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Vanity Fair asked 52 experts to choose the five most important works of architecture created since 1980. After tallying the votes, here is their list of architecture's modern marvels ranked by popularity.

www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/08/architecture-survey-slideshow-201008

 
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Rank   Name Created By Style Opened Architect
  1. 1
    Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

    Frank Gehry
    Deconstructivism, Formature
    Jan 01 1997
    Frank Gehry
  2. 2
    Menil Collection, Houston Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Menil Collection, Houston

  3. 3
    Thermal Baths, Vals Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Thermal Baths, Vals

  4. 4
    HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building

    Sir Norman Foster
    High-Tech Architecture
    Jan 01 1985
    Sir Norman Foster
  5. 5
    Seattle Central Library Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Seattle Central Library

    Joshua Prince-Ramus, Rem Koolhaas
    Joshua Prince-Ramus, Rem Koolhaas
  7. 6
    Mediatheque building, Sendai Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Mediatheque building, Sendai

  8. 7
    Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

  9. 8
    Church of the Light Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Church of the Light

    Tadao Ando
    Tadao Ando
  10. 9
    Vietnam Veterans Memorial Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Vietnam Veterans Memorial

    Maya Lin
    Jan 01 1982
    Maya Lin
  11. 10
    Millau Viaduct Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Millau Viaduct

    Sir Norman Foster
    Dec 14 2004
    Sir Norman Foster
  12. 11
    Jewish Museum Berlin Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Jewish Museum Berlin

    Daniel Libeskind
    Jan 01 2001
    Daniel Libeskind
  13. 12
    Lloyd's building Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Lloyd's building

    Richard Rogers
    High-Tech Architecture
    Jan 01 1986
    Richard Rogers
  14. 13
    Bird's Nest stadium, Beijing Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Bird's Nest stadium, Beijing

  15. 14
    CCTV Headquarters Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    CCTV Headquarters

    Rem Koolhaas
    Jan 01 2008
    Rem Koolhaas
  16. 15
    Casa da Música Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Casa da Música

    Rem Koolhaas
    Jan 01 2005
    Rem Koolhaas
  18. 16
    Cartier Foundation Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Cartier Foundation

  19. 17
    BWM Welt, Munich Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    BWM Welt, Munich

  20. 18
    Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building

    Steven Holl
    Jan 01 2007
    Steven Holl
  21. 19
    Cooper Union building Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Cooper Union building

  22. 20
    Parc de la Villette, Paris Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Parc de la Villette, Paris

  23. 21
    Yokohama Port Terminal, Japan Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Yokohama Port Terminal, Japan

  24. 22
    Saint-Pierre, Firminy Architecture's Modern Marvels Places & Travel picture

    Saint-Pierre, Firminy

    Le Corbusier
    Jan 01 2006
    Le Corbusier

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  1. Drgago Sylvan
    Jewish Museum Berlin at 8/17/2010 4:07 AM
    Daniel Libeskind voted for himself??? Has this clown no sense of shame or humility?
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  2. beulainnes
    Architecture's Modern Marvels at 9/06/2010 12:06 AM
    Definitely the one with the big earth movers; it was on a couple days ago. Those things were huge, one of them you could fit a baseball diamond in and hold hundreds of tons of earth.
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  4. calistylie
    Vietnam Veterans Memorial at 8/17/2010 10:43 AM
    I've seen the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and it's even better in-person.
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  5. kittypurr33
    Architecture's Modern Marvels at 8/17/2010 10:42 AM
    Church of the Light is amazing. Such a simple but powerful concept.
    reply
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