Architectural excellence : 500 iconic buildings /
Cattermole, Paul,editor.
Credo Reference (Firm),distributor.
Architectural Excellence is organized chronologically and serves as a visual lesson in architecture through the ages. The buildings featured come from all over the world and include centers of worship, public buildings, places of business and homes. Each building includes a photograph, with a double-page spread for the top 50 selections. Captions provide specifications and brief histories.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references.
Ancient World to 500 CE -- The Citadel of �U�chisar -- Stonehenge -- Great Sphinx -- Great Pyramid of Khufu -- Temple of Karnak -- Palace of Knossos -- Lion Gate -- Choga Zambil -- Treasury of Atreus -- Ishtar Gate -- Temple of Poseidon -- Gate of the Nations -- Parthenon -- Erechtheion -- Great Stupa -- Temple of Horus -- Maison Carr�ee -- Pont du Gard -- Colosseum -- Roman Baths -- Trajan's Markets/Forum of Trajan -- Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana) -- Pantheon -- The Library of Celsus -- Odeon of Herodes Atticus -- The Theater of Aspendos -- Al Khazneh -- Arch of Septimus Severus -- Arg-�e Bam -- Arch of Constantine -- Dark Ages: 500-1200 CE -- Hagia Sophia -- Taq-i-Kisra -- Dome of the Rock -- Temple 1 (Mayan Step Pyramid) -- Umayyad Mosque -- Palace of Ukhaidir -- Gallus/Gallarus Oratory -- Ziggurat of the Great Mosque of Samarra -- Cathedral Church of the Holy Cross -- Saminid Mausoleum -- La Mezquita -- Longhua Pagoda -- Kandariya Mahadev Temple -- The White Tower -- Great Ball Court and Temple of the Jaguars -- Temples and Stupas of Bagan (Pagan) -- Kalyan Minaret -- Mont-Saint-Michel -- The Round Tower -- Borgund Stave Church -- Durham Cathedral -- Angkor Wat -- Medieval Period: 1200-1500 CE -- Church of St. George -- Citadel of Aleppo -- Temple of Htilominlo -- Cathedral of Notre Dame, Chartres -- Notre Dame de Paris -- Sainte-Chapelle -- Krak de Chevaliers -- Salisbury Cathedral -- Cathedral of St. �Etienne -- Cloth Hall, Ypres -- Tomb of Rukn-i-Alam -- Caernarfon Castle -- La Torre di Pisa -- Siena Cathedral -- Bodiam Castle -- Palazzo Davanzati -- Palace of the Alhambra -- Trulli -- Westminster Abbey -- Changdokkung Palace -- The Forbidden City -- Ca' d'Oro Palazzo -- Florence Cathedral -- Herstmonceaux Castle -- Doge's Palace -- Warwick Castle -- Wat Chedi Luang -- Darb-I Imam -- Malbork Castle -- Little Morton Hall -- Albi Cathedral -- Milan Cathedral -- Machu Picchu -- Orvieto Cathedral -- Novodevichy Convent -- 16th Century -- The Tempietto -- King's College Chapel -- Liuhe Pagoda -- St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle -- Tudor Wing, Hampton Court Palace -- Casa de Pilates -- Mir-i Arab Madrasa -- Ch�ateau de Fontainebleau -- Villa Barbaro -- Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed -- Olavinlinna Castle -- Villa Foscari -- Villa Farnese -- Villa Capra -- Lal Qila -- Great Wall of China -- Ch�ateau de Chenonceau -- Xian Bell Tower -- Church of Santa Maria di Loreto -- Stirling Castle -- Palazzo Farnese -- Hardwick Hall -- 17th Century -- The Globe Theatre -- Sultan Ahmet Mosque -- Himeji-jo -- Sheikh Luft Allah Mosque -- Jag Mandir -- Frederiksborg Slot -- Saint Peter's Basilica -- The Queen's House -- Pol Khaju -- Taj Mahal -- Katsura Imperial Villa -- Bacon's Castle -- San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane -- Sheldonian Theatre -- Sant'Andrea al Quirinale -- Riddarhuset -- Ch�ateau de Versailles -- Adam Thoroughgood House -- Fort Carr�e -- D�ome des Invalides -- Chapel of the Holy Shroud -- William and Mary Wings, Hampton Court Palace -- 18th Century -- St. Paul's Cathedral -- Old Royal Naval College -- Old State House -- Saint Mary-le-Strand -- Blenheim Palace -- Upper Schloss Belvedere -- Church of Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields -- Zwinger Palace -- Chiswick House -- Jantar Mantar -- Shirley Plantation House -- Leinster House -- Radcliffe Camera -- Die Wies Pilgrimage Church -- Villa Pisani Stable Block -- Pineapple House -- The Pagoda -- Winter Palace -- Palacio Real -- Keddleston Hall -- The Upper Mill -- Vierzehnheiligen Pilgrimage Church -- Royal Crescent -- Monticello -- Somerset House -- Pavlovsk Palace -- Mansion House -- Meetinghouse -- Georgian House -- Jal Mahal -- Hawa Mahal -- 19th Century -- 1800-1849 -- Fort McHenry -- Gardner-Pingree House -- Homewood House -- Sir John Soane's Museum -- Martello Tower -- Ch�ateau de Rastignac -- Dulwich Picture Gallery -- Baltimore Cathedral -- All Souls Church -- Royal Pavilion -- University of Virginia -- Cumberland Terrace -- Main