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Princess Towers

Planned as an experimental, non-profit cooperative student accommodation project the enterprise initially failed. However, renting the units traditionally to students/young professionals was successful.

New Haven Central Fire Station

Like the Temple Street Parking Garage, the fire station is also part of the new urban fabric for New Haven. Alongside its immediate purpose it also served thanks to its monumental scale as an architectural landmark for the district.

Butantã Houses / Casa Paulo Mendes Da Rocha

The project consists of two almost identical twin houses built next to each other for Rocha himself and his sister. Communist da Rocha wished to create a design that flew in the face of the villas of the middle classes and therefore opted for a free lay…

Hayward Gallery

Herron and Chalk were founding members of Archigram (1960). Located directly next to Lasduns National Theater begun in 1967 the gallery is part of the Southbank Centre on the southern bank of the Thames. It houses both the collection but also the tempo…

Central Post Office

One of several buildings that for a while gave the German Post Offices a kind of architectural corporate identity. Indoors, the rough concrete is combined with Pop elements in brash colors, its harshness thus toned down somewhat. The striking silhouette…

Alexandra and Ainsworth Road Estate

The structure effectively blocks off the noise from the adjoining railroad tracks, with the apartments opening up on the other side to a footpath. The building transforms the traditional British terrace houses and was an alternative to the residential t…

Ohgigaoka Campus, Kanazawa Institute of Technology

Phase 1: 1967–1969, In phase 2, completed in 1976, Otani introduced repetitive shallow concrete vaults as a major new design element, which would further dominate the designs of phase 3, completed in 1982. A fourth construction phase, led by Otani a…

Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste)

The academy is a German example of the first, early period of Brutalism in the spirit of the Hunstanton School. Rather than exploring extravagant, sculptural shapes, the focus lies on stripped down aesthetics that unapologetically expose the building’…

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius.
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To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design.
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To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared.
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To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history.
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To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals.
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To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change.
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To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria).
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To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance.
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To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features.
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To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation.
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