the Bering Strait Bridge

 

the Gotthard Base Tunnel (2015)

 

New Songdo (2014)

 

 

Seasteading

 

the Shanghai World Financial Center (2008)

 

the Palm Islands (2007)

 

the Three Gorges Dam (May 20, 2006)

 

the Millau Viaduct (December 2004)

 

Taipei 101 (2004)

 

Lærdalstunnelen (2000)

 

 

the Petronas Towers (1998)

 

the Jin Mao Building (1998)

 

 

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (1997)

 

 

Wallpaper* (1996)

 

the Channel Tunnel (1994)

 

the Seikan Tunnel (March 13, 1988)

 

 

Hundertwasserhaus (1986)

 

Deconstructivism (1980s)

 

 

Loft apartments

 

the St. Gotthard Tunnel (September 5, 1980)

 

 

Capsule hotels (1979)

 

 

the CN Tower (1976)

 

the Sydney Opera House (1973)

 

the World Trade Center (1973-2001)

 

 

the Sears Tower (1973)

 

the Aswan High Dam (1970)

 

Habitat '67

 

the Gateway Arch (1965)

 

energy-plus-house

 

zero energy building

 

Prefabricated housing

 

Floating Homes

 

 

Plattenbau (1960s)

 

the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (1956)

 

Brutalist (1950s)

 

Postmodern (1950s)

 

the geodesic dome (late 1940s)

 

the Pentagon (1943)

 

the Golden Gate Bridge (1937)

 

 

Fallingwater (1937)

 

Stalinist (1933-1955)

 

the Empire State Building (1931)

 

 

the Chrysler Building (1930)

 

 

Art Deco (1925)

 

Vers une architecture (1923) by Le Corbusier

 

the White City (1920s)

 

the International style (1920s and 1930s)

 

Organic

 

 

the Einstein Tower (1920)

 

the Zuiderzee Works (1920-1975)

 

 

Bauhaus (1919-1933)

 

 

the First Goetheanum (1919)

 

Sacré Cœur (1914)

 

bunkers

 

the California Bungalow (1910s)

 

tower cranes

 

parking lots

 

Expressionist (20th century)

 

Futurist (20th century)

 

 

the Flatiron Building (1902)

 

Chicago school (early 20th century)

 

the American Craftsman Style (1900s - 1930s)

 

Edwardian Baroque (1901-1910)

 

Modern (20th century)

 

Jugendstil (late 19th, early 20th century)

 

the American Foursquare (mid-1890's - the late 1930s)

 

 

Château Frontenac (1893)

 

 

the Eiffel Tower (1889)

 

Thomas Twyford built the first one-piece china toilet (1885) using the flush-out siphon design by J. G. Jennings

 

Richardsonian Romanesque (1870s, 1880s)

 

Queen Anne Style (1870)

 

Big Ben (1858)

 

 

Reinforced concrete

 

 

Crystal Palace (1851)

 

 

Beaux-Arts (1850)

 

Eclecticism (1820)

 

Biedermeier (1815-1850)

 

Neo-baroque

 

 

the Plateau staircase (19th-century)

 

Chalet (19th-century)

 

Arc de Triomphe (1806)

 

Bungalow

 

Townhouse

 

Greek Revival (1800)

 

 

Washington D.C.

 

Jeffersonian (1790's-1830's)

 

Alexander Cummings invented the S-trap (1775)

 

Neo-Renaissance (mid-18th century)

 

Gothic Revival (mid-18th century)

 

 

Neoclassicism (mid-18th century)

 

the Spanish Steps (1725)

 

Georgian (1720-1840)

 

 

the Amber Room (1709)

 

Opera houses

 

 

Rococo (18th century)

 

Colonial (1690-1830)

 

 

Versailles (1689)

 

 

Taj Mahal (1654)

 

 

St. Peter's Basilica (1626)

 

the mansard roof

 

 

French Baroque

 

Baroque (17th century)

 

 

Reet

 

country houses

 

 

Log cabin

 

Saint Basil's Cathedral (1561)

 

the Louvre (1550)

 

Mannerist (1527)

 

 

Châteaus

 

 

Tudor (1485)

 

Macchu Picchu (1440)

 

 

Renaissance (14th century)

 

stonemasonry (1356)

 

Cologne Cathedral (1248-1880)

 

the Leaning Tower (1178)

 

Mont Saint-Michel (12th century)

 

 

Angkor Wat (12th century)

 

 

Gothic (12th century)

 

 

Romanesque (11th, 12th century) attempts to link the architecture in medieval

Europe to Roman Architecture based on similarities of forms and materials

 

the Porcelain Tower of Nanjing

 

the Borneo Longhouse

 

Cottages

 

Citadel

 

 

Castles

 

Medieval

 

 

Carolingian

 

 

Timber framing

 

 

the Dome of the Rock (691)

 

 

Hōryū-ji Temple (607) is the earliest Buddhist temple still in existence in the

21th century and contains the Far East’s oldest surviving wooden structures

 

 

Palenque (600)

 

Hagia Sophia (537)

 

monasteries

 

Byzantine

 

 

Tikal (200)

 

 

the Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa (2nd century ad)

 

 

the Colosseum (72)

 

the Limes (10)

 

Vitruvius' De architectura (23 bc)

 

the Pantheon (27 bc)

 

synagogues

 

 

triumphal arches

 

 

the Circus Maximus (2nd century bc)

 

Wallpaper (200 bc)

 

the Baths of Caracalla (216 bc)

 

Geodesy (240 bc)

 

 

the Great Wall of China

 

 

the Pharos of Alexandria lighthouse (3rd century bc -1323)

 

 

the Colossus of Rhodos (280-224 bc)

 

 

aquaeducts (312 bc)

 

 

the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (353 bc)

 

 

fortifications

 

 

the forum

 

villas

 

 

the domus

 

Roman

 

 

the magnificent temple of Zeus (450 bc) was designed by the architect Libon

 

Persepolis (around 500 bc)

 

 

the Second Temple (515 bc - 70 ad)

 

 

the arch

 

 

Petra

 

 

the Temple of Artemis (550 bc)

 

 

the Acropolis (550 bc)

 

 

the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (600 bc)

 

 

stadiums (776 bc)

 

Marble

 

Stucco

 

 

amphitheatres

 

arcades

 

porches

 

agoras

 

 

Classical order

 

Greek

 

 

Solomon's Temple (993-586 bc)

 

glass window panes

 

 

Abu Simbel Temple (1264 bc)

 

Persian

 

 

Stonehenge (2500 bc)

 

 

the Great Pyramid of Giza (2560 bc)

 

parks

 

sewage systems

 

flush toilets

 

 

the tower of Babel ()

 

 

Ziggurats

 

barrel vault

 

bricks

 

the swimming pool (3000 bc)

 

patios

 

courtyards (3000 bc)

 

tents

 

 

pile dwellings

 

Native American long house

 

bridges

 

 

Neolithic long house (5000 bc)

 

 

the Cave