Oliver Wainwright's picks are in for The Guardians year-end critics list. His trips abroad to visitthe Paris Olympics and Columbus, Indiana left an impression, as did the Met's first-ever major retrospective look at the mercurial influence of Paul Rudulph, the new children's hospital in Zurich from Herzog & de Meuron, the Norwegian Kunstsilo, and, of course, the MAK Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna's closely timed look into the "protest architecture" of barricades, encampments, and activists' inventive "spatial tactics." University Children's Hospital in Zurich. Image: Herzog & de Meuron, Foto Michael SchmidtKunstilo Museum in Kristiansand, Norway. Photo: Alan Williams Photography, image courtesy Kunstsilo.Paul Rudolph (American, 1918-1997) Architectural model for the proposed Sino Tower (unbuilt), Hong Kong (1989). Balsa wood and plastic 48 x 34 1/4 x 25 in. (131.7 x 63.2 cm) Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Photograph by Eileen TravellFirst Christian Chu...