Built from the remains of a Japanese military barracks dating from the 1930s, the Waterhouse was designed by famous Shanghai-based architecture firm Neri and Hu.

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Contemporary Dutch architecture became internationally famous in the 1990s with a number of distinctive and ambitious projects by pioneering figures like Rotterdam's Rem Koolhaas.

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The surly native of Vicenza, Italy signed up his friend Mead, who has helped start 20 companies, written an industry bible on chip architecture and run a famous lab at Caltech.

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Although quintessentially rural, the region is famous throughout China for its former merchant class and the notable architecture they left behind.

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Although this teaching lacked the heroic content Sullivan felt architecture required, he did draw from it his famous dictum about form and function.

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