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Desk III · Architecture

Spatial Arts

Wood, stone, concrete, steel, landscape and the city: the work shapes space, structure and shelter, and is entered. Every work the desk has reviewed here, ranked by standing.

400 works · mean standing 8.3 · Architecture 400

1

Hagia Sophia

Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus · Architecture

9.4 · Tier V

2

The Pantheon

Roman, under Hadrian · Architecture

9.3 · Tier V

3

Chartres Cathedral

Anonymous · Architecture

9.3 · Tier V

4

The Parthenon

Iktinos and Kallikrates · Architecture

9.3 · Tier V

5

Borobudur

Sailendra · Architecture

9.2 · Tier V

6

The Great Pyramid of Giza

Ancient Egyptian, under Khufu · Architecture

9.1 · Tier V

7

Brunelleschi's Dome

Filippo Brunelleschi · Architecture

9.1 · Tier V

8

The Selimiye Mosque

Mimar Sinan · Architecture

9.1 · Tier V

9

Teotihuacan

Teotihuacano · Architecture

9.1 · Tier V

10

St Peter's Basilica

Michelangelo · Architecture

9.0 · Tier V

11

San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Francesco Borromini · Architecture

9.0 · Tier V

12

Angkor Wat

Khmer, under Suryavarman II · Architecture

9.0 · Tier V

13

The Ise Grand Shrine

Anonymous · Architecture

9.0 · Tier V

14

The Brihadisvara Temple

Chola, under Rajaraja I · Architecture

9.0 · Tier V

15

The Step Pyramid of Djoser

Imhotep, under Djoser · Architecture

8.9 · Tier IV

16

The Dome of the Rock

Umayyad, under Abd al-Malik · Architecture

8.9 · Tier IV

17

Villa Rotonda

Andrea Palladio · Architecture

8.9 · Tier IV

18

Versailles

Louis Le Vau, Jules Hardouin-Mansart and André Le Nôtre · Architecture

8.9 · Tier IV

19

Lalibela (the rock-hewn churches)

Anonymous, under King Lalibela · Architecture

8.9 · Tier IV

20

The Taj Mahal

Ustad Ahmad Lahauri · Architecture

8.9 · Tier IV

21

Amiens Cathedral

Robert de Luzarches, Thomas and Renaud de Cormont · Architecture

8.9 · Tier IV

22

The Forbidden City

Ming, under the Yongle Emperor · Architecture

8.9 · Tier IV

23

The Basilica of Saint-Denis

Built for Abbot Suger · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

24

The Kailasa Temple, Ellora

Rashtrakuta, under Krishna I · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

25

Notre-Dame du Haut

Le Corbusier · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

27

The Great Mosque of Córdoba

Umayyad, under Abd al-Rahman I · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

28

San Vitale, Ravenna

Byzantine, under Bishop Ecclesius and Justinian · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

30

The Laurentian Library

Michelangelo · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

31

Stonehenge

Anonymous (Neolithic and Bronze Age) · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

32

Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza

Francesco Borromini · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

33

The Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre)

Roman, under Vespasian and Titus · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

34

Reims Cathedral

Jean d'Orbais, Jean le Loup, Gaucher de Reims and Bernard de Soissons · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

35

The Temple of Heaven

Ming, under the Yongle Emperor · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

36

The Shah Mosque

Safavid, under Shah Abbas I · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

37

The Süleymaniye Mosque

Mimar Sinan · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

38

Sainte-Chapelle

Anonymous · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

39

Durham Cathedral

Anonymous · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

40

Hōryū-ji

Anonymous · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

41

Notre-Dame de Paris

Anonymous · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

42

Machu Picchu

Inca, under Pachacuti · Architecture

8.8 · Tier IV

43

Santiago de Compostela Cathedral

Romanesque builders; Obradoiro facade by Fernando de Casas Novoa · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

44

The Berlin Philharmonie

Hans Scharoun · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

45

The Friday Mosque of Isfahan

Seljuk and later builders · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

46

Salk Institute

Louis Kahn · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

47

The Eiffel Tower

Gustave Eiffel · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

48

Sagrada Família

Antoni Gaudí · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

49

Brooklyn Bridge

John A. Roebling and Washington Roebling · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

