See also: seven wonders of the world (homonymy), Wonders of the world (homonymy)

The seven wonders of the modern world is a list drawn up by the American Society off Civil Engineers and devoting the monuments of the 20th century. The list directly refers to the seven wonders of the world ancient.

• the Barrage of Itaipu (Brazil and Paraguay)

• the Panama Canal (Panama)
• the Tour of CN (Toronto, Canada)
• the Empire State Building (New York, the United States of America)
• the Golden Spoils Bridge (San Francisco, the United States of America)
• the Plan Delta or Program of protection of the North Sea , (Netherlands)
• the Channel tunnel (France and England)

Polemic

It should be noted that this list suffers from an important focusing on works carried out on the American continent, which relativizes the objectivity sought by the American association of the engineers in civil engineering in the establishment of such a list.

In addition, the concept of seven wonders of the modern world refers to the seven wonders of the world ancient, but it raises the question of the direction of the term “wonder” employed in this case. The advanced selection criteria were the following: avant-gardism of the Design and construction, prowess of Engineering and contribution to humanity. However the Esthétique, which had governed the choice of Antipater de Sidon in -140, actually seems to be a criterion absent for this collective, moreover composed engineers. The latter seem indeed, from their formation, more inclined to consider the exploits technical of such or such work. The esthetic quality of a tunnel or a whole of dams is difficult to show.

Moreover, it can appear debatable to allot the statute of wonder to works, of which some affirm that they deeply upset the ecosystem S, with the image of the dam Itaipu or the Delta Plan.

This is why the real range of such a list must be relativized.

Seven Wonders of the Modern world in images