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The Global Note: Cruise Nightmare - Redux…Getting Out Of Homs…Three Million Tons Of Tsunami Debris
the company of Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano and Eduardo Souto de Moura. Wang has been awarded this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize - the "Nobel Prize of Architecture" - becoming the first Chinese citizen to receive it. Wang is being
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The Presidential Planner
House Republican Caucus which some Republicans described as "frosty" and "frank." Later in the evening Mr. Obama and the First Lady will attend the Pritzker Architecture Prize event at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium in Washington, DC.
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10 great places to see the super side of Dallas
Center One of the world's finest private sculpture collections anchors the city's impressive arts district. Designed by Pritzker Prize -winner Renzo Piano, the center displays a who's who of modern art, including works by Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin
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Rome Makes Room for Modern Art
former military barracks in a residential neighborhood outside the city center. Hadid was the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 2004. The three-story cement and glass building features a dramatic, light-filled open atrium with
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Discover the 'Prada Transformer'
rubbery in texture, it is waterproof and translucent, sending shadows out at night. The brilliance of Rem Koolhaas – a Pritzker Prize -winning architect known for his buildings and writings that embrace the energy of modernity – kicks in when the white
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San Francisco itineraries: One day, weekend or week
Sciences. Re-opening in the fall of 2008, the natural science museum, aquarium, and planetarium, designed by Italian Pritzker Prize -winning architect Renzo Piano, will be housed in what is to be the world's 'greenest' museum—an environmentally
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New Art Center in Madrid Opens
the CaixaForum building was designed by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners and designers of London's Tate Modern. The center is a restoration and expansion of a red-brick
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Architect Philip Johnson Dies at 98
it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter," Johnson said in his acceptance speech for the Pritzker Prize , which is often called the Nobel Prize of architecture. Johnson was the first recipient of the prize when it was created



