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x Casa Batlló The Casa Batlló in Barcelona Antoni Gaudí   1907
Casa Batlló (pronounced [ˈkazə bəʎˈʎo, bədˈʎo] in Catalan), is a building restored by Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, built in the year 1877 and remodelled in the years 1905–1907; located at 43, Passeig de Gràcia (passeig is Catalan for...
Josep Maria Jujol
x Park Güell View of Park Guell Antoni Gaudí   1914
Park Güell is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of el Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built in the years 1900 to 1914. It is part...
x Casa Milà Casa Milá at dusk Antoni Gaudí   1907
Casa Milà, better known as La Pedrera (Catalan for 'The Quarry'), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1906–1910, being considered officially completed in 1912. It is located at 92, Passeig de...
x Abbotsford House Abbotsford in 1880.      
Abbotsford is a historic house in the region of the Scottish Borders in the south of Scotland, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed. It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Walter Scott. The nucleus of the estate...
x Buckingham Palace The Imperial Memorial to Queen Victoria in front of Buckingham Palace William Winde   1703
Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality, and a major tourist attraction. It has been a rallying point for the...
Aston Webb
Edward Blore
John Nash
x Bletchley Park      
Bletchley Park, also known as Station X, is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England. Since 1967, Bletchley has been part of Milton Keynes. During World War II, Bletchley Park was the site of the United Kingdom's main...
x British Library British Library Ossulston St entrance, with distinctive red logo      
The British Library (BL) is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is based in London and is one of the world's largest research libraries, holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats; books, journals, newspapers,...
x Bank of China Tower Bank of china night I. M. Pei High-Tech Architecture May 17, 1990
The Bank of China Tower (abbreviated BOC Tower) is one of the most recognisable skyscrapers in Central, Hong Kong. It houses the headquarters for the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited. The building is located at 1 Garden Road, in Central and Western...
x British Museum British Museum from NE 2 Robert Smirke   1852
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents,...
Sydney Smirke
John James Burnet
x Burwash Hall Burwash dining hall viewed from Charles St      
Burwash Hall is the second oldest of the residence buildings at Toronto's Victoria College. Construction began in 1911 and was completed in 1913. It was named after Nathanael Burwash, a former president of Victoria. The building is an extravagant...
x CN Tower Toronto's CN Tower.   Futurist architecture 1976
The CN Tower, located in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a communications and observation tower standing 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) tall. It surpassed the height of the Ostankino Tower while still under construction in 1975, becoming the...
x Camp David Main Lodge at Camp David during Nixon administration, February 9, 1971      
Naval Support Facility Thurmont, popularly known as Camp David, is a mountain based military camp in Frederick County, Maryland used as a country retreat and for high alert protection of the President of the United States and his guests. First known...
x Chrysler Building Chrysler building- top William Van Alen Art Deco 1930
The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan in the Turtle Bay area at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. Standing at 319 metres (1,047 ft), it was the world's tallest...
William Van Alen Streamline Moderne
x Central Plaza, Hong Kong Central Plaza by day in April 2003     1987
Central Plaza is the second tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong. With a height of 374 m (1,227 ft), Central Plaza is only surpassed by 2 IFC (415 m / 1,362 ft) in Central. The building is located at 18 Harbour Road, in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island. It...
x Eiffel Tower Tour eiffel at sunrise from the trocadero Stephen Sauvestre   Mar 31, 1889
The Eiffel Tower (French: Tour Eiffel, /tuʀ ɛfɛl/) is an iron tower built on the Champ de Mars beside the Seine River in Paris. The tower has become a global icon of France and is one of the most recognizable structures in the world. Named after its...
x Empire State Building 1931: Empire State Building is opened Gregory Johnson Art Deco May 1, 1931
The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the nickname for the state of New York. It stood as the world's tallest building for...
William F. Lamb
H G Balcom
x Great Pyramid of Giza Kheops-Pyramid Hemon Ancient Egyptian architecture 2561 B.C.E.
The Great Pyramid of Giza (also called the Khufu's Pyramid, Pyramid of Khufu, and Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt, and is the only one of the Seven Wonders...
x Glasgow City Chambers George Square and Glasgow City Chambers      
The City Chambers (built 1882-90, architect William Young) of Glasgow, Scotland, are the headquarters of Glasgow City Council, the largest local authority in Scotland, and were completed in 1889. Located on the eastern side of the city's George...
x Hopewell Centre, Hong Kong HKHopewellCentre      
Hopewell Centre (Chinese: 合和中心) is a skyscraper in Hong Kong. It is located at 183 Queen's Road East, in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island. It is the first circular skyscraper in Hong Kong. It is named after Hong Kong-listed property firm Hopewell...
x Palace of Westminster Palace Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Victorian Gothic 1852
The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament, is a complex of buildings in London. It is the seat of the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons). The palace lies on the...
