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Los Angeles architect Thom Mayne has been awarded the Pritzker Prize, the highest honor in the field of architecture. Gothamist guesses that the awesome design for the Caltrans District 7 building in downtown L.A. tipped it in his favor this year (here's a profile of the building, see some work in progress photos here), but he's had a very storied career. As for Mayne's NYC projects, with his firm Morphosis, Mayne has designed the new building at Cooper Union (above) and submitted a proposal for an Olympic Village for NYC's 2012 Olympic bid (below. Here's the NY Times story about his win, the first by an American in 14 years (Robert Venturi in 1991).
The Pritzker Prize is given by the Hyatt Foundation, the hotel chain that the Pritzker family owns. And Gothamist has been curious about the status of the lawsuit Liesel Pritzker (aka Liesel Matthews, in the enchanting Alfonso Cuaron version of The Little Princess) brought against her cousins, claiming she and her brother were "looted" out of $1 billion. The Chicago Reader had this great story about the coverage of the lawsuit. And the Pritzker Prize will be awarded in Chicago's Millennium Park; remember, don't take pictures of the bean.
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>>>remember, don't take pictures of the bean.
I was stopped by a rent a cop from taking pictures of the globe artwork in the public atrium in Worldwide Plaza (50th between 8th and 9th) on Saturday. There was a lengthy, agitated discussion with expletives not deleted.
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Is it just me or does that image, 2005_03_thompayne.jpg, looks like a Roller Coaster ride?
Liesel Pritzker won her lawsuit. Here's a bit of the Wall Street Journal story from January:
THE LITTLE PRINCESS has finally gotten her share of the kingdom.
Liesel Pritzker, a 20-year-old actress who as a child starred in the 1995 movie "A Little Princess," yesterday became one of America's wealthiest women. She and her brother, Matthew, 22, each now control fortunes of about $450 million after yesterday's final settlement of a nasty legal dispute with the rest of their family.
The Chicago-based Pritzkers preside over an empire estimated at more than $15 billion, including the Hyatt Corp. hotel chain, a string of industrial companies, and sprawling real-estate holdings. The senior members of the family are in the process of splitting up the assets, which prompted the dispute and lifted a veil on the secretive clan.
Two years ago, Ms. Pritzker, whose professional name is Liesel Matthews, sparked the feud by filing a lawsuit accusing her father, along with other family members and advisers, of secretly stripping her trust funds of more than $1 billion when she was a young child.