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Le Monde:

L'architecte français Jean Nouvel distingué par le prix Pritzker
LEMONDE.FR | 30.03.08 | 21h07 • Mis à jour le 30.03.08 | 22h00

Le Français Jean Nouvel a été désigné lauréat du prix Pritzker, dimanche 30 mars, à Los Angeles. Equivalent du prix Nobel, cette récompense est la plus importante en matière d'architecture dans le monde. Avant lui un seul autre Français l'avait obtenue : Christian de Portzamparc en 1994.....

http://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2008/03/30/l-architecte-francais-jean-nouvel-distingue-par-le-prix-pritzker_1029019_3246.html#ens_id=1029020

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NYTimes:

French Architect Wins Pritzker Prize
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Published: March 31, 2008

Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the muscular Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in Paris, has received architecture’s top honor, the Pritzker Prize.....
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/arts/design/31prit.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1206900410-bY20+XbrYnb9B9Vw6j2sIw

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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/03/28/arts/20080331_PRITZ_SLIDESHOW_index.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/03/28/arts/20080331_PRITZ_SLIDESHOW_10.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/04/13/arts/20070414_HALL_SLIDESHOW_4.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/04/13/arts/20070414_HALL_SLIDESHOW_6.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/04/13/arts/20070414_HALL_SLIDESHOW_5.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/03/28/arts/20080331_PRITZ_SLIDESHOW_6.html

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Chicago Tribune:

Pritzker Architecture Prize goes to Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel, the boldly experimental French architect who shaped the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and other buildings that simultaneously respond to their surroundings and transform them, on Sunday was named this year’s winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, his field’s highest honor.

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2008/03/oo-la-la-jean-n.html

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http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2008/03/oo-la-la-jean-n.html

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-080330nouvel-photogallery,0,4025641.photogallery

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-080330nouvel-photogallery,0,4025641.photogallery

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-080330nouvel-photogallery,0,4025641.photogallery

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/chi-080330nouvel-photogallery,0,4025641.photogallery

[skirwin1]

a deserved winner. hes amazing. tour agbar has to be my favourite building of the 2000's! have you ever seen a picture of him? hes a scary fuck...seriously looks like the bady from thunderbirds!