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Magney House in New South Wales

Glenn Murcutt
Bingie Australia.1984 Point.Nueva South Wales

Imagen the Flickr
The Australian architect Glenn Murcutt won the Alvar Aalto Medal and Pritzker Prize 2002. His work stands out for its fidelity to inherit simultaneously modern and Australian indigenous tradition where their homes stand out as light, functional and comfortable, designed according to the environment and climate.

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Museo de Arte Kimbell

Louis Kahn
Camp Bowie Boulevard. Forth Worth, Texas. USA, 1972

Side Porch to the museum. Photos: Xavier Jaureguiberri.

This museum is one of the most interesting works of one of the most gifted architects emerge during the twentieth century. Would originate in the order that the patrons would Texan Kay Kimbell Philadelphia architect to house his exquisite art collection.

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Ramp at Castelldefels Castle

Jose Antonio Martinez Lapeña and Elias Torres
Castelldefels Barcelona. Spain. 1993

In 1993 Lapeña Martinnez architects and Elias Torres started the project to adapt the access to Castelldefels Castle, located on top of a hill about 60 m above the sea.This Castle which dominates the south of the Delta del Llobregat and what once was an Iberian settlement and later a Roman villa stands Castelldefells.Este Castle project was to provide access to the castle from , so that due to uneven plotting went zig-zag ramps with a gentle slope to allow access to the castle in a comfortable.

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House Curzio Malaparte

Adalberto Libera and Curzio Malaparte
Punta Masullo. Isle of Capri, Italy. 1943

This house is an icon representing the finest architecture made in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century. Emerging from the combination of the ideas of the great architect Adalberto Libera and Curzio Malaparte writer's intuitions, constitutes a unique investigation of the relationship between architecture and landscape.

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Hotel Termas de Vals

Peter Zumthor
Churchill, Canton Grisones.Suiza. 1996

This equipment is located in a small valley in the Swiss canton of Graubünden 1200 m above sea level beside the river of Valserrhein. It is one of the most recognized Swiss architect, Prtizker Award for Architecture 2009.

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Tierra Patagonia Hotel

Cazú Zegers
Lago Sarmiento, Torres del Paine
Region XII. Chile. 2011

A committed work of architecture that sits on one of the greatest natural environments on the planet, National Park Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia.

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Pools in Cornella Sports Park

Alvaro Siza
Cornella de Llobregat. Barcelona. Spain .2006

Located in the municipal boundaries of Cornellà de Llobregat is Parc Complex Esportiu great sports equipment 40.000 square meters by the architect Portuguese, Alvaro Siza.

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Nexus World en Fukuoka

Rem Koolhaas-OMA
Kashii.Fukuoka.Japon 1991

Nexus World (1991) is one of the experiments on multifamily housing typology most interesting of recent times. This set included the participation of several famous Western architects, led by renowned Japanese master Arata Isosaki, including Steven Holl, Oscar Tusquets, Mark Mack, Christian de Portzamparc, Osamu Ishiyama y especially Rem Koolhaas, who was catapulted to international fame after her participation in this project.

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Villa Maire

Alvar Aalto
Little Birch Alley. Noormarkku, Finland. 1938
Porch access to the Villa Mairea. Photos: David Gross, Flickr

This is one of the most significant works of Finnish teacher. It is a manifesto in which Alvar Aalto tried to express in the beginning its peculiar way of understanding architecture.

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Congress Centre in Lucerne

Jean Nouvel
Lucerne 1995-2000
Switzerland

Lucerne city north of Lake Lucerne, shows all the Swiss tradition maintaining the same architectural image, without introducing new buildings never, until the appearance of the new Conference Center.

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