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Consorzio Cooperative Costruzioni Headquarters

Open Project

The new Bologna headquarters of Consorzio Cooperative Costruzioni lies parallel to the main road, via Emilia, in an outlying industrial district. The main build

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Contemporary Jewish Museum

Daniel Libeskind

A leap of faith paid off when the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco opened in June. A fledgling institution with 400 square meters of borrowed exhibit

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C+S Associati

Carlo Cappai and Maria Alessandra Segantini graduated from the Venice Architecture Faculty in 1991. Their first work opportunity came through a competition that

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Students’ residence St. Edward’s

Alejandro Aravena

St. Edward’s University is visible from the highway that links Austin-Bergstrom International Airport with the Texas State Capitol and the scatter of towers t

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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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Residential complex Mountain Dwellings

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

Making a mountain in Copenhagen is the sort of provocation you would expect of Bjarke Ingels. It’s surely what’s needed to break the monotony of the ever-wi

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Villa van Straaten

Visser van Aalderen Architecten | Cino Zucchi Architetti

Although a uniform grey, Cino Zucchi’s Van Straaten villa in Enschede, eastern Netherlands, uses a medley of volumes and cladding of contrasting materials and

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Nigel Peck Centre, Melbourne Grammar School

John Wardle Architects

Although situated in an urban landscape, Melbourne Grammar School is set amid lush sporting fields while the buildings giving on to Domain Road look out over th

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Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

KSV Krüger Schuberth Vandreike

The Bolzano Museion, to plans by the Berlin firm of KSV Krüger Schuberth Vandreike was designed under a clear architectural and functional brief as a museum fo

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New Opera House

Snøhetta

Covering some 38.500 sq m, the Oslo Opera House is a huge architectural complex with one auditorium seating 1360 and another for 400, for a total cost of 500 mi

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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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Public Library and Reading Park

MartÍn Lejarraga

The project is a deliberate challenge to today’s outlying urban environments, an outspoken plea for architecture to counter the urban sprawl of so many Spanis

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