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de Young Museum
Herzog & de Meuron's copper-clad museum in Golden Gate Park — a building designed to disappear into its landscape as the metal skin slowly turns green.
MFAH Kinder Building
Steven Holl's translucent museum of concave and convex tubes — a building that glows from within and dissolves the line between gallery and garden.
Schindler House
Rudolph Schindler's 1922 experiment in living — a house built from concrete, glass, and canvas that dissolved the boundary between indoor and outdoor life in West Hollywood.
Fondation Beyeler
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Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Carlo Scarpa's 1963 renovation of a Venetian palazzo — where water is not kept out but invited in, and every joint is a meditation on how materials meet.
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.
California Academy of Sciences
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Taipei Performing Arts Center
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羅東文化工場 Luodong Cultural Working House
A massive open-air canopy in Luodong, Yilan — Huang Sheng-Yuan's public stage that shelters gathering without enclosing it.
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.
Vaillancourt Fountain
Armand Vaillancourt's 710-ton brutalist concrete fountain at San Francisco's Embarcadero Plaza — built to mask a freeway, now outlasting the road it was meant to hide.