It's not about flashy starchitect bling, high-tech tricks, minimalist sensory deprivation or narcissistic egos.

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Redesigned by Pritzker Prize-winning starchitect Jean Nouvel, the cube-like white space is flooded with light through skylights and tinted windows.

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Because he practiced before the phenomenon of the celebrity starchitect, his name is virtually unknown to the public or to architecture students today.

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This is a rising starchitect who actually seems to get sustainability, actually cares about efficiency and green design and context and public space.

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His time working with Koolhaas, who is often called a "starchitect" as one of the industry's best known names, had a great affect on Cho.

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Guggenheim Museum opened a satellite in Bilbao, Spain, in 1997 designed by Mr. Gehry, museum boards around the U.S. have come to believe that all will be well if they can just hitch their wagons to a starchitect.

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In green architecture news, word has just come out that Facebook has commissioned Bilbao-famed starchitect Frank Gehry to design a green extension to the Facebook Menlo Park campus - complete with a massive, walkable green roof!

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Its full 120m height is still under construction (its 19th floor is open to visitors), but thanks to its 27 floors of luxury apartments and use of sustainable architecture, it just might be the most-talked about new building in Rome since the MAXXI, built by starchitect Zaha Hadid and opened in 2010.

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