Chinese architect Wang Shu won the prize last year - the first Chinese citizen to do so.

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The award for the most copied building goes to the White House, says Yung Ho Chang, a Chinese architect and the former head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's architecture department.

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Implied throughout the article is that a man named Lawrence Yen, president of a Chinese furniture company, was the architect of some crafty plan to avoid U.S. duties.

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The memorial was designed by Master Lei Yixin, a Chinese sculptor, and overseen by an American architect, Ed Jackson.

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To keep his buildings cool, the architect uses greenery, natural ventilation and shaded pedestrian routes -- similar to traditional Chinese shophouses.

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