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Event - 1998-11-11
Posted June 3rd, 2008 by heritage
Date:
Wednesday, 1998, November 11Location:
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture acknowledges both the sacred and the secular in the Islamic world'
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H.H. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV- 3255 reads
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Rewarding buildings-1998-11-07
Posted November 30th, 2009 by librarian-apSource:
The Globe and MailNorwegian architecture students Per Christian Brynildsen and Jan Olav Jensen were on a student group tour of India and Nepal in 1983 when they took an unexpected detour. They left their classmates to help missionaries plan and design a lepers hospital near Chopda Taluka in the Indian state of Maharastra. Caught up with their first chance to build, the two stayed out of school for a year to complete the project. They helped the patients quarry the nearby sandstone, collect teak wood for windows and use a concrete aerator, the only power tool used in the entire hospital's construction.
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