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The Riviera Maya Edition at Kanai hotel sits over mangrove reserve in Mexico

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The property was originally masterplanned by architect Richard Meier , who laid out a series of perpendicular volumes and elongated linear routes through the site. The architecture by Edmonds International is a contemporary interpretation of ancient Mayan structures.

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La Seine Musicale is "a symbol with meaning and function" says Shigeru Ban

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The musical facility is located on the Ile Seguin island near Paris's western suburbs, occupying a third of French architect Jean Nouvel 's mixed-use masterplan of the island. The video features La Seine Musicale , a music complex that houses a large multipurpose concert hall and a smaller auditorium.

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Holy Trinity Lutheran College, Horsham, Victoria

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The innovative masterplan sought to maximise the use of the school’s land on the floodplain which would allow the school to expand without having to purchase an additional block to the south that was initially thought would be required.

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David Alan Chipperfield announced as Pritzker Architecture Laureate 2023

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Turner Contemporary, photo courtesy of Simon Menges Sir David Chipperfield is the 52nd Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. We choose ourselves, and the concept of only protecting the best is not enough.

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Fifteen landmark projects by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner David Chipperfield

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Find out more about Museum Folkwang › Turner Contemporary, 2011, UK With a form inspired artist JMW Turner's paintings, the Turner Contemporary comprises six, identical jagged volumes, each with mono-pitched roofs, that are clad in an acid-etched glass skin. A temporary exhibition space was topped with a saw-tooth roof.

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CookFox releases photos of linked towers at Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Refinery

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Masterplanned by SHoP Architects in 2013, the redeveloped site features five buildings, each designed by a different architect. The massing was guided by the Domino Sugar Refinery masterplan. The site's original name has been retained. One South First holds residential units, while the other building contains office space.

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Rafael Vinoly Architects, New York Office

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May 14, 2013 The New Stanford Hospital , California, USA Design: Rafael Viñoly Architects picture from architect The New Stanford Hospital Building This new building is due to complete in 2017 with an opening for patient care in early 2018. m sqft Center for Care and Discovery at the University of Chicago Medicine opened in early 2013.