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Shigeru Ban's Cardboard Cathedral was the most significant building of 2013

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Ban's replacement for the cathedral, realised with local studio Warren and Mahoney , was the first non-commercial structure to be built in the city centre after the disaster. It also follows the architect's cardboard-tube chapel in Japan, built after the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe in 1995 and later relocated to Taiwan.

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Rostokino by CLK Architects | Shopping centres

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This shopping mall located in Moscow city, with more than 250.000 m2, built-in 2004, needed a new brand identity. The operation was divided into different zones with complex coordination in between technical departments and the non-stop activity of the tenants.

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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. Liu is the 54th Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the founder of Jiakun Architecture, established in 1999.

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Athens International Airport expansion, Greece building

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Originally designed and constructed by Hochtief and completed in 2001 ready for the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics, Athens International Airport is the largest airport in Greece, located 20 kilometres from the city centre. The scope also includes landside and airside updates, aircraft stands, gate seating and commercial areas.

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Seven Parisian brutalist buildings that illustrate the movement's "level of experimentation"

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The repurposing of the building as the National Centre of Dance was completed by Antoinette Robain and Claire Guieysse in 2004, one of the very successful examples of the adaptive re-use of a brutalist building in Paris." By 1997 the building had been returned to the state, after a period of gradual abandonment by the municipality.

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Gradient House, Sequitur winery and the rise of an award-winning firm: Linden, Brown Architecture

Portland Architecture

It’s a smart, beautiful reinvention of live-work space for the post-pandemic era, as well as for Oregon’s new frontier of zoning that breaks down the tyranny of single-family houses. A decade ago, live-work commercial buildings were pretty hip, but in most cases you still had a 20-foot-wide, nine-foot-ceiling, shoebox of space,” Brown says.

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Dhaka Tower, Bangladesh building by OMA

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Dhaka Tower is the first landmark building of this scale in a new commercial district located at the edge of Tejgaon. Rather than conforming to a standard zoning envelope of a tower on a podium, the base is pyramidal, providing soaring atriums with direct connection to landscaped exterior spaces.