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World Building of the Year: the World Architecture Festival Awards 2013



Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand, designed by Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp and Archimedia, has won the ‘World Building of the Year’ award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards 2013.
The new Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki is an extensive public project that includes the restoration and adaption of heritage buildings; a new building extension which more than doubles the public exhibition areas; extensive basement storage and support areas; and the redesign of adjacent areas of Albert Park. The design creates an openness and transparency to allow views through, into and out of the gallery circulation and display spaces into the green landscape of Albert Park.



The awards are divided into three main sections: Completed Buildings, Landscape Architecture, and Future Projects (for designs in progress).
Landscape Project of the Year – The Australian Garden, Australia, designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean

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Category: Schools - Fontys Sports College (Netherlands) designed by Mecanoo International



Category: Shopping - Emporia (Sweden), designed by Wingardh Arkitektkontor



Category: Sport - Splashpoint Leisure Centre, Uk, designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects

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Category: Office - Statoil Regional and International offices (Norway) designed by A-Lab



Category: House. The Left-Over-Space House (Australia), designed by Cox Rayner Architects, Casey and Rebekah Vallance

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Category: Villa - Namly House, Singapore, designed by Chang Architects



Category: Housing - 28th Street Apartments (USA), designed by Koning Eizenberg Architecture

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Category: Hotel/Leisure - Citizen M London Bankside, Uk, designed by Concrete



Category: Infrastructure - Brisbane Ferry Terminals Post-Flood Recovery (Australia), designed by Cox Rayner Architects



Category: Leisure-Led Development - Singapore Sports Hub (Singapore), designed by Singapore Sports Hub

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Category: Residential - Siamese Blossom, Thailand, designed by Somdoon Architects



Category: Office - Selcuk Ecza Headquarters (Turkey), designed by Tabanlioglu Architects



Category: Experimental - White Collar Factory, UK, designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

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Typhoon Fitow




Residents raise bags of groceries as they walk amid a flooded street after Typhoon Fitow hit Daxi township of Wenling, Zhejiang province, China, October 8, 2013.

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Since violence erupted in the Muslim-dominated Thai deep south in 2004, Jiaw Pongthawil has seen her Buddhist neighbours flee Baan Ga Doh, a remote village in a security "red zone" in Narathiwat province.

She is now the only Buddhist among 1,200 Malay Muslims.

"I'm afraid. I have been attacked many times... but I have nowhere else to go.

This is my property. This is my land," she says, her voice faltering.

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Mr Lick, you do an outstanding job with this thread.

A credit to you.

A Green on-route.

Thanks.

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An aerial picture of the Soto dolmen in Trigueros, Huelva. In the midst of the agricultural landscape of southwestern Spain, the Soto dolmen, a major megalithic monument of 60 meters in diameter and 3.5 meters high, has regained its splendor after a nine-year restoration



The architectural ensemble was originally a Neolithic stone circle similar to Stonehenge, before the stones were reused around 4,200 BC to build the interior gallery of the dolmen, above

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A visitor is seen inside a mirror's room of Heineken company at the company's exhibition within the contemporary design festival 'Designblok 2013' at Goods Railway Station in Prague, Czech Republic. Designblok is an international show of contemporary furniture, industrial design, interior accessories, lights, fashion, and jewelry



"Say that again": French President Francois Hollande (C) gestures as he meets employees of the HEF factory, specialized in tribology and surface engineering, in Saint-Etienne, central France



Supporters of Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez celebrate after hearing presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro announce that Fernandez is in good spirits after a successful surgery outside the Favaloro Hospital in Buenos Aires. Hospital doctors report that the president's condition is "evolving favorably" after they removed a blot clot pressuring the right side of her brain.

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Fake smiles all around: Dutch Prime Minster Mark Rutte (L) shakes hands with Flemish Prime Minister Kris Peeters (R), during the Dutch-Flemish government meeting in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The event was organized to strengthen the economical collaboration between The Netherlands and Flanders



Demonstrators hold up banners during a rally on the National Mall in Washington D.C, calling on the House Republican leadership to pass comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship



Members of the Israeli company Mayumana perform during the dress rehearsal of their new show 'Racconto', at Nuevo Apolo theater, in Madrid, Spain.

LT appears to have some serious competition



Models display creations by Turkish designer Cengiz Abazoglu during the Istanbul Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Istanbul, Turkey



A general view shows pilgrims performing evening prayers in Mecca's Grand Mosque, as more than two million Muslims have arrived in the holy city for the annual hajj pilgrimage



BJP's Mahila Morcha protests outside Delhi Chief Minister residence against failure of Delhi Government in New Delhi, India

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Syrian opposition fighters reload a launcher during their attack on Syrian government forces' Wadi al-Deef military post in Maaret al-Numan in the Idlib province. Syrian government warplanes bombed rebel positions near the strategic northern city, activists said, as international inspectors toured production and storage sites of the country's chemical weapons arsenal.