50

Canterbury Cathedral

William of Sens and William the Englishman; nave by Henry Yevele · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

51

Byōdō-in Phoenix Hall

Built for Fujiwara no Yorimichi · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

52

St Paul's Cathedral

Christopher Wren · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

53

Santa Maria della Salute

Baldassare Longhena · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

54

Bourges Cathedral

Anonymous · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

55

The Great Stupa at Sanchi

Anonymous · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

56

Newgrange

Neolithic builders · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

57

The Barcelona Pavilion

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

58

St Mark’s Basilica, Venice

Venetian builders · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

59

The Alhambra

Nasrid, under Yusuf I and Muhammad V · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

60

Katsura Imperial Villa

Prince Hachijō Toshihito and Prince Toshitada · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

61

Karnak

Ancient Egyptian · Architecture

8.7 · Tier IV

62

St Peter's Square

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

63

Jewish Museum Berlin

Daniel Libeskind · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

65

Sainte-Marie de La Tourette

Le Corbusier · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

66

Unité d’Habitation, Marseille

Le Corbusier · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

67

Sydney Opera House

Jørn Utzon · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

68

Il Gesù

Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola and Giacomo della Porta · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

69

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Frank Lloyd Wright · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

70

San Lorenzo, Turin

Guarino Guarini · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

71

The Tempietto

Donato Bramante · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

72

The Palatine Chapel, Aachen

Odo of Metz, under Charlemagne · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

73

The Capitol Complex, Chandigarh

Le Corbusier · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

74

El Escorial

Juan Bautista de Toledo and Juan de Herrera · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

75

Strasbourg Cathedral

Erwin von Steinbach and others; spire by Johannes Hültz · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

76

Woodland Cemetery (Skogskyrkogården)

Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

77

Hoover Dam

Bureau of Reclamation, with Gordon Kaufmann · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

78

Villa Savoye

Le Corbusier · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

79

The Rock Garden of Ryōan-ji

Anonymous · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

80

Sir John Soane's Museum

John Soane · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

82

The Potala Palace

Tibetan, under the Fifth Dalai Lama · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

83

Fallingwater

Frank Lloyd Wright · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

84

Il Redentore, Venice

Andrea Palladio · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

85

Vierzehnheiligen

Balthasar Neumann · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

86

Kimbell Art Museum

Louis Kahn · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

87

Therme Vals

Peter Zumthor · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

88

Westminster Abbey

Henry of Reyns and successors; Henry VII Chapel by Robert and William Vertue (attributed); west towers by Nicholas Hawksmoor · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

89

Monreale Cathedral

Norman builders, under William II · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

90

Forth Bridge

John Fowler and Benjamin Baker · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

91

The Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan

Mamluk, under Sultan an-Nasir Hasan · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

92

The Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque

Mohammad Reza Isfahani, under Shah Abbas I · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

93

The Great Mosque of Djenné

The masons under Ismaila Traoré · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

94

Petra

Nabataean · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

95

Persepolis

Achaemenid, under Darius I and Xerxes · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

96

Kandariya Mahadeva Temple

Chandela builders · Architecture

8.6 · Tier IV

97

The Doge’s Palace, Venice

Venetian · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

98

The Umayyad Mosque, Damascus

Umayyad, under al-Walid I · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

99

Sant'Andrea, Mantua

Leon Battista Alberti · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

100

Lincoln Cathedral

Anonymous · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

101

The Bayon

Khmer, under Jayavarman VII · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

102

The Karlskirche

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

103

The Dôme des Invalides

Jules Hardouin-Mansart · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

104

Villa d'Este, Tivoli

Pirro Ligorio · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

105

Unity Temple

Frank Lloyd Wright · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

106

Farnsworth House

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

107

Gonbad-e Qabus

Built for Qabus ibn Wushmgir · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

108

Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte

Louis Le Vau and André Le Nôtre · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

109

The Seagram Building

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

110

Speyer Cathedral

Salian builders, under Conrad II and Henry IV · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

111

Robie House

Frank Lloyd Wright · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

112

San Giorgio Maggiore

Andrea Palladio · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

113

The Ducal Palace, Urbino

Luciano Laurana and Francesco di Giorgio Martini · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

