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This in a city of exceeding ugliness

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2004 / October 20

Every once in a while architecture that takes up permanent residency in our consciousness comes along. The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics by Saucier + Perrotte Architectes is a memory that sticks not only because Prime Minister Paul Martin attended the recent gala opening along with several Nobel laureates but because this is where the fundamentals of the universe are studied, in a building that is, itself, about the fundamentals of architecture.

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