This week Smiljan Radić won the Pritzker Architecture Prize
This week on Dezeen, Chilean architect Smiljan Radić was named as this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate.
Radić, who was recognised for his buildings that are "immediately recognizable, yet conceptually evasive", is the 55th winner of the award.
Following the announcement we looked at eight of his most significant buildings, including the 2014 Serpentine Pavilion and his House for the Poem of the Right Angle.
AI was in the news this week, with a study from Anthropic finding that lots of the work done by architects could be done twice as quickly using large language models.
It was also announced that Google will be building an AI tool for the UK government to help speed up planning decisions.
In design news, Jony Ive's studio LoveFrom and UK studio Benchmark created a rostrum for the Christie's auction house that replaces one designed by Thomas Chippendale in 1776.
In other furniture news, Kelly Wearstler unveiled her first-ever piano, which features "sensual and unexpected" curves.
In Mexico, photos of a skyscraper, which is set to become the tallest building in Latin America, were revealed.
The Torre Rise supertall skyscraper in Monterrey will be 484 metres tall when it completes, making it the second-tallest building in the Western hemisphere, second only to the One World Trade Center in New York.
Popular projects on Dezeen this week included a concrete house in Slovenia, a minimalist house in Japan and a Norwegian holiday home.
Listen to our journalists talk about the key design and architecture stories of the past seven days on our Dezeen Weekly podcast, which this week focused on a competition to design a new world wonder.
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