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- McLaren International Headquarters, Woking, Surrey UK -- Sir Norman Foster and Partners
35,000m2 building for research and development, 5,000m2 visitor and learning centre
{also ran: Richard Meier, Helmut Jahn, Michael Hopkins, Renzo Piano, I M Pei/ Richard Rogers}
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- Landmark Tower (Macquarie/Hunter/Phillip), Sydney -- Sir Norman Foster and Partners
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- Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue 1997 - Steven Holl Architects
$20 mil, 40,000 sf, to open 2000
- The Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia, Elizabethtown (40 miles south of Louisville) KY 1997 -- Frank O Gehry
80,000 sf
- UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles 1997 - Pei Partnership (Chien Chung Pei and Li Chung Pei)
1,000,000 sf, 500-bed
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Lease Tower, Sydney CBD, Australia 1996 -- Renzo Piano
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Ken Woolley's -- the Sulman award-winning -- State Office Block
Renamed: Aurora Place
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- The Extension to the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow - Sir Norman Foster and Partners (Sep'97?)
£1,992/m2, 13,000m2 hall, 3000 seat 'industrial theatre'
- Museum of Jewish Heritage, Battery Park City, New York NY - Kevin Roche (15-Sep'97)
- The American Air Museum, Duxford Airfield, 50 miles east of London -- Sir Norman Foster and Partners (Aug'97); (44-12) 23 835-000
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