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MAD "cracks open" facade of Denver residential building

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Enclosed public areas are interspersed between the outdoor elements MAD was founded in 2004 in Beijing and has offices in Los Angeles and Rome. Many of its in-progress projects include formal references to natural phenomena, such as the wave-like roof for the proposed Nanhai Art Center in Guangdong.

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Liu Jiakun wins 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize

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Liu's key projects include Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum. He embarked on his journey to becoming an architect in 1978, when he was accepted to study at the Institute of Architecture and Engineering in Chongqing now Chongqing University. Photo by Chen Chen Liu was born in Chengdu, China, in 1956.

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Stefano Boeri's Bosco Verticale was the most significant building of 2014

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The most significant of these was the 10-storey Tower Flower completed by Edouard Franois in 2004, which was surrounded by 380 oversized concrete plant pots containing bamboo. Bosco Verticale took the trend to its extreme. The two towers are covered in 800 trees, along with 15,000 perennials and 5,000 shrubs.

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Grafton Architects' UTEC Lima campus was the most significant building of 2015

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Completed in 2015, the University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) campus in Lima paved the way for Grafton Architects ' Pritzker win, which would come five years later. The illustration is by Jack Bedford and photography is by Iwan Baan.

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Neri&Hu adds "glowing lantern" on top of Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xi’an

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Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu has added an extension to the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xi'an , China, that was designed to "serve as a source of illumination for the surrounding urban fabric". Based in Shanghai, Neri&Hu was founded by architects Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu in 2004. The photography is by Zhu Runzi.

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SOM's Burj Khalifa put Dubai on the map

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The skyscraper is supported by a central buttressed core, an architectural invention by the building's lead engineer Bill Baker first applied to Seoul's Palace Tower III. The Burj Khalifa's sturdy foundations were, and remain, a feat of engineering. Construction took place over six years.

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Advocates for Change: 8 Visionary Leaders in Architecture Join the A+Awards Jury

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His first big exhibition was at the YOUNG Guns exhibition in New York City in 2004 while his Styx Valley Protest Shelter was exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale. He sits on the Board of the Urban Design Forum and the Government Advisory Board of Shenzhen and is an Elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.