Jakob + MacFarlane is a French

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founded in 1998 by Dominique Jakob and Brendan MacFarlane. It is headquartered in

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History

Dominique Jakob was born on 26 August 1966 in Paris, France. She studied at École d’architecture de Paris-Villemin (now known as École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-Val de Seine) and graduated in 1991. Brendan MacFarlane was born on 13 September 1961 in

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, New Zealand. He graduated from the

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in 1984 and from the Graduate School of Design at

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in 1990. In 1998 they founded Jakob + MacFarlane in Paris. In January 2001, they were one of 25 mostly-young architecture firms selected to participate in the first exhibition of architecture facilitated by computer-aided design. Later in 2001, ''The Guardian'' noted their design of a restaurant atop the

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, for which the pair "beat

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in the design competition", with a design likened to "the

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, only rounder and shrunk". In 2002, following the destruction of the

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in the

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the previous year, the firm proposed that the site be "turned into a new World Peace Center, dominated by sinuous red and green towers that curve into the sky like twisting blades of grass". The pair later criticized the conduct of the

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held to select a design for the rebuilding of the site, saying that "architects from around the world never really got what was at stake at Ground Zero", with proposals failing to focus on the improving the lives of people, and that "our profession gave the worst kind of response. In 2007, the firm won the Globe de Cristal Award for best architect. In 2019, Jakob herself won the "Woman Architect Prize". The pair have also lectured as visiting professors in various European architecture programs.

Significant projects

Significant projects include: * New campus of the French University of Egypt in El Shorouk, Cairo (in progress).
Connected House
in Boulogne-Billancourt. * Biomedical research center Méary (Paris Diderot University - Saint-Louis Hospital) in Paris
Nadia et Lili Boulanger music and dance conservatory
in Noisy-le-Sec. * Boutiqu
Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle
in Paris.
Global headquarters of Euronews TV
in Lyon. * Orange Cube in

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. * The Docks -

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in Paris. * FRAC Centre in the

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region, France. * New building for the

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of the

Region in

Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
(US) and Centre Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou ( en, National Georges Pompidou Centre of Art and Culture), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of ...

Exhibitions

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, 2008. * School Gallery, Paris, 2014. * Architekturforum Aedes, Berlin, 2017.

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