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Ateliers Jean Nouvel | B720 Arquitectos

Located on Plaza de las Glories Catalanes, the 142 m, 35-storey Agbar tower is a “small skyscraper” that fits perfectly into the acute angle formed by Aveni

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Residential and Office Complex

Camenzind Evolution

This former industrial site near the centre of Zurich has been transformed into the “Seewürfel” (Lake Cubes) urban regeneration project, designed by Swiss

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Vacheron Constantin Headquarters

Bernard Tschumi Architects

In 2001, Vacheron Constantin, Switzerland’s oldest watchmakers, founded in 1955, held an international competition for its new headquarters at Plan-les-Ouates

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Südwestmetall Headquarters Reutlingen

Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten

The German Metal and Electrical Industry Manufacturers’ Association, Südwestmetall, is located in a central residential area of Reutlingen. The buildings als

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Casa da MÚsica

OMA

The Casa da Música, OMA’s new concert hall in Porto - a facetted concrete structure who’s construction costs amounted to 75 million euro - opened on 14 Apr

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Cathedral “Christ the Light”

SOM | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

The newly completed Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland is a revelation. Craig Hartman, a partner in the San Francisco office of SOM, who previously led a

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David Adjaye in Denver

Adjaye Associates

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) is a sleek, suave and subtle addition to Denver, a slightly mysterious glass box that mixes and refracts the famous Rocky M

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Ermenegildo Zegna Headquarters

ACPV Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel

Outside Porta Genova, this former industrial site in Milan is a now prime development area. Served by a metropolitan underground line, the area is being revolut

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Etnapolis Commercial Centre

Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas

The Etnapolis commercial centre near Catania is a large-scale estate divided into functional units, sector by sector, and a ‘fun centre’ focusing on a multi

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Steven Holl in Kansas City, Usa

Steven Holl Architects

The civic or postcard view of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, now radically extended by Steven Holl Architects, is of five translucent boxes informally arrayed

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Danish Radio Concert House

Ateliers Jean Nouvel

A place of music, the Concert House embodies the affinity between architecture and music. It is also a paradigm for the Jean Nouvel programme: showing how the d

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