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3 Le Corbusier – Pilgrimage Chapel, Ranchamp, Belfort, 1950-55.(Alistair Gardner) Scharoun’s major project for the Berlin Philharmonie. Both buildings have become icons for their respective host cities, despite the technical problems of building them and the functional challenges of inhabiting them. A more recent example of this phenomenon is Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim museum, completed recently in the run-down and neglected Spanish city of Bilbao. This building’s complexity provides a startling demonstration of the advances in information technology, as the hand-crafted models, made in the architect’s own office, have been computerized into digital data and transferred directly into the construction process. Another project which promises to update a city’s image is Daniel Libeskind’s extension to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. This spiral of “distorted boxes” offers a challenge to its conservation context and should, perhaps almost incidentally, provide an intriguing series of exhibition spaces. On a smaller scale,
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