De Royal Gold Medal for Architecture is al in 1884 ingesteld en wordt jaarlijks toegekend door een jury onder auspicien van het Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Dit jaar stond de jury onder voorzitterschap van Jack Pringle, de actuele RIBA President. Pringle zei gisteren onder meer: "I am delighted to announce Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron as this year's recipients of the Royal Gold Medal. Their career has seen them move painlessly from being an experimental studio to a big practice without the work being diluted in any way. They reinvent everything with each new project and do it with such vigour. As teachers their influence on the current and future generations of architects is huge."
Foto: House in Leymen, Frankrijk.