Exterior Shot of the Pantheon in Rome

textures of The Pantheon, ancient Rome's best-preserved building, originally uploaded by permanently scatterbrained.

Great Buildings of Ancient Rome

General Links:

The Arch: Glory of the Architecture of Rome

Individual Buildings:

The Colosseum
(70-82 AD)
Rome, Italy









Hadrian’s Villa
(118-133 AD)
Tivoli, Italy

Great site for exploring the extensive ruins - lots of photos!







The Pantheon
(120-124 AD)
Rome, Italy







Porta Nigra
(2nd Century AD)
Trier, Germany

Brief description of how Porta Nigra was constructed
Brief history of structure




Recommended Reading:

Ancient Rome: Monuments Past and Present by R.A. Staccioli
City by David Macaulay
Pompeii: Monuments Past and Present by A. De Franciscis

Great Buildings of the Ancient World

Ancient Egypt

Temple of Amun, Karnak, Egypt (1530-323 BC)
http://touregypt.net/featurestories/templeofamun.htm

*Pyramid by David Macaulay

Ancient Israel
Israel: Past and Present by D. Bahat

Ancient Greece

Palace of Knossos, (1700-1380 BC), Knossos, Crete
Citadel of Mycenae, (14th-12th Centuries BC), Mycenae, Greece
The Parthenon (447-432 BC), Athens, Greece
Theater at Epidauros, (4th Century BC) Epidauros, Greece
Ancient Greece: The Famous Monuments Past and Present

Great Buildings of South America

Machu Picchu (late 15th century AD), Peru
Opera de Arame, (1992) Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Great Buildings of Oceania

Sydney Opera House
print-out model of the Sydney Opera House

Great Buildings of North America

Temple of the Inscriptions
Mexico

Cliff Dwellings of Mesa Verde
Colorado, USA

http://www.visitmesaverde.com/park/history.cfm

The Statue of Liberty
New York City, USA
(1870-1885)

Empire State Building
(1929-1931)
New York City, USA

Hearst Castle
(1919-1930)
San Simeon, California

Capitol Building
(1793-1874)
Washington DC, USA

Great Buildings of Europe

Stonehenge (2700-2000 BC), Wiltshire, England
Santa Sophia (532-537 AD), Istanbul, Turkey
Tower of London (1078-1097), London, England
Louvre Museum (12th Century), Paris, France
Alhambra, Granada, Spain (1238-1358)
Globe Theatre, (1599 – burned down in 1613, rebuilt in 1990) London, England
Kronborg Castle (1585-1699), Elsinore, Denmark
Palace of Versailles (1668-1710), Paris, France
Castle Howard (1699-1726), Yorkshire, England
Castle Neuschwanstein, (1869-1892), Bavarian Alps, Germany

Great Buildings of Africa and Asia

The Great Ziggurat at Ur
(2125-2025 BC)
Iraq


Treasury at Petra
(1st Century AD)
Petra, Jordan

www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/Petra/








Temple at Borobudur
(8th-9th Centuries)
Java, Indonesia

www.borobudur.tv


Angkor Wat
(12th century)
Angkor, Cambodia

www.angkorwat.org


Krak des Chevaliers
(12th-13th centuries AD)
Syria

www.pbase.com/azlin/syria
http://www.syriagate.com/Syria/about/cities/Homs/krakdeschevalier.htm


The Great Wall of China

www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/

The Great Wall by Elizabeth Mann


The Imperial Palace/Forbidden City
(15th Century AD)
Beijing, China


Castle of the White Heron
(1601-1609)
Himeji, Japan

http://web-japan.org/atlas/architecture/arc16.html


Taj Mahal
(1632-1648)
India

www.taj-mahal.net


Potala Palace
(1645-1694)
Lhasa, Tibet

www.pbase.com/dominicyeung/potala_tibet
www.china.org.cn/english/kuaixun/74941.htm

Amber Fort
(16th – 17th Century)
Amber, India

www.normankoren.com/India_04_6.html

Dusit Maha Prasad
(18th Century)
Bangkok, Thailand

www.hellosiam.com/html/Bangkok/Bangkok%20-%20Grand%20Palace.htm

Petronas Towers
(1998)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

www.petronastwintowers.com.my

Taipei 101
Taipei, Taiwan

www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=100765