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The word Sublime was first used by Longinus to characterize the essential qualities of great oratory: a grandeur of noble phrasing with which to inspire passion. Kant proposed two categories for the Sublime: the dynamic and the mathematical. Thispaper is to restore the Sublimity based on Kant's definition and to bring the duality, the wholeness, and the subjectivity into the contemporary architecture. While the beautiful is a feeling of harmony of free play with imagination and understanding occasioned by the form of object, the sublime is a feeling of disharmony occasioned by formless object. Compared to the delight of the beautiful, the delight of the sublime represents subjective finality based on subject itself. The sublime is occasioned in front of the object which is represented to cause us a kind of horror. This very feeling of displeasure or pain causes a kind of high pleasure by making us conscious of the unlimited power of the subject. Interest in the notion of the sublime has recently been represented with the work of the contemporary architecture. This paper aims to identify how the idea of the sublime has been currently applied in architecture. I shall conclude that the concept of the sublime transformed into architecture--monuments, dramatic space, and ambiguity may serve as a valuable tool in understanding the contemporary architecture. Moreover, it proves the potentiality to restore sublimity.