12 Best Examples Modern Architecture

The Guardian newspaper has put together a special series that showcases the best modern architecture around the globe.

Empire State Building – “the architectural pivot around which Manhattan appears to turn”

Sydney Opera House – “redefined the way we saw and thought about its host city”

Guggenheim Museum – “a glorious exhibition of itself, an architectural gesture, and urban eye-catcher”

Pompidou Centre – “it made Paris seem instantly modern”

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Jewish Museum – “a building that was most effective when newly complete and emptya building that was most effective when newly complete and empty”

Fallingwater – “what Modern house is more compelling?”

30 St Mary Axe – “the “Gherkin”, is one of the most charismatic of contemporary city of London’s towers”

Casa Mila – “a magnificent example of seemingly willful organic design”

Eden Project – “a sea of bubbles from old Cornish chalk pits”

Phaeno Science Centre – “a wonderfully confident structure in which floors become walls, walls become floors”

Arnos Grove – “a utilitarian construction that is, nevertheless a Roman civic temple brought up-to-date”

OK, ok – so the list is full of the classics but read this article to understand why.

[via Archinect]