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The Jawahar Kala Kendra Arts center located in Jaipur was designed in 1986 by acclaimed architect Charles Correa. It was commissioned by the Rajasthan government to preserve Rajasthani Arts and Crafts. The plan is inspired by the original city plan of Jaipur, consisting of nine squares with central square left open.
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In 1986, an avalanche hit the small Swiss village of Mogno, flattening the hamlet’s seventeenth-century church. Architect Mario Botta was commissioned to design the new San Giovanni Battista church on the site. Although the new sacred space preserves the relatively modest dimensions, it introduces a new image and a new language. The language conveys a contemporary dimension, mediated by an…
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The house the Australian architecture duo Bolles + Wilson designed and built between 1990 and 1993 for Mr. Suzuki in Tokyo is a playful unicum, yet a perfectly contextualized fragment in the Japanese city.
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Sverre Fehn’s Villa Busk stands on the edge of a rocky outcrop with a distant view of the sea. It was built for a musician in 1990. Like many of his buildings, the house has a strong relationship with the surroundings and blends modernity with regionalism. Much like Finland’s Alvar Aalto, Fehn’s buildings have a timelessness that arises from these…
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The Neuendorf House designed by John Pawson and Claudio Silvestrin in 1991, is a vacation house for a German art dealer set in an almond grove on the island of Mallorca. The house uses materials and colours characteristic of the island’s traditional architecture in a renewing formal vocabulary.
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The Benesse House Museum opened in 1992 as a facility integrating a museum with a hotel, based on the concept of “coexistence of nature, art and architecture.” Designed by Tadao Ando, the facility is built on high ground overlooking the Seto Inland Sea and features large apertures that serve to open up the interior to the splendid natural surroundings.
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The Town Hall in Borgoricco, Italy, designed by Aldo Rossi, was known for his repeated use of cones, cylinders and squares.
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The Site of Reversible Destiny is an “experience park” opened in 1995 designed by Nagoya-born, New York-based artist Arakawa Shusaku and his wife and artistic partner, poet Madeline Gins. The theme of the park is “encountering the unexpected,” spreading across about 18,000 square meters. The artist Shusaku Arakawa and poet Madeline Gins realized here their bold and reckless 30-year vision. The site…
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The Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann was designed in 1996 by the architects Zamp Kelp, Julius Krauss and Arno Brandlhuber . The building is located at the site of the first Neanderthal man discovery in the Neanderthal and features an exhibit centered on human evolution.
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The Lovett Bay House in Sydney, Australia designed by Architect Richard Leplastrier and completed in 1994 exemplifies the idea of architecture as a vessel and a cradle for the family.
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