A selection of documentaries, in the French television series Architectures, on architecturally significant buildings or building complexes of the 13th-21st centuries: Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom), Germany (1248-1880, with later additional work); Citadel of Lille, France (1667-1673, designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban); Centre national de la danse in Pantin, France (completed 1972, designed by Jacques Kalisz; repurposed in 2004 by Antoinette Robain and Claire Guieysse); SESC Pompéia leisure center in São Paulo, Brazil (1977-1986, designed by Lina Bo Bardi); VitraHaus in Weil am Rhein, a German suburb of Basel, Switzerland (2005-2010, designed by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron); and the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne, Switzerland (2010, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryūe Nishizawa).
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