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TIL of Arthur Erickson, the only Canadian to win the AIA Gold Medal. He designed the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC, to represent Canada as friendly, open, and neighborly, while also complying with the requirements of 20 federal committees which regulate buildings on Pennsylvania Ave.

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