Building↕ | Location↕ | Year↕ | Architect↕ | Style↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Great Pyramid of Giza | Giza, Egypt | 2560 BCE | Hemiunu (attributed) | Ancient Egyptian |
Parthenon | Athens, Greece | 447 BCE | Ictinus & Callicrates | Classical Greek |
Colosseum | Rome, Italy | 80 CE | Roman architects | Roman |
Hagia Sophia | Istanbul, Turkey | 537 CE | Anthemius of Tralles | Byzantine |
Taj Mahal | Agra, India | 1653 | Ustad Ahmad Lahori | Mughal |
Badshahi Mosque | Lahore, Pakistan | 1673 | Mughal architects | Mughal |
Faisal Mosque | Islamabad, Pakistan | 1986 | Vedat Dalokay | Modern Islamic |
Notre-Dame Cathedral | Paris, France | 1345 | Various | Gothic |
Sagrada Familia | Barcelona, Spain | 1882-present | Antoni Gaudi | Art Nouveau / Gothic Revival |
Eiffel Tower | Paris, France | 1889 | Gustave Eiffel | Iron Lattice |
Empire State Building | New York, USA | 1931 | Shreve, Lamb & Harmon | Art Deco |
Sydney Opera House | Sydney, Australia | 1973 | Jorn Utzon | Expressionist Modern |
Burj Khalifa | Dubai, UAE | 2010 | Adrian Smith (SOM) | Neo-futurism |
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | Bilbao, Spain | 1997 | Frank Gehry | Deconstructivism |
Fallingwater | Pennsylvania, USA | 1939 | Frank Lloyd Wright | Organic Architecture |
Palace of Versailles | Versailles, France | 1682 | Louis Le Vau | Baroque / French Classical |
Petronas Towers | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 1998 | Cesar Pelli | Postmodern Islamic |
St. Peter's Basilica | Vatican City | 1626 | Michelangelo, Maderno, Bernini | Renaissance / Baroque |
Angkor Wat | Siem Reap, Cambodia | 12th century | Khmer architects | Khmer |
Alhambra | Granada, Spain | 13th-14th c. | Nasrid dynasty architects | Moorish / Islamic |
Heydar Aliyev Center | Baku, Azerbaijan | 2012 | Zaha Hadid | Parametric |
Lotus Temple | New Delhi, India | 1986 | Fariborz Sahba | Expressionist / Baha'i |
Big Ben / Elizabeth Tower | London, UK | 1859 | Augustus Pugin | Gothic Revival |
One World Trade Center | New York, USA | 2014 | David Childs (SOM) | Modern |
Forbidden City | Beijing, China | 1420 | Kuai Xiang | Chinese Imperial |
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