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MFAH Beck Building
Rafael Moneo's limestone pavilion for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston — a building of restrained surfaces and carefully measured light.
TWA Flight Center
Eero Saarinen's sculptural terminal at JFK — a concrete shell that made flight feel like flight before you ever left the ground.
Fondation Beyeler
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Vitra Campus
A pilgrimage site for architecture and design on the German-Swiss border, where buildings by Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, and Tadao Ando stand in conversation across a single campus.
Negozio Olivetti
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Villa La Roche
Le Corbusier's 1925 manifesto in built form — a house designed as a promenade architecturale, where movement through space is the architecture itself.
Villa Savoye
Le Corbusier's white box in the fields of Poissy — the building that codified modern architecture's five points and turned a weekend house into a manifesto.
Seattle Central Library
Rem Koolhaas and OMA's diamond-skinned library in downtown Seattle — a building that treats books, light, and public space as a single continuous material.
平成知新館 Heisei Chishinkan Wing, Kyoto National Museum
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Taipei Performing Arts Center
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津梅棧道 Jin-Mei Forest Walkway
A pedestrian boardwalk threaded beneath a highway bridge in Yilan City — Huang Sheng-Yuan's quiet intervention that turns infrastructure into public life.
櫻花陵園 Cherry Blossom Cemetery
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Katsura Imperial Villa
A seventeenth-century villa and garden in Kyoto that taught modern architecture everything it thought it invented — modular space, fluid plan, the dissolution of wall and landscape.
He Art Museum
Tadao Ando's concrete double-helix museum in Shunde, where circular geometry and water courts bring contemplative silence to the Pearl River Delta.