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| London Tate Modern - 2001 Pritzker Prize winning Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron have created a major tourist draw with their striking museum on the south bank of the Thames. |
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Berlin Reichstag - With several new embassies, public projects and a re-designed Reichstag by British architect Sir Norman Foster, re-unified Berlin is becoming a mecca for architecture enthusiasts. |
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| Seattle Experience Music Project - following on the heels of his press-grabbing Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, Frank O. Gehry has served up an architectural homage to rock & roll that is as brash and iconoclastic as the music it honours. |
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Valencia City of Arts + Sciences - learning from Bilbao, Valencia, Spain has hired native Valencian, now internationally famous architect Santiago Calatrava for an ambitious endeavor. The largest cultural project in Europe will include an Opera house, Planetarium, Science museum and IMAX theatre. |
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New York - Manhattanites will have to wait until 2002 for a number of projects by "star-chitects" like Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel and Richard Meier. On Long Island however, Meier has overseen the selection of 34 top architects for a major undertaking of new house designs. The first of "The Houses at Sagaponac" will be completing this summer. |
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