"Awarding the Pritzker to a team synonymous with refurbs marks an important shift in architectural values"

Lacaton & Vassal's Pritzker Architecture Prize win reinforces the need to focus much more on our city's existing buildings, says Phineas Harper.Finally, a major architecture award has been given to a studio best known for refurbishments. French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal who have clinched the 2021 Pritzker Prize, are invigorating winners because so much of their finest work is in retrofitting, an environmentally critical practice that is rarely celebrated by mainstream