AD Classics: Mazar-e-Quaid (National Mausoleum) / Yahya Merchant
Otherwise known as the National Mausoleum, the Mazar-e-Quaid is the tomb of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Sited in the center of Karachi, Pakistan on a natural plateau, this marble structure was designed by the Indian architect Yahya Merchant and was completed in 1970.
Ottmers House / Vincent Snyder Architects
Architects: Vincent Snyder Architects Location: Fredericksburg, Texas, USA Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 2200 sqf Photographs: Courtesy of Vincent Snyder Architects 
AD Classics: Vanna Venturi House / Robert Venturi
Most critics usually regard consistency in architecture an important aspect of the design. However in the Vanna Venturi House Robert Venturi took the road less travelled and tested complexity and contradiction in architecture, going against the norm. Located in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania on a flat site isolated by surrounding trees, Venturi designed and built the house for his mother between 1962 and 1964. In testing his beliefts on complexity and contradition (for which he also wrote the book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture), Venturi went through six fully worked-out versions of the house which slowly became known as the first example of Postmodern architecture.
More on the Vanna Venturi House after the break.