114

Meenakshi Amman Temple, Madurai

Nayaka builders (and earlier) · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

115

The Altes Museum

Karl Friedrich Schinkel · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

116

The Teatro Olimpico

Andrea Palladio; scene by Vincenzo Scamozzi · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

117

Ananda Temple

Pagan builders, under King Kyansittha · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

118

The Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève

Henri Labrouste · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

119

The Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Vézelay

Burgundian Romanesque builders · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

120

Harmandir Sahib (the Golden Temple)

Guru Arjan; rebuilt and gilded under Maharaja Ranjit Singh · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

121

The Johnson Wax Headquarters

Frank Lloyd Wright · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

122

Church of the Light

Tadao Ando · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

123

Itsukushima Shrine

Built for Taira no Kiyomori · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

124

Grand Central Terminal

Reed and Stem, and Warren and Wetmore · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

125

S. R. Crown Hall

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

126

Yoyogi National Gymnasium

Kenzo Tange · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

127

The Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque

Maya, under K'inich Janaab' Pakal and his son · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

128

The Brion Tomb

Carlo Scarpa · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

129

The Maison de Verre

Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

131

Abu Simbel

Ancient Egyptian, under Ramesses II · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

132

The Theatre of Epidaurus

Polykleitos the Younger (attributed) · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

133

The Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahari

Senenmut (attributed), under Hatshepsut · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

134

The Frauenkirche, Dresden

George Bähr · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

135

The Wieskirche

Dominikus Zimmermann · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

136

The Würzburg Residenz

Balthasar Neumann · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

137

King's College Chapel, Cambridge

Reginald Ely, John Wastell and others · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

138

Cologne Cathedral

Gerhard of Cologne and successors; completed by Ernst Friedrich Zwirner · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

139

Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Constantinian, Crusader and later builders · Architecture

8.5 · Tier IV

140

Humayun's Tomb

Mirak Mirza Ghiyas, under Bega Begum and Akbar · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

141

Palazzo del Te

Giulio Romano · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

142

St Basil's Cathedral

Barma and Postnik Yakovlev (attributed) · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

143

Wells Cathedral

Adam Lock and others · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

144

The Olympiapark roofs, Munich

Günter Behnisch and Frei Otto · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

145

Pisa Cathedral

Buscheto and Rainaldo · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

146

St Vitus Cathedral, Prague

Matthias of Arras and Peter Parler; completed by later hands · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

147

Centre Pompidou

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers with Gianfranco Franchini · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

148

Ely Cathedral

Anonymous; Octagon by William Hurley and Alan of Walsingham · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

149

Cathedral of Brasília

Oscar Niemeyer · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

150

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Frank Gehry · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

151

Seville Cathedral and the Giralda

Almohad builders; cathedral by Gothic masters · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

152

Hosios Loukas

Middle Byzantine builders · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

153

Siena Cathedral

Sienese builders; facade by Giovanni Pisano · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

154

Diocletian's Palace, Split

Roman, under Diocletian · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

155

Casa Milà

Antoni Gaudí · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

156

The Palace of Westminster

Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

157

Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv

Kyivan Rus builders, under Yaroslav the Wise · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

158

Albi Cathedral

Built for Bishop Bernard de Castanet · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

159

Rockefeller Center

Raymond Hood and the Associated Architects · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

160

Beauvais Cathedral

Anonymous · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

161

Tōdai-ji

Japanese, under Emperor Shōmu · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

162

The Erechtheion

Athenian (architect unrecorded) · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

163

Casa Luis Barragán

Luis Barragán · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

164

Paimio Sanatorium

Alvar Aalto · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

165

Konark Sun Temple

Eastern Ganga builders, under Narasimhadeva I · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

166

Melk Abbey

Jakob Prandtauer · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

167

The Stockholm Public Library

Gunnar Asplund · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

168

The Austrian Postal Savings Bank

Otto Wagner · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

169

Topkapı Palace

Ottoman builders, under Mehmed II and successors · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

170

The Great Wall of China

Ming builders (and earlier dynasties) · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

