If you think that Richard Rogers winning the 2007 Pritzker Prize is akin to his receiving a lifetime achievement award, the 73-year-old architect contends that his finest work is yet to come. “One’s best building, one hopes, will be the next building. The next mountain range is very exciting,” he told the U.K.’s Independent on March 30. And though the Pritzker was the only remaining architecture prize he hadn’t already won after a much lauded career, Rogers modestly claims that he wasn’t expecting it. “It was a wonderful surprise,” he told the Financial Times on March 29.
Santiago Calatrava unveiled his final design for the 2,000-foot-tall Chicago Spire at two public hearings earlier this week. Some people wonder, though, how Shelbourne Development will afford the skyscraper's price tag, which the Chicago Sun-Times reported on March 27 could rise to $2 billion.
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