Built in the 20th century

Connected Sites: 56

These WHS were all constructed between 1901 and 2000.

Connected Sites

  • Sydney Opera House
    Inscribed: 2007
    3.49
    289
    8
    Opened in 1973.
  • Centennial Hall
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.43
    190
    7
    The Centennial Exhibition opened in May 1913 (AB ev)
  • Ir. D.F. Woudagemaal
    Inscribed: 1998
    2.66
    175
    8
    Open since 7 October 1920
  • Auschwitz Birkenau
    Inscribed: 1979
    4.08
    341
    14
    Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. (wiki)
  • Palau de la Musica Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
    These two monuments are masterpieces of the imaginative and exuberant Art Nouveau that flowered in early 20th century. (AB ev)
  • Skogskyrkogarden
    Inscribed: 1994
    2.48
    175
    12
    Work began in 1917 and the formal consecration of the Woodland Cemetery and its first chapel, the Woodland Chapel (designed by Asplund), took place in 1920. (AB ev)
  • Berlin Modernism Housing Estates
    Inscribed: 2008
    2.16
    277
    15
    Earliest is Tuschkastensiedlung Falkenberg, 1913-16
  • Stoclet House
    Inscribed: 2009
    1.84
    242
    13
    1905-1911
  • Rhaetian Railway
    Rhaetian Railway
    Italy, Switzerland
    Inscribed: 2008
    3.18
    179
    7
    1908-10
  • Riga
    Riga
    Latvia
    Inscribed: 1997
    3.54
    355
    15
    A significant part of the inscribed area consists of buildings constructed in the Latvian Art Nouveau style from 1905
  • Bikini Atoll
    Bikini Atoll
    Marshall Islands
    Inscribed: 2010
    0
    0
    Nuclear test site from 1946 to 1958
  • Modernist Kaunas
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.56
    134
    5
    Focuses on "Architecture of Optimism, 1919-1939"
  • Inscribed: 2021
    2.05
    27
    1
    Started in 1927 and completed in 1938 (AB ev)
  • Inscribed: 2023
    2.07
    16
    3
    Between 1967 and 1975.
  • Kaiping Diaolou
    Inscribed: 2007
    3.16
    72
    7
    mainly constructed in the 1920s and 1930s (AB ev)
  • Ivrea
    Ivrea
    Italy
    Inscribed: 2018
    2.05
    105
    6
    Mostly 1930s
  • Grimeton Radio Station
    Inscribed: 2004
    2.53
    99
    7
    The transmitter was constructed between 1922 and 1924
  • Funerary and memory sites of the First World War
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.93
    226
    11
    "The reburial in individual graves within regrouped cemeteries took place in the early 1920s. ... In the following years, between the 1920s and 1930s, memorials and monuments were erected" (AB ev)
  • Central University City Campus of the UNAM
    Inscribed: 2007
    2.66
    169
    7
    Completed in 1954.
  • Bauhaus Sites
    Inscribed: 1996
    2.75
    242
    14
    In 1919 the Schools of Art and of Applied Arts of the Grand Duchy of Saxony were combined to form the State Bauhaus of Weimar. The building of the former had been constructed in two phases, in 1904 and 1911 (AB ev)
  • The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
    The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier
    Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan, Switzerland
    Inscribed: 2016
    2.73
    375
    29
    1923-1965
  • Rabat
    Rabat
    Morocco
    Inscribed: 2012
    3.16
    211
    7
    Ville Nouvelle was started in 1912, and that gave the city its unique plan (combined with historic quarters)
  • FRIM Selangor
    Inscribed: 2025
    2.07
    23
    2

