Temple of Horus at Edfu, Egypt

c.240-60BC

Four vertical slots once held obelisks

Great Temple of Rameses II,

Abu Simbel, Egypt,

c.1285-1255BC

Step Pyramid of Djoser (Zoser)

Saqqara, Egypt

c.2630BC

Imhotep

First monumental stone construction in Egypt.

Temple of Hephaestus ('Theseion')

Athens

449BC

Parthenon

Athens

447-431

Iktinos and Kallikrates

Erechtheion

Athens

421-405BC

Mnesicles

Caryatids

Temple of Fortuna Virilis

Rome

1st Cent. BC

Oriented to an axis in the manner of the Etruscans

Maison Carree

Nimes

1st Cent. AD

Pantheon

Rome

118-28AD

Pont du Gard,

Nimes

c.50AD

St Mark's

Venice

begun c.1063

Hagia Sophia

Constantinople (Istanbul)

532-537

Isidore of Miletus & Anthemius of Tralles

San Vitale, 

Ravenna

started c.540

Palatine Chapel (Minster)

Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle)

begun 792

Durham Cathedral

(founded 1093)

Wells Cathedral - Nave

Begun c.1190

West front of St Denis

Paris

1137-1140

Interior of upper Chapel

Sainte-Chapelle,

Royal Palace,

Paris

1423-8

Glasgow Cathedral

c.1225-1300

Early English

Roslin Chapel (Collegiate)

Midlothian

founded 1446

Lincoln Cathedral

West Front

1240

Florence Cathedral Dome

1420-1436

Filippo Brunelleschi

Pazzi Chapel

Florence

1429

Filippo Brunelleschi

Foundling Hospital

Florence

1419

Filippo Brunelleschi

Palazzo Rucellai

Florence

1446-1451

Leon Battista Alberti

Santa Maria Novella

Florence

1456-1470

Leon Battista Alberti

San Andrea

Mantua

1472-1476

Leon Battista Alberti

New Sacristy

San Lorenzo, Florence

1520-37

Michelangelo

Tempietto

San Pietro in Montorio, Rome

1502-10

Bramante

Laurentian Library

Vestibule Staircase

San Lorenzo, Florence

1525

Michelangelo

Palazzo Chiericati

Vicenza

1550

Andrea Palladio

San Giorgio Maggiore

Venice

1565

Andrea Palladio

Villa Capra (Rotonda)

Vicenza

1550-51

Andrea Palladio

Longleat House,

Wiltshire

1572 onwards (incorporating work from 1554)

Robert Smythson

Hardwick Hall

Derbyshire

1590-97

Robert Smythson

Wollaton Hall

Nottinghamshire

1580-88

Robert Smythson

Covent Garden

London

begun 1630

Inigo Jones

James VI Chapel Royal

Stirling Castle

1593-1595

William Schaw

George Heriot Hospital

Edinburgh

begun 1628

William Wallace

Queen's House

Greenwich

1616-35

Inigo Jones

Chateau de Chambord

Main Staircase

1519

Domenico da Cortona

Chateau of Anet

Gatehouse

Loire Valley, France

1552-1559

Philibert de l'Orme

SS. Martina e Luca

Rome

1629-1664

Pietro da Cortona

S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Rome

1638-1641

Francesco Borromini

Palais de Parlement

Rennes

1618

Salomon de Brosse

Ste-Marie de la Visitation

Paris

1632-43

François Mansart

Church of Val de Grace

Paris

1645-67

François Mansart & Phillippe Lemercier

Chateau of Vaux-le-Victome

Melun

France

1657-61

Louis le Vaux

East Facade of Louvre

Paris

1664-67

Claude Perrault

Garden Plan

Versailles

1746

Original designed by Andre le Notre

1661-1700

St Paul's Cathedral

London

1675-1710

Christopher Wren

Greenwich Hospital

London

begun 1694

Christopher Wren

Seaton Delaval

Hall

Northumberland

1718-1728

John Vanbrugh

Blenheim Palace

Oxfordshire

1705-1726

John Vanbrugh

Christchurch

Spitalfields, London

1715

Nicholas Hawksmoor

Shinto Shrine

Main Sanctuary (Shoden)

Ise

fist constructed 685 AD, present building 1995

The Major Hall

Nanchan Temple

Shanxi Province

China

782 AD

Fongong Pagoda

Shanxi Province

China 1065

Design for Wanstead House

2nd Version

1714-20

Colen Campbell

Mereworth

Kent

1722-25

Colen Campbell

Chiswick House

1723-29

Lord Burlington

The Circus

Bath

1754

John Wood the Elder

Gladstone's Land

Lawnmarket

Edinburgh

1617-1620

Glamis Castle

Angus

remodelled 1670s-80s

Kinross House

1679-90

Sir William Bruce

Holyrood Palace

Edinburgh

1671-76

Sir William Bruce

Hopetoun House

West Lothian

1721-50

William Adam

Pyramid of thee Sun

Teotihuacan (Mexico)

100AD

The 'Castillo' Step Pyramid

Chichenitza, Mexico

900-1200AD

Badshahi Mosque

Lahore

Pakistan

1673-74

The Taj Mahal

Agra, India

1631-54

built by Mughal emperor ShahJahan

Great shikhara

Brihadisvara Temple

Tanjore

11th Century

200 feet high

Great Stupa (Mahastupa)

Sanchi

c.250BC-250AD

circular in plan with vertical element

Great Mosque

Cordoba Spain

Prayer Hall

started c.785AD

Friday Mosque

Isfahan

Iran

late11th-early12th century

Selimiye Mosque

Edirne, Turkey

1568-1574

Mimar Sinan

Kenwood House,

London

1764-79

Robert Adam

Somerset House

London

1776-96

William Chambers

Somerset House

view of south range (Navy Office)

1775-1801

Sir William Chambers

Syon House

Entrance Hall

Middlesex

1762-69 (and 1773)

Robert Adam

Culzean Castle

Ayrshire

1777-92

Robert Adam

Plan of Edinburgh New Town

1767

James Craig

Fort George

Invernesshire

1746-1766

William Skinner (with William Adam)

Ste Genvieve (Pantheon)

Paris

1757-90

J G Soufflot

Tomb of Newton

1784

E L Boulee

Barriere de la Villette

Paris

1784-87

C N Ledoux

Salt Works at Chaux

Director's House

Arc et Senans

1775-79

C N Ledoux

Edinburgh Bridewell

1790

Robert Adam

Bank of England

Stock Office

1792

John Soane

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Entrance facade

1811

John Soane

Brandenburg Gate

Berlin

1789-94

Carl Gotthard Langhans

Monument to Frederick the Great

1797

Freidrich Gilly

Neue Wache (New Guard House)

1816-18

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Schauspielhaus (theatre & concert hall)

1816-26

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Altes Museum

Berlin

1822-30

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

Bauakademie

Berlin

1831-36

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

All Hallows Church

London Wall

1765

George Dance the Younger

Drawing produced for John Soane's

Royal Academy Lecture

1816