VB:Can you name one such building built in the last decade or so anywhere in the world?

JMH:The 1111 Lincoln Road garage in Miami by Herzog & de Meuron [2010
falls into that category. In our imagination its openness and skeletal character allows for actual or fictional future transformations. It remains under-defined and yet it is so specific that you won′t forget it after you have seen it once. And it activated its urban context. Our design for the Sarpi Border Checkpoint [2011
at the Georgian-Turkey border on the shore of the Black Sea has similar potential. It is the articulation of a very different way of looking at a typical border station which we conceived not as a separation line between two countries but rather as a meeting place between two nations and two peoples and open for many programmatic options to evolve including a popular summer beach destination.