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Thomas Phifer uses white concrete to create boxy Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

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US architect Thomas Phifer has unveiled the Museum of Modern Art in central Warsaw , which resembles two giant boxes stacked on top of each other. Phifer said the staircase at the Museum of Modern Art (MSN) was designed to function as "a playful social space for people to stop and talk".

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Ten notable projects by 2025 Royal Gold Medal-winner SANAA

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Among the studio's key projects are the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, which is composed of a low-lying circular structure wrapped with glass, and the stepped Sydney Modern gallery in Australia. Alongside its central art galleries, it hosts public spaces including a library, lecture hall and children's workshop.

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Architecture 101: What is Modern Architecture?

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Despite their differences, these architectural expressions shared a common goal: to break away from historicism while creating an architecture that had not been produced before and responded to contemporary realities. Philip Johnson (1906-2005). Is contemporary architecture an extension of Modernism? Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012 ).

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Ten highlights from Naoto Fukasawa: Things in Themselves exhibition

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art has launched aretrospective exhibition of designer Naoto Fukasawa , exploring his design ethos alongside his creative process and presenting product designs with models. In this wall clock for Magis , the clarity of a Ram's timepiece meets the slight playfulness of Fukasawa's design approach.

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Zaha Hadid's Bergisel Ski Jump was the most significant building of 2002

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Although the project didn't end up being built, it in part led to her inclusion in the seminal Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1988, where she featured alongside Frank Gehry , Rem Koolhaas , Daniel Libeskind , Peter Eisenman and Coop Himmelb(l)au.

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Lacaton & Vassal, Frédéric Druot and Christophe Hutin's Transformation of 530 Dwellings was the most significant building of 2016

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The project drew attention to the issue of social housing retrofit While global recognition re-framed Lacaton & Vassal's work, the duo had since their formation in 1987 been exploring how shoestring budgets, simple gestures and ordinary materials could be used to maximum effect, whether for a private house or a contemporary arts centre.

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

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We continue our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series with the Anandaloy centre in Bangladesh by Studio Anna Heringer , a pioneering project for the revival of mud construction in contemporary architecture. Mud is regarded as a poor and old-fashioned material and inferior to brick, for example," said the studio.

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