Most Beautiful Civil Engineering Structures Around The World

Today on guardianconstructions.com, i want to make a list of some of the most beautiful Civil Engineering structures around the world. Truth is that being a civil engineer has actually afforded me the opportunity to handle several projects that often leaves me speechless and stunned. I become speechless because there comes a special kind of beauty with everything made by a qualified civil engineer.

Civil Engineers are no doubt shapers of the world and looking around, all i see is how broken the link to other parts of the world would have been but for the skillful minds of civil engineers.

I have decided to make a list of top 20 most beautiful Civil Engineering projects around the world.

The Hoover/Boulder Dam (1930s)

Panama Canal (begun 1904)
The United States Interstate Highway System
The Golden Gate Bridge
The Empire State Building
The CN Tower (Toronto) and the Space Needle (Seattle)
The Chunnel (tunnel under the English Channel)
The Netherlands North Sea Protection System
Launch facilities for manned space programs (they aren’t just concrete)
Bligh Building
Lake Point Tower
Burj Khalifa
The Large Hadron Collider
Three Gorges Dam (Sandouping, Hubei, China)
Chandra X-ray Observatory
The New Valley Project (Western Desert of Egypt)
Palm Islands (Dubai)
The Bailong Elevator (Zhangjiajie, China)
National Stadium a.k.a. “Bird’s Nest” (Beijing, China)
The Venice Tide Barrier Project (Venice, Italy)
Millau Viaduct (Millau, France)

Now you have a list of 20 most beautiful structures erected by civil engineers around the world. You can also click on each of these to read more about them as that would help you appreciate the work of these engineers.

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