As part of its commitment to celebrating and preserving some of the world’s best examples of modernist architecture, the Getty Foundation’s Keeping It Modern initiative added 10 new grants to its already impressive roster. With the foundation’s support, new research, testing, analysis, and planning work can be put into making sure these buildings continue to inform and inspire architects and design enthusiasts for years to come.

The Keeping It Modern initiative now supports the conservation of 64 architecturally significant projects with the addition of these 10 buildings. That’s pretty impressive for an endeavor that is only six years old.

Read on to learn more about the projects, which can be found in locations as far-flung as Bulgaria’s Buzludzha Peak and as bustling as the Argentinian city of Córdoba.

Buzludzha Monument by Georgi Stoilov, Buzludha Peak, Bulgaria, 1981

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Torino Esposizioni by Pier Luigi Nervi, Turin, Italy, 1954

Beira Railway Station by Paulo de Melo Sampaio, João A. Garizo do Carmo, and Francisco José de Castro, Beira, Mozambique, 1965

North Christian Church by Eero Saarinen, Columbus, Indiana, 1964

Miller House and Garden by Eero Saarinen, Columbus, Indiana, 1953

Escuela Superior de Comercio Manuel Belgrano by Osvaldo Bidinost, José Gassó, Mabel Lapacó, and Martín Meyer, Córdoba, Argentina, 1968

Laboratory for Faculty of Chemical Technology at Kaunas University of Technology by Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis, Kaunas, Lithuania, 1935

Uganda National Museum by Ernst May, Kampala, Uganda, 1954

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