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In London this year, six well-known architects will jockey for a chance to build a large public building. Sounds pretty unremarkable, right Except that the structure was already designed and finished鈥攎ore than 150 years ago. Now, a Chinese property developer is holding a design competition to recreate it. The building in ques
stanley becher tion is the Crystal Palace鈥攖he elegant but hulking structure that was designed to house the 1851 Great Exhibition. It been remade in different iterations several times鈥攐nce in England, once in New York, and once even in Dallas. But now, the palace is coming home to London. The Chinese developer behind the plan, Zhongrong Group, is putting up more than $800 million to rebuild the structure on its original site. This week, it announced a shortlist of six architects
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