Here are presented 10 of the most famous monuments and buildings of the 20th century in the West: Tower Bridge in London, La Defense and Pompidou Center in Paris, Sidney Opera House in Australia, the Golden Gate in San Francisco, the Glass pyramid of the Louvre and the CN Tower in Toronto.
Tower Bridge
Built between 1886 and 1894, bridge on the Thames River in London, near the Tower of London, one of the city's principal landmarks.
It was the only movable bridge crossing the Thames when it was completed in 1894. Sir Horace Jones designed the bridge, and Sir John Wolfe Barry built it.
La Defense
Modern architectural development to the west of central Paris, the largest concentration of tall buildings in Europe.
An office tower in the shape of an enormous open cube 105 m on a side, it echoes in modern language the shape of (and is exactly the same width as) the famous Arc de Triomphe with which it is visibly aligned
The Centre National d'Art Pompidou
Museum located in the Beaubourg district of Paris.
External mechanical systems elevators painted red; escalators in clear plastic tunnels; and giant tubes for air (painted blue), water (green), and electricity (yellow)
Golden Gate
Strait in western California, at the entrance to San Francisco Bay, separating the bay from the Pacific Ocean.
The bridge crosses the strait to connect San Francisco, on the south, with Marin County, on the north.
Glass pyramid of the Louvre
The Louvre, until 1682 a residence of the kings of France, occupies the site of a 13th-century fortress.
In 1793 opened as a public museum, and the French painter David was appointed head of a commission to administer it.
CN Tower
At a height of 553.33m, it is the World's Tallest Building, an important telecommunications hub, and the centre of tourism in Toronto.
The CN Tower was built in 1976 by Canadian National (CN) who wanted to demonstrate the strength of Canadian industry by building a tower taller than any other in the world.
In Asia, new and taller buildings have been built, especially in Malaysia (the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur) and in China (Hong Kong and Shanghai)
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