The newest version of our weekly Dezeen Agenda publication options an interview with architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, who tells Dezeen he may design a skyscraper when the time is correct. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now.
Burkinabè architect Kéré has risen to turn out to be one of many occupation’s greatest stars lately, changing into the primary African to win the Pritzker Structure Prize in 2022. Final week, he was additionally named the 2023 structure laureate for the Praemium Imperiale awards.
Talking to Dezeen on the UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen, Kéré mirrored on how his Pritzker success has influenced his observe. “It has inspired me to do much more,” he informed Dezeen, and likewise revealed he’s “very open” to designing a skyscraper.
This week’s publication additionally included information that development work has resumed on Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia, which is anticipated to turn out to be the world’s tallest constructing, and featured Mexico’s largest mass-timber constructing and an “extraterrestrial-looking” area museum in China by Open Structure.
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