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50 Wonders | Jerry Tate: Lingotto Factory, Turin
The director of Tate+Co Architects celebrates the richness that reuse has layered on to Turin’s fomer Fiat Factory
50 Wonders | Tracy Meller: Pompidou Centre, Paris
The senior partner at RSHP recalls the first time she set eyes on the building that would shape her career
50 Wonders | Chloe Phelps: Page Street housing by Edwin Lutyens
The chief executive of Grounded - an architect, developer and planner by background - picks Lutyens’ only social housing project as her Wonder
50 Wonders | Smith Mordak: Floating reed island villages, Iraq
A 6,000-year-old community in southern Iraq has much to teach us in an age of climate fragility, writes Smith Mordak, newly appointed chief exec of the UK Green Building Council
50 Wonders | Minesh Patel: New Art Gallery, Walsall
The founder of Digbeth-based Minesh Patel Architects invites us to his local art gallery - which was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize the year Peckham Library won
50 Wonders | Simon Henley: Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism University of São Paulo
Simon Henley shares his thoughts on João Vilanova Artigas’ university building in Brazil
50 Wonders | Dowen Farmer Architects: Walters Way, Lewisham
Dowen Farmer Architects have collectively selected Walter Segal’s Walters Way scheme in Lewisham
50 Wonders | Fiona Scott: Teatro Teresa Carreno and Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
The Gort Scott founding director explores the fluctuating meaning of two neighbouring institutions in Venezuela’s capital city
50 Wonders | Sheila Carney: Farnsworth House, Illinois
The director of Scott Tallon Walker’s London studio describes the enduring influence of Mies’ masterpiece on her practice
50 Wonders | Rab Bennetts: Ford Foundation, New York
The Bennetts Associates co-founder recalls his inspiring first trip to Manhattan
50 Wonders | Alice Brownfield: Dawson’s Heights
On International Women’s Day, Alice Brownfield argues Kate Macintosh’s south London social housing is a landmark in every sense – and a call to arms
50 Wonders | Nimi Attanayake: Kandalama Hotel, Sri Lanka
Geoffrey Bawa’s hotel perched on a ridge and surrounded by jungle offers guests an extraordinary experience. The Nimtim co-founder takes us there
50 Wonders | Hana Loftus: Temple Mount, Jerusalem
The Hat Projects co-founder recalls her surprise at experiencing how a place she knew well from books was inhabited in real life
50 Wonders | Sally Lewis: Piazza Del Campo, Siena
The Stitch Architects founder celebrates one of the most beautiful squares in Italy
50 Wonders | Justin Nicholls: Creek Vean
The Fathom Architects director recalls a formative visit to Team 4’s seminal Cornish house
50 Wonders | Denise Bennetts: Royal College of Physicians
The Bennetts Associates co-founder appreciates Denys Lasdun’s daring response to a historic site
50 Wonders | Dav Bansal: Lakeshore Drive Apartments
Dav Bansal recalls the thrill of visiting Mies’ influential Chicago towers for the first time
50 Wonders | Yasmin Al-Ani Spence: Villa Tugendhat
The Wilkinson Eyre director picks the Mies classic for its technical innovation as much as its aesthetics
50 Wonders | John Tuomey: The Aran Islands, Ireland
The O’Donnell & Tuomey co-founder and RIBA Gold Medal winner (with Sheila O’Donnell) explains his love for the structures and geology of the wild isles
50 Wonders | Terry Farrell: The Great Mosque at Córdoba, Andalucía
The principal of Farrells talks about one of his favouite buildings
50 Wonders | Simon Allford: Notre-Dame de Raincy
The new president of the RIBA shares his choice for our 50th birthday series, #BD50Wonders
50 Wonders | Deborah Saunt: Royal Vauxhall Tavern
The DSDHA co-founder on one of London’s oldest gay venues, and creating connections to the community
50 Wonders | Karen Cook: Place des Vosges, Paris
