Theaters by prize winners include Jean Nouvel's Guthrie Theater complex in Minneapolis (his first completed project in North America) and Frank Gehry and Hugh Hardy's Pershing Square Signature Center, the new home of the Signature Theatre Company on West 42nd Street in Manhattan.

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Located just south of Carnegie Hall, on West Fifty-fifth Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, City Center is the original home of New York City Opera and New York City Ballet.

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Eleven years later, the Hua family leave their French Concession town house almost every Saturday to head to their weekend home in Zhaoxiang, a rural suburban township 22 miles west of Shanghai's city center, in the district of Qingpu.

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