171

Villa Tugendhat

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

172

The Wooden Pagoda of Fogong Temple

Liao builders · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

173

The Neue Nationalgalerie

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

174

Salisbury Cathedral

Elias of Dereham and Nicholas of Ely (attributed); spire by Richard of Farleigh · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

175

The Salginatobel Bridge

Robert Maillart · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

176

The Hoysaleswara Temple, Halebidu

Hoysala builders · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

177

Le Thoronet Abbey

Cistercian builders · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

178

Pont du Gard

Roman · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

179

The Temple of Horus at Edfu

Ptolemaic builders · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

180

Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli

Roman, under Hadrian · Architecture

8.4 · Tier IV

182

Pienza

Bernardo Rossellino, for Pius II · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

183

Villa Mairea

Alvar Aalto · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

184

The Great Mosque of Kairouan

Aghlabid builders · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

185

The United States Capitol

William Thornton, Benjamin Latrobe, Charles Bulfinch and Thomas U. Walter · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

186

Château de Chambord

Attributed to Domenico da Cortona, under Francis I · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

187

The Bauhaus Building, Dessau

Walter Gropius · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

188

Palazzo Vecchio

Arnolfo di Cambio (attributed) · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

189

Fatehpur Sikri

Mughal, under Akbar · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

190

The Casa del Fascio, Como

Giuseppe Terragni · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

191

The Jerónimos Monastery

Diogo de Boitaca and João de Castilho · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

193

Monte Albán

Zapotec builders · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

194

The John Hancock Center

Bruce Graham and Fazlur Khan (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill) · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

195

Säynätsalo Town Hall

Alvar Aalto · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

197

SESC Pompéia

Lina Bo Bardi · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

198

The Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

Christopher Wren, with Hawksmoor and Vanbrugh · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

199

Luxor Temple

Ancient Egyptian, under Amenhotep III and Ramesses II · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

200

Sigiriya

Built for King Kashyapa I · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

201

Villa Müller

Adolf Loos · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

202

The HSBC Building, Hong Kong

Norman Foster (Foster and Partners) · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

203

The Palau de la Música Catalana

Lluís Domènech i Montaner · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

204

Bagsværd Church

Jørn Utzon · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

205

Hardwick Hall

Robert Smythson (attributed), for Bess of Hardwick · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

206

The Golden Gate Bridge

Joseph Strauss, Charles Ellis, Leon Moisseiff and Irving Morrow · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

207

St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna

Hans Puchsbaum and others · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

208

Prambanan

Medang (Mataram) builders · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

209

The Humble Administrator's Garden

Wang Xianchen; Wen Zhengming (attributed design) · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

210

Jongmyo Shrine

Joseon builders · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

211

Rani ki Vav

Chaulukya, under Queen Udayamati · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

212

Shwedagon Pagoda

Mon and Burmese builders · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

213

The Crystal Palace

Joseph Paxton · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

214

Glasgow School of Art

Charles Rennie Mackintosh · Architecture

8.3 · Tier IV

215

Göbekli Tepe

Pre-Pottery Neolithic builders · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

216

The Ospedale degli Innocenti

Filippo Brunelleschi · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

217

Pueblo Bonito

Ancestral Puebloan builders · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

218

Mahabodhi Temple

Indian builders (Gupta and later) · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

219

The Qutb Minar

Qutb ud-Din Aibak and Iltutmish; upper storeys by Firuz Shah Tughlaq · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

220

Palazzo Medici Riccardi

Michelozzo · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

221

The Neue Staatsgalerie

James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

222

Trinity Church, Boston

H. H. Richardson · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

223

Great Zimbabwe

Shona builders · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

224

Park Güell

Antoni Gaudí · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

225

Urnes Stave Church

Norwegian builders · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

226

Blenheim Palace

John Vanbrugh with Nicholas Hawksmoor · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

227

The Koutoubia Mosque

Almohad builders, under Abd al-Mu'min and Yaqub al-Mansur · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

228

São Francisco de Assis, Ouro Preto

Aleijadinho · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

229

Gur-e-Amir

Muhammad ibn Mahmud Isfahani (attributed), under Timur · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

