Landmark Architecture

Around the world, new sculptural marvels in architectureare imagined, designed, and built every year

Guggenheim Museum, NYC

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City

The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It was named after the engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.

  Opened March 31, 1889Height: 984'Architects: Gustave Eiffel, Stephen Sauvestre

The Atomium (Brussels)The Atomium is a building in Brussels originally constructed for Expo 58, the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Designed by the engineer André Waterkeyn and architects André and Jean Polak, it stands 102 m tall.

Architect: Anish Kapoor

The ArcelorMittal Orbit is a 114.5 metre tall

sculpture and observation tower in the Queen Elizabeth

Olympic Park in Stratford, London

Temple of Heaven, Beijing

The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven, is a medieval complex of religious buildings situated in the southeastern part of central Beijing

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

Hailed as the most important structure of its time when it opened in 1997, Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has changed the way people think about museums and continues to challenge assumptions about the connections between art, architecture, and collecting.

The Lotus Building, Wujin, China

Blooming out of an artificial lake at the center of Wujin, in China, is “The Lotus Building” designed and built by Australian architecture firm Studio 505. The beautiful building takes its name and form from the blooming lotus flower, and shows the three stages of the flower from the new young bud, to the full ripe flower through to the opened bloom with a seed pod within it.

Metropolitan Cathedral, Brasilia, Brazil

Olympic Stadium, MontrealThe Olympic Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Canada, located at Olympic Park in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district of Montreal, Quebec

Lyon-Saint Exupery Airport, France

Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport, formerly known as Lyon Satolas Airport, is the international airport of Lyon, the third-biggest city in France and an important transport facility for the entire Rhône-Alpes region

The Royal Pavilion Brighton, England

The Royal Pavilion is a former royal residence located in Brighton, England, United Kingdom. It was built in three stages, beginning in 1787, as a seaside retreat for George, Prince of Wales, who became the Prince Regent in 1811

Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain

The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família is a large Roman Catholic church in Barcelona, Catalonia, designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí.

Sleeping Beauty Castle, Disneyland

Sleeping Beauty Castle is the fairy tale structure castle at the center of Disneyland Park, Hong Kong Disneyland and Disneyland Paris. It is based on the late-19th century Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany, with some French inspirations.

St. Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow

The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed, commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a church in Red Square in Moscow, Russia.

Opera House, Sydney, Australia

Identified as one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world

The Space Needle, Seattle

The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, a landmark of the Pacific Northwest, and an icon of Seattle. It was built in the Seattle Center for the 1962 World's Fair