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Zaha Hadid was asked to design the BMW Central Building in Leipzig, Germany (2005), described as the "nerve center of the whole factory complex," subsequent to an April 2002 competition she won, when the layout of adjacent manufacturing buildings had already been decided. Suppliers chosen for the rest of the factory provided many prefabricated elements, in harmony with the "industrial approach to office spaces" decided by BMW.
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CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER BY PELLI The Connecticut Science Center is a new architectural showpiece in the city of Hartford, Connecticut, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. The design expresses themes that have been part of Cesar Pelli's oeuvre for many years: the importance of public space and its role in the city.
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The Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in Nagasaki, Japan, is one of Kengo Kuma's most successful designs in an urban setting. In this project, a small canal with flanking pedestrian promenades runs between two interconnected sections of the complex, bringing a part of the nearby sea, the port area, and the public realm of the city into the domain of the museum.
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From the outside, Ørestad College in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a simple five-story cuboid. But the conventional exterior form conceals a radical open-plan interior. Designed by Danish architects 3XN, the experimental secondary school seems to embody all kinds of things that a school typically isn't.
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More Architecture and Design New Yale Building Draws Mixed Reactions — New Haven Register, 2009.1119Surface Tension — New Yorker, 2009.1118 Zaha Hadid's Museum Opens in Rome — The Times (UK), 2009.1117 More Accolades for Austin Architects' Prize-Winning Potty — Austin American-Statesman, 2009.1113 Wellington Architecture Prizes Reward Sustainability — Stuff, 2009.1113 Officials Consider History in UVa Design — DailyProgress.com, 2009.1111 Five Works by Zaha Hadid — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1111 K Rd Building Named One of World's Best — New Zealand Herald, 2009.1111 In Poland, Modern Among Traditional — New York Times, 2009.1111 Cool for School — New York Times, 2009.1108 Local Projects Earn Architecture Awards — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2009.1107 The Architect's Own Place, Small but Full of Poetry and Surprise — Washington Post, 2009.1107 Audi Showroom by Wilkinson Eyre — Wallpaper, 2009.1103 What a Posh Hotel and a New Library Share — Boston Globe, 2009.1101 Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena Design a Hillside Gallery — , 2009.1031 Cultures Successfully Crossed at Oxford's Ashmolean — BD, 2009.1029 Design Has Gone Digital but We're Still Waiting for the Wonder Walls — Brisbane Times, 2009.1029 Of Museums and Cemeteries — Wall Street Journal, 2009.1029 Connecticut Science Center by Pelli — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.1028 A Neighborly New Police Headquarters — Los Angeles Times, 2009.1024 Charles Was Right to Pan 1980s Buildings, Chipperfield Says — Bloomberg, 2009.1023 British Embassy, Warsaw, Poland by Tony Fretton Architects — Architects' Journal, 2009.1022 Wright-Ish — Metropolis, 2009.1021 Design Pittsburgh Shines Spotlight on Year's Best Architectural Achievements — Pop City Media, 2009.1021 Architect's Challenge: A Sliver of a Space — New York Times, 2009.1020 Houses of the Future — The Atlantic, 2009.1017 Couple Trade Traditional Home for Contemporary Condo — St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2009.1017 'Frank Gehry: The Houses' by Mildred Friedman — Los Angeles Times, 2009.1017 Admissions Center Garners Positive Reaction — Brandeis Hoot, 2009.1016 Home Sweet R100m Home — Financial Mail, 2009.1016
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