PARTHENON VOTED WORLD’S MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDING
Parthenon was voted the most beautiful building in the world according to architects. Like paintings and sculptures, buildings can be beautiful works of art. Business Insider asked architects to vote the one building that’s a game-changer for building design, inspired them to become architects, or that they simply find stunning.
The building that dominates the hill of the Acropolis of Athens. It was built in the mid-5th century BCE and dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena the Virgin. It is generally considered to be the culmination of the development of the Doric order, the simplest of the three Classical Greek architectural orders. Directed by the Athenian statesman Pericles, the Parthenon was built by the architects Ictinus and Callicrates under the supervision of the sculptor Phidias.
Here are 15 of the most breathtaking buildings in the world, according to people who build them for a living.
- The Parthenon in Athens
- The National Congress of Brazil
- The São Paulo Museum of Art in São Paulo
- The Forbidden City temple in Beijing
- The Innovation, Science, and Technology building at Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland
- The Hubertus House in Amsterdam
- The Empire State Building in New York
- The Niterói Contemporary Art Museum (MAC) in Rio de Janeiro
- The Church of the Light in Osaka
- The Enterprise Centre at the University of East Anglia in Norwich
- Casa Mila in Barcelona
- The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth
- Falling water in Mill Run
- The Barnes Foundation Museum in Philadelphia
- Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp