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Renzo Piano
Noumea, New Caledonia
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traditional hut design of the Kanak
tribal people, the indigenous
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An early example of green
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were built to take advantage of
air circulation and resist wind
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Kazuyo Sejima
Tokyo
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angular aluminum-
paneled structure in
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Sumida district was
designed by the Pritzker
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houses a collection of
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world-renowned ukiyo-e
woodblock painter
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I.M. Pei
Doha, Qatar
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fountain in the Mosque of
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grand museum—an homage to
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sits alone on a man-made
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so that no building will ever
crowd its geometric lines.
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Zaha Hadid
Baku, Azerbaijan
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brought her signature
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to the former Soviet
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an optimistic view
of the future.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Berlin
Neue Nationalgalerie
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designed by Mies van der Rohe—one of the
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divided into two stories and makes use of a
cantilever system that allows overhanging
structures to be free of external bracing.
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