prize, which is awarded to a living architect for significant achievement, was established by the Pritzker family of Chicago through their Hyatt Foundation in 1979. Often referred to as “architecture’s Nobel” and “the profession’s highest honor,” it is granted annually.
The Art of Glass: Toledo Museum of Art was published to accompany the inauguration of the new Glass Pavilion, which houses the Museum's renowned collection of glass and state-of-the-art glass-working studios, reflecting the city’s history when it was a major centre of glass production. The Pavilion offers visitors the matchless experience of being able to see a broad range of historic glass next to studios where glass artists are creating new works. Featuring over 100 ancient, Islamic, European, American and contemporary glass masterpieces, with texts by leading writers, this book draws on the superb quality of the collections at Toledo. The Museum has consciously collected the best examples of the glassmaker’s art across all ages, and is today the Museum internationally renowned for the quality and scope of its glass collection.
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