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— by Philip Stevens: in 2019, kengo kuma held off competition from 11 other firms — including christ & gantenbein and tatiana bilbao — to win a contest to transform a museum campus in portugal. the project will see the renovation of the building housing the modern art collection of lisbon’s calouste gulbenkian museum, while expanding the garden that surrounds the institution. the building has now closed to the public with refurbishment work underway…

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