Opposition activist Lyudmila Alekseyeva reacts during trial of Mikhail Kosenko (not in picture) in Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. Kosenko, a man who suffers a mild form of schizophrenia, has been found guilty of violence against the police and involvement in the 6 May 2012 mass unrest during an anti-government protest at Bolotnaya Square



Dancers of the Mora Godoy tango company perform during a dress rehearsal of the musical "Chantecler Tango" directed by Argentinean Mora Godoy at the Chatelet theater in Paris, France

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Orangutans at Camp Leakey in Kalimantan

A light-hearted glance at the Orangutans of Camp Leakey in Kalimantan, an endangered species that lives only in Borneo and Sumatra

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Demonstrating enviable flexibility, male orangutan Percy is reflected in the Sekonyer River as he goes through his morning exercise routine

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Faces of fear at Canadian 'haunted house'

These are the oddly hilarious faces of spooked visitors at the Nightmares Fear Factory in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The house is said to stand on the site of a former coffin factory where, legend has it, the owner was killed when a stack of caskets fell on him. Visitors are photographed at the moment they spot what seems to be a car full of ghosts about to run them over. The attraction is said to be so frightening that visitors have a safety word – 'nightmares' – which they can utter at any time to be escorted out

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Belgian riot police are covered with foam sprayed by Belgian firefighters during a protest for better work conditions in central Brussels, October 7, 2013.



U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he arrives for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit official dinner in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, October 7, 2013.



A man shaves his monkey with a razor before it performs tricks for money in Lahore, Pakistan, October 7, 2013

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Members of Bolivia's CONAMAQ (National Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qullasuyu), a confederation to politically represent certain indigenous communities, sit outside the congress building as they keep vigil for their leaders who have been on a hunger strike for the last four days, in La Paz, Bolivia, October 7, 2013



A combination picture shows family photos and mementos (L) on a grave stone of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Quadi Hudgins, who died in Iraq, which were later removed (R) at the Arlington National Cemetery. The cemetery has recently begun enforcing a policy that forbids the placing of mementos on graves, notably in Section 60, which contains graves from those killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The cleanup has outraged many families of those buried here. Pictures taken March 13 and October 7, 2013.



Transceiver equipment for mobile communication is mounted on top of an artificial palm tree near a venue of the Sochi 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, October 7, 2013.



An aerial view shows an extension of the Ifo camp, one of the several refugee settlements in Dadaab, Garissa County, northeastern Kenya, October 7, 2013.

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Sir Chris Hoy MBE walks up the Mall holding the Commonwealth Games baton as he heads towards Buckingham Palace in London, England. After presenting the baton to Queen Elizabeth II, the relay will continue it's journey visiting all 70 competing nations and territories ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014



The Queen places a message for the host city inside the baton. The Commonwealth Games baton doesn't have a flame luckily.

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Hair-raising: A Japanese diver practices beside two Chinese divers before competing in the Women's synchronized 3m springboard final at the East Asian Games held at the Tianjin Olympic Centre, China



Pilgrims perform evening prayers in Mecca's Grand Mosque. More than two million Muslims have arrived in the holy city for the annual hajj pilgrimage

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Masked demonstrators run for cover during clashes with police at the end of a teachers' protest demanding better working conditions in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil



A bolt from a thunderstorm strikes down over the Pacific resort of Acapulco, Mexico

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A mural shows a young girl dressed in traditional Polish clothes and standing on her tip toes as she tips the watering can onto the tree below. It took Natalia Rak 70 hours to paint the 65 foot high work of art, while perching on a mechanical lift



This long-nosed Pinocchio lizard was spotted by an eco-tourism group who have been combing a remote area in the north west of Ecuador for three years. The lizard, first discovered in 1953 and named after the fictional lying puppet, was thought to be extinct until 2005 and has only been spotted three times since. The curious-looking animal did a disappearing act in the 1960s and was not seen again until an ornithologist saw one crossing the road in the same stretch of cloud forest. The animal was most recently captured by Alejandro Arteaga, a co-founder of eco-tourism company Tropical Herping, which has been searching for the almost long-lost animal



These two male giraffes were battling with their legs and necks for dominance and mating rights when they became unintentionally entwined. Giraffes generate huge amounts of force and are capable of knocking an opponent to the ground with a single strike



Evan Davis looks at a 3D printed figurine of himself, part of an exhibition at the Science Museum that explores the future of 3D printing