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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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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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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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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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Shark Alley House

Fearon Hay Architects

Shark Alley House is a summer holiday home on Great Barrier Island, 90 kilometres northeast of Auckland, New Zealand and reachable by sea or short-hop flights.

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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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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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Bridge Pavilion, Expo 2008

Zaha Hadid Architects

The most representative architecture at the 2008 Zaragoza International Exhibition is the Bridge Pavilion across the river Ebro. Designed by Zaha Hadid with the

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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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Dutch Ambassador’s Residence

Dirk Jan Postel

The Dutch Ambassador’s residence in Beijing houses three functions: representation, plant and services, and private residence. The relatively large site (4220

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Grand Rapids Art Museum (Gram)

WHY

2007 saw the inauguration of the new Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) designed by Thai born architect Kulapat Yantrasast, co-founder with fellow architect Yo-ichi

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