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Jørn Utzon 1918 - 2008
"I think back on my life with my father with
great joy and love. To be allowed to spend so much time together with such a remarkable
man, father and architect, has been a great privilege indeed."
Jan Utzon
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Weiss/Manfredi
Taekwondo Park:
Ascending Passages
Muju, Korea
The design celebrates the history and culture of Korea, the principles of Taekwondo, and the site’s dramatic topography.
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Renovation & extension
Erick van Egeraat
Municipal Theatre
Haarlem
The Netherlands
“I wanted the new parts to exceed the original in a way that blends the flight tower into the
original building almost invisibly.”
Erick van Egeraat |
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Zaha Hadid Architects
Neil Barrett Store
Tokyo, Japan
Furniture staged in key points throughout the store creates the spatial concept of a narrow enclosure changing to an open condition. |
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Under construction
Herzog & de Meuron
56 Leonard Street
New York, NY
The architects have replaced the usual extrusion of standardized skyscraper floor plates with a staggered progression of structural slabs. |
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Grimshaw Architects
Davis Brody Bond Aedas
EMPAC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
A center for artists, scientists, and engineers to come together to pursue discovery at the nexus
of the real and virtual worlds.
President Shirley Ann Jackson |
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Frank Gehry
Gehry Partners, LLP
Sønderborg Harbor Masterplan
Sønderborg, Denmark
The development is unified by a series of unique landscape spaces, creating a series of
Urban Parks. |
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Rafael Moneo
Prado Museum Extention
Madrid, Spain
“The extension maintains the longitudinal nature of the old building and establishes a transverse axis from the Velázquez gate all the way to the cloister.”
Rafael Moneo |
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I.M. Pei
Concept Sketches
Musée d’Art Moderne
The action of the architect's hand, exploring
and resisting the imposed geometry of the site
and his own design principles. |
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Design Hotel
East Hotel
Hamburg, Germany
The spirit of the old foundry lives on in this chic design hotel in the red-light district of Hamburg. |
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MAD Dinner
By Ma Yansong
Publisher: Actar
Like a dinner table conversation, this is a collection of ideas and opinions from politics to ecology to fame to the future.
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Paul Raftery
Church of Saint-Pierre de Firminy
By Le Corbusier
Following the original plans the Church was completed in 2006, 40 years after it’s conception.
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A visit to HafenCity
Hamburg, Germany
The 380 acre redevelopment zone will be a mix of office, retail, residential, and cultural uses.
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