Are there any travelers out there"! Today, we would like to present you with a ranking of the best travel destinations, especially for architecture enthusiasts. Buildworld has curated the lists, and as we read on their website: ?Buildworld identified the top 10 destination cities in every country according to each country?s Tripadvisor page. We filtered the listings in each of these cities to find reviews of local architecture. Next, we calculated the percentage of architectural sites in each city with a 4.5- or 5-star rating and ranked the cities according to this metric.?
Scroll down to find out which destinations should be included on your bucket list for your next vacation.
Chicago Is The Best North American Destination For Architecture Lovers.
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The U.S. boasts three of the ten North American cities with the highest ?hit rate? of first-class architectural sites. Chicago leads the way. The ?Windy City? has become associated with a brand of imposing but progressive buildings, having been redesigned mainly following the 1871 fire. Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Roche, and Jeanne Gang are the big-name architects on the show. And between the overbearing steel skyscrapers, you?ll find unlikely treats such as the Rookery Building, ornamented with ironwork by original architects Daniel Burnham and John Root ? its central court later remodeled in glass by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Canada has four cities among the continent?s top ten. Québec Cit...