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IM Pei's Museum of Islamic Art was the most significant building of 2008

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Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series is the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha , Qatar, by IM Pei , the first "mega-museum in the Gulf". Such references led the New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ourousoff to describe the museum as a "temple of high art, placing culture on the same pedestal as religion".

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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. Read: Eleven key projects by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winner Liu Jiakun Writing novels and practicing architecture are distinct forms of art, and I didn't deliberately seek to combine the two," Liu once said. His studio created the first foreign Serpentine Pavilion.

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MAD "cracks open" facade of Denver residential building

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Highly reflective glass reflects the mountains to the west Other details that reference the state's environment include a massive boulder that was placed in the lobby, which required additional reinforcement for the ground-floor foundation slab. The photography is by Iwan Baan unless otherwise stated.

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Anna Heringer's Anandaloy was the most significant building of 2020

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The thick walls of the building were created using an ancient technique known as cob, with local earth, straw, sand and water kneaded like dough and formed into walls atop fired-brick foundations. "It was my first urbanism." The illustration is by Jack Bedford and the photography is by Kurt Hoerbs.

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SOM's Burj Khalifa put Dubai on the map

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Photo by Bradley Young Sculptural wings fan out from the Burj's Y-shaped tripartite floor plan, built into a solid-rock foundation. The Burj Khalifa's sturdy foundations were, and remain, a feat of engineering. Construction took place over six years.

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2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner, Liu Jiakun

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Sichuan Fine Arts Institute Department of Sculpture (Chongqing, China, 2004) displays an alternate solution to maximizing space, with upper levels protruding outward to extend the square footage of a narrow footprint. Visit pritzkerprize.com for more information.

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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.