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Best Buildings of the Decade

Top Ten Lists for the decade from contributors to The Mark, Canada

31 Dec 2009

Top ten buildings from 2000 – 09

To celebrate the end of a decade, The Mark is publishing their contributors’ picks of the best architecture from the 2000s.

This page lists the selection of what their two experts considered the top contemporary buildings – the best architecture of the decade. e-architect are interested in your views, are these really the best buildings in the world? If so, then for what reasons? Of course judging architecture design is notoriously subjective and when it comes to top ten lists and awards then the results can sometimes prove controversial. Still, we felt the list was a useful architectural resource.

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Best Buildings of the Decade 2000 to 2009 – Prof. Graham Livesey

Associate Dean of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, Canada

Médiathèque, Sendai, Japan
Toyo Ito, architect

International Port Terminal, Yokohama, Japan
Design: Foreign Office Architects

photo : Saturo Mashima
International Port Terminal Yokohama

Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria
Design: Spacelab Cook-Fournier
Kunsthaus Graz
photo from RIAS – no larger image

21st Century Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
Design: SANAA

photo © 2008 Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA

Seattle Public Library, Seattle, U.S.
Design: Office for Metropolitan Architecture

photo : Philippe Ruault
Seattle Public Library

de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, U.S
Design: Herzog & de Meuron

Mercedes-Benz Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Design: UNStudio

photo : Christian Richters
Mercedes-Benz Museum

Federal Building, San Francisco, U.S
Design: Morphosis

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, U.S
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Charles Hostler Student Center, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Design: Vincent James Associates Architects

Comments on the Best Buildings of the Decade page welcome

Best Buildings of the Decade 2000 to 2009 – Prof. Annmarie Adams

Associate Director, School of Architecture, McGill University.

Tate Modern, London, U.K.
Herzog & de Meuron

image © Adrian Welch
Tate Modern

The Women’s Library, London, U.K.
Wright & Wright Architects

Experience Music Project, Seattle Center, Seattle, U.S.
Frank Gehry

Great Court, British Museum, London, U.K.
Foster + Partners

photo © Adrian Welch
Great Court British Museum

Prada New York, New York City, U.S.
Office for Metropolitan Architecture

photo Armin Linke
Prada New York

Seattle Public Library, Seattle, U.S.
Office for Metropolitan Architecture

de Young Museum, San Francisco, U.S.
Herzog & de Meuron

Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
Saucier + Perotte

photograph : Marc Cramer
Schulich School of Music

Bloorview Kids Rehab, Toronto, Canada
Montgomery Sisam Architects/Stantec Architecture

Heide Museum of Modern Art gardens, Melbourne, Australia
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Comments on the Best Buildings of the Decade page welcome

Possible Contenders for Best Buildings of the Decade

New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
SANAA architects

image from SANAA

Neues Museum, Berlin
David Chipperfield Architects

photograph : Ute Zscharnt

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Herzog & de Meuron with HGA, Inc.

photo : Paul Warchol

BMW Welt, Munich
Coop Himmelb(l)au

picture from Ketchum

GRAM Michigan, USA
Design: wHY architecture

photo : Chris Barrett@Hedrich Blessing

Comments / photos for the e-architect Best Buildings of the Decade Architecture page welcome