Architect lifts trophy during working visit to Mexico City tower

Richard Rogers has been awarded the Mario Pani Award for services to the architectural community.

The award, designed by the sculptor Jorge Yazpik, has previously been awarded to Peter Eisenmann, Kasuyo Sejima, Zaha Hadid and, last year, Denise Scott Brown.

Richard Rogers receives Mario Pani Award

It was instituted by the school of architecture at the Universidad Anahuac Mexico Norte and is awarded to those professionals that promote entrepreneurial activity and excellence in architectural design. Mario Pani Darqui, who died in 1993, was a Mexican modernist responsible for shaping Mexico City.

Receiving the award from the Mexican architect Bernardo Gomez-Pimienta, Rogers said: “Architecture should be democratic and advocate a distribution of wealth that leads to dialogues open to everyone.”

Gomez-Pimienta, director of the school, praised Rogers’ committment to cities and to the people that inhabit them.

Rogers was in Mexico City to oversee work on the BBVA Tower, designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners in collaboration with Legorreta & Legorreta. It is approaching its topping out.

BBVA tower in Mexico City by RSHP approaches topping out

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