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7 South Dearborn, by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, at Chicago, Illinois - schematic project only.
30 St Mary Axe, "Swiss Re", by Norman Foster, at London, England, UK, 2000 to 2004 - "the Gherkin".
88 Wood Street, by Richard Rogers, at London, England, 1993 to 2001.
A. E. G. High Tension Factory, by Peter Behrens, at Berlin, Germany, 1910.
A. I. A. Headquarters, by TAC, at Washington, D.C., 1973.
Aachen Cathedral, by unknown, at Aachen, Germany, 792 to 805.
Aalsmeer House, by Bijvoet and Duiker, at Aalsmeer, The Netherlands, 1924.
Aalto Studio, by Alvar Aalto, at Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, Finland, 1956.
Aalto Summer House, by Alvar Aalto, at Muuratsalo, Finland, 1953.
Abbey of Pomposa, by unknown, at near Ferrara, Italy, 800 to 1100.
Abteiburg Museum, by Hans Hollein, at Monchen-Gladbach, Germany, 1972 to 1982.
Academic Bookshop, by Alvar Aalto, at Helsinki, Finland, 1962 to 1969.
Academy of Arts & Sciences, by Kallman McKinnell & Wood, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977 to 1981.
Adziogol Lighthouse, by Vladimir G. Schuchov, at near Chersson, Ukraine, 1911.
Air Force Academy Chapel, by Walter Netsch, Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM), at Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1956 to 1962.
Albrecht Durer House, by unknown, at Nurnberg, Germany, circa 1500.
Alexander House, by Michael Graves, at Princeton, New Jersey, 1971 to 1973.
Alexandra Road Housing, by Neave Brown, at London, England, UK, 1969.
Allegheny County Courthouse, by Henry Hobson Richardson, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1883 to 1888.
Allen Art Museum Addition, by Robert Venturi, at Oberlin, Ohio, 1973 to 1976.
Allewelt House, by William Turnbull/ MLTW, at near Madera, California, 1977.
Altes Museum, by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, at Berlin, Germany, 1823 to 1830.
American Academy in Rome, by McKim, Mead, and White, at Rome, Italy, 1913.
Ames Free Library, by Henry Hobson Richardson, at North Easton, Massachusetts, 1877 to 1879.
Ames Gate Lodge, by Henry Hobson Richardson, at North Easton, Massachusetts, 1881.
Amsterdam Orphanage, by Aldo van Eyck, at Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1960 to 1961.
Angkor Wat, by unknown, at Cambodia, Southeast Asia, 1140.
Annaglee, by Richard Castle, at Cootehill, County Cavan, Ireland, 1740 to 1770.
Annenberg Library, by Shepley and Bulfinch, at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1980 's.
Appenzell Farm, by traditional, at Canton Appenzell, Switzerland, farm, farmhouse.
Arab Tent, vernacular, at Middle Eastern Deserts, nomadic house.
Arch of Constantine, by unknown, at Rome, Italy, 315.
Arch of Severus, by unknown, at Rome, Italy, 205.
Arch of Titus, by unknown, at Rome, Italy, 81.
Art & Arch. Building, by Paul Rudolph, at New Haven, Connecticut, 1959 to 1963.
Asian Games Village, by Raj Rewal, at New Delhi, India, 1980 to 1982.
Athenian Treasury, by unknown, at Delphi, Greece, -510.
Auditorium Building, by Louis H. Sullivan, at Chicago, Illinois, 1886 to 1890.
Austin Hall, by Henry Hobson Richardson, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1881 to 1884.
Azuma House, by Tadao Ando, at Osaka, Japan, 1976.
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Babson House, by Louis H. Sullivan, at Riverside, Illinois, 1907.
Baker Dormitory, by Alvar Aalto, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1947 to 1948.
Ball-Eastaway House - Artists' House in N. Sydney, by Glenn Murcutt, at North Sydney, Australia, 1982 to 1983.
Baltimore-Ohio Railroad Depots, by Frank Furness, at Chester & Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1886.
Banca Popolare di Verona, by Carlo Scarpa, at Verona, Italy, 1973.
Bank of China Tower, by I. M. Pei, at Hong Kong, 1982 to 1990.
Banqueting House, by Inigo Jones, at Whitehall, London, England, 1619 to 1622.
Barcelona Pavilion, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, at Barcelona, Spain, built 1928-1929, demolished 1930.
Bateson Building, by Sim van der Ryn, at Sacramento, California, 1977.
Baths at Ostia, by unknown, at Ostia, Italy, circa 150.
