This week Liu Jiakun won the Pritzker Architecture Prize

This week on Dezeen, Chinese architect Liu Jiakun was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for his buildings that aim to prioritise people over architectural style. Liu became the 54th laureate and third architect from China to receive the award in its 46-year history, following Chinese-American architect IM Pei and Amateur Architecture Studio founder Wang Shu. To celebrate his win, we The post This week Liu Jiakun won the Pritzker Architecture Prize appeared first on Dezeen.

This week Liu Jiakun won the Pritzker Architecture Prize

This week on Dezeen, Chinese architect Liu Jiakun was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for his buildings that aim to prioritise people over architectural style.

Liu became the 54th laureate and third architect from China to receive the award in its 46-year history, following Chinese-American architect IM Pei and Amateur Architecture Studio founder Wang Shu.

To celebrate his win, we looked back at 11 key projects from Liu's four-decade-long career working exclusively in China, including cultural institutions, civic spaces, commercial buildings and urban landscapes.

In celebration of 100 years since the "arts décoratifs" exposition in Paris, we launched our latest editorial series – Art Deco Centenary, which will explore architecture and design of the art deco style.

So far in the series, we have created a quick guide explaining art deco and spotlighted the iconic Chrysler Building in New York, while London-based designer Tatjana von Stein explained how she uses the style in her interior designs.

New York architect Ricardo Scofidio, who co-founded Diller Scofidio + Renfro, passed away this week aged 89.

Scofidio designed numerous high-profile projects, including New York's High Line and The Shed cultural centre in Hudson Yards. His studio was also responsible for V&A East in London and Zaryadye Park in Moscow.

Driverless Maserati — Maserati set a new land speed record with its driverless car

At a racing event at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, a new land speed record for a driverless car of 197.7 miles per hour was set by Italian automobile brand Maserati.

Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), the car completed the 2.8-mile runway at record-breaking speed without a driver at the helm.

Close-up photo of a man's chest wearing an Infinix Zero Series Mini Tri-Fold phone clipped onto a backpack strap — Infix unveiled a tri-folding concept phone

In other news, Chinese smartphone company Infinix revealed a prototype tri-fold phone that can be used as a clip-on camera.

It functions as a conventional smartphone when outstretched and also bends vertically along two hinges to fold down to the size of a credit card, forming a mini dual-screen device that can be attached to gym equipment or a car dashboard.