Abu Dhabi select the city host for a prize ceremony "Pritzker" Architecture 2025
Abu Dhabi, April 25 / WAM / The capital, Abu Dhabi, was chosen to be the international city hosting the Pritzker Award for Architecture 2025, in a historical precedent, the first of its kind for the UAE in particular, and the Arab world as a whole.
The Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi announced the selection of the capital to host this global event, which represents a new chapter in the emirate’s cultural march, and strengthens its role as a meeting place for the most prominent pioneering creators in the world.
This event is also embodied in the exceptional and growing contribution of Abu Dhabi in the dialogue of international architecture, by having a heritage full of ambitious vision and investment in the culture sector that links heritage, innovation and sustainability.
As one of the highest and finest international awards in the field of architecture, the “Pritzker” Award for Architecture is honored by the living architects whose work embodies the mixing between talent, vision and commitment, whose contributions must also show a clear and clear impact on humanity and the urban environment through architecture.
The ceremony will be held at the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum.
His Excellency Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Head of the Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi, said that Abu Dhabi’s hosting of the “Pritzker” award for architecture for 2025 embodies the emirate’s cultural ambition and its global vision, its commitment to the art of architecture as a cultural and social power, and its sustainable vision based on creativity, dialogue and sustainability.
His Excellency added, “We believe in the department that architecture reflects the identity of society and its aspirations, and hosting this prestigious award provides a platform for the exchange of ideas and visions contributing to the formation of future cities as it represents a meeting place for heritage and innovation, where the past, present and future interact, and this event highlights the efforts of the department to enhance global cultural exchange, and support the role of design in building more comprehensive, flexible and focused societies on Man.
For his part, Tom Pritzker, Chairman and Chairman of the “Hayat” Foundation, which sponsors the Pritzker International Award, said, “Every year, the Pritzker Award is established a fixed tradition by hosting her concert in prominent architectural and historical sites, extending over thousands of years and different geographical regions … In recent years, the growing attendance of the UAE has provided in the global artistic and cultural scene, and its openness with regard to supporting the work of engineers International architects, a new environment that reflects the diversity of our mission and the choice of winners and members of the arbitration committees. “With the presence of three iconic buildings on its soil, its features are re -drawn, and each of them designed prominent architects with the Pretzker Award, Jean Nouvel, Norman Foster, and Frank Jerry, Abu Dhabi represents a natural extension of our program.”
Beginning with the renewal and restoration of the cultural collection, to the prominent modern monuments such as the Louvre Abu Dhabi, which was designed by French architect Jean Nofal, the Prize of Pritzker in 2008, the Zayed National Museum, which will be opened soon from the design of the famous British architect Lord Norman Foster, the Pritzker Prize in 1999, and the Goguheim Abu Dhabi Museum designed by the architect designed Frank Jerry, Pritzker Prize in 1989, Abu Dhabi showed her position as a global center for purposeful and sustainable transformed architecture.
These prominent projects are in line with the continuing commitment of the Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi to preserve, promote and protect the emirate’s cultural heritage, while supporting innovation and creativity as two engines for sustainable development and global dialogue.
In conjunction with the activities of the ceremony, the Cultural Complex will host on May 3, a discussion session offered by the Pritzker Award in different years, and they are the Japanese architect Recken Yamamoto, the British architect Sir David Cheberfield, and the architect from Burkina Faso, Dipido Francis Kerry, managed by Chinese architect Leo Jiakon, who won the award. For 2025.
These leading voices will explore together from Abu Dhabi the role of architecture in forming societies, identity and cultural expression, while thinking about their own practices and the future of the built environment.
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