Herzog & De Meuron Win the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture

Herzog De Meuron Win the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture
The Swiss architects Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron, famed for projects including Tate Modern, are the winners of one of architecture's most prestigious prizes, the Royal Gold Medal.

Jack Pringle, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) made the announcement at today's meeting of the RIBA Council.

Given in recognition of a lifetime's work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen and is given annually to a person or group of people whose influence on architecture has had a truly international effect.

The honour recognises the impact Herzog & de Meuron have made both on cities and on architects throughout the world, from their early inspirational work in Switzerland, via the London projects for Tate Modern (2000) and the RIBA Stirling Prize winning Laban dance centre (2003), to their recent and current work in Barcelona, Tokyo and Beijing.