230

The Zhaozhou Bridge

Li Chun · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

231

Coventry Cathedral

Basil Spence · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

232

The Dome of Soltaniyeh

Ilkhanid, under Öljaitü · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

233

The Melnikov House

Konstantin Melnikov · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

234

The Gateway Arch

Eero Saarinen · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

235

St Pancras Station and Midland Grand Hotel

George Gilbert Scott and William Henry Barlow · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

236

Mehrangarh

Built for Rao Jodha and successors · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

237

The Pazzi Chapel

Filippo Brunelleschi · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

238

Real Alcázar of Seville

Mudéjar builders, under Peter of Castile, and later hands · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

239

The Van Nelle Factory

Brinkman and Van der Vlugt · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

240

The Rüstem Pasha Mosque

Mimar Sinan · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

241

The Palais Garnier

Charles Garnier · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

242

The Palais des Papes, Avignon

Pierre Peysson and Jean de Louvres, under Benedict XII and Clement VI · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

243

Sacsayhuamán

Inca, under Pachacuti and successors · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

245

The Stoclet Palace

Josef Hoffmann · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

246

Krak des Chevaliers

Knights Hospitaller builders · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

247

The Royal Palace of Caserta

Luigi Vanvitelli · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

248

Malbork Castle

Teutonic Order builders · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

249

The Bruder Klaus Field Chapel

Peter Zumthor · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

250

Himeji Castle

Ikeda Terumasa · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

251

León Cathedral

Master Enrique and Juan Pérez · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

252

Rietveld Schröder House

Gerrit Rietveld · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

253

The Narkomfin Building

Moisei Ginzburg and Ignaty Milinis · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

254

The Lincoln Memorial

Henry Bacon · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

255

Hôtel Tassel

Victor Horta · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

256

The Second Temple of Hera, Paestum

Greek colonists of Poseidonia · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

257

The Summer Palace, Beijing

Qing builders, under the Qianlong Emperor; rebuilt under Cixi · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

258

The East Hall of Foguang Temple

Tang builders · Architecture

8.2 · Tier IV

259

The Wainwright Building

Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

260

The AEG Turbine Factory

Peter Behrens · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

261

The Central Library, UNAM

Juan O'Gorman, Gustavo Saavedra and Juan Martínez de Velasco · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

262

The Ziggurat of Ur

Sumerian, under Ur-Nammu and Shulgi · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

263

The National Congress of Brazil

Oscar Niemeyer · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

264

Chrysler Building

William Van Alen · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

265

The Metropolitan Cathedral, Mexico City

Claudio de Arciniega and successors; facade by Manuel Tolsá · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

266

The Woolworth Building

Cass Gilbert · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

267

Sendai Mediatheque

Toyo Ito · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

268

The Empire State Building

Shreve, Lamb and Harmon · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

269

Caernarfon Castle

Master James of St George, under Edward I · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

270

St Michael’s Church, Hildesheim

Built for Bishop Bernward · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

271

The Reichstag Building as rebuilt

Norman Foster (Foster and Partners) · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

272

The Monadnock Building

Burnham and Root; south half by Holabird and Roche · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

273

Jantar Mantar, Jaipur

Sawai Jai Singh II · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

274

Banteay Srei

Built for Yajnavaraha · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

275

Tikal Temple I

Maya, under Jasaw Chan K'awiil I · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

276

The Parliament of Sri Lanka

Geoffrey Bawa · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

277

Wat Arun

Thai builders, under Rama II and Rama III · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

278

The Radcliffe Camera

James Gibbs · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

279

Los Manantiales

Félix Candela · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

280

Washington Dulles Airport Terminal

Eero Saarinen · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

281

The Church of the Intercession on the Nerl

Vladimir-Suzdal builders, under Andrey Bogolyubsky · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

282

Grundtvig's Church

Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint; completed by Kaare Klint · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

283

The Shukhov Tower

Vladimir Shukhov · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

284

The Barbican Estate

Chamberlin, Powell and Bon · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

285

The Registan, Samarkand

Timurid and Ashtarkhanid builders · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

286

Shibam

Hadhrami builders · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

287

The Tempio Malatestiano

Leon Battista Alberti · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

288

Saint Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai

Byzantine, under Justinian · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

