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These are the best new landmarks to open this year

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Clear your schedule — a wave of new museums, attractions, and landmarks have just sprung up across the globe.

Here are the ones on our radar, from the Zaha Hadid-designed Napoli-Afragola High Speed Train Station to Disney's new "Avatar"-inspired theme park.

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Pierre Boulez Saal

There's not a bad seat in the house at Berlin's Pierre Boulez Saal, a modular 360-degree space designed by Frank Gehry and world-renowned Japanese acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota. The wood-clad theatre hall features two oval seating areas — one that surrounds the stage, the other, a cantilevered disk that appears to hover above the graceful space. 



As well as being a bold spatial concept, the concert hall, which was conceived as a part of the new Barenboim-Said Academy —a school that strives to unite Arabs and Israelis through music — also makes a powerful public cultural statement.



Huanghan Mountain Village

Beijing-based architect Ma Yansong is known for designing some of China's most daring new buildings (see: Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort and the Harbin Opera House). His latest project — a futuristic-looking residential settlement in the Hunagshan mountains — is arguably his most ambitious to date.



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