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Travel blog: Visiting Portugal
Braga, Porto, Cascais, Marco de Canavezes, Lisbon, Portugal

Portuguese cities are abound with characteristically narrow and colorful tiled buildings, and having skimmed through the mandatory guidebooks before my visit, I was expecting this. But on my architectural sightseeing, it struck me as odd how relatively few modern buildings I encountered.

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Sinclair Garden Pavilion
Hodgetts + Fung
Pasadena, California, USA

Download images of the Sinclair Garden Pavilion by Hodgetts + Fung. The Sinclair Garden Pavilion is the first finished building of the Master Plan, a collaboration between Frank Gehry and Alvaro Siza, to expand the Pasadena campus. Photographed by Kirsten Kiser.

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Tietgen Dormitory
Lundgaard & Tranberg
Copenhagen, Denmark

• Denmark
• Residential

Danish architects Lundgaard & Tranberg’s circle-round, award-winning dormitory is a gentle and refined addition to the newest borough in the Danish capital Copenhagen, Orestad. An area largely dominated by square-shaped, glass and steel structures.

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Langen Foundation
Tadao Ando
Neuss, Germany

Download images of the Langen Foundation by Tadao Ando. The Langen Foundation is located at the Raketenstation Hombroich, a former NATO base. Visitors enter through a cut-out in the semicircular concrete wall, opening up the view to the glass, steel and concrete building. Photographed by Kirsten Kiser.

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Glass Farm
MVRDV
Schijndel, The Netherlands

• The Netherlands
• Commercial

MVRDV has printed a full farmhouse in Schijndel, a medieval village in the southern Netherlands and the hometown of MVRDV co-founder Winy Mass. Or at least left the skin of the town centres' glass façade in the hands of a well-equipped fritting machine before wrapping the whole body in printed glass with motives from the best of the average from local history.