289

Mohenjo-daro

Harappan builders · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

290

Milan Cathedral

Many masters, from 1386; facade completed in the nineteenth century · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

291

Palazzo Farnese

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger; Michelangelo; Giacomo della Porta · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

292

The Jama Masjid, Delhi

Mughal, under Shah Jahan · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

293

The Mosque of Ibn Tulun

Tulunid, under Ahmad ibn Tulun · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

294

The Baths of Caracalla

Roman, under Caracalla · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

295

Millau Viaduct

Michel Virlogeux and Norman Foster · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

296

Nikkō Tōshō-gū

Built for Tokugawa Iemitsu · Architecture

8.1 · Tier IV

297

The Iron Bridge

Abraham Darby III; designed by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

298

The Jokhang Temple

Tibetan, under Songtsen Gampo · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

299

The Goetheanum

Rudolf Steiner · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

300

Habitat 67

Moshe Safdie · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

301

The Great Mosque of Samarra

Abbasid builders, under al-Mutawakkil · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

302

Ginkaku-ji (the Silver Pavilion)

Built for Ashikaga Yoshimasa · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

303

Château de Chenonceau

Thomas Bohier and Catherine Briçonnet; gallery by Philibert de l'Orme and Jean Bullant · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

304

The Vittala Temple, Hampi

Vijayanagara builders · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

305

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus

Frederick William Stevens · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

306

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

Giuseppe Mengoni · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

307

Stockholm City Hall

Ragnar Östberg · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

308

Kinkaku-ji (the Golden Pavilion)

Built for Ashikaga Yoshimitsu; rebuilt 1955 · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

309

Tate Modern

Herzog and de Meuron · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

310

Church of the Transfiguration, Kizhi

Russian carpenters · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

311

E-1027

Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

312

Castel del Monte

Built for Frederick II · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

313

The Lloyd’s Building

Richard Rogers · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

314

Casa Batlló

Antoni Gaudí · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

315

Red Fort, Delhi

Ustad Ahmad Lahori (attributed), under Shah Jahan · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

316

Stari Most, Mostar

Mimar Hayruddin · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

317

The National Theatre, London

Denys Lasdun · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

318

Vanna Venturi House

Robert Venturi · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

320

Monticello

Thomas Jefferson · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

321

The Dilwara Temples

Built for Vimal Shah and Vastupala and Tejapala · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

322

Sant'Apollinare in Classe

Byzantine, under Archbishop Ursicinus · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

323

The Temple of Hephaestus

Athenian (architect unrecorded) · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

324

Taos Pueblo

Tiwa builders · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

325

Nijō Castle

Tokugawa builders · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

326

The Palm House, Kew

Decimus Burton and Richard Turner · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

327

The Menil Collection

Renzo Piano · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

328

TWA Flight Center

Eero Saarinen · Architecture

8.0 · Tier IV

329

The Secession Building

Joseph Maria Olbrich · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

330

Boston City Hall

Kallmann McKinnell and Knowles · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

331

The Ponte Vecchio

Taddeo Gaddi or Neri di Fioravanti (attributed) · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

333

The Ningbo History Museum

Wang Shu (Amateur Architecture Studio) · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

334

The Institut du Monde Arabe

Jean Nouvel, with Architecture-Studio · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

335

Chan Chan

Chimú builders · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

336

CCTV Headquarters

Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren (OMA) · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

337

The Glass House

Philip Johnson · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

338

The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Balkrishna Doshi · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

339

The Flatiron Building

Daniel Burnham · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

340

The Royal Crescent, Bath

John Wood the Younger · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

341

The Shore Temple, Mahabalipuram

Pallava, under Narasimhavarman II · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

342

The Carson Pirie Scott Building

Louis Sullivan · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

343

Eames House (Case Study House No. 8)

Charles and Ray Eames · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

344

Lever House

Gordon Bunshaft (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill) · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

345

The Louvre Pyramid

I. M. Pei · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

346

The Oslo Opera House

Snøhetta · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

347

Seattle Central Library

Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus (OMA/LMN) · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

348

Sultan Ahmed Mosque (the Blue Mosque)

