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Most Famous Architects and Architecture
Famous Architects I
- The Shard in London - Renzo Piano
- The Cenotaph - Sir Edwin Lutyens
- La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona - Antoni Gaudi
- Fallingwater, and the Guggenheim Museum, New York City - Frank Lloyd Wright
- Millennium Dome - Richard Rogers
- Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain - Frank Gehry
- Burj Al Arab in Dubai - Tom Wright (British)
- Sydney Opera House - Jorn Utzon
- Buckingham Palace (remodelled), Marble Arch, and the Royal Pavilion, Brighton - John Nash
- Coventry Cathedral - Basil Spence
- Villa Savoye - Le Corbusier, which translates into English as "the crowlike one" - real name Charles-Edouard Jeanneret
- Reichstag building redevelopment in Berlin (1999), Millennium Bridge, and London City Hall (2002) - Norman Foster
- The Gherkin at 30 St Mary Axe in London - Norman Foster
- St. Paul's Cathedral - Sir Christopher Wren
- The White House in Washington, D.C. - James Hoban
- Palace of Westminster - Sir Charles Barry
Famous Architects II
- Flatiron Building in New York City - Daniel Burnham
- Crystal Palace - Sir Joseph Paxton
- Glasgow School of Art - Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- London Aquatics Centre - Zaha Hadid
- Portmeirion - Clough Williams-Ellis
- Designing Canberra, Australia's capital city - Walter Burley Griffin
- Royal Crescent, Bath - John Wood
- Washington, D.C. - Pierre Charles L'Enfant
- The civic buildings for BrasÃlia - Oscar Niemeyer
- Royal Albert Hall - Henry Young Darracott Scott
- Palace of Versailles (first architect) - Louis Le Vau
- Louvre Pyramid - I. M. Pei
- Taj Mahai in Agra - Ustad-Ahmad Lahori (chief architect)
- Burj Khalifa - Adrian Smith (American)
- Blenheim Palace, and Castle Howard - Sir John Vanbrugh
- Big Ben - Augustus Pugin
- Canterbury Cathedral - William of Sens
- Lotus Temple, Delhi, India - Fariborz Sahba
- Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, nicknamed "Paddy's Wigwam" - Frederick Gibberd
- The Radcliffe Camera, Oxford University - James Gibbs