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New Grand Palais
The Grand Palais in Paris is a building of superlatives. Its glass dome, one of the largest in Europe, soars an impressive 45 metres high. The centra...
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Veemgebouw in Eindhoven
The historic warehouse of the Philips corporation built in the 1940s is an icon of modern architecture. Caruso St John Architects mastered the challe...
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El Roser Social Centre in Catalonia
The prison in Reus near Tarragona, which was built in 1929 and is today a listed building, already underwent an astonishing metamorphosis in 1979. Ba...
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Wuju Opera on a Stony Stage
Natural stone quarries have a long tradition in Jinyun in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. More than a thousand years ago, people were minin...
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Social Housing in Palma de Mallorca
In many parts of Spain natural stone was a major element of regional building traditions, until stone was replaced by brick and reinforced concrete. T...
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German Romanticism Museum in Frankfurt
“The art of making an object unknown, and yet known and attractive, therein lies the poetics of romanticism.” Thus wrote Novalis, himself ...
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