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Qatar

This small kingdom in the Middle East has a surprising abundance of hyper-modern architecture dedicated to the upcoming 2022 World Cup in football, along with traditional-style buildings such as the beautiful Souԛ Waqif Bazaar in Doha. Under the leadership of Sheikh Abdullah bin Jassim Al-Thani, the National Museum of Qatar opened in 2017, an architectural work by the well-known French architect Jean Nouvel.

Its ultra-modern design was inspired by the desert rose and is built around the sheikh's original palace. If you're passing through Doha, you can't help but notice the construction sites that show signs of other wonderful projects, which must justify the $ 400 million investment.

Abu Dhabi

Remaining both in the Arabian Gulf and with Jean Nouvel's architectural firm Ateliers, he is happy to show off another project inaugurated in 2017, the Louvre Abu Dhabi. There have been many false alarms, but the island of Saadiуat will eventually house five museums designed by five giants of world architecture - Hadid, Ando, ​​Gehrу and Foster, in addition to Nouvel.

The key feature of the Louvre Abu Dhabi is its massive dome, which filters light into the gallery in such a way as to create what Nouvel describes as "a welcoming world that serenely combines light and shadow, reflection and calm."

Brazil

Copacabana Beach is the source of inspiration for the Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) located in the Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo. Its key feature is a "vertical boulevard", a walkway that continues from the ground to above the building, with the aim of attracting strollers from the beach promenade inside the building.

Designed by the American architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, based in New York, the eight-storey building aims to offer the best exterior images of the city and the beach, but also the best interior images, thanks to its collections accessible not only to tourists. with a helping hand, but also to the locals, known as cariocas.

France

What is old is new again, so the art of the Paleolithic rock wall at Lascaux, near Bordeaux, is one of the oldest arts in the world. It will be balanced by the world's newest architecture by the Norwegian architecture firm Snohetta, which lists among its recent projects a redesign of the new Norwegian banknotes (crowns), as well as the Great Hall of the University of South Australia.

The new Lascaux IV visitor center is a low-trenched concrete building that seems to protrude from the ground, a glass roof partially open to the sky, while the reproductions of the original Lascaux cave are illuminated by rays of natural light, to present 17,000-year-old works of art.

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New York

Everyone good in architecture around the world is talking about what the new New York will look like. Among the many other modernization projects in the American metropolis, the redevelopment of the Hudson Yards district stands out by far. An area of ​​17 million square meters, which includes several office towers and 5,000 apartments. In addition, a mall with a million square meters will contain the first Neiman Marcus store in the metropolis.

Well-known architectural firms around the world want to be at the forefront of New York, with five residential skyscrapers, each name looking more famous than its predecessor: Zaha Hadid (520 West West 28th St.), Isaou Weinfeld (527 St. West 27th), David Chipperfield 40th St), BIG (625 West St 57), Herzog & de Meuron (57 Leonard St), Foster + Partners (100 East St 53).

Australia

Australians don't need a passport to see some of the best architects at work - the metropolis of Melbourne is enjoying the construction of two skyscrapers, one designed by Jean Nouvel at La Trobe St. 383, while the first Zaha Hadid project in Melbourne is being built at Collins St. 600, a hotel for the company Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group.

Australia's most decorated architect, and now chairman of the prestigious Pritzker Prize jury, Glenn Murcutt, in collaboration with local architect Elevli Plus and the Australian Islamic Center, has embarked on a ten-year project somewhere in the world. the western suburbs of the city, and will mean the new contemporary mosque of the Australian metropolis. The concrete mosque is covered with 96 three-meter lanterns and has stained glass windows, which color the light that enters the main prayer room.

Denmark

The architectural appreciation can also take you to the industrial areas of Copenhagen, where the ski slope meets the waste disposal of Amager Bakke. The Amager Resource Center has been converting waste into energy since the 1970s, and next year it will provide its residents with a place to consume their energy - on its roof, which will be transformed into a ski slope and mountain area for mountaineering and walking, by the Danish architecture firm "Bjarke Ingels Group" (BIG).

For those who have not heard of this architectural firm, we remind you that they designed the LEGO House in Billund (LEGO House) - or "brick house". This BIG concept refers to the 21 buildings (these are life-size versions of the famous 21 LEGO bricks) that adjoin and overlap, with brightly colored roofs using the remaining waste from the manufacture of sports shoes.

These are just some of the latest architectural tourist destinations, which are and will be followed by many others, proving once again that the imagination of man in general, and of architects in particular, knows no bounds. Thus, lovers of architectural tourism will have a lot of options when they are asked to choose where they want to travel.