No matter where you live in America, you’ve probably been surprised by how quickly cities can change. One day you walk outside and see a skyscraper that definitely wasn’t there yesterday, a parking garage where there was a park before, or your corner store turned into a Walmart. Sometimes these buildings seem conventional or interchangeable, but sometimes they are a little bigger, more beautiful, or just different than the neighbors.
All across the country, these special new structures are transforming our cities and changing the way we see and interact with our environment and with each other. Whether through dazzling design, innovative building and engineering technologies, or sheer force of scale or strangeness, some of these buildings are especially impressive and exciting to see. Here are The 25 Most Awe-Inspiring U.S. Buildings Erected in the Last 25 Years.