The world is changing faster than ever. People, technology, education — even the buildings around us are constantly evolving. When you look at your surroundings today compared to just a few years ago, the difference is impossible to miss.
This transformation isn’t magic. It’s the result of thoughtful design and the skill of architects shaping the spaces we live in. Below are some striking examples that highlight just how much places can change over time. Scroll down to see them.
#1 A crime in Austria
#2 Obanazawa, Japan. The skyscrapers may go up, they fit in everywhere and nowhere, but old Japan always fits in on Japanese soil. Heritage matters.
#3 Gdańsk, Poland. Before and after.
#4 The new ‘John Cunningham Student Centre’ replacing a brutalist library at Scotts college, Sydney / Australia
#5 The Dorilton, a 1900 Beaux Arts residential building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City.
#6 car wash replaced by beautiful new georgian townhouses during 2017 in stamford UK
#7 Classical With Modern Elements— What do you think?
#8 New Georgian Building Replaces Ugly 1950s Building in London, UK
#9 Baghdad Has Begun Restoring Its Historic Core After 40 Years
#10 new flats under construction to replace post war extension of a victorian building in London UK
#11 In Budapest, Hungary
#12 Before and after the governor became insane (due to his obsession with medieval art). Yoshkar-Ola 2001-2011, Russia
#13 “Neue Tonhalle” in Zürich, Switzerland (1900 vs today)
#14 were the architects smoking crack?? (Strasbourg train station, France)
#15 New builds in The Netherlands. More like this please!
#16 Goodbye Parking Lot, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, MX
#17 Paris suburb
#18 old district of Tbilisi, Georgia
#19 Chicago’s skyscrapers in the 1930s vs 2024
#20 A parking lot in Dresden, Germany is set to be replaced with these beautiful Baroque townhouse reconstructions
#21 What a bucket of paint is able to do (Wittenberge, Germany)
#22 Marburg Germany, where the Brothers Grimm attended university. Not hard to see where the spark for their interest in folklore came from.
#23 Restoration of Hotel Bałtyk in Międzyzdroje, Poland.
#24 Historic facade reconstructed 2024 in Berlin, Germany.
#25 Renovation done in Jelenia Góra, Poland
#26 Town Hall in Głogów, Poland in 1970 vs now:
