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Coop Himmelb(l)au

The extension to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, provides the original 1876 building with much needed additional space. At the same time, Coop Himm

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The Contemporary Home, a Prototype

Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten

The “contemporary home” designed by Allmann Sattler Wappner for the competition sponsored by publisher Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2003, is an experiment in con

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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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Two Houses

GEZA Architettura

The two houses stand on a hill at Moruzzo, north of Udine. Inside the overall building lot other plots have already been developed. The two buildings designed b

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Duravit Design Centre

Philippe Starck

The Duravit Design Center in Hornberg, a little town in the heart of the black forest, combines flexi-space offices and showrooms, a services centre and trainin

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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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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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Southern California Beach House

Richard Meier & Partners Architects

Two recently completed beach houses show how differently the same firm achieved a similar goal on the same stretch of coast. The first is a layered white cubist

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CCIT Building University of Toronto

Saucier + Perrotte Architectes

The new Communication, Culture and Information Technology (CCIT) building at the University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) is located on the western edge of the c

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Under the Moonlight House

Giovanni D’Ambrosio

Located in an Australian mountain resort, the house by Roman designer Giovanni D’Ambrosio is an architectural exploit whose audacious form seeks to - and succ

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BMW Welt

Coop Himmelb(l)au

The complex architecture of the BMW Welt building in Munich, Germany designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au (2001-2007) is a company statement in itself. The embodiment

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