In this article, we will discuss the Top 15 World’s Most Beautiful Building.
✔ The building is the structure that is constructed to provide shelter, entertainment, storage, etc.
✔ Every client always wants their building to be beautiful and strong. So, the engineer always provides his/her best to build different buildings and structures.
✔ There are billions of buildings in the world. But in this article, now we are going to the top 15 most beautiful buildings list in the world.
Top 15 Worlds Most Beautiful Building
1. Palace of Versailles, France
✔ The Palace of Versailles is a Royal home built by King Louis XIV in 1661 located at Versailles, France. It is built in the Baroque style.
✔ This Palace is situated 19km from Paris. Since 1979, this palace is listed as a World Heritage and it is one of the most outstanding achievements in France’s 17th art.
✔ This palace contacts 2,300 rooms and is spread over 63,154 m^2. In the 19th century,
✔ this was transferred to the Museum of France.
✔ About 15 million people visit the palace every year which makes this palace one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world.
2. Museum of the Future
✔ This building is one of the most beautiful buildings constructed for museum purposes located in the Financial District of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
✔ It was opened to the public on 22 February 2022 AD Architect by Shaun Killa. It cost $136 million in construction.
✔ It is used as an exhibition space and futuristic ideologies, services, and projects with traditional art forms.
✔ It consists of 1,024 Arabic calligraphy stainless-steel panels that were made by robots.
3. Marina Bay Sands
✔ This building is absolutely one of the most beautiful buildings in the world in 2023. This building was opened on February 17, 2011 AD at Bayfront Subzone, Downtown Core, Singapore.
✔ The owner of this building is Las Vegas Sands Corporation and Architect by Moshe Safdie (an Israeli-Canadian architect).
✔ The construction cost of the building is USD 5.88 billion.
✔ This building was constructed for the purpose of integrating the resort with the retail mall, and hotel, as well as entertainment venues, and convention facilities such as museums, nightclubs, restaurants, and theaters.
✔ The shape of this building is peculiar with 3 towers connected to a huge Skypark.
✔ It is wide on the ground level of the building, then narrows in the middle, and again wide on the top floor.
✔ It consists of 2,561 rooms and a convention center plus this building can accommodate around 45,000 people.
4. Osaka Castle
✔ This Castle is one of the most famous and beautiful castles in the world. It was built in 1586 AD in Osaka-Jō in Chūō-Ku, Osaka, Japan.
✔ Toyotomi Hideyoshi the Samurai Warlord and the ruler of Japan commenced construction on the site to symbolize the power and grandeur.
✔ Now it is used as a Public Urban Park and historical site.
5. The Heydar Aliyev Center
✔ It is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful buildings in the world in 2023. It is famous for its fluid shape and its beautiful and best architecture.
✔ It was opened on 10 May 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan.
✔ The architecture work in the Architect of this building was Zaha Hadid (an Iraqi-British architect).
✔ The total construction cost of the building is $250 million. Name of this building is named after Heydar Aliyev who led the country from 1969 to 1987 and from 1993 to 2003.
✔ It was constructed as a multi-functional hall (as a museum, cultural center, and gallery hall, it hosts different scientific competitions and different educational projects and more).
✔ Some parts of the building involved self-reflective glass, that reflects different hues depending on the time of day and weather.
6. White House
✔ It is a high-profile building and it belongs to the most beautiful building in the world. It was built on November 1, 1800, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., United States by the US government.
✔ James Hoben was an architecture work in the architect of the building.
✔ The construction of this building cost $232,372. It is used as an Offical residence and workplace of the president of the United States of America.
✔ In 1901, it adopted the name, White House and John Adams was the first person to live in it.
✔ It is a really big house or mansion which has 6 floors, 412 doors, 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, 28 fireplaces, and 3 elevators.
✔ The popular fact about this building is that it was built by slaves. Some presidents and their wives considered that this building is a lonely place.
✔ President Truman called this building, a “glamorous prison” or “great white jail”.
7. Zig Zag Towers
✔ It is one of the most beautiful towers in the world, which is also called the dancing tower. The shape of this building is in a zig-zag form which attracts many tourists.
✔ It was opened in November 2015 in West Bay Laggon Street Tower, Doha, Qatar. MZ & Partners are the architectors of this building.
✔ It is 143 m tall and is composed of 748 luxurious apartments and 34 residential floors. It is constructed for Leisure and recreation facilities live food court, shopping areas, saunas, and swimming pools.
8. Potala Palace
✔ This building serves a central role in the traditional administration of Tibet. This building was built in 1649 in Lhasa, Tibet, china.
✔ Songtsen Gampo was the founder of this palace.
✔ It was the Winter Palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649 to 1959. Since then it has been a museum and a World Heritage Site since 1994. This palace is named after Mount Patalaka.
✔ It was originally built as a gesture of love, commissioned by the Tibetan king Songtsen Gambo for his marriage to Princess Wencheng of the Chinese Tang Dynasty.