The architect of 22 Bishopsgate and founding partner of PLP explains why she loves this 17th-century Parisian public square
50 Wonders | Graham Morrison: Fondazione Querini Stampalia bridge
The Allies & Morrison co-founder shares his choice for our 50th birthday series, #BD50Wonders
50 Wonders | John Pawson: Le Thoronet Abbey, Provence
The designer of a Cistercian abbey in the Czech Republic and a number of other sacred buildings shares his choice for our 50th birthday series, #BD50Wonders
50 Wonders | Anna Liu: Palace of Labour, Turin
The Tonkin Liu co-founder is captivated by the heroic scale and organic forms of the Palazzo del Lavoro
50 Wonders | Keith Williams: Capitol Complex, Chandigarh, India
The architect recalls a memorable visit to Le Corbusier’s municipal complex in the Indian Punjab
50 Wonders | Tara Gbolade: Benga Riverside, Mozambique
The director of Gbolade Design Studio picks a community project by Kéré Architecture that took the long view
50 Wonders | Robert Sakula: SESC Pompéia
The Ash Sakula co-founder picks Lina Bo Bardi’s thrilling Brazilian cultural hub for #BD50Wonders
50 Wonders | Melissa Dowler: National Theatre
The Bell Phillips director explains how her relationship with Lasdun’s masterpiece has changed over the years
50 Wonders | Haziq Ariffin: Salinger House, Malaysia
As our anniversary series continues, Building Design’s Architect of the Year, Mica, nominates architectural assistant Haziq Ariffin to pick his Wonder
50 Wonders | Murray Kerr: Brasilia
The Denizen Works founder feels small in the heroically scaled Brazilian city
50 Wonders | Jo Wright: Neues Museum, Berlin
The Arup director was beguiled by the masterful rebuilding of Berlin’s war-ravaged museum when she returned to the city where her career began
50 Wonders | Chris Harding: Ronchamp
Corbusier’s simple hilltop chapel challenges our obsession with technology, says the BDP chair
50 Wonders | Nicholas Grimshaw: Bauhaus, Dessau
The Gold Medal winner and founder of Grimshaw recalls a heady trip east
50 Wonders | Christopher Lee: Moriyama House, Tokyo
The Serie Architects principal introduces the latest in our 50th birthday series
50 Wonders | Sarah Wigglesworth: Teatro Regio, Turin
Source: Claudio Divizia / Shutterstock Carlo Mollino’s Teatro Regio in Turin
50 Wonders | Jeremy Dixon: Hill House Pergola, Hampstead
The co-founder of Dixon Jones introduces the latest in our 50th birthday series
50 Wonders | Matthew Carmona: Pompidou Centre
The Bartlett professor introduces the latest in our 50th birthday series
50 Wonders | John Allan: Finsbury Health Centre
The former Avanti Architects director and biographer of Berthold Lubetkin introduces the latest in our 50th birthday series
50 Wonders | Cindy Walters: Benedictine chapel, Las Condes, Chile
The co-founder of Walters and Cohen and former Stirling Prize judge introduces the latest in our 50 Wonders series
50 Wonders | Phil Coffey: Kimbell Art Museum
The founder of Coffey Architects and former YAYA winner introduces the latest in our 50 Wonders series
50 Wonders | Femi Oresanya: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House
The HOK London principal, RIBA council member and chair of Architects for Change introduces the latest in our 50 Wonders series
50 Wonders | Stefanie Rhodes: Le Havre
The co-founder of Gatti Routh Rhodes Achitects, which won last year’s Young Architect of the Year Award, introduces the latest in our 50 Wonders series
50 Wonders | Stuart Lipton: 1 Finsbury Avenue
The developer behind seminal London office schemes such as Broadgate and 22 Bishopsgate introduces the latest in our 50 Wonders series
50 Wonders | Jamie Fobert: Sao Paulo Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism
The architect of the Stirling-shortlisted Tate St Ives, and last year’s Architect of the Year, selects the second in our new 50 Wonders series
50 Wonders | Norman Foster: Crystal Palace
It’s AYA Day and Building Design’s 50th birthday! To celebrate, we invited Norman Foster to launch our landmark new series