Location: Colombia

Date: unknown

Architect: unknown

Purpose: unkown

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Location: Seoul, South Korea

Date: fountain installed : 2009

Architect: unknown

Purpose: Bridge

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More info: The Moonlight Rainbow Fountain is the world’s longest bridge fountain that set a Guinness World Record with nearly 10,000 LED nozzles that run along both sides that is 1,140m long, shooting out 190 tons of water per minute. Installed in September 2009 on the Banpo Bridge, Seoul mayor Oh Se-hoon praised that the bridge will further beautify the city and showcase Seoul’s eco-friendliness, as the water is pumped directly from the river itself and continuously recycled. The project is the first of its kind in the world. The bridge has 38 water pumps and 9,380 nozzles on either side, which draw 190 tons of water per minute from the river 20 meters below the deck, and shoots as far as 43 meters horizontally.

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Location: Burlingame, California, USA

Date: 1976

Architect: Willliam Nicholson

Purpose: Private house

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More info: The house was designed and built in as an experiment in new building materials, in the form of a series of domes. It was constructed by spraying gunite onto steel rebar and wire mesh frames over inflated balloons. During its early existence it was off-white in color, but was repainted a deep orange in the mid 2000s.

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Location: Independence, Missouri, USA

Date: 1994

Architect: unknown

Purpose: Temple

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More info: The Temple in Independence, Missouri, is a house of worship and education “dedicated to the pursuit of peace”. It was built by the Community of Christ

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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Date: third expansion – 2007

Architect: Daniel Libeskind and Bregman + Hamann Architects

Purpose: Museum

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More info: It is Canada’s largest museum of world culture and natural history. The ROM is the fifth largest museum in North America, containing more than six million items and over 40 galleries. It has notable collections of dinosaurs, Near Eastern and African art, East Asian art, European history, and Canadian history. It contains the world’s largest collection of fossils from the Burgess Shale with more than 150,000 specimens. It has also hosted many travelling exhibits.

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Location: Denver, Colorado, USA

Date: 2006

Architect: unknown

Purpose: Art museum

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More info: This museum is known for its collection of American Indian art, and has a comprehensive collection numbering more than 68,000 works from across the world.

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Location: Hilversum, Netherlands

Date: 1999

Architect: Neutelings Riedijk Architects

Purpose: Institute

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More info: The Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision looks after, and provides access to 70 per cent of the Dutch audio-visual heritage. In total, around 700,000 hours of television, radio, music and film; making Sound and Vision one of the largest audiovisual archives in Europe. Sound and Vision combines highest professional standards regarding the release and storage of the material with easy access for its users, using state of the art systems for asset management and storage.

(Image credits: 1: Marc C, 2: hans s, 3: jpmm)

Location: Spittelau, Vienna, Austria

Date: 1992

Architect: Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Purpose: Heating plant

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More info: Hundertwasser at first declined a commission to redesign the exterior of the Spittelau district heating plant. Only after being convinced that that a city as large as Vienna would always have some garbage to burn, and that fitting the plant with the most modern emission-scrubbing technology and using it to provide central heat for some 60,000 neighboring apartments would actually reduce emissions overall, did he finally agree.

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Location: Birmingham, UK

Date: 2003

Architect: Benoy

Purpose:  Commercial area

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More info: The Bullring Shopping Centre was masterplanned and designed mainly by Benoy. The shopping centre consists of two main buildings (East and West Mall) which are connected by an underground passage lined with shops. The two malls are different internally in design. The balustrades in the East Mall consist of integrated glass ‘jewels’ within the metal framework, and are of different colours formed through polyester powder coating. Touchscreen computers, developed by Calm Digital, are located throughout the building which allow a user to search for the location of a certain store or browse a map of the complex.

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Location: New York, USA

Date: 2009

Architect: Thom Mayne

Purpose: Academic building

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More info: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (commonly referred to simply as The Cooper Union or Cooper Union) is a privately-funded college in Downtown Manhattan, New York City. Cooper Union, founded in 1859, established a radical new model of American higher education. New Academic Building is of modern, environmentally “green” design, housing nine above-ground floors and two basements. The structure features unconventional architectural features, including a full-height Grand Atrium, prevalent interior windows, a four-story linear central staircase, and upper-level skyways, which reflect the design intention of inspiring, socially interactive space for students and faculty. In addition, the building’s design allows for up to 75% natural lighting, further reducing energy costs.

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