He has used much of the tribute flowing from vassal nations to construct new temples in gratitude to the Egyptian gods.

A great builder pharaoh, Thutmose has constructed over fifty temples, although some of these are now lost and only mentioned in written records.

He has also commissioned the building of many tombs for nobles, which have been made with greater skill than ever before.

His use of pillars is unprecedented in architecture: he builds Egypt's only known set of heraldic pillars, two large columns standing alone instead of being part of a set supporting the roof.

His jubilee hall is also revolutionary, and is arguably the earliest known building created in the basilica style.

Finally, although not directly pertaining to his monuments, it appears that Thutmose's artisans had learned how to use the skill of glass making, developed in the early Eighteenth Dynasty, to create drinking vessels by the core-formed method.

Thutmose’s most famous constructions are the misnamed Cleopatra's Needles, a trio of red granite obelisks originally erected in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis, inscribed two hundred years later by Ramesses II to commemorate his victories, moved by the Romans to Alexandria in 12 BCE, then moved in the nineteenth century to London, Paris, and New York City, where each still stands.