September 6, 2007 | Broadcast News
Aga Khan Award Winners for 2007 Named
[Photo by Foster + Partners, Courtesy the Aga Khan Award for Architecture]
The nine projects that won the 2007 Aga Khan Award for Architecture, announced yesterday, range from a sustainable residential tower in Singapore (by WOHA), to a village school hand-built by local craftspeople in Dinajpur, Bangladesh.
This year marks the 10th cycle of the triennial awards. His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, created the program to recognize how architecture and the built environment impact Muslim societies. The prize fund totals $500,000, the largest purse among architectural honors. A nine-person jury selected this year’s winners from a field of 343 entries, and a shortlist of 27 entries. Descriptions of the winning projects follow at the Architectural Record Website.
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JJ is the co-founder of 5ft Creatives and is presently enrolled as a graduate student at the Yale School of Architecture.
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