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La Pyramide

As a counter concept to buildings in the International Style of the day also found on the Ivory Coast, which were not really best suited to the local climate with their sealed glass façades, Olivieri conceived the market-like shopping mall with an open…

Civic Center Garath / St. Matthäus

For this project which consists of a church, chapel and retirement home, Böhm combined concrete and brick into a sculptural composition, playfully citing archetypal elements of medieval castle architecture: The retirement home, which surrounds the chur…

Norrköpings Stadsbibliotek (City Library)

The building was drawn by Swedish architect Sten Samuelson who was personaly aquinted with Louis Kahn. Some design choices that proved to be inflexible were met with initial criticism from the staff of librarians. The library is among the bigger in Swed…

Westrand Cultural Center

Alphonse Hoppenbrouwers was a postmodern architect in the eighties and nineties in Belgium. Influenced by the architects De Sijn and Le Corbusier, he paid strong attention to the real needs of people, building public buildings such as schools, cultural …

Center of Home Design (D?m bytové kultury – DBK)

Quite unusually for a project built in a communist country, this house’s design was implemented without a preceding competition and was appointed directly to the Machonins by the owner of the biggest furniture company. Here the Machonins first used…

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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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