Ebook: Great buildings

1900 to present. Chrysler Building : New York City, USA -- Villa Savoye : Poissy, France -- Fallingwater : Pennsylvania, USA -- Sydney Opera House : Sydney, Australia -- Brasilia Cathedral : Brasilia, Brazil -- Pompidou Centre : Paris, France -- National Gallery of Canada : Ottawa, Canada -- Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao : Bilbao, Spain -- Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre : Nouméa, New Caledonia -- Jin Mao Tower : Shanghai, China -- Seattle Central Library : Seattle, USA -- Palace of the Arts : Valencia, Spain -- MAXXI : Rome, Italy -- Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum : Kōchi, Japan.;2500 BCE-1100. Great Pyramid : Giza, Egypt -- The Parthenon : Athens, Greece -- Colosseum : Rome, Italy -- Pantheon : Rome, Italy -- Hagia Sophia : Istanbul, Turkey -- Temple of the Inscriptions : Palenque, Mexico -- Bulguksa Temple : Jinheon-Dong, South Korea -- Palatine Chapel : Aachen, Germany -- Borobudur : Magelang, Java, Indonesia.;1500-1700. Belém Tower : Lisbon, Portugal -- Château de Chambord : Loire Valley, France -- St. Basil's Cathedral : Moscow, Russia -- Villa La Rotonda : Vicenza, Italy -- Himeji Castle : Himeji, Japan -- Masjid-i-Shah : Isfahan, Iran -- Taj Mahal : Agra, India -- Royal Palace : Amsterdam, Netherlands -- Palace of Versailles : Paris, France.;1100-1500. Angkor Wat : Angkor, Cambodia -- Abbaye de Ste-Madeleine : Vézelay, France -- Krak des Chevaliers : Near Homs, Syria -- Borgund Stave Church : Lærdal, Norway -- Chartres Cathedral : Chartres, France -- Burghausen Castle : Burghausen, Germany -- Florence Cathedral : Florence, Italy -- Alhambra : Granada, Spain -- Doge's Palace : Venice, Italy -- Temple of Heaven : Beijing, China -- King's College Chapel : Cambridge, UK -- Ducal Palace : Urbino, Italy.;Profiles twenty of the world's greatest buildings, providing for each the story of its construction, a visual analysis, and an explanation of key architectural features, and offers a chronological history of architecture.;1700-1900. Melk Abbey : Melk, Austria -- Blenheim Palace : Woodstock, UK -- Amalienburg Pavilion : Nymphenburg, Germany -- Monticello : Charlottesville, USA -- Houses of Parliament : London, UK -- Neuschwanstein Castle : Bavaria, Germany -- Sagrada Familia : Barcelona, Spain -- Hôtel Tassel : Brussels, Belgium -- Grand Palais : Paris, France.