    most of building complex and the forest are built in 20th Century
  • Cambodian Memorial Sites
    Inscribed: 2025
    2.35
    95
    4
    between 1973 and 1979
  • Zollverein
    Zollverein
    Germany
    Inscribed: 2001
    2.92
    207
    15
    In 1927 two young architects, Martin Kremmer and Fritz Schupp, began work on designing the new central shaft site XII on the principle of "form follows function".
  • Works of Antoni Gaudí
    Inscribed: 1984
    4.11
    552
    18
    Parque Guell 1900-1914 Casa Mila 1906-1910 Nativity facade of Sagrada Familia 1886-2026 (?) Casa Balto 1905-1907 Crypt of Colonila Guell (1898-1916)
  • White City of Tel-Aviv
    Inscribed: 2003
    2.43
    209
    11
    based on the urban master plan by Sir Patrick Geddes (1925-27) (AB ev)
  • Warsaw
    Warsaw
    Poland
    Inscribed: 1980
    3.24
    355
    10
    Its OUV lies in the reconstruction techniques and effort, that happened after 1945
  • Van Nellefabriek
    Van Nellefabriek
    Netherlands
    Inscribed: 2014
    2.48
    196
    9
    1920's
  • Tugendhat Villa
    Inscribed: 2001
    2.98
    169
    16
    the villa was completed by the end of 1930 (AB ev)
  • Sítio Roberto Burle Marx
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.62
    31
    6
    The 1949 purchase was the first of three acquisitions of land that now forms the nominated property (AB ev)
  • Schokland
    Schokland
    Netherlands
    Inscribed: 1995
    1.92
    185
    11
    Located in the agricultural landscape of the Noordoostpolder, which was created in 1942
  • Rjukan / Notodden
    Inscribed: 2015
    2.43
    78
    6
    Three of the pioneering power plant buildings (Vemork, Såheim and Tinfos II) constructed between 1905 and 1940 are intact and still in use. (AB ev)
  • Rietveld Schröderhuis
    Inscribed: 2000
    3.07
    223
    12
    Built in 1924 (AB ev)
  • Plečnik's Ljubljana
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.98
    281
    7
    The nominated property consists of a series of public spaces .. and public institutions .. that Plečnik designed throughout the city in the period between the two World Wars. (AB ev)
  • Pampulha
    Pampulha
    Brazil
    Inscribed: 2016
    2.56
    53
    4
    From 1940 on
  • Osun-Osogbo
    Inscribed: 2005
    2.53
    11
    10
    Although the cultural significance of the Grove dates back to Yoruba mythological periods what is "on show" is largely a 20th century manifestation. "Susanne Wenger, with the support of the Ataoja, formed a group with native traditional artists who started to erect decorated walls, giant sculptures and buildings around the shrines and remains of the palaces. ... "resulting in more than 40 powerful sculptures (or ensemble of sculptures) and sculptural architectures. The 'New Sacred Art' and the artists attached to that movement which started in the 1950's are today internationally recognized..." "This work that has been developed over the past 50 years in the grove is not only a masterpiece of modern art (Modern Sacred Art) but also an authentic illustration of the myths attached to the grove, and, more simply, has saved it from vanishing." (Nom File)
  • Nelson Mandela Legacy Sites
    Inscribed: 2024
    1.84
    50
    3
    "associated with a number of events in the 20th century that collectively can be seen to reflect elements of the story of the struggle for liberation from racial segregation in South Africa." (AB ev)
  • Memorial Sites of Genocide
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.42
    54
    3
    the Kigali Genocide Memorial was built in 1999 (AB ev)
  • Luis Barragán House and Studio
    Inscribed: 2004
    2.77
    103
    10
    The house in number 14 was built in 1948. (AB ev)
  • Luang Prabang
    Inscribed: 1995
    3.65
    191
    5
    Due to its OUV "in the years between 1915 and 1925 a new concept, that of urbanizatlon, was Introduced" (AB ev), though there are older temples and stupas
  • Le Havre
    Le Havre
    France
    Inscribed: 2005
    2.62
    201
    10
    In summer 1944, with a group architect colleagues Auguste Perret (1874-1954), then 70 years old, took the lead in the project of reconstruction of the town. (AB ev)
  • Jodrell Bank Observatory
    Inscribed: 2019
    2.65
    89
    9
    From 1945 on
  • Genbaku Dome
    Inscribed: 1996
    3.16
    204
    20
    After atomic bomb of 6 August 1945
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
    Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 2019
    3.28
    305
    13
    From 1906 on
  • Fagus Factory
    Inscribed: 2011
    2.51
    169
    10
    1911
  • ESMA Site Museum
    Inscribed: 2023
    2.06
    46
    3
    "During the civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983), the Officers' Quarters building at ESMA ... was the Argentine Navy’s principal secret detention centre" (AB ev)
  • Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
    Inscribed: 2000
    2.22
    26
    3
    1960s.
  • Church of Atlántida
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.54
    38
    3
    inaugurated in 1960
  • Brasilia
    Brasilia
    Brazil
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.35
    73
    10
    Inaugurated in 1960.
  • Brâncusi Monumental Ensemble of Târgu Jiu
    Inscribed: 2024
    2.17
    49
    5
    From 1937 onward
  • Bahá’i Holy Places
    Inscribed: 2008
    2.69
    160
    9
    Precise location for tomb determined in 1891... "The remains of the Báb were buried on March 21, 1909 in a six-room mausoleum made of local stone. In a separate room, the remains of `Abdu'l-Bahá were buried in November 1921. In 1929 three rooms were added to the mausoleum, and in 1949 the first threshold stone of the superstructure was laid by Shoghi Effendi. The construction was completed over the mausoleum in 1953" (Wiki)
  • Asmara
    Asmara
    Eritrea
    Inscribed: 2017
    2.93
    30
    2
    emerged from the successive planning phases from 1893 until 1941 (first plan 1908)
  • Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.56
    169
    6
    For the international exhibitions in 1901, 1904, 1908 and 1914
  • Sewell Mining Town
    Inscribed: 2006
    2.85
    33
    8
    1904
  • Santiniketan
    Inscribed: 2023
    1.65
    11
    3
    "In 1901, Rabindranath Tagore began its transformation to a residential school and centre for art" (AB ev)