If you’re looking for stunning places to visit, Conde Nast has seven suggestions. April’s issue of Conde Nast Traveler features their latest picks for the seven architectural wonders of the world. These places include Red Ribbon in Qinhuangdao, China, London’s new Wembley Stadium, and New York’s New Museum.

Globally, there are many examples of exciting and innovative architecture. It’s a feat in itself to narrow it down to seven. Where do you begin? But, overall we’d have to agree with Conde Nast’s selection. All seven are beautiful, and they independently suggest a wonderment that great architecture should produce. As they state, “A good building provides shelter, storage, housing. But a great building? Well, there’s no limit to what it can do. This year’s class of wondrous structures are responsible, variously, for transforming a neighborhood (just look at the New Museum, which towers over its gritty corner of Lower Manhattan like some fabulous spacecraft), revitalizing a landmark (see the exuberantly beveled extension to Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum), and breaking all limits of what a building can be (for proof, see Dubai’s still-in-progress Burj Dubai, which, once completed, will be the world’s tallest tower, with 160-plus stories).”

The Seven Selected Buildings

+ Burj Dubai – the world’s tallest building, standing 1,700 feet tall and rising

+ London’s new Wembley Stadium

+ Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

+ Red Ribbon, Tanghe River Park, in Qinhuangdao, China

+ The Crystal, at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum

+ New York’s New Museum

+ Cumulus, a science and technology museum in Nordborg, Denmark

View Conde Nast’s Seven Architectural Wonders of the World [Here]

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