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what building anywhere in the world you think is the highest accomplishment in architecture?

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1. An ant hill.
2. The Pyramids. Nothing like them has ever been replicated, in ambition or scale.
3. The Nordseepassage :-)
4. Stonehenge! How did they do it?? The stones came from 100 of miles away and then they had to erect them and they were eons behind Egypt in how to build.
5. Has to be the Pantheon in Rome
6. the library in Burslem in the potteries of England
7. the duomo in florence is amazing, cause brunelleschi had to re-invent the technology for building the dome (double skinned!) which had been lost (he looked at the pantheon for this) as the previous architects had made the plan so enormous that there was no way for it to be spanned...superb!
8. the Eiffel Tower...Nobody believed in Gustave Eiffel and his iron cast building, he proved everyone wrong and changed architecture as we know it.
9. Equal firsts: The mosque at Cordoba. Haghia Sophia in Istanbul. The Parthenon in Athens. Borobudur near Yogyakarta in Java. The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. It isn't a building, but I would add the rock and sand garden at the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto.
10. Dulwich Picture Gallery (near London) which was the first purpose-built art gallery (1817) in England and the world. Sir John Soane (the architect of the Bank of England) used inter-linked rooms and skylights, to create an intimate but spacious building which anticipates modern architecture.