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Best Buildings of the Decade
Top Ten Lists for the decade from contributors to The Mark, Canada
31 Dec 2009
Top ten buildings from 2000 – 09
To celebrate the end of a decade, The Mark is publishing their contributors’ picks of the best architecture from the 2000s.
This page lists the selection of what their two experts considered the top contemporary buildings – the best architecture of the decade. e-architect are interested in your views, are these really the best buildings in the world? If so, then for what reasons? Of course judging architecture design is notoriously subjective and when it comes to top ten lists and awards then the results can sometimes prove controversial. Still, we felt the list was a useful architectural resource.
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Best Buildings of the Decade 2000 to 2009 – Prof. Graham Livesey
Associate Dean of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, Canada
Médiathèque, Sendai, Japan
Toyo Ito, architect
International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
Design: Foreign Office Architects
photo : Saturo Mashima
International Port Terminal Yokohama
Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria
Design: Spacelab Cook-Fournier
photo from RIAS – no larger image
21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
Design: SANAA
photo © 2008 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA
Seattle Public Library, Seattle, U.S.
Design: Office for Metropolitan Architecture
photo : Philippe Ruault
Seattle Public Library
de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, U.S
Design: Herzog & de Meuron
Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Design: UNStudio
photo : Christian Richters
Mercedes-Benz Museum
Federal Building, San Francisco, U.S
Design: Morphosis
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, U.S
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Charles Hostler Student Center, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Design: Vincent James Associates Architects
Comments on the Best Buildings of the Decade page welcome
Best Buildings of the Decade 2000 to 2009 – Prof. Annmarie Adams
Associate Director, School of Architecture, McGill University.
Tate Modern, London, U.K.
Herzog & de Meuron
image © Adrian Welch
Tate Modern
The Women’s Library, London, U.K.
Wright & Wright Architects
Experience Music Project, Seattle Center, Seattle, U.S.
Frank Gehry
Great Court, British Museum, London, U.K.
Foster + Partners
photo © Adrian Welch
Great Court British Museum
Prada New York, New York City, U.S.
Office for Metropolitan Architecture
photo Armin Linke
Prada New York
Seattle Public Library, Seattle, U.S.
Office for Metropolitan Architecture
de Young Museum, San Francisco, U.S.
Herzog & de Meuron
Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
Saucier + Perotte
photograph : Marc Cramer
Schulich School of Music
Bloorview Kids Rehab, Toronto, Canada
Montgomery Sisam Architects/Stantec Architecture
Heide Museum of Modern Art gardens, Melbourne, Australia
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Comments on the Best Buildings of the Decade page welcome
Possible Contenders for Best Buildings of the Decade
Caixa Forum, Madrid
Herzog de Meuron
photograph © Mark Bentley
New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
SANAA architects
image from SANAA
Neues Museum, Berlin
David Chipperfield Architects
photograph : Ute Zscharnt
Phaeno Science Centre, Wolfsburg
Zaha Hadid Architects
image © Zaha Hadid Architects
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Herzog & de Meuron with HGA, Inc.
photo : Paul Warchol
BMW Welt, Munich
Coop Himmelb(l)au
picture from Ketchum
Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach
David Chipperfield Architects
photograph © Christian Richters
GRAM Michigan, USA
Design: wHY architecture
photo : Chris Barrett@Hedrich Blessing
Comments / photos for the e-architect Best Buildings of the Decade Architecture page welcome