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MA YANSONG
Ma Yansong  is a young Chinese architect owner of a firm that recently won the international competition to design a residential tower in Canada. He studied in Beijing and later did a master in the US. He started his own company called MAD (The abbreviation of Ma Design). They won a Chinese competition called Shengwu Island in Guangzhou and then they decided to enter a foreign competition and they saw the Canadian competition on the internet. Their building become popular and it was nicknamed "Marilyn Monroe" because it looks like her body. They won this competition.

 SANTIAGO CALATRAVA


 * Santiago Calatrava** is an internationally recognized and award-winning Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer, whose principal office is in Zürich, Switzerland. He pursued his undergraduate architecture degree at the Polytechnic University of Valenciaor Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura, along with a post-graduate course in urbanism. Calatrava is also a prolific sculptor and painter, claiming that the practice of architecture combines all the arts into one. Some of his notables works are: Montjuic Communications Tower at the Olympic Ring, Barcelona, Spain; TGV Station, Lyon, France; //Puente del Alamillo//, Seville, Spain;  among others.



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