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Glass towers
High-rise architecture from the curtain-wall era onward, where the facade became a skin rather than a wall.
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IAC Building
2007 · Contemporary
Euralille
1994 · Contemporary
Tokyo Skytree
2012 · Contemporary
Central Saint Giles
2010 · Contemporary
Umeda Sky Building
1993 · Contemporary
Merkurhuset
1899 · Contemporary
Bloomberg European Headquarters
2017 · Contemporary
Ericsson Kista
2010 · Contemporary
Heron Tower
2011 · Contemporary
Fuji TV Headquarters
1996 · High-Tech
MoMA Tower
2020 · Contemporary
Lotte World Tower
2017 · Contemporary
Edifici MediaTIC
2010 · High-Tech
Orange Cube
2011 · Contemporary
De Rotterdam
2013 · Contemporary
Isozaki Gate
2008 · Contemporary
Kineum
2022 · Contemporary
8 Canada Square
2002 · High-Tech
Cape Town International Convention Centre
2003 · Contemporary
Calypso
2013 · Contemporary
Roppongi Hills Mori Tower
2003 · Contemporary
Izumi Garden Tower
2002 · Contemporary
Kant Triangle
1995 · Contemporary
The Scalpel
2018 · Contemporary
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- Museums and galleries 792
- Public art 775
- Stone and mortar 762
- World Heritage 489
- Castles and palaces 484
- Local traditions 430
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- Post-war ambition 368
- Schools 349
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- The functionalist turn 284
- National romanticism 262
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- Concrete 193
- Stations 170
- Bridges 166
- Industrial architecture 142
- Award winners 141
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