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Part 5 - Modern Culture Temples

May 15, 2013

Almost every country sets great store by galleries and venues for cultural events. They are important competitive factors in the international tourism market.

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Their architecture is meant to be attractive and imaginative, and sustainability is becoming increasingly important as well. This report presents innovative building projects from three countries: Saudi Arabia is renovating an old national library building to make it more ecological; China will use seawater to cool a new opera house; and a new museum and community center in the Spanish city of Seville is the world’s largest wooden structure. 

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