Your favourite architecture/buildings

What are your favourites?

Dun Aengus, Aran Island, Ireland. Promontory fort hanging on to cliffs over the Atlantic. Life on the edge.

Saitne Chapelle, Ile de la Cite, Paris. In a city of incredible churches, this one stands out.

Great thread.

Anything by Saha Hadid - look her up and you'll see what I'm talking about.

I wanna know what the point of that fence is

and ofcourse I really like falling water, beautiful integration

Socialist Realism shit

Thanks Data, some great ones there. Recognise London's Lloyds, Prague's 'Crushed Can', and think one of them's a Gaudi in Barcelona. The rest new to me.

Secession Building, Vienna.

The Winchester Mystery house is pretty IDM, mainly for the architecture inside the house.

http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/

here are two of my all time favourites

Ankgor Watt, the Bayon and various temples and relics of Cambodia. Went there in 1997 well before the tourisim boom and had the place pretty much to myself, it was a great adventure. I would never go back just to preserve the magic in my memory.

I would agree with popular opinion about the Taj Mahal. It is the most tranquil and beautiful of buildings. The interior is especially bewitching. I think the contrast of the hell hole Agra outside does even more for the impact as you would not believe something so beautiful exists in such a place.

Those 2 are the forfront really.

I would like to visit the Islands of Skelleg St. Michael in Ireland, where ancient monks built beehive monastries on a jagged rock many centuries ago. They were eventually killed by marauding Vikings raiding the Irish coast. But this place needs to be see to be believed. I love places like this.

Check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi7oUikuigA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSGx4bBU9Qc

nothing is real

watch it in HD

  On 5/2/2010 at 2:32 PM, viscosity said:

 

I wanna know what the point of that fence is

 

and ofcourse I really like falling water, beautiful integration

Gehry had a fascination/fetish of steel fencing during his childhood. He would build models as a teen from scraps of wood/metal/whatever he could take from the hardware store. If you see his "first period" until the end of the 80's, you'll notice a lot of fencing (His Serpentine, his house, Santa Monica Place Mall, etc..). Dude, It's just like panting, architecture is like that. People have obsessions for texture/materials.

  On 5/2/2010 at 6:16 PM, data said:

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I love the Chrysler Building as well! There's some extremely majestic about it... but I guess all art deco is like that.

my favorite one is situated in the middle of my hometown:

St. Elisabeth Cathedral

http://www.tuomatu.com/images/dom-svatej-alzbety.jpg

here is an Engilsh wiki-page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elisabeth_Cathedral

I know they are all destroyed (except the pyramids) , but wow , i would have loved to see them standing in all their glory.

yeah deco stylings need to come back in a big way. and somehow mix with the minimalism/post modern stuff that people are cranking out today. who can do that successfully will be