We asked leading practitioners to share their picks of the best projects of the past 16 years. The following is a curated list of architectural projects, both big and small, that have helped to define the cityscape of the new millennium.


“What better way to usher in a new century than by issuing an elegantly crafted public building that willfully re-situates and quietly coalesces the quintessential architectural trajectories of the previous century—that of structure, core, and skin—a narrative neatly set afloat in 1915 by Le Corbusier’s Dom-ino rallying cry.


“Embodying the holy grail of each gallery custom-designed for its work, more or less infinite expandability, and a perfection of form and detail, it is at once extremely simple and delightfully complex.”


“The Seattle Public Library ushered in the new millennium with critical optimism, declaring that our society can produce civic architecture in an urban democratic setting without resorting to sentimentality, relying instead on raw materials, embedded technology, and a fluid sense of space to reflect the collective contemporary condition of the city.”


Originally writen by metropolismag and most pictures collected from pinterest