State: ENDANGERED

Kotva Department Store

Being in the historical city centre of Prague, the area designated for the new department store was quite complex. An architectual competition was organised in order to find the best idea for its architectual and urbanistic solution. The Machonins’ …

Congress Center Thermenkongress

After its heyday around the turn of the century, Bad Gastein tried to fight decades of decline with this congress center. It is perched spectacularly on a steep slope and contrasts the surrounding buildings with its functionalist exposed concrete design…

Ihme Zentrum

To take the strain off downtown, the Ihme center was designed as a high-density city-in-city concept with residential, office and commercial areas, and is the only project of its kind to ever be realized. The complex includes two residential towers, a h…

Chorweiler Housing Estate

Part of a large housing estate, with a reliance on a small human scale. The fair-faced concrete was combined with Pop colors. Among other things inhabitants have complained about the overly idiosyncratic footprints that are almost inflexible – such as…

Centro de Exposições do Centro Administrativo da Bahia

In the case of this exhibition center, the design of a suspension bridge is transposed onto a building. An exhibition room and a theater are housed in the opposite ends. Lift and stairs are accommodated in the pillars. There is no inherent need for the …

Colony Square

Colony Square was one of the first multi-use developments in the southeastern United States. A five-hundred room hotel and two office towers are directly connected to a sky lit atrium. At the rear are residential condominium buildings of compatible desi…

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. 260 ii
To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 474 iii
To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 499 iv
To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history. 633 ix
To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 135 v
To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change. 167 vi
To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). 252 vii
To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 148 viii
To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features. 96 x
To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. 166

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