The Architectural League announced this year Emerging Voices award winners. Today, we will tell you about three of them. Annual Emerging Voices award curated by the Architectural League puts in the limelight the most distinguished and talented North American architects. The laureates are considered to possess an extraordinary capability to change the perception of architecture by making it broader and using it as a tool to address the most topical issues of today’s world. The judges consider the accomplishments and appraise the winners’ architectural works.

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The buddhist temple project curated by London based firm Heatherwick Studio is to be built in a mountainous area in southern Japan. Smooth and wave-like forms of the building can be compared to the silk robes of the Buddhist priests or the folds of cloth in old master paintings.

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We find it so exciting how some schools challenge the established education system and embrace the classroom as an ecosystem where children can learn through discovery and socializing.

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Would Rubens and Caravaggio be surprised to hear that five centuries after they glorified the Baroque style, it will appear on the photographs and paintings of the 21st century as dynamic and vigorous as on their canvases?

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What will the future of bio-organisms be in a digital era? Some believe that they can never be substituted by anything. While others, despite diverse speculations, start changing our perception now and create new interaction between the natural world and the fields of science. The new exhibition called ‘The Fabric of the Living’ which runs until April 15 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris may serve as a great manifestation of the way the cutting-edge technology integrates into biological living matter.

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Each year Pritzker prize is awarded to a selected architect from the list of nominees and grants him or her with the profession’s highest honour. This year the list of nominees included 32 architects. The winner’s name was announced on March 4, so let’s celebrate his work, as well as a few more of the selected nominees who competed for the Pritzker Architecture Prize this year.

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No matter to what extent the city has grown cosmopolitan, it can still be decorated with wondrous and eye-catching buildings, insist the MVRDV architects.

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Untamed beasts have always captured people’s attention with their impetuous nature. But what would happen if a gifted artist rests his eye on a mighty wild animal for quite a while? Let’s see what great ideas it can spark in creative minds.

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As Marcus Tullius Cicero once said: “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”. And it is extremely inspiring to see old buildings being transformed into modern public places like art galleries, cinemas, restaurants and libraries. 

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Lebanese-American designer Nabil Issa gives new life to retro design making it into what may be considered a modern classic. As the designer explains, he tries to “take the spirit of that design era and apply it to the 21st century.”

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