10 Best Concrete Buildings

For those lovers of concrete architecture, Rowan Moore created a list of the ten best concrete buildings in history for The Guardian, spanning from antiquity to the present.  The list includes such seminal buildings as the Pantheon in Rome; Unite d’Habitation by Le Corbusier (1952); Los Manantiales restaurant in Mexico City by Felix Candela (1958) (above); Bank of London and South America in Buenos Aires, by Clorindo Testa (1966); SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, by Lina Bo Bardi (1986); Portuguese national Pavilion, Expo 98, Losbon, by Alvro Siza (1998); and St John’s Abbey Church, Collegeville, Minnesota, by Marcel Breuer (1961); and Poli House, Coliumo, Chile, by Pezo von Ellrichshausen (2005).

Bank of London and South America, Buenos Aires, by Clorindo Testa, 1966

Portuguese National Pavilion, Expo 98, Lisbon, by Álvaro Siza 1998

St John’s Abbey Church, Collegeville, Minnesota, by Marcel Breuer, 1961

Poli House, Coliumo, Chile, by Pezo von Ellrichshausen, 2005

Pantheon, Rome

SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, by Lina Bo Bardi, 1986