Check out the sensual curves and dazzling sheen of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by architect Frank Gehry. It’s the most significant work of architecture in the past 30 years, according to experts. Check out some others below.
Vanity Fair surveyed 52 architectural experts, including 11 Pritzker Prize winners, to find out the most significant piece of architecture since 1980, for its August issue. Gehry’s building was the overwhelming winner. Here are the most startling, spaceworthy-looking or just gorgeous images from the 21 runners up. Check out the rest over at the link. [Vanity Fair]
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, by Frank Gehry, photographed by Peter Knaup
Mediatheque Building by Toyo Ito, photo by Hiro Sakaguchi
Seattle Central Library by Rem Koolhaas, photo by Robert Polidori
Cartier Foundation Paris by Jean Nouvel, photo by Jean Nouvel
Jewish Museum in Berlin by Daniel Liebeskind, photo by Jens Ziehel
Yokohama Port Terminal by Foreign Office Architects, photo by Satoru Mishima
BMW Welt Munich by COOP Himmelblau
Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, photo by Iwan Baan
Casa De Musica in Porto, Portugal, by Rem Koolhaas, photo by Christian Richters
Lloyds Building in London by Sir Richard Rogers, photo by Joe Fletcher – ESTO
