Richard Rogers, the British architect known for his unconventional highrise for Lloyds of London, and his work on the Pompidou Center in Paris, received one of the 12th Praemium Imperiale Awards, presented by the Japan Art Association for outstanding achievement in the arts. Other recipients this year were American painter Ellsworth Kelly, the French sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle, the German composer Hans Werner Henze and the American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
The five awards, among the largest in the arts with a stipend of about $140,000 each, are given in areas not covered by the Nobel Prizes: painting, sculpture, architecture, music and theater-film. The prizes will be presented, along with commemorative medals from the Japanese imperial family, in Tokyo on Oct. 26. Past recipients have included the actor John Gielgud, the painter David Hockney, the architect Frank O. Gehry and the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
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