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Nine notable projects by late architect Rafael Viñoly

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Photo is by Hufton & Crow Battersea Power Station masterplan (2008) Viñoly was responsible for outlining the masterplan for the redevelopment of the Battersea Power Station in London, parts of which are now complete. Inside are double-height exhibition spaces and offices for the art gallery's conservation department.

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Fifteen landmark projects by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner David Chipperfield

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Find out more about Museum of Modern Literature › Ciutat de la Justícia, 2009, Spain Ciutat de la Justícia is a vast nine-building complex housing law courts in Spain. Opened in 2009, it sits at the border of Barcelona and l'Hospitalet to unify their government's legal departments in one place.

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BDP wraps waterside stadium in double-helix walking route

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Read: Concrete vaults support rooftop football pitch in China by UAD "The design enhances the idea of sporting architecture as a form of art," said Tyrer. "At Pattern was founded in 2009 by Dipesh Patel before joining the BDP Group in 2021. BDP was founded in 1961 in Preston, UK.

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Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly dies aged 78

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In the UK he designed 20 Fenchurch Street in London, which is widely known as the Walkie Talkie due to its shape, along with the masterplan for Battersea Power Station and the Firstsite visual arts centre in Colchester. In 1989, Viñoly designed Tokyo International Forum, which featured a 60-meter-high curtain wall.

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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. Plans to rejuvenate the area were firsts drawn up in 2009 by Nouvel. Further plans are underway to add an art centre, hotels and office spaces to the island.

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Rafael Vinoly Architects, New York Office

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Jun 22, 2011 firstsite , Colchester, Essex, England image : Hayes Davidson firstsite Colchester firstsite, a major new centre for the visual arts, designed by internationally acclaimed Rafael Viñoly Architects, opened on 25 Sep 2011. The building will be a home for the work of the long established visual arts organisation of the same name.

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ReefLine Sculpture Park, Miami Beach

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The large-scale environmental public art project has been conceived by cultural placemaker Ximena Caminos, who will serve as the project’s Artistic director. For the masterplan, OMA has designed a geometric, concrete modular unit that can be deployed and stacked from South Beach to the north, following the topography of the sea bed.