Bauhaus, by Walter Gropius, at Dessau, Germany, 1919 to 1925.
Bavinger House, by Bruce Goff, at Norman, Oklahoma, 1950 to 1955.
Bawa House, by Geoffrey Bawa, at Sri Lanka, 1958 to 1968.
Bedford Park, by Richard Norman Shaw, at Bedford Park, London, England, 1875 and onward.
Behrens House, by Peter Behrens, at Darmstadt, Germany, 1901.
Beinecke Rare Book Library, by Gordon Bunshaft/ SOM, at New Haven, Connecticut, 1963.
Berlin Philharmonic Hall, by Hans Scharoun, at Berlin, Germany, 1956 to 1963.
Bibliotheque Ste. Genevieve, by Henri Labrouste, at Paris, France, 1843 designed, built 1845 to 1851.
Biltmore House, by Richard Morris Hunt, at Asheville, North Carolina, 1888 to 1895.
Bibliotheque Nationale, by Etienne-Louis Boullee, at Paris, France, 1785.
Bloemenwerf House, by Henry van de Velde, at Uccle, near Brussels, Belgium, 1895 to 1896.
Boke House, by Bernard Maybeck, at Berkeley, California, 1902.
Boomer Residence, by Frank Lloyd Wright, at Phoenix, Arizona, 1953.
Boston City Hall, by Kallman, McKinnell and Knowles, at Boston, Massachusetts, 1963 to 1968.
Boston Public Library, by McKim, Mead, and White, at Boston, Massachusetts, 1887 to 1895.
Bradbury Building, by George H. Wyman, at Los Angeles, California, 1889 to 1893.
Brant House, by Robert Venturi, at Greenwich, Connecticut, 1973.
Breslau Office Building, by Hans Poelzig, at Breslau, Germany, 1911 to 1912.
Breuer House I, by Marcel Breuer, at New Canaan, Connecticut, 1948.
Breuer House II, by Marcel Breuer, at Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1939.
Brion-Vega Cemetery, by Carlo Scarpa, at San Vito d'Altivole, Italy, 1970 to 1972.
Brooklyn Bridge, by John Augustus Roebling, at Brooklyn, New York, 1869 to 1883.
Brooklyn Children's Museum, by Hardy-Holzman-Pfeiffer, at Brooklyn, New York, 1977.
Broward County Library, by Robert Gatje, at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1980 to 1984.
Brownstone House, vernacular, at New York, New York, late 1800's.
Burns House, by Charles Moore, at Santa Monica Canyon, California, 1974.
Burroughs Company, by Albert Kahn, at Detroit, Michigan, 1904.
Butler House, by William Wurster, at Pasatiempo, California, 1931 to 1936.
Byker Redevelopment, by Ralph Erskine, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, UK, 1973 to 1978.
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Campo Volantin Footbridge, by Santiago Calatrava, at Bilbao, Spain, 1990 to 1998.
Capitol at Williamsburg, by unknown, at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1701 to 1715.
Carpenter Center, by Le Corbusier, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1961 to 1964.
Cary House, by Joseph Esherick, at Mill Valley, California, 1960.
Casa Antonio Galvez, by Luis Barragan, at San Angel, Mexico, 1954.
Casa Batllo, by Antonio Gaudi, at Barcelona, Spain, 1905 to 1907.
Casa del Fascio, by Giuseppi Terragni, at Como, Italy, 1936.
Casa Luis Barragan, by Luis Barragan, at Tacubaya, Mexico, 1947.
Casa Mila, by Antonio Gaudi, at Barcelona, Spain, 1905 to 1910.
Case Study House No. 21, by Pierre Koenig, at Los Angeles, California, 1956 to 1958.
Case Study House No. 22, by Pierre Koenig, at Los Angeles, California, 1960.
Castel Beranger, by Hector Guimard, at Paris, France, 1890 (circa).
Castle del Monte, by unknown, at Apulia, Italy, 1240 to 1250.
Cathedral in Burlington, by Edward Larabee Barnes, at Burlington, Vermont, 1978.
Cathedral of Pisa, by unknown, at Pisa, Italy, 1063 to 1350.
Cathedral of St. Basil, by Barma and Posnik, at Moscow, Russia, 1554.
Central Beheer, by Hermann Hertzberger, at Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, 1967 to 1972.
Central Lutheran Church, by Pietro Belluschi, at Portland, Oregon, 1950 to 1951.
Central Railroad Station, by John Dobson, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, 1846 to 1855.
