Table of contents EARLY CURVACEOUS BUILDINGS 016 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 018 Selfridges Birmingham Department Store 020 30 St Mary Axe 022 Za-Koenji Public Theatre 024 Design Museum Holon 026 Château Cheval Blanc 028 Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts 030 Soumaya Museum 032 Reflections at Keppel Bay 034 Galaxy SOHO 036 Aula Medica 038 Cayan Tower
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Harbin Opera House Blavatnik School of Government gjG House Elliptic House Bosjes Chapel Museo Internacional del Barroco Pino Familia Museum Raffles City Hangzhou PANEUM - Wunderkammer des Brotes Rode House Barangaroo House New’R
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The Curve Mediatheque de Vitrolles The LOOP Maya Somaiya Library Leeza SOHO The Twist Gallery The Wave Stiletto House Courbes Residential Building The National Museum of Qatar TreeHugger Jiangshan Yun Chu – Legend Gallery The Exchange RACV Cape Schanck Resort He Art Museum The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum Arkadia Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet Bumpers Oast MoAE Winter Visual Arts Building Suzhou Bay Cultural Center Cloudscape of Haikou Punta Majahua
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Introduction In conversation with MAD Architects Index Photo Credits Acknowledgements