Sedefkâr Mehmed Agha · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

349

The Clifton Suspension Bridge

Isambard Kingdom Brunel; completed by Hawkshaw and Barlow · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

350

Santa Sabina, Rome

Peter of Illyria, under Pope Celestine I · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

351

Chengqi Lou

Hakka builders (Jiang clan) · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

352

The Maison Carrée, Nîmes

Roman, under Augustus · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

353

Cliff Palace, Mesa Verde

Ancestral Puebloan builders · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

354

30 St Mary Axe (the Gherkin)

Norman Foster (Foster and Partners) · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

355

Kiyomizu-dera

Built for Tokugawa Iemitsu · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

356

The Aqueduct of Segovia

Roman · Architecture

7.9 · Tier III

358

The Einstein Tower

Erich Mendelsohn · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

359

The Fagus Factory

Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

360

The Gando Primary School

Diébédo Francis Kéré · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

361

The Petronas Towers

César Pelli · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

362

Trajan's Market

Apollodorus of Damascus (attributed) · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

363

The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

365

The Lotus Temple

Fariborz Sahba · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

366

Casa da Música

Rem Koolhaas (OMA) · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

367

Burj Khalifa

Adrian Smith (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill) · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

368

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Frank Gehry · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

369

Sydney Harbour Bridge

John Bradfield and Ralph Freeman (Dorman Long) · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

370

Elbphilharmonie

Herzog and de Meuron · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

372

Beijing National Stadium

Herzog and de Meuron, with Ai Weiwei and Li Xinggang · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

373

The Winter Palace

Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

374

The Temple of Isis at Philae

Ptolemaic and Roman builders · Architecture

7.8 · Tier III

375

The Leaning Tower of Pisa

Bonanno Pisano (attributed) and Giovanni di Simone; Tommaso Pisano · Architecture

7.7 · Tier III

376

The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda

Tang, under Emperor Gaozong · Architecture

7.7 · Tier III

377

Hanging Temple (Xuankong Si)

Chinese builders (Northern Wei foundation, Ming and Qing rebuilding) · Architecture

7.7 · Tier III

378

The Hungarian Parliament Building

Imre Steindl · Architecture

7.7 · Tier III

379

The Grand Mosque of Agadez

Sahelian builders · Architecture

7.7 · Tier III

380

Pyramid of the Magician

Maya (Puuc) · Architecture

7.7 · Tier III

381

Neuschwanstein Castle

Eduard Riedel and Christian Jank, under Ludwig II · Architecture

7.7 · Tier III

382

Schönbrunn Palace

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Nikolaus Pacassi and Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg · Architecture

7.7 · Tier III

383

Basilica of the Sacré-Cœur

Paul Abadie · Architecture

7.7 · Tier III

384

Hawa Mahal

Lal Chand Ustad · Architecture

7.6 · Tier III

385

Tower Bridge

Horace Jones and John Wolfe Barry · Architecture

7.6 · Tier III

386

The Royal Pavilion, Brighton

John Nash · Architecture

7.6 · Tier III

387

Hassan II Mosque

Michel Pinseau · Architecture

7.6 · Tier III

388

Heydar Aliyev Center

Zaha Hadid · Architecture

7.6 · Tier III

389

The Atomium

André Waterkeyn; André and Jean Polak · Architecture

7.5 · Tier III

391

Hallgrímskirkja

Guðjón Samúelsson · Architecture

7.5 · Tier III

392

The Shard

Renzo Piano · Architecture

7.5 · Tier III

393

Shanghai Tower

Jun Xia (Gensler) · Architecture

7.4 · Tier III

394

Burj Al Arab

Tom Wright (Atkins) · Architecture

7.3 · Tier III

395

The Dancing House

Vlado Milunić and Frank Gehry · Architecture

7.3 · Tier III

396

Marina Bay Sands

Moshe Safdie · Architecture

7.3 · Tier III

397

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

Yousef Abdelky · Architecture

7.3 · Tier III

398

The Portland Building

Michael Graves · Architecture

7.2 · Tier III

399

One World Trade Center

David Childs (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill) · Architecture

7.2 · Tier III

400

Vessel

Thomas Heatherwick · Architecture

6.8 · Tier II