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25 Best Architecture Firms in Chile

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A vast yet narrow topography and a booming design community, Chile continues to gain recognition for its architectural achievements and innovative experimentations of space. Many architects fuse local practices and materiality with Modern sensibilities. This fusion remains a guiding principle for many Chilean architects today.

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15 Best Architecture Firms in Germany

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Materials like concrete and glass were favored, socially progressive housing blocks were built, and a new-found appreciation for modernism was conceived. Modern industrial architecture took off post-war and has played a prominent role in the nation’s economic growth, continuing to do so today.

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Between Memory and Invention

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

and] he is the lead author of the monumental New York series documenting the architectural and urban development of the city over the past 150 years and more than twenty other books. Stern and Jimmy Stamp (Yale University Press, 2016) Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City by by Robert A. Stern Architects. [.]

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30 Best Architecture Firms in the Netherlands

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Cities across the Netherlands are bursting with innovative design, and in this respect, Rotterdam particularly stands out as a hotbed for experimentation. In all designs, Benthem Crouwel seeks a balance between economic, social and ecological interests, with a particular focus on innovation and sustainability.

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25 Best Architecture Firms in Spain

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Think 19th-century Catalan Modernism, spearheaded by the famous Antoni Gaudí: structures like the Sagrada Família are far from unadorned. Always solving technical and functional needs through architecture, but without renouncing beauty through innovation, insinuation or provocation.

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30 Best Architecture Firms in Denmark

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The Danes have a longstanding artistic heritage that traces back to the Vikings and is strongly upheld in today’s modern world. Notwithstanding the foreign influence, a strong nationalist aesthetic flourished in the 20th century, when Nordic Classicism, Functionalist architecture and Modernism dominated.

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20 Best Architecture Firms in Hong Kong

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Our design philosophy is based on a theo-centric worldview to create innovative, inspiring and outstanding spaces and forms of the 21st century. Launched in 2009, via. has developed an impressive portfolio of retail, hospitality, commercial and residential projects. is counted among Hong Kong’s most in-demand design studios.