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Easy one to start with. Identify?

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Recognize the architect above. What kitchen utensil did

he design?

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To Russia with Love. Identify the two and by Who?

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Recognize this Mile High wannabe.

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Besides being an international symbol of modernist architectural

style, this place had been hailed as one of the best designed public
places. Recognise.
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ROUND ONE THEME QUESTION
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Apart from being skyscrapers, what is the underlying

theme of the 5?
Clue. The last one triumphed where the others seem to fail.
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“This is a building you
wouldn't want to get
anywhere near at a
cocktail party. Dressed
nearly head to toe in
dour granite, and
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geometrically proper,
it's stiff to the point of
pass-out boredom. Out
of character with SOM's
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current work, the

design recalls the firm's
unfortunate
postmodern interlude a

Recognize the
building and the
architect.
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Commissioned by a lingerie company, this building has gallery space,

multipurpose hall, cafe, restaurant and bar, salon, and shops. It is
known mostly by the floating ramp that encircles the rear gallery.
Recognize the building and its architect.
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Being an architectural
theorist and professor
for many years, “X’s”
designs were dismissed
by critics as
"unbuildable or unduly
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assertive”. The project

of the first competition
he won in 1987 was
cancelled soon after the
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Berlin Wall fell. One of

his famous works is:

Recognize “X” and his

work.
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X + Y + Georgie and Wendy Cheesman =

Z
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Identify X, Y. And Find – Z.

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Recognize the structure and the architect.

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ROUND TWO THEME QUESTION
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Connect the answers to the Five questions in this round.