Title: 21 Buildings That Helped Shape Modern Architecture, From 1945 to Today
Headings: 21 Buildings That Helped Shape Modern Architecture, From 1945 to Today
21 Buildings That Helped Shape Modern Architecture, From 1945 to Today
Modernism dominated architectural design throughout the 20th-century. Here are some of its best examples.
Famous Modernist Architects
1. World Trade Centre 1 and 2 took modernism to new heights
2. The BT Tower still dominates London's skyline today
3. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a "Temple of the Spirit"
4. United Nations HQ cost $65 million to build
5. The very bold Salk Institute for Biological Studies
6. Once criticized, now revered: The Louvre Pyramid, Paris
7. Royal National Theatre: London's brutalist masterpiece
8. Sydney Opera House blew its budget
9. The Atomium is an iron unit cell
10. The John Hancock Centre was designed by Fazlur Khan
11. Gateway Arch is the tallest arch in the world
12. The Berliner Fernsehturm Is Germany's tallest building
13. Disney's Contemporary Resort is an enormous A-frame building
14. Cité Radieuse was Le Corbusier's masterpiece
15. Farnsworth House is an Internationalist masterpiece
16. Seagram Building changed American architectural design
17. Manufacturers Trust Company Building: the model for Modernism
18. Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban is one of the 20th century's most significant buildings
19. Sainte Marie de La Tourette: Le Corbusier's last building
20. Notre Dame du Haut: Le Corbusier's Expressionist chapel
21. Millbank Tower is a gem of Modernist architecture
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Content: After the 1960s, more free-flowing and organic designs began to replace the more ordered post-war style. Modernism can further be subdivided into: - International Style
- Expressionist Style
- Constructivist Style (Mainly Soviet Union pre-WWII)
However, some also include Structural Expressionism in this category, as it serves as a transition to postmodernism. This category had its heyday from roughly the 1970s to the early part of the mid-1980s. The following are an eclectic mixture of buildings that fall under the umbrella of the architectural style of 'Modernism'. 1. World Trade Centre 1 and 2 took modernism to new heights
Source: Grandmaster E/Wikimedia Commons
Architectural form: Modernist
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The towers of the former World Trade Center, before their tragic destruction in 2001, were one of the world's most famous landmarks. The two main towers (World Trade 1 and 2) were designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki and was built between 1966 and 1971.