There the backdrop is older still: the Queen's House of 1617-37 by Renaissance master architect Inigo Jones.

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Long before Feng shui became trendy, East-Asian designs abounded in the country homes of Japanophile and master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

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In 2003, an agency created to rebuild the site chose a master plan by architect Daniel Libeskind.

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The boundaries cover the central area around the Asokan pillar of 130 by 150 metres with a buffer zone designated as the remaining area within the water body as designed by the renowned Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange in a Master Plan for Lumbini.

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Prince Albert II, the reigning monarch, has flirted with the idea of another land-reclamation project, inviting bids and briefly giving his support in 2010 to a design by Daniel Libeskind, the architect who drew up the master plan for the reconstruction of New York's World Trade Center.

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The renowned Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange had a broad vision, and his master plan was far-sighted and well-organized in laying out a systematic plan to protect the values of the birthplace of Buddha.

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The memorial was designed by Master Lei Yixin, a Chinese sculptor, and overseen by an American architect, Ed Jackson.

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