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								  |  | Kansai International Airport Terminal 
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								  |   Asia  |  |  
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								  |   Kansai (Kinki)  |  |  
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								  |   Ōsaka  |  |  
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| ARCHITECTURE  |  | Transport buildings and structures Airports, terminals, etc. |  | 
 TOWN PLANNING AND URBAN DESIGN  |  | New settlements New territories, artificial islands |  |   
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        | BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |  |  |  |  |  |   
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                                    | Atlante di architettura contemporanea, Könemann, Köln 2000, pp. 34-35 |  
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                                    | Helmut C. Schulitz, Werner Sobek, Karl J. Hebermann, Atlante dell'Acciaio, UTET, Torino 1999, pp. 356-359 |  
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                                    | AD Architectural Digest. Le più belle case del mondo 222, novembre 1999 [Millennium!], pp. 76 (74-76) |  
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                                    | Renzo Piano, Giornale di bordo, Passigli Editori, Firenze 1997, pp. 150-163 |  
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                                    | Alessandro Rocca, "Renzo Piano. Noumea, Paris", Lotus international 83, novembre/november 1994 [Architettura italiana allo specchio/Italian Architecture in the Mirror], p. 42 (42-55) |  
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                                    | Y. Futagawa (photo), "Renzo Piano. Kansai International Airport Passenger Terminal Building", GA Document 41, november 1994, pp. 66-85 |  
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                                    | Alessandro Rocca, "Peter Rice, poeta del brutalismo/Peter Rice, Poet of Brutalism", Lotus international 78, ottobre/october 1993, [Omaggio a Peter Rice/Homage to Peter Rice], pp. 6-39 "Kansai International Airport Terminal, 1988 Osaka. Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Ove Arup & Partners", Lotus international 78, ottobre/october 1993, [Omaggio a Peter Rice/Homage to Peter Rice], pp. 38-39 (6-39)
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                                    | Kansai International Airport Co. ltd. |  |   
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        | STRUCTURES  |  |  |  |  |  |   
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                                    | Ove Arup & Partners (V. Schukov) |  |   
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                                    | Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Paris |  |  
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                                    | Ove Arup & Partners International Ltd. (Peter Rice, Tom Barker) |  |  
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                                    | Renzo Piano, Noriaki Okabe |  |  
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                                    | Kimiaki Minai (Nikken Sekkei ltd.) Paul Andreu, Jean Marie Chevallier (Paris Airport)
 Takeshi Kido, Misao Masumoto (japan Airport, Inc.)
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