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Three buildings in Beijing are on the list of 10 best architectural marvels (new and upcoming) selected by the Time magazine to be published on December 24.

No. 1 Bloch Building, Nelson-Atkins, Museum of Art addition, Kansas City, Mo. Steven Holl Architects. Adding a new wing to a neoclassical museum, Holl devised a spectacular update on classicism: an irregular series of volumes that cascade down the museum's lawn and glow from within. The effect against the nighttime sky is nothing short of magical. (Xinhua)

No. 2 Federal Building, San Francisco Morphosis. This government office building is not only a smashing addition to the skyline, it's also green to the core. For one thing, its steel-mesh scrim is both a sunscreen and a design element that steps in sharp accordion folds at plaza level. A cutting-edge building, in all ways. (Xinhua)

No. 3 Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Weiss/Manfredi. The Seattle Art Museum decided to put its sculpture park on an old industrial site crossed by a busy road and a railway line. Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi made the most of it with an intricate switchback pathway that draws nature, art and the city into a dynamic force field. (Xinhua)
No. 4 IAC Headquarters, New York Frank Gehry Partners. Gehry's exuberant building is an undulating, white glass mesa that uses his characteristic whiplashing lines in a subdued and legible way. The sculptural silhouette is actually a clear expression of the interior floor plates. They just happen to be madly inventive floor plates. (Xinhua)

No. 5 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Sanaa. The New Museum is on the Bowery, a grimy but gentrifying stretch of lower Manhattan. So Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa gave it a home that's part funky, part shimmery, an asymmetrical stack of boxes covered by a honeycomb of aluminum. (Xinhua)

No. 6 Olympic Stadium, Beijing. Athletes at the Summer Games will compete in a nestlike venue by Herzog & de Meuron. (Xinhua)

No. 7 CCTV Headquarters, Beijing. A tetrahedronal structure by Rem Koolhaas will be the most radically reimagined tall building in the world. (Xinhua)

No. 8 Linked Hybrid, Beijing. Steven Holl's retail/office complex will have sky bridges connecting each of its eight towers. (Xinhua)

No. 9 Heathrow Five, London. Richard Rogers' firm is giving Heathrow a big new terminal under a vast, column-free arch. (Xinhua)
No. 10 Caja Madrid Tower, Madrid.Norman Foster's oil-and-gas-company headquarters will have rooftop wind turbines. (Xinhua)

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