Designing Buildings in Harmony with Nature
Introduction
68-year-old Chinese architect Liu Jiakun was 1 with the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize, which was the highest honour in the field of architecture.
Career
※ He devoted over forty years to architecture.
※ In 1999, he 2 up Jiakun Architects. He has built a various body of work.
Design philosophy
※ According to The Spaces, Liu uses local materials or cultural features and creates beauty through low-tech simplicity 3 of sticking to a fixed style.
※ Liu avoids using the same approach every time and carefully studies what makes each project unique and then designs solutions 4 on its special needs.
Two 5 projects
※ He is well-known as the 6 of “rebirth bricks”, which is considered a beautiful symbol showing how broken things can become new again and how people can heal after a disaster.
※ The design of West Village in Chengdu used bricks with holes where grass grows, making people's daily life 7.
Liu's opinion
The 8 of architecture lies in creating a beautiful, just and dignified living environment and that is what we are pursuing.
What can you learn from Liu Jiakun and his works?
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四、综合填空。
In every Italian city, the day's rhythm（节奏）begins at the café.
Cafés are a ______ 1 ______ （two）living room for many Italians. This is where social life often begins, as people from all generations gather with friends to share the ______ 2 ______ （late）news and pass the time.
But in Trieste, a city on Italy's northeast coast, walk into any café here and you'll hear people 3（order）“Capo in B”—a mini cappuccino（卡布奇诺）served in a glass that is a favourite of Triestini. It's one of the many
4（reason）why this city sandwiched between Slovenia and the Adriatic, which is 5（difference）from anywhere else in Italy.
Many people might be 6（surprise）to learn that this border city is often considered as Italy's unofficial “Coffee Capital”. Not only are the Triestini said to drink twice as much of the coffee per year as anywhere else in Italy—a surprising 10 kg of coffee beans for one person each year, but it's also home to the Mediterranean's main coffee port（港口）and one of Italy's biggest coffee brands: Illy.
The coffee business continues to develop.
In addition to Illy, founded in 1933, dozens of other smaller 7（company）roast（烤）and mix the millions of bags of coffee beans that arrive from all 8 the world to Trieste each year.
“Coffee is definitely a thing here,” said Alessandra Ressa, an English teacher who 9（move）from San Francisco to Trieste 20 years ago. “Instead of just standing at the bar and drinking a quick coffee like in other Italian cities, here we sit 10 and take our time, making appointments with each other for the café. And you never see anyone walking with a to-go cup.”
Each October, there's the Trieste Coffee Festival. Roasteries（烘焙工坊）open for tastings, restaurants create dishes spiced with coffee and there's a “Capo in B” championship to choose the city's best barista（咖啡师）.