The document provides brief descriptions of 14 famous architectural structures from around the world, including their location, materials used, dates of construction, and key architectural features. Some of the structures mentioned include the Great Pyramids in Egypt, Piazza San Marco in Venice, the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, Antoni Gaudi's Casa Batllo in Barcelona, the Taj Mahal in India, Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater in Pennsylvania.

2. Piazza of San Marco (Saint Mark’s): stone masonry, Italian Rennaisance (1400), Venezia (Venice), Italy * Three-sided enclosure the Piazza S. Marco proper, held the offices of the procurators.

3. Dome of the Rock (Islamic temple): Unknown Architect, bearing masonry, 684 AD, Jerusalem, Israel.

5. Taj Mahal: Emperor Shah Jahan, Islamic tomb, bearing masonry, inlaid marble, 1630 to 1653 , India.

7. Haghia Sophia : Isidoros and Anthemios, at Istanbul, Turkey, 532 to 537, bearing masonry .

9. Taihe Dian : Unknown Architect, wood timber with tile roofs, 1627, Forbidden city, Bejing, China,

10. Bank of ChinaTower : (skyscraper, commercial office tower): I.M. Pei, steel frame, glass curtain wall, 1982 to 1990, Hong Kong, China.

11. Air Force Academy Chapel: Walter Netsch, SOM, Expressionist Modern, 1956 to 1962, Colorado Springs.

13. Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright, reinforced concrete stone, Ohiopyle, (Bear Run), Pennsylvania, 1934, 1938, 1948. "...[Wright] sends out free-floating platforms audaciously over a small waterfall and anchors them in the natural rock. Something of the prairie house is here still; and we might also detect a grudging recognition of the International Style in the interlocking geometry of the planes and the flat, textureless surface of the main shelves. But the house is thoroughly fused with its site and, inside, the rough stone walls and the flagged floors are of an elemental ruggedness."

14. Sainte Chapelle: Louis IX, king of France, Rayonnant (French Gothic) 1246-48, Paris, France. FYI: “Windows are a divine feature, if utilized properly will take your breath away”. the Rayonnant reduced the masonry structure of the churches to a tenuous skeletal system supporting vast expanses of traceried glass The word Rayonnant itself refers to the radiating stone spokes of the enormous rose windows of the cathedrals.