Reuters
September 4, 2007

Aga Khan Award for Architecture


Prince Karim Aga Khan (L) delivers his address as Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi listens during the 2007 Aga Khan Award for Architecture in Kuala Lumpur September 4, 2007. Nine projects split the $500,000 Aga Khan award, the world's richest architecture prize awarded every three years and founded by philanthropist Aga Khan in 1977 to recognise and encourage designs that met "the needs and aspirations of Muslim societies". REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad (MALAYSIA)


Australian architect Richard Hassell (C) smiles after receiving the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for his design of Singapore's Moulmein Rise Residential Tower, as Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (L) and Prince Karim Aga Khan clap during a photo call in Kuala Lumpur September 4, 2007. The 28-storey apartment tower was among nine projects that split the $500,000 Aga Khan award, the world's richest architecture prize awarded every three years and founded by philanthropist Aga Khan in 1977 to recognise and encourage designs that met "the needs and aspirations of Muslim societies". REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad (MALAYSIA)


Singaporean architect Wong Mun Summ (C) smiles after receiving the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for designing Singapore's Moulmein Rise Residential Tower, as Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (L) and Prince Karim Aga Khan clap in Kuala Lumpur September 4, 2007. The 28-storey apartment tower was among nine projects that split the $500,000 Aga Khan award, the world's richest architecture prize awarded every three years and founded by philanthropist Prince Karim Aga Khan in 1977 to recognise and encourage designs that met "the needs and aspirations of Muslim societies". REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad (MALAYSIA)


Former Yemen's Prime Minister Abdul Karim al-Eryani (C) smiles after receiving the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for his restoration project of the Amiriya Complex, as Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (L) and Prince Karim Aga Khan clap during a photo call in Kuala Lumpur September 4, 2007. The project to restore the historic quarters in Yemen was among nine projects that split the $500,000 Aga Khan award, the world's richest architecture prize awarded every three years and founded by philanthropist Aga Khan in 1977 to recognise and encourage designs that met "the needs and aspirations of Muslim societies". REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad (MALAYSIA)


Architect Norman Foster (L-R) of Britain smiles at Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Prince Karim Aga Khan in Kuala Lumpur, September 4, 2007


Austrian architect Anna Heringer (C) smiles after receiving the Aga Khan award for her school project in the village of Rudrapur in northwest Bangladesh, as Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (L) and Prince Karim Aga Khan clap in Kuala Lumpur September 4, 2007. The school, built by hand from clay-mud and bamboo in four months by local craftsmen, pupils, parents and teachers under the direction of architects Heringer and Eike Roswag from Germany, was among nine projects that split the $500,000 Aga Khan award, the world's richest architecture prize awarded every three years and founded by philanthropist Aga Khan in 1977 to recognise and encourage designs that met "the needs and aspirations of Muslim societies". REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad (MALAYSIA)


German architect Eike Roswag