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Grand Lisboa Casino Hotel, Macau

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The Grand Lisboa Casino Hotel with its gold glass curtain wall (top) was designed by the Hong-Kong firm Dennis Lau & Ng Chun Man, Architects and Engineers. The casino opened in February, 2007, and the tower (rendering, bottom) is scheduled for completion in 2008. See also [source: Archpaper ]

Fang Yuan by C.L.LEE

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Fang Yuan (方圆)Tower, literally means Square and Circle Tower, is located in city center of Shenyang, a northen city of China. The designer is C.L.LEE from Taiwan who is famous for designing TAIPEI 101 Tower. He seems to have design lots of landmark buildings throughout China. Most of them are in secondary Chinese cities like Shenyang. Since the circle and a square hole is the shape of tranditional Chinese money, some of the comments from public media and non-architecture voice said this is an vulgar architecture representation, and it is not good for appearance of the city, coz some visitors might consider Shenyang as a city of materialism when they see this building. However, this building was chosen as the top-ten best building of Shenyang by the local government recently.

Guizhou Museum

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Guizhou Museum project is revealed in June 2007, designed by local designer Wu Xinfeng伍新凤. [source abbs ]