Carlsberg Architectural Prize

Carlsberg Architectural Prize (Danish: Carlsberg Arkitekturpris) was an architecture award founded by the Danish New Carlsberg foundation in 1991.

[1] It was awarded three times between the years 1992–1998 “To recognize excellence in lasting architectural design”.

[2] Her Majesty The Queen of Denmark acted as the patron of the prize.

At the time of its foundation in 1991 the prize, being worth $235,000 was the biggest in the field of architecture.

[3] The first recipient, Tadao Ando, donated the prize money for the Osaka Prefectural Government, later used to establish the Ando Fund administered by the Osaka Foundation of International Exchange.