Houses are arranged around open spaces, organized into 10-home clusters to create a sense of community, but each also includes a small private courtyard to the rear. Aranya is one of the wonders of India: a housing project that actually works. But he is best known for Aranya, a low-cost housing project in the central Indian city of Indore. But, last week, the Pritzker jury gave the 2018 prize to the Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi, who is best known for very different designs.ĭoshi, now 90, has had his share of landmark commissions - the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, for example, and Ahmedabad's Tagore Hall. Most architects who have been awarded the Pritzker are best known for buildings like this: grand and controversial office buildings such as Lloyds' headquarters, vast museums like the Tate Modern, unforgettable set-pieces such as the Sydney Opera House. Stirling won the Pritzker, 'architecture's Nobel Prize,' in 1981 Number One Poultry, still controversial, is nevertheless now the youngest building to be officially protected, or 'listed,' by the British government. At Bank intersection itself, breaking up the heavy imperial-era neoclassicism of Soane, Baker and Lutyens is James Stirling's Number One Poultry, whose postmodern curves softly echo the other buildings' grandiose lines. Here in the City of London, you can step out of Bank underground station and walk half a mile in any direction to see what Pritzker Prize-winning architects can do when they push themselves.
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