Charles Barry
x Pembroke College, Cambridge   Christopher Wren    
Pembroke College is a college of the University of Cambridge, home to over six hundred students and fellows, and is the third oldest of the colleges. Physically, it is one of the larger colleges in the university, and contains buildings from almost...
Alfred Waterhouse
x Scotland Yard New Scotland Yard, London      
New Scotland Yard (NSY) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible for law enforcement within Greater London, excluding the City district, which is covered by the City of London Police. The current New Scotland Yard building...
x Sears Tower Sears Tower ss Bruce Graham High-Tech Architecture 1974
Sears Tower is a 108-story, 1,450.58 feet (442 m) skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of its completion in 1973 it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York. Currently, Sears Tower is the...
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
x Statue of Liberty Freiheitsstatue NYC full Gustave Eiffel   1884
The Statue of Liberty (French: Statue de la Liberté), officially titled Liberty Enlightening the World (French: La liberté éclairant le monde), is a monument that was presented by the people of France to the United States of America in 1886 to...
Richard Morris Hunt
x The Center A screen showing financial news at The Center, an office complex in Central     1998
The Center (traditional Chinese: 中環中心) is the fourth tallest skyscraper in Hong Kong, after Two International Finance Centre (88 storeys), Central Plaza and Bank of China Tower. With a height of 346 m (1,135 feet), it comprises 73 storeys. The...
x Tower of London The White Tower Gundulf of Rochester   1078
Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London (and historically as The Tower), is a historic monument in central London, England, on the north bank of the River Thames. It is located within the London Borough of...
Robert Vertue
William Vertue
x UMIST UMIST main building Whitworth Street      
The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England. It specialised in technical and scientific subjects and was a major centre for research. On October 1...
x Villa Savoye Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye, a well known example of modern architecture Le Corbusier   1929
The Villa Savoye is considered by many to be the seminal work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. Situated at Poissy, outside of Paris, it is one of the most recognisable architectural presentations of the International Style. Construction was...
x White House James Hoban Palladian architecture 1800
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., it was built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the late...
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
x World Trade Center Minoru Yamasaki High-Tech Architecture  
The World Trade Center (sometimes referred to as WTC or Twin Towers) was a complex in Lower Manhattan whose seven buildings were destroyed in 2001 in the September 11 attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with six new skyscrapers and a...
x Warsaw Palace of Culture and Science Palackultury Lev Rudnev   1955
The Palace of Culture and Science (Polish: Pałac Kultury i Nauki, also abbreviated PKiN) in Warsaw is the tallest building in Poland, the eighth tallest building in the European Union, and the world's 187th tallest building at 237 metres (778 ft)....
x The Pentagon The Pentagon US Department of Defense building George Bergstrom   Jan 15, 1943
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington, Virginia. As a symbol of the U.S. military, "the Pentagon" is often used metonymically to refer to the Department of Defense rather than the building...
x Peckforton Castle View of outer wall and chapel Anthony Salvin Norman architecture 1850
Peckforton Castle is a country house built in the style of a medieval castle. It stands in woodland at the north end of Peckforton Hills 1 mile (2 km) northwest of the village of Peckforton, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ533580). It is a Grade...
x Millennium Dome Canary Richard Rogers   2000
The Millennium Dome, often referred to simply as The Dome, is the original name of a large dome-shaped building, originally used to house the Millennium Experience, a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium. Located on the...
x John Hancock Center The John Hancock Center. Fazlur Khan High-Tech Architecture 1969
John Hancock Center at 875 North Michigan Avenue in the Streeterville area of the Near North Side in Chicago, Illinois, is a 100-story, 1,127-foot (344 m) tall skyscraper designed by structural engineer Fazlur Khan of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill....
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
x Aon Center   Edward Durell Stone   1973
The Aon Center (200 East Randolph Street, formerly Amoco Building) is a modern skyscraper in Chicago designed by architect firms Edward Durell Stone and The Perkins and Will partnership, and completed in 1973 as the Standard Oil Building. With 83...
x European Court of Human Rights European Court of Human Rights building in Strasbourg Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners    
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) (French: Cour européenne des droits de l’homme) in Strasbourg is an international judicial body established under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) of 1950 to monitor respect of human rights by...
Richard Rogers
x Westminster Abbey The Abbey's western façade Nicholas Hawksmoor    
The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, which is almost always referred to popularly and informally as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in Westminster, London, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the...
Henry Yevele
x Royal Observatory, Greenwich The timeball at Greenwich is shown in the top right of picture Christopher Wren    
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (formerly the Royal Greenwich Observatory or RGO) was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II, with the foundation stone being laid on 10 August. At this time the king also created the position of Astronomer Royal ...
x Kirkstall Abbey Kirkstall Abbey      
Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery to the west of Leeds city centre in West Yorkshire, set in grounds which are now a public park on the north bank of the River Aire. It was founded c.1152 and was over seventy five years in...
x Colosseum Rome Colloseum aeria   Roman architecture 80 C.E.
