These unique structures are pushing to rethink the boundaries of engineering creativity.
The building is one of the most impressive works of art.
Spending untold sums on construction, you can stroll through the projects completed and even to live in. Insider has collected 30 buildings that stagger the imagination.
Imperial Palace aka the Forbidden city – the highest form of Chinese architecture.
Trinity College – the pearl of the University of Dublin.
The great mosque of Djenne in Mali is the largest mud structure in the world. It can accommodate 3 thousand.
It is believed that the Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria inspired Walt Disney to create Sleeping beauty’s castle.
Perhaps the only religious building that is able to match its greatness is the Blue mosque in Istanbul. Its construction was completed in the beginning of the XVII century coincided with the heyday of the Ottoman Empire.
Designed by Danish architect Jorn Utzon and opened in 1973, the theater was the literal canvas for public expression.
Sydney Opera house is considered to be an iconic representative of Australian architecture.
From the library located in the district of Santo Domingo Savio, views of the Medellin, lying in the valley surrounded by the Andes.
In 2007, in Medellin, Colombia, opened Parque Biblioteca España. Her project was designed by Colombian architect Giancarlo Mazzanti. Three buildings are supposed to look like rocks.
High in the Peruvian Andes is Machu Picchu is the best example of the Inca architecture
Today, the most exotic examples of modern architecture can be seen in Beijing. For example, the CCTV Tower, also known as “Pants”.
Built around 1200, Chartres Cathedral in Northern France is a great example of Gothic architecture. Note the richly decorated “portals” leading into the building.
Whimsical Centre Pompidou in Paris – a masterpiece of postmodernism.
In Seoul and surrounded by greenery, stands the Church Light of Life (“Living light”).
Berlin is home to a Mecca of electronic music – brutal nightclub Berghain.
Modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe used the verge and open space to create masterpieces that seem to float in the air – like the New national gallery in Berlin, built in the 1960s.
Turninn in Reykjavik reflects the wild beauty of Iceland.
The Church of St. George in Lalibela, Ethiopia, was carved from a single boulder in the XII century.
Temppeliaukio Church, Helsinki, Finland, carved in the rock underground, gets enough sunlight.
The design of the Marina city skyscrapers in Chicago, to put it mildly, unique. Built in 1964, they became one of the first buildings mixed-use. For the first time in the United States in the construction were used high-rise crane.
In Onomichi, Japan, young couples often hold weddings in the Chapel Ribbon (“Ribbon chapel”).
The Woolworth building – the tallest building in the world in the period from 1913 to 1930.
The Flatiron building was one of the first skyscrapers in new York.
Architect and modernist Antoni gaudí died before the completion of the Temple of the Holy Family — in fact, its construction continues to this day. Outside the temple reminds the house of the “Chronicles of Narnia”.
The Church of Las Lajas in nariño, Colombia, at first puzzling, since the construction seemed to defy gravity.
At night the religious center of the Sikhs, looks amazing.
Amazing Golden Temple in Amritsar, India seem to be growing right from the waters of the river Amritsar.
The school Penley and Essendon in Melbourne, Australia.
Futuristic Fulton center in new York.
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The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong late Zaha Hadid did what could only she turned a hard, clean lines of modernism into something organic.
