Lord Rogers, WTC Architect, Wins Pritzker Prize

LOS ANGELES — British architect Lord Richard Rogers, acclaimed for his urban, socially minded and open designs including the airy Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, is the winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced yesterday.

Mr. Rogers, the chief adviser on architecture and urbanism to the mayor of London, also designed one of five mixed-use office towers planned for construction at the World Trade Center site in New York.

The Pritzker, the field's top honor, was founded in 1979. Past winners include Californian Frank Gehry and Italy's Renzo Piano, who designed the Pompidou with Rogers.