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MARTa Herford
Architect: Frank Gehry
Size: 8,100 m²
Date: 2001-2005
Use: Museum
Location: Herford, Germany
Population: 65,113The little manufacturing town of Herford was clearly aiming to put itself on the architectural map when they commissioned Gehry’s “dancing sculpture” of a building for their new contemporary art museum during the economic boom at the turn of the century.
(Photo: Thomas Mayer, courtesy of MARTa Herford)
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(Photo: Andrew Moore
andrewlmoore.com )Sutyagin House
Owner/Builder: Nikolai Petrovich Sutyagin
Date: 1992 – 2007
Use: Family residence
Size: 44m high
Location: Arkhangelsk, Russia
Population: 348,783Known as the “wooden skyscraper”, this 13-storey statement was self-built by a local Russian lumber mogul. He worked on it for 15 years before a spell in prison drew a halt to construction. In his absence his house was condemned as fire hazard — and lo and behold, it burnt to the ground in 2012.
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Steilneset Memorial
Architect: Peter Zumthor
Size: 125m long
Date: 2011
Use: Memorial
Location: Vardo, Norway
Population: 2,122Situated in a small fishing town on the northernmost tip of Norway, this memorial commemorates victims of witch burnings in the 17th century. It houses an installation by the artist Louise Bourgeois: a flaming steel chair surrounded by a circle of mirrors.
(Photo: Bjarne Riesto)
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Hilversum Town Hall
Architect: Willem Marinus Dudok
Size: Approx. 8,265 m²
Date: 1931
Use: Local government building
Location: Hilversum, The Netherlands
Population: 86,030Dudok was the city architect for the town of Hilversum from 1927-54. Several public buildings, 75 houses and entire neighbourhoods bear the hallmarks of his distinctive style: flat roofs, masses and voids, strong lines and asymmetry.
(Photo: Wouter Hagens)
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