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Beijing Mapping - An Almost Perfect Form of City Sitting Around History

Following on from Singapore, CityPlan continues its exploration of the megalopolises of the Far East. This issue looks at the historic Chinese capital, Beijing.

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Beijing’s Architectural Super-Grid

Beijing’s outsize numbers are well known: a population of 19.5 million, tumultuous growth, unstoppable urban expansion, pollution, and traffic congestion.

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Heydar Aliyev International Airport - Interior design

Autoban

Airports are places you pass through on your way to somewhere else. They are one of society’s “non-places”, to use anthropologist Marc Aug&eac

# Infrastructure (178) # Azerbaijan # Autoban

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Aspen Art Museum

Shigeru Ban Architects

As with East Hampton or St. Barth’s, the very word “Aspen” conjures up, in the North American mind, images of recreation and celebrity, of nat

# United States of America (637) # Shigeru Ban Architects (11) # Colorado, USA # Exhibition (438)

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Behnisch Architekten - Bolster Their Reputation in Europe

Behnisch Architekten

There’s a joyful quality to the work of Behnisch Architekten; a sense of uplift and humanity that inspires the users of their varied buildings in Germany

# Public (333) # Switzerland (120) # Poltrona Frau # Behnisch Architekten (39) # Zumtobel Group (93)

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United States Courthouse

Thomas Phifer and Partners

The architecture of a public institution should, through form, volume and surfaces, speak to the values embedded in that institution. Values and significance ch

# United States of America (637) # Thomas Phifer and Partners

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Bombay Art Society

Sanjay Puri Architects

Most art and cultural facilities usually fan out horizontally over large surface areas. The Bombay Art Society of Mumbai only had 1,300 sq mon which to develop.

# India (229) # Sanjay Puri Architects (72) # Exhibition (438)

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Office, retail and residential complex

Damilanostudio Architects

Located in the city center of Cuneo, in Italy’s north-eastern Piedmont region, this linear block is conventionally divided into the various functions it h

# Italy (3161) # AGC Flat Glass (59) # Duravit (132) # Rimadesio # Oikos (34) # Listone Giordano (19) # Damilanostudio Architects # Multifunctional Building - Complex (765)

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Two Private Villas

Toshiko Mori Architect

Although an assertive presence in their respective settings, these two large houses slip effortlessly into their natural surrounds. Both structures hug the grou

# United States of America (637) # Residence (1664) # Toshiko Mori Architect

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House in Bedford

Toshiko Mori Architect

Although an assertive presence in their respective settings, these two large houses slip effortlessly into their natural surrounds. Both structures hug the grou

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Office Tower Euravenir

Lan Architecture

The decision in the 90s to extend the TGV high-speed Paris-London railway to Lille was the trigger for radical transformation of this city in the north-eastern

# France (345) # Offices (965) # Lan Architecture

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