The Colosseum or Roman Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome, Italy, the largest ever built in the Roman...
x Annesley Hall Annesley Hall      
Annesley Hall is the all-female residence at Victoria College, University of Toronto campus. The residence is a National Historic Site located across from the Royal Ontario Museum. Built in 1903 and renovated in 1988, Annesley Hall is the first...
x University College London University College London logo      
University College London (UCL) is a university institution and constituent college of the University of London based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1826, as London University, and was the first university...
x Monticello Thomas Jefferson's Monticello Estate Thomas Jefferson Neoclassical architecture 1809
Monticello (pronounced [mɒntəˈtʃɛloʊ]), located in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author for the United States Declaration of Independence, third President of the United States, and founder of the...
x Hampton Court Palace Hampton Court Palace with the Union Flag flying Christopher Wren    
Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London; it has not been lived in by the British royal family since the 18th century. The palace is located 11.7 miles (18.8 km) south west of Charing...
Nicholas Hawksmoor
x Centre Georges Pompidou The Pompidou Centre's famous external skeleton of service pipes Richard Rogers Brutalist architecture 1977
Centre Georges Pompidou (constructed 1971–1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil and the Marais. It was designed in the style of high...
Renzo Piano High-Tech Architecture
Peter Rice
x Amphitheatre Colosseum   Roman architecture  
An amphitheatre (alternatively amphitheater) is an open-air venue for spectator sports, concerts, rallies, or theatrical performances. There are two similar, but distinct, types of structure for which the word 'amphitheatre' is used: Ancient...
x Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-sunset I. M. Pei   1995
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other...
x Sagrada Familia Sagrada familia by night 2006 Antoni Gaudí    
The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (official Catalan name; Spanish: Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia; "Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family"), often simply called the Sagrada Família, is a massive, privately-funded Roman Catholic...
x Palau Güell PalauGuell1 Antoni Gaudí    
The Palau Güell is a town mansion (translated literally a "palace") in Barcelona, Catalonia, designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí for the Catalan industrial tycoon Eusebi Güell. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni...
x Helsinki University of Technology TKK logo Alvar Aalto    
Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) (Finnish: Teknillinen korkeakoulu; Swedish: Tekniska högskolan) is the premier technical university in Finland. It is located in Otaniemi, Espoo in the area of Greater Helsinki. Helsinki University of...
x Transamerica Pyramid William Pereira Futurist architecture 1972
The Transamerica Pyramid is the tallest and most recognizable skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline. Although the building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, it is still strongly associated with the company and is...
x Fountains Abbey Fountains Abbey, on the route      
Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire, England, is a ruined Cistercian monastery, founded in 1132. Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved Cistercian houses in England. It is a Grade I listed building and owned by the National Trust....
x Tour Montparnasse The Montparnasse Tower, which at 209m was the tallest building in Western Europe when it was built. Jean Saubot   1972
Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower), also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a 210-meter (689 ft) tall office skyscraper located in Paris, France, in the area of Montparnasse. Constructed from 1969 to 1972, it is the tallest...
x London Stansted Airport Sir Norman Foster    
London Stansted Airport (IATA: STN, ICAO: EGSS) is a passenger airport located at Stansted Mountfitchet in the District of Uttlesford in Essex, 48 km (30 mi) north-east of central London. It is 2.5 NM (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) north northeast of Bishop's...
x National Gallery of Scotland The National Gallery of Scotland viewed from the south in front of the Royal Scottish Academy and Princes Street William Henry Playfair   1859
The National Gallery of Scotland, in Edinburgh, is the national art gallery of Scotland. An elaborate neoclassical edifice, it stands on The Mound, between the two sections of Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens. The building, which was designed by...
x National Gallery of Victoria      
The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. The main gallery is located in St Kilda Road, in the heart of the Southgate...
x Museum of Modern Art View across garden, in new MoMA building by Yoshio Taniguchi      
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, USA, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been singularly important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often...
x Palais Garnier Palais Garnier is a cornerpiece of Beaux-Arts architecture characterized by Émile Zola as "the opulent bastard of all styles" Charles Garnier Neo-baroque 1875
The Palais Garnier, also known as the Opéra de Paris or Opéra Garnier, but more commonly as the Paris Opéra, is a 2,200-seat opera house on the Place de l'Opéra in Paris, France. A grand landmark designed by Charles Garnier in the Neo-Baroque style,...
x Millennium Bridge The entire bridge seen from a restaurant in the Tate Modern gallery. St. Pauls Cathedral is on the left Sir Norman Foster   2000
The London Millennium Footbridge is a pedestrian-only steel suspension bridge crossing the River Thames in London, England, linking Bankside with the City. It is located between Southwark Bridge (downstream) and Blackfriars Bridge (upstream). The...