The Best-Designed Building in Every U.S. State

Designed by Richard Meier (with a new addition added courtesy of Renzo Piano) the High Museum of Art was crafted by some of the best minds in architecture. Originally built in 1983, the 135,000-square-foot museum was the final building the Pritzker committee needed to see before awarding Meier with the most prestigious prize in architecture the following year. In 2005, Renzo Piano (another Pritzker winner) designed three new buildings, which more than doubled the museum’s size, at a cost of $124 million.

A sculpture designed by Auguste Rodin, located in the foreground of the image above, was donated by the French government as a gift after a 1962 plane crash near Paris killed members of some of Atlanta’s prominent families who were visiting the Louvre on a museum-sponsored trip.