No.5 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Sanaa

The New Museum is on the Bowery, a grimy but gentrifying stretch of lower Manhattan. So Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa gave it a home that's part funky, part shimmery, an asymmetrical stack of boxes covered by a honeycomb of aluminum.

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No.6 Olympic Stadium (also known as the Bird's Nest), Beijing

Athletes at the 2008 Summer Games will compete in a nestlike venue by Herzog & de Meuron.