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								  |  | 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art 
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| ARCHITECTURE  |  | Buildings for cultural activities Libraries and media libraries Conference halls Museums and buildings for exhibitions Art museums |  |  
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                                    | Leone d'Oro, Biennale di Venezia |  |  
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                                    | Antonella Boisi, "21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art", Interni 549, marzo/march 2005 [Intellectual Design], pp. 30-35 |  
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                                    | Harumi Narusawa, "Il riscatto del «museo deluso»", Il giornale dell'architettura 24, dicembre 2004, "Musei" p. 27 |  
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                                    | Joseph Grima, Kayoko Ota, "21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art", Domus 876, dicembre/december 2004, pp. 18-45 Joseph Grima, "Solida trasparenza/Solid transparency", Domus 876, dicembre/december 2004, pp. 20-31 (18-45)
 Francesca Picchi, "Tre sedute di SANAA/Three chairs by SANAA", Domus 876, dicembre/december 2004, p. 43 (18-45)
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                                    | Sasaki Structural Consultants (Mutsuro Sasaki, Yasutaka Konishi) |  |   
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                                    | Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA |  |   
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                                    | Toshihiro Yoshimura, Yoshifumi Kojima, Koichiro Tokimori, Kansuke Kawashima, Tetsuo Kondo, Shoko Fukuya, Mizuki Imamura, Naoki Hori, Junya Ishigami, Erika Hidaka, Keizo Eki |  |  
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                                    | Takenanka Corporation Sumitomo Densetsu
 Ams Corporation
 Taikisha Ltd.
 
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