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Other stories by Michael Wise

  • The Ugly American

    More than a decade in the making, the new U.S. Embassy in Berlin has been drawing heavy fire from German critics. Is their animosity deserved?

  • Architecture vs. Extremism

    In an age of warring ideologies, can the Aga Khan award for architecture reconcile modernity and tradition in the Islamic world?

  • Urs Ziswiler

    The Swiss ambassador to the United States discusses his new residence in Washington, D.C. designed by Steven Holl and Justin Rüssli, the building sits adjacent to a 1959 chancery designed by the Swiss-American modernist William Lescaze.