Pritzker Prize 2026: Chile’s Smiljan Radić wins ‘Nobel’ of architecture

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Chilean architect Smiljan Radić, whose often-experimental designs include a doughnut-shaped pavilion in London and a restaurant held up by boulders in Santiago, was named the winner of this year’s Pritzker Prize — an award often dubbed the field’s equivalent to a Nobel Prize — on Thursday. While the 60-year-old’s