Architectural Evangelist, a non-profit initiative of BluEnt in collaboration with prominent architects, conducted an online survey to find out seven modern architectural wonders similar to the ancient construction classified as the wonders of the world. From time to time, several attempts have been made to find out architectural wonders. The effort of listing Seven Wonders of the World dated back to Herodotus and Callimachus who initiated the process of ranking Seven Wonders of the World. As the world moved into the 20th century, architecture industry reached new heights. Driven by passion to create beautiful buildings with dazzling heights and as connotation to pride and achievement, the last century witnessed some radical changes to the architecture industry. Canadian-Swiss Bernard Weber organized a poll to update the architectural wonders of world and successfully announced Seven Modern Wonders of the World July 7, 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal. The poll created differences in the circle of famous architects worldwide, leading them to criticize the result as “decidedly unscientific"
To champion the opinions of architects, Architectural Evangelist conducted an online survey and came up with a new list of seven modern architectural wonders of world that beguile millions of globally minded tourists throughout the year. An architect could vote three wonderful architectures built in the 20th century. The wonders had to be man-made and in an acceptable state of preservation. The month-long online-survey received over 1,271 responses from architects from different corners of the world. Within 16 days, 17 modern architectures, ranging from commercial buildings to gorgeous restaurants, monument to museum were up for consideration. During the time of closing the poll, the number increased to 25. “Architects nominated 25 modern architectural wonders consisting 12 ‘much-discussed’
Powered by modern technology and huge advances in architecture and buildings science, the 20th century witnessed an unprecedented "golden era" of architecture. The skyscraper race has added adrenalin to the modern architecture industry. Little known about the technology used and methodologies adopted, there are no suspicions that these architectural wonders are technologically superior and stand as a taste of time. With the passing of time and further advancements in technology and engineering, more architectural wonders would be built, piercing the sky and taking humanity's capabilities further skywards. These architectural wonders would stand ‘Against Time’ instead in “Time’s eye”, but we would marvel as they would be faded “yielding place to new”.
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