Completed in 1963 in Berlin, Germany. Hans Scharoun is a well known German architect best known for his design of the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall in Berlin, Germany. Completed...
Completed in 1967 in Montreal city, Canada. Habitat 67, designed by the Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie as the Canadian Pavilion for the World Exposition of 1967, was originally...
Situated in Poissy, Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye is one of the most significant contributions to modern architecture in the 20th century.
Completed in 1972 in London, United Kingdom. The Trellick Tower is an iconic structure located in west London, England. It has gone through numerous phases of public perception, most notably its...
Completed in 1960 in Brasília, Brazil. Located at the head of the abstract bird-shaped city plan by Lúcio Costa, and as the only building within the central greensward of the eastern arm...
Completed in 1975 in Sant Just Desvern, Spain. Walden 7 is a project implementing some of Ricardo Bofill's earliest ambitions and addressing most of the problems of modern city life. It is located...
Completed in 1927 in . The Dymaxion House was a futuristic dwelling invented by the architect and practical philosopher R. Buckminister Fuller - who would have turned 124...
Completed in 1960 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Dutch Architect Aldo van Eyck built the Amsterdam Orphanage in 1960. His design focused on a balance of forces to create both a home and small city...
Completed in 1971 in Modena, Italy. Aldo Rossi, a man appreciated internationally for his theories, architecture and drawings, was one of the most prominent architects of his time. His...
Completed in 1992 in Paris, France. Located on the east bank of the Seine sits one of Paris’ largest urban renewal projects, Parc Andre Citroen. As part of a competition in 1985,...
Completed in 1952 in Marseille, France. After World War II, the need for housing was at an unprecedented high. The Unite d’Habitation in Marseille, France was the first large scale project...
Completed in 1986 in London, United Kingdom. After the completion of Centre Pompidou in 1977 with Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers was commissioned to design a new building to replace the original...
Completed in 1972 in Milano, Italy. As the dust settled following the Second World War much of Europe was left with a crippling shortage of housing. In Milan, a series of plans...
Completed in 1999 in London, United Kingdom. In 1994, with the third millennium fast approaching, the British announced a national festival to mark the year 2000. Amid a new sense of optimism,...
The Cultural Center was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer and named after him. It is located in Goiânia, Brazil.
Completed in 1975 in Barcelona, Spain. Located on Montjuic hill in Barcelona and designed by the rationalist style architect Josep Lluis Sert, the Fundació Joan Miró (Joan Miró...
Completed in 1982 in Kuwait City, Kuwait. No single building typology reveals as much about a nation’s political culture as the seat of its government. Parliamentary or palatial structures...
Image 21 of 33 from gallery of Architecture Classics: Habitat 67 / Safdie Architects. © (2001) Canadian Architecture Collection, McGill University
Completed in 1941 in Aarhus, Denmark. In 1941, at the height of World War II in Western Europe, the city of Aarhus, Denmark achieved an unusual architectural feat. It finished...
Image 46 of 53 from gallery of Architecture Classics: Walden 7 / Ricardo Bofill. Photograph by Denis Esakov
