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World Architecture Survey

Index World Architecture Survey

The World Architecture Survey was conducted in 2010 by Vanity Fair, to determine the most important works of contemporary architecture. [1]

85 relations: Annabelle Selldorf, Antoine Predock, Ōsanbashi Pier, Beijing, Beijing National Stadium, Ben van Berkel, Bernard Tschumi, BMW Welt, Casa da Música, César Pelli, Charles Jencks, Chicago Tribune, China Media Group Building, Christian de Portzamparc, Church of the Light, CMG Headquarters, Contemporary architecture, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Cooper Union, Daniel Libeskind, David Chipperfield, Deborah Berke & Partners Architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Eric Owen Moss, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Foreign Office Architects, Frank Gehry, George Baird (architect), Gluckman Tang Architects, Green building, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Hans Hollein, Herzog & de Meuron, HSBC Building (Hong Kong), Hugh Hardy, James Polshek, James Stirling (architect), Jaquelin T. Robertson, Jean Nouvel, Jewish Museum, Berlin, John Pawson, John Silber, Joseph Rykwert, Kenneth Frampton, Lance Hosey, Léon Krier, Le Corbusier, Lloyd's building, Los Angeles Times, Martin Filler, ..., Maya Lin, Menil Collection, Michael Graves, Michael Jemtrud, Millau Viaduct, Mohsen Mostafavi, Neil Denari, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Neue Staatsgalerie, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Parc de la Villette, Paul Goldberger, Peter Eisenman, Peter Zumthor, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Rafael Moneo, Rafael Viñoly, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano, Richard Meier, Richard Rogers, Roger Duffy, Saint-Pierre, Firminy, Seattle Central Library, Sendai Mediatheque, Stan Allen, Steven Holl, Tadao Ando, Therme Vals, Thom Mayne, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, Toyo Ito, Vanity Fair (magazine), Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Zaha Hadid. Expand index (35 more) »

Annabelle Selldorf

Annabelle Selldorf is a German-born architect and founding principal of Selldorf Architects, a New York City-based architecture practice.

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Antoine Predock

Antoine Predock (born 1936 in Lebanon, Missouri) is an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Ōsanbashi Pier

is the main international passenger pier at the Port of Yokohama, located in Naka Ward, Yokohama, Japan.

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Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

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Beijing National Stadium

Beijing National Stadium, officially the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, is a stadium in Beijing.

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Ben van Berkel

Ben van Berkel (born 1957) is a Dutch architect; founder and principal architect of the architectural practice UNStudio.

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Bernard Tschumi

Bernard Tschumi (born 25 January 1944 in Lausanne, Switzerland) is an architect, writer, and educator, commonly associated with deconstructivism.

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BMW Welt

BMW Welt (English: BMW World) is a multi-use exhibition center located in Munich, Germany used for meetings and promotional events, and where buyers take delivery of BMW vehicles.

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Casa da Música

The Casa da Música (literally the House of Music) is a Portuguese concert hall in civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e Vitória, in the municipality of Porto, in northern Portugal.

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César Pelli

César Pelli (born Oct. 12, 1926, Tucumán, Arg.), founder of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, is an Argentine American architect who has designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks.

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Charles Jencks

Charles Alexander Jencks (born June 21, 1939) is a cultural theorist, landscape designer, architectural historian, and co-founder of the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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China Media Group Building

The China Media Group Building is a 27-storey office tower and television complex at 11 Fuxin Road in Haidian District, Beijing, China.

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Christian de Portzamparc

Christian de Portzamparc (born 5 May 1944) is a French architect and urbanist.

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Church of the Light

The Church of the Light (sometimes called the "Church with Light") is the main chapel of the Ibaraki Kasugaoka Church, a member church of the United Church of Christ in Japan.

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CMG Headquarters

The CMG Headquarters is a, 44-story skyscraper on East Third Ring Road, Guanghua Road in the Beijing Central Business District (CBD).

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Contemporary architecture

Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century.

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Coop Himmelb(l)au

Coop Himmelb(l)au was founded by Wolf D. Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky, and Michael Holzer in Vienna, Austria, in 1968, and is active in architecture, urban planning, design, and art.

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Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union or The Cooper Union and informally referred to, especially during the 19th century, as "the Cooper Institute", is a private college at Cooper Square on the border of the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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Daniel Libeskind

Daniel Libeskind (born May 12, 1946) is a Polish-American architect, artist, professor and set designer.

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David Chipperfield

Sir David Alan Chipperfield (born 18 December 1953) is an English architect.

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Deborah Berke & Partners Architects

Deborah Berke Partners is a New York City-based architecture and interior design firm founded by Deborah Berke.

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro

Diller Scofidio + Renfro is an interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the visual arts, and the performing arts.

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Eric Owen Moss

Eric Owen Moss (born 1943 in Los Angeles (LA), California) practices architecture with his eponymously named LA-based 25-person firm founded in 1973.

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Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain

The Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, often known simply as the Fondation Cartier, is a contemporary art museum located at 261 boulevard Raspail in the 14th arrondissement of the French capital, Paris.

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Foreign Office Architects

Foreign Office Architects, FOA, was an architectural design studio headed by former husband and wife team Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo.

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Frank Gehry

Frank Owen Gehry,, FAIA (born Frank Owen Goldberg)Reinhart, Anthony (July 28, 2010), Globe and Mail is a Canadian-born American architect, residing in Los Angeles.

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George Baird (architect)

George Baird (born August 25, 1939) is a Canadian architect and architectural educator most closely associated with the University of Toronto, although he also taught at Harvard University.

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Gluckman Tang Architects

Gluckman Tang Architects is a New York City based architecture firm, providing services in architecture, planning, and interior design.

