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A critic from this country wrote about the “four ecologies” of Los Angeles. The (10[1])Plug-In City was theorized by a group from this country, Archigram. Two architects who said that their (10[1])style was an “ethic, not an aesthetic” developed the concept of “streets in the sky” for housing projects in this country and developed New Brutalism. (-5[1])The headquarters of an insurance company in this country feature exterior ventilation and piping as an example of (10[2])high-tech architecture. (-5[1])With an Italian colleague, an architect (10[1]-5[1])based in this country (10[2])designed a museum with (10[1])color-coded (-5[2])exterior (10[1]-5[1])escalators, (10[1]-5[2])the Centre (-5[1])Pompidou. (-5[3])A skyscraper in this country’s capital has a round, pointed shape causing it to (10[1])be (10[1])nicknamed after a vegetable. For 10 points, name this country home to Richard Rogers and Norman Foster, (10[1])as well as his building called The Gherkin. ■END■ (10[11])

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