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Raymond Moriyama, a Canadian architect who designed some of the country's best known buildings, has died. He was 93. Moriyama designed, among others, the National War Museum, Ottawa’s City Hall, the Bata Shoe Museum, the Toronto Reference Library, the Ontario Science Centre, the Saudi Arabian National Museum and the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo.

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/9936774/9936774-raymond-moriyama-iconic-canadian-architect-dead/

 

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Claude Cormier, an award-winning Quebec landscape architect whose projects have revitalized public spaces across North America, has died. He was 63. About four years ago, Cormier was diagnosed with lung cancer, kidney cancer, as well as a rare form of lymphoma. Examples of his work are shown in the obit below. 

 

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/claude-cormier-renowned-quebec-landscape-architect-dies-at-63-1.6563370

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5 hours ago, alt obits guy said:

Antoine Predock, a world renown architect whose designs include San Diego's baseball stadium and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, in Winnipeg, has died. He was 87.

 

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/world-renowned-architect-antoine-predock-dies-at-87/article_1703ac7a-d9d1-11ee-a183-b711a15cec8d.html

 

 

That's one of the shortest death notifications I have seen. Might as well be a death notice. 

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48 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

That's one of the shortest death notifications I have seen. Might as well be a death notice. 


Whole article loads on a desktop version. For some reason the mobile version only shows that first line.

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1 minute ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Whole article loads on a desktop version. For some reason the mobile version only shows that first line.

Ah. Tried again and it it did load.

 

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John Miller, architect responsible for the revamps of Tate Britain and Whitechapel Art Gallery reportedly dead: https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/tributes-to-humane-modernist-john-miller-who-has-died-aged-93

 

Not confined to England, he completed the Weston link between the Scottish National Gallery and the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.

 

He was 93.

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Bertus Mulder was born in Dedemsvaart, Netherlands and died aged 95, Mulder was the architect of the exhibition hall near Leidsche Rijn Centrum and is known for restoring the Rietveld Schröder House in 1987, restoring the Zuiderbad in Amsterdam-Zuid and expanding Theehuis Rhijnauwen . He has also published several books, most of them about Gerrit Rietveld

https://www.duic.nl/algemeen/utrechtse-architect-en-rietveldkenner-bertus-mulder-overleden/

O arquiteto de Utrecht e especialista em Rietveld, Bertus Mulder, faleceu

 

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French architect Paul Chemetov, known for the Ministry of the Economy dead at 95

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3 hours ago, Lafaucheuse said:

French architect Paul Chemetov, known for the Ministry of the Economy dead at 95

Oh I'm a little shocked... I often listen him - he was very interesting in a lot of podcasts about architecture - and he looked in very good health recently... Another exemple that means that everybody in old age is a good name for a deathlist 

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Alexandros Tombazis was born in New Delhi and died at the age of 85 in Athens. With more than 800 projects – around 300 of them built – and at least 110 prizes won in competitions, he was one of the most prominent architects in Greece. Among his works is the Church of the Holy Trinity in Fátima, Portugal

https://www.lifo.gr/now/greece/pethane-o-arhitektonas-alexandros-tompazis-pateras-tis-bioklimatikis-stin-ellada

Morreu o arquiteto Alexandros Topazis, “pai” da bioclimática na Grécia

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