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Green building

Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers to both a structure and the application of processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle: from planning to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and demolition.

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain.

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Hans Hollein

Hans Hollein (30 March 1934 – 24 April 2014) was an Austrian architect and designer, in Frankfurter Rundshau, 24 April 2014 and key figure of postmodern architecture.

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Herzog & de Meuron

Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd.,"." Herzog & de Meuron.

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HSBC Building (Hong Kong)

HSBC Main Building is a headquarters building of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, which is today a wholly owned subsidiary of London-based HSBC Holdings.

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Hugh Hardy

Hugh Hardy (July 26, 1932 – March 17, 2017) was an American architect, known for designing and revitalizing theaters, performing arts venues, public spaces, and cultural facilities across the United States.

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James Polshek

James Stewart Polshek (born 1930, Akron, Ohio) is an American architect living in New York City.

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James Stirling (architect)

Sir James Frazer Stirling (22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992) was a British architect.

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Jaquelin T. Robertson

Jaquelin Taylor Robertson, FAIA, FAICP, usually credited as Jaquelin T. Robertson and informally known as "Jaque," is an American architect and urban designer.

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Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel (born 12 August 1945) is a French architect.

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Jewish Museum, Berlin

The first Jewish Museum in Berlin was founded on 24 January 1933, six days before the Nazis officially gained power, and was built next to the Neue Synagoge on Oranienburger Straße.

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John Pawson

John Pawson (born 1949, Halifax, England) is a British architectural designer whose work is known for its minimalist aesthetic.

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John Silber

John Robert Silber (August 15, 1926 – September 27, 2012) was an American academician and candidate for public office.

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Joseph Rykwert

Joseph Rykwert CBE (born 1926) is Paul Philippe Cret Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, and one of the foremost architectural historians and critics of his generation.

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Kenneth Frampton

Kenneth Brian Frampton (born 1930 in Woking, UK), is a British architect, critic, historian and the Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York.

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Lance Hosey

Lance Hosey is an American architect, known as a thought leader in sustainable design.

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Léon Krier

Léon Krier (born 7 April 1946 in Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg) is an architect, architectural theorist and urban planner.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Lloyd's building

The Lloyd's building (sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building) is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Martin Filler

Martin Myles Filler (September 17, 1948) is a prominent American architecture critic.

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Maya Lin

Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American designer, architect and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and land art.

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Menil Collection

The Menil Collection, located in Houston, Texas, USA, refers either to a museum that houses the private art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, or to the collection itself of approximately 17,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs and rare books.

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Michael Graves

Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect and principal of Michael Graves and Associates and Michael Graves Design Group.

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Michael Jemtrud

Michael Jemtrud is a McGill University associate professor of Architecture (in Montreal, Canada), and former Director of the School of Architecture.

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Millau Viaduct

The Millau Viaduct (le Viaduc de Millau) is a cable-stayed bridge that spans the gorge valley of the Tarn near Millau in southern France.

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Mohsen Mostafavi

Mohsen Mostafavi (1954) is an Iranian-American architect and educator.

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Neil Denari

Neil Denari (b. Fort Worth, Texas September 3, 1957) is an American architect, professor, and author.

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an art museum in Kansas City, Missouri, known for its neoclassical architecture and extensive collection of Asian art.

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Neue Staatsgalerie

The Neue Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany, was designed by the British firm James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates, although largely accredited solely to partner James Stirling.

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Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, (born 1 June 1935) is a British architect whose company, Foster + Partners, maintains an international design practice famous for high-tech architecture.

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Parc de la Villette

The Parc de la Villette is the third-largest park in Paris, 55.5 hectares in area, located at the northeastern edge of the city in the 19th arrondissement.

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Paul Goldberger

Paul Goldberger (born December 4, 1950) is an American architectural critic and educator, and a Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair magazine.

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Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman (born 1932) is an American architect.

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Peter Zumthor

Peter Zumthor (born 26 April 1943) is a Swiss architect whose work is frequently described as uncompromising and minimalist.

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Pritzker Architecture Prize

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture." Founded in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the Pritzker family and sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation.

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Rafael Moneo

José Rafael Moneo Vallés (born 9 May 1937) is a Spanish architect.

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Rafael Viñoly

Rafael Viñoly Beceiro (born 1944) is an Uruguayan architect.

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Rem Koolhaas

Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas (born 17 November 1945) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.

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Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano, (born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect and engineer.

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Richard Meier

Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white.

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Richard Rogers

Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs in high-tech architecture.

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Roger Duffy

Roger Duffy is an American architect, known for rigorous and unconventional approach to design.

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Saint-Pierre, Firminy

Saint-Pierre (Saint Peter) is a concrete building in the commune of Firminy, France.

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Seattle Central Library

The Seattle Public Library's Central Library is the flagship library of The Seattle Public Library system.

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Sendai Mediatheque

Sendai Mediatheque is a library in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.

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Stan Allen

Stan Allen is an American architect, theorist and former dean of Princeton University School of Architecture.

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Steven Holl

Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947) is a New York-based American architect and watercolorist.

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Tadao Ando

is a Japanese self-taught architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as "critical regionalism".

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Therme Vals

Therme Vals is the hotel/spa complex in Vals, built over the only thermal springs in the Graubünden canton in Switzerland.

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Thom Mayne

Thom Mayne (born January 19, 1944) is an American architect.

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Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects

Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (also known as Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners) are a husband-and-wife architectural firm founded in 1986, based in New York.

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Toyo Ito

is a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds.

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Vanity Fair (magazine)

Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a 2-acre (8,000 m²) U.S. national memorial in Washington D.C. It honors service members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War, service members who died in service in Vietnam/South East Asia, and those service members who were unaccounted for (missing in action, MIA) during the war.

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Zaha Hadid

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid (زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Architecture_Survey

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