This is more of a series of famous buildings than one – 980, to be precise. Constructed between 1406AD to 1420AD, the Forbidden City was home to emperors from the time of the Ming dynasty to the end ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The most famous architects don't solely leave behind the buildings they've designed—they leave behind blueprints for how we live, ...

From Notre Dame to the Taj Mahal, many of the world's most iconic buildings seem so perennially full of tourists and so universally beloved as to run no risk of ever being sold and demolished. But is ...

Some of the world’s most famous buildings provoke strong reactions. To many, they are eyesores; to architects, they are bold expressions of design thinking, engineering, and urban identity. From ...

Iconic buildings often capture the public imagination, becoming landmarks that define cities. But behind the acclaim, some architects see flaws—questioning design choices, context, and function in ...

Designer Andrea Gallo has created a series of six posters that boil iconic works of architecture down to their minimalist details. The stark, black and white posters cut out silhouettes of the ...

The rocks embedded in the exterior of Chicago’s Tribune Tower famously were collected by newspaper correspondents on assignment in far flung locales. The nearly 150 stones are pieces of famous ...