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Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects

The city of Philadelphia was laid out in the early colonial period as a rational grid with four quadrants and a central square that, in the late nineteenth ce

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Metal Foundation

Baragaño

The new Fundación Metal corporate headquarters in Avilés in Spain’s ore-rich Asturias region, famous for its steel industry, is a bold architectural stateme

# Spain (214) # Productive complex (197) # Baragaño

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360 House

Subarquitectura

Subarquitectura team have designed a house inspired by “the shapes skaters make, like those of gymnasts, as artistic as they are precise”. It was also inten

# Spain (214) # Residence (1664) # Subarquitectura

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São Francisco Convent

Cândido Chuva Gomes

Built in the 13th century, the convent of St. Francisco in Portalegre, Portugal, is probably the oldest of the city’s three convents. Altered and enlarged dow

# Portugal (81) # Cultural center (476) # Cândido Chuva Gomes

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Apartment No.1

Architecture by Collective Terrain

This mixed function, multi-storey building in the ancient town of Mahallat, central Iran, was designed by Ramin Mehdizadeh of the AbCT (Architecture by Collecti

# Residence (1664) # Architecture by Collective Terrain # Iran (13)

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Sistan and Baluchestan University Restaurant

New Wave Architecture

The project by New Wave Architecture (Lida Almassian and Shahin Heidari) for the self-serve restaurant at the University of Sistan and Baluchistan - located in

# University (225) # New Wave Architecture # Iran (13)

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City of Culture of Galicia

Peter Eisenman Architects

The competition launched by the Autonomous Spanish Region of Galicia in 1999 marked the beginning of the Galician Cultural Centre. Peter Eisenman was chosen fro

# Spain (214) # Cultural center (476) # Peter Eisenman Architects # Schüco (155)

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House-Atelier Fez

Álvaro Leite Siza Vieira

In designing his own home-cum-studio - the Fez House in Oporto - Álvaro Leite Siza has produced a manifesto, a summa of his approach - thus far - to the art of

# Portugal (81) # Residence (1664) # Álvaro Leite Siza Vieira

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Norwich Cathedral Visitors Centre

Hopkins Architects

Norwich Cathedral and its adjacent cloister is a renowned historic monument drawing large numbers of tourists and the faithful. The Cathedral Chapter first tack

# United Kingdom (228) # Hopkins Architects # Multifunctional Building - Complex (765)

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Inhotim Contemporary Art Center

Arquitetos Associados

Set in luxuriant vegetation just outside the city of Belo Horizonte in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, the Inhotim Cultural Institute marries art, architec

# Brazil (75) # Cultural center (476) # Arquitetos Associados

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Kuokkala Church

Lassila Hirvilammi Architects

The parish church in the Finnish town of Jyväskylä stands in the main square alongside its singular bell tower, a tall prism-shaped landmark with sharp-edged

# Religious Building - Complex (137) # Lassila Hirvilammi Architects # Finland (31) # Velux (30) # Zumtobel Group (93)

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Chiesa Madre, Gibellina - Twenty Years Later

Ludovico Quaroni

It is not easy to talk about a project still only (partially) completed forty years after the first designs were commissioned, and some twenty years since the e

# Italy (3161) # Religious Building - Complex (137) # Ludovico Quaroni

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