Facade, British Museum -- Altes Museum -- The White House -- Schloss Charlottenhof -- The Mark Twain Birthplace -- Egyptian House -- Arc de Triomphe -- Walhalla Temple -- Albert Dock -- Church of St. Giles -- The Palm House -- 1850-1899 -- Crystal Palace -- The Great Kremlin Palace -- King's Cross Station -- Bodelwyddan Castle -- Waverly -- Paddington Station -- Round Reading Room, British Museum -- Victoria Mansion -- Red House -- Oxford University Museum of Natural History -- The Capitol -- The Round Barn -- Biblioth�eque Nationale -- Palace of Westminster -- Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Science -- Grand Opera -- Midland Grand Hotel -- Keble College -- Galleria Vittorio Emanuele -- Solent Forts -- Natural History Museum -- Sever Hall, Harvard University -- Cardiff Castle -- Palais de Justice -- Stoughton House -- Papplewick Pumping Station -- Schloss Neuschwanstein -- Eiffel Tower -- Central Station -- Madras High Court -- Monadnock Building -- Bradbury Building -- Wightwick Manor -- Tower Bridge -- Heian Jingo Shrine -- Sezessionhaus -- Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Department Store -- 20th Century -- 1900-1909 -- Hvittr�ask -- Haus Behrens -- Fuller Building (The Flatiron) -- Parliament House, Budapest -- Maison Horta -- Little Thakeham -- Hill House -- The Stock Exchange -- Sanatorium Purkersdorf -- Grand Hotel Europa (Evropa) -- Scotland Street Primary School -- Larkin Administration Building -- Casa Batll�o -- Villa Ruggeri -- Samaritaine Department Store -- Unity Temple -- Glasgow School of Art -- Gamble House -- Great Mosque of Djenn�e -- 1910-1919 -- A.E.G. Turbine Hall -- Frederick C. Robie House -- Palais Stoclet Palace (Stocletpaleis) -- Michelin Building -- Austrian Post Office Savings Bank -- Casa Mil�a -- Folly Farm -- Grand Central Station -- Woolworth Building -- Hala Stulecia -- Scheepvaarthuis -- 78 Derngate -- Carl Larsson's House -- Helsinki Station -- Royal Palace -- 1920-1929 -- The Ship -- Einstein Tower -- Lincoln Memorial -- Victor Emmanuel II Monument -- Stockholm City Hall -- Fiat Factory -- Storer House -- Notre Dame Le Raincy -- Schr�oder House -- Selfridges Department Store -- The Bauhaus -- Stockholm Stadsbibliotek -- German Pavilion -- Lovell House -- 1930-1939 -- Chrysler Building -- Victor Emmanuel II Monument -- Stockholm City Hall -- Fiat Factory -- Storer House -- Notre Dame Le Raincy -- Schr�oder House -- Selfridges Department Store -- The Bauhaus -- 
Stockholm Stadsbibliotek -- German Pavilion -- Lovell House -- Chrysler Building -- Tugendhat House -- Castle Drogo -- Institut d'Art et d'Arch�eologie -- Pantages Theater -- Villa Savoye -- Hilversum Town Hall -- Viceroy's House -- Empire State Building -- Church of the Sacred Heart of Our Lord -- Daily Express Building -- Arnos Grove Underground Station -- La Maison de Verre -- Stormont Parliament Building -- Boots Pharmaceutical Factory -- Paimio Sanatorium -- Isokon Building (Lawn Road Flats) -- Penguin Pool -- Hornsey Town Hall -- De La Warr Pavilion -- Hoover Building -- Fallingwater -- Gatwick Airport Terminal Building -- Cavalier Hotel -- Gropius House -- Wingspread (Herbert F. Johnson House) -- Mayakovskaya Metro Station -- Neue Reichskanzlei -- 2 Willow Road -- Battersea Power Station -- Maginot Line -- 1940-1949 -- Rockefeller Center -- Grundtvigkirke -- The National Gallery of Art, West Building -- Pope-Leighey House -- Casa Malaparte -- Palazzo della Civilt�a -- Pentagon -- Kaufmann Desert House -- Case Study House No.8 (Eames House) -- Glass House -- 1950-1959 -- Johnson Wax Building/ S.C.Johnson & Son Administration Building -- Rose Seidler House -- Farnsworth House -- Unitarian Meeting House -- Royal Festival Hall -- Lomonosov Moscow State University -- Unit�e d'Habitation -- S�ayn�atsalo Town Hall -- United Nations Headquarters -- Biblioteca Central, Universidad Nacional Aut�onoma de M�exico (UNAM) -- Beth Sholom Synagogue -- Notre Dame du Haut -- Kundert Medical Clinic -- Sleeping Beauty Castle -- High Court -- Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church -- Case Study House No.21 (Bailey House) -- Palazzetto dello Sport -- Atomium -- Seagram Building -- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum -- House on the Klong (Jim Thompson House) -- 1960-1969 -- National Congress -- U.S. Embassy London Chancery Building -- Malin Residence -- Trans World Airlines (TWA) Terminal -- Coventry Cathedral -- National Library of the Argentine Republic -- Bankside Power Station -- Spaceship House -- Engineering Faculty Building -- Marina City -- National Gymnasia -- NASA Vehicle Assembly Building -- Saint Peter's