Centre Le Corbusier, by Le Corbusier, at Zurich, Switzerland, 1963 to 1967.
Centre Pompidou, by Rogers and Piano, at Paris, France, 1972 to 1976.
Chaitya-Hall at Karli, by unknown, at Karli, India, -150.
Chamberlain Cottage, by Marcel Breuer, at Wayland, Massachusetts, 1940.
Chancellery Palace, by unknown, at Rome, Italy, 1483 to 1517.
Chandler House, by Bruce Price, at Tuxedo Park, New York, 1885 to 1886.
Charleston Single House, vernacular, at Charleston, South Carolina, 1800 to 1900.
Chartres Cathedral, by unknown, at Chartres, France, 1194 to 1260.
Chase Manhattan Bank, by Gordon Bunshaft/ SOM, at New York, New York, 1961.
Chateau de Chambord, by Domenico da Cortona, at Chambord, France, 1519 to 1547.
Chateau de Chenonceaux, by unknown, at Chenonceaux, France, 1515 to 1576.
Chateau de Fontainebleau, by unknown, at Fontainebleau, France, circa 1550.
Chateau de Versailles, at Versailles, France, 1661 to 1774.
Chek Lap Kok Airport, by Norman Foster, at Hong Kong, China, 1998.
Chermayeff House, by Serge Chermayeff, at near Halland, Sussex, England, 1935 to 1938.
Chick House, by Bernard Maybeck, at Berkeley, California, 1913.
Chinese Courtyard House, vernacular, at China, house.
Chinese Junk, by Traditional, at China, houseboat.
Chinli Kiosk, by unknown, at Istanbul, Turkey, 1473.
Chiswick House, by Lord Burlington, at Chiswick, England, 1729.
Christ Church, by Nicholas Hawksmoor, at Spitalfields, London, England, 1715 to 1729.
Christian Science Center, by I. M. Pei, at Boston, Massachusetts, 1968 to 1974.
Chrysler Building, by William Van Allen, at New York, New York, 1928 to 1930.
Church at Bagsvaerdi, by Jorn Utzon, at near Copenhagen, Denmark, 1974 to 1976.
Church in Hyvinkaa, by Aarno Ruusuvuori, at Hyvinkaa, Finland, 1959 to 1961.
Church of San Spirito, by Filippo Brunelleschi, at Florence, Italy, 1434 to 1482.
Church of St Francis, by Oscar Niemeyer, at Pampulha, Brazil, 1943.
Circus at Bath, by John Wood, at Bath, England, 1754.
Citicorp Center, by Hugh Stubbins, at New York, New York, 1976 to 1978.
City of Timgad, by unknown, at Algeria, 100.
Cliff Dwelling, vernacular, at Mesa Verde, Colorado, multifamily housing.
Clifton Suspension Bridge, by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, at Bristol, England, 1836 to 1864.
CN Tower, by John Andrews, at Toronto, Canada, 1976.
Coalbrookdale Bridge, by T. M. Pritchard, at Coalbrookdale, England, 1777 to 1779.
Coffee House on the Bosporus, by Sedad Eldem, at Istanbul, Turkey, 1948.
College Life Insurance Co., by Roche-Dinkeloo, at Indianapolis, Indiana, 1967 to 1971.
Colmorgan House, by Bruce Goff, at Glenview, Illinois, 1937.
Colonia Guell, by Antonio Gaudi, at near Barcelona, Spain, 1898, 1908 to 1915.
Commodities Exchange, by Henrik Petrus Berlage, at Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1897 to 1909.
Continental Train Platform, by Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, at Waterloo Station, London, England, 1993.
Convent of La Tourette, by Le Corbusier, at Eveux-sur-Arbresle, near Lyon, France, 1957 to 1960.
Coonley House, by Frank Lloyd Wright, at Riverside, Illinois, 1908.
Cooper Residence, by Gwathmey-Siegel, at Orleans, Massachusetts, 1968 to 1969.
Cowles House, by Edward Larabee Barnes, at Wayzata, Minnesota, 1960 (circa).
Crane Library, by Henry Hobson Richardson, at Quincy, Massachusetts, 1880 to 1883.
Crooks House, by Michael Graves, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1976.
Crow Island School, by Eliel Saarinen, at Winnetka, Illinois, 1939 to 1940.
Crown Hall, by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, at Chicago, Illinois, 1950 to 1956.
Crystal Palace, by Joseph Paxton, at London, England (then Sydenham), 1851, moved 1852, burnt 1936.
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D. D. Martin House, by Frank Lloyd Wright, at Buffalo, New
