The Golden Lion awards at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale have gone to Alvaro Siza (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement), Toyo Ito (Golden Lion for Best National Participation) and Urban Think Tank and Justin McGuirk (Golden Lion for Best Project).
Ito commissioned the Japanese Pavilion's A Home For All, a forest-like exhibition of housing concepts in response to the post tsunami and earthquake crisis, and Urban Think Tank/Justin McGuirk's Torre David/Gran Horizonte featured a presentation on a squatters' community established in an unfinished Caracas skyscraper.
Image: Japanese pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale
