As we march towards the end of the first decade of the 21st century it seems a fitting moment to reflect on what has and has not changed in architecture since the final decade of the 20th.rnThere is a greater fluidity and openness in the exchange of ideas between designers around the world. No longer can architecture be known as British, Spanish or Japanese when teams from all these countries come together to make a building. Indeed in my office, British is a minority nationality.rnThe issue of nationality provokes some interesting thoughts. With the LondonrnOlympics just around the corner, I thought it would be fascinating to commission designers to adopt another's national idiom while retaining a sense of their own aesthetic language.
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