14. Argentine-born American Cesar Pelli, architect of the Battery Park buildings in New York, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Canary Wharf in the UK and the second tower of the new Hong Kong Financial Centre. The former Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is to take a leading role in the global New 7 Wonders project. Harry Seidler, one of Australia's finest architects, responsible for the design of numerous prestigious buildings in Sydney as well as further a field, both at home and abroad. The Vienna-born architect is also the author of "The Grand Tour“, a respected guide to the most beautiful buildings in the world. Zaha Hadid became the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize when she did so last year. She has designed buildings around the world and was described by judges as being "one of the most gifted practitioners of the art of architecture today." Tadao Ando was also awarded the Prizker Prize, in 1995. His love of architecture was inspired by the designer Le Corbusier and he is renowned across the world for his unique, artistic way of combining East and West in his work. One of his most acclaimed projects is the Church of the Light in Osaka, Japan. Yung Ho Chang, one of China's most accomplished contemporary architects and the founding director of the Graduate Center of Architecture at Peking University, was appointed head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Department of Architecture in July 2005. Aziz Tayob graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand as the first non-white architect in South Africa in 1969. Over the past 35 years, Mr. Toyab has striven to create buildings that are honest, functional, thought provoking and innovative. The design approach aims to achieve the best design for the very limited resources and space available to the underpriviledged communities of South Africa.
50. PORTUGAL* Centro da Decisão das 7 Maravilhas do Mundo Global. 2200 anos depois, a Grécia dá lugar a Portugal para a decisão das novas 7 maravilhas do mundo .