✔ Inside the palace, there are 1000 rooms, tombs of 8 Dalai Lamas, numerous shrines, thousands of painted scrolls, murals, and statues made from alloys and jewels.
9. The Azadi Tower
✔ This tower was built in 1971 in Tehran, Iran to serve as a symbol of freedom and celebrates the 2,500th Persian monarch anniversary.
✔ It was designed by Architect Hossein Amanat.
✔ It cost $6 million for its construction. It is about 45 meters (148 ft) tall and is completely clad in cut marble.
✔ It is also called Shahyad Tower, which is a landmark in Tehran. It is also referred to as “Tahran Gate” because of its distance from the Mehrabad International Airport.
✔ It is a combination of an underground museum and a tower. There are about 50 historical artifacts in the museum.
✔ It is famous for festivals, concerts, light installations, and social and cultural events. You can learn about Iran’s history with this building.
10. The Dancing House
✔ This building site was the location of the house destroyed by the U.S. bombing of Prague in 1945.
✔ The construction of this building was completed in 1996 on the Vltava River in Prague, Czech Republic for Offices and a conference center.
✔ The construction cost of this building was €4 million ($4,250,700). Vlado Milunić & Frank Gehry were the architects.
✔ It is famous for its uniquely non-traditional design building which attracts many tourists every year.
✔ The style is known as deconstructivist (“new-baroque” to the designers) architecture.
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11. The Wave Building
✔ This is one of the most beautiful buildings in the world right now in 2023.
✔ It was built in 2009 in The Wave in Vejle, Ved Bølgen, 7100 Vejle, Denmark.
✔ It is a residential building complex designed by Henning Larsen Architects.
✔ The environment of the building inspires the architect to give it the unique shape of a wave.
✔ It is built on an area of 150,000 sq. ft (14,000 square meters) with 105 luxury apartments.
✔ It is an award-winning landmark, as it has received some awards such as the 2011 Civic Trust Award and the 2010 LEAF Award.
✔ The first 2 part of the building was finished in 2009, and the last 3 part was completed in 2018, the long intervals were caused by financial issues.
✔ If you want to live in the apartment in this building you can pay between €400,000 and €1,800,000 for flats there.
12. Louvre Museum
✔ It is the most visited museum in the world and also the largest museum in the world.
✔ It was originally built in 1190 as a fortress, the Louvre was reconstructed in the 16th century to serve as a royal palace.
✔ It was opened as a museum on 10 August 1793 in Musée du Louvre, 75001 Paris, France. In the construction, it cost around $4.5 billion today.
✔ It will take up to 100 days to see all the pieces of art.
✔ It symbolizes French history and culture as well as in terms of power and health. One of the most famous art in the world Mona Lisa is here, which is protected by bodyguards and bulletproof glass.
13. Falling water
✔ It is one of the greatest architecture in history which is constructed over the waterfall.
✔ It was designed in 1935 by renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) for the Kaufmann family, owners of Pittsburgh’s largest department.
✔ right now it is open to the public to tour as a museum. It is located at Mill Run, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
✔ In the construction of this building, cost $155,000 (about $2.9 million today), and in restoration, it cost $11.5 million (approximately $16.8 million today).
✔ This building is a stunning building surrounded by 5,100 acres of natural land.
✔ In this building two color paints are used, Cherokee red for the steel and a light ochre for the concrete. Because of its beautiful design.
✔ it was added as part of the World Heritage List four years ago.
14. Coin Building
✔ It is one of the world’s most beautiful buildings due to it coin shape design.
✔ The construction of this building was completed in 2010 at Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. MZ Architects was the architect working on this building.
✔ It was constructed for Corporate Office. It cost AED 1,000,000,000 ($272,286,000) for its construction. The owner of this building is Aldar Properties.
✔ It is also known as Circular Building. It is situated in an area where the ocean can be viewed in the stunning city of Abu Dhabi.
✔ It is a 23-story building with a height of 110m. It occupies a total area of 123,000 square meters.
✔ It is made up of two circular convex-shaped facades, attached to each other by a thin band of indented glass.
✔ It is built with the total use of glass, which gives the building a fascinating look.
✔ It is popular for its amazing architecture and also it is among the most beautiful buildings in the world in 2023.
15. Lotus Temple
✔ It is one of the most beautiful and fabulous buildings in the world you have ever seen.
✔ It was designed as a Lotus flower which makes it unique and different than other buildings.
✔ It was opened on December 24, 1986, in Dehli, India.
✔ It was constructed by ECC Construction Group of Larsen & Toubro at the cost of $10.56 million.
✔ It is composed of 27 free-standing marble-clad “petals” arranged in clusters of three to form nine sides, with nine doors opening onto a central hall with a height of slightly over 34 meters and a capacity of 1,300 people.
✔ It is also called Kamal Mandir. It was constructed very carefully and it looks like a big real lotus placed there, which attracts thousands of tourists every year.
✔ It has won numerous architectural awards and has been featured in many newspaper and magazine articles.
✔ It is the worship place of Bahá’í but also all other religions can visit there. It is the symbol of peace, purity, love, and immortality.