Church -- Whitney Museum of American Art -- Salk Institute for Biological Studies -- Fuente de los Amantes -- Creek Vean -- Habitat Housing -- Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King -- Biosphere -- Halls of Residence -- Marin County Civic Center -- Taivallahit Church (Church of the Rock) -- John Hancock Center -- 1970-1979 -- Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida -- Phillips Exeter Academy Library -- Azadi Tower -- Nakagin Capsule Tower -- Olympiastadion M�unchen -- The World Trade Center -- Sydney Opera House -- National Assembly Complex -- Willis Faber Dumas Building -- Taalmonument -- National Theatre -- Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts -- Centre Georges Pompidou -- Santa Maria Assunta Church -- Brion Cemetery -- Liverpool Anglican Cathedral -- Gehry House -- Kuwait Towers -- New Zealand Parliament Extension -- 1980-1989 -- Garden Grove Community Church -- Sri Lankan Parliament -- Bely Dom -- Arch of Triumph -- Barbican Centre -- PA Technology Center -- Xanadu House -- Neue Staatsgalerie -- Kubuswoningen -- AT&T Building -- Spiral Building -- Nehru Centre -- Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Main Building -- Lloyds Building -- The Baha'�i House of Worship -- Hallgrimskirkja -- Kidosaki House -- Mus�ee d'Orsay -- Institut du Monde Arab -- Lippo Centre/Bond Centre -- Bicentennial Conservatory -- Canadian Museum of Civilization -- Pumping Station -- Vitra Design Museum -- Pyramide, Le Grande Louvre -- Fawley House (facade) -- Price House -- Church of the Light -- 1990-1999 -- La Grande Arche de la Fraternit�e -- Villa Neuendorf -- Westin Regina Hotel -- Casa Hern�andez -- Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery -- Chiat/Day Headquarters -- One Canada Square -- Tokyo City Hall -- London Ark -- Supreme Court Building -- Vauxhall Cross -- Great Mosque Hassan II -- Vitra Fire Station -- H�otel du D�epartement des Bouches-du-Rh�one -- Saint-Exup�ery TGV Station -- Passenger Terminal, Kansai International Airport -- �eglise Sainte-Trinit�e -- �evry Cathedral -- Bonnefanten Museum -- San Franscisco Museum of Modern Art -- Oriental Pearl Tower -- Dancing House -- Tokyo International Forum -- Fuji-Sankei Communications Group Headquarters Building -- Museu De Arte Contempor�anea -- Museum of Fruit -- BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir -- National Center for Science & Technology -- The British Library -- Petronas Towers -- The Getty Center -- Guggenheim Bilbao -- No.1 Poultry -- The Millennium Dome -- Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center -- Esta�c�ao do Oriente -- Jin Mao Building -- NatWest Media Centre -- Parc de la Villette -- Burj Al-Arab Hotel -- Samsung Jong-Ro Tower -- Canary Wharf Station -- The National Centre for Popular Music -- Bluewater -- The Reichstag -- 21st Century -- Tate Modern -- The Lowry -- Frederick Phineas and Sandra Rose Center for Earth and Space -- Queen Elizabeth II Great Court -- Al Faisaliyah Tower -- Eden Project -- Maison Herm�es -- Museu Oscar Niemeyer -- Teatro Armani -- Expo Station -- Swan Bell Tower -- Bodegas Ysios Winery -- Jewish Museum -- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth -- Downland Gridshell -- Serpentine Pavilion -- Federation Square -- Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels -- Integrated Transportation Center -- Falkirk Wheel -- Yokohama International Passenger Terminal -- Beddington ZED -- The Deep -- Bibliotheca Alexandrina -- Parliament Library -- Poundbury Village (Phase 1) -- Esplanade - Theaters on the Bay -- Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center -- Kunsthaus Graz -- Selfridges -- Spaarne Hospital Bus Station -- Walt Disney Concert Hall -- Tod's Omotesando Building -- 30 St. Mary Axe -- Scottish Parliament -- Taipei 101 -- Seattle Public Library -- Millau Viaduct -- Phaeno Science Center -- Casa da M�usica -- National Assembly for Wales -- De Young Museum -- Torre Agbar -- Seoul National University Museum of Art -- Allianz Arena -- City of Arts and Sciences -- The Palace of Peace and Reconciliation -- National Grand Theater of China -- National Stadium -- Bahrain World Trade Center -- Sagrada Familia.
Architectural Excellence is organized chronologically and serves as a visual lesson in architecture through the ages. The buildings featured come from all over the world and include centers of worship, public buildings, places of business and homes. Each building includes a photograph, with a double-page spread for the top 50 selections. Captions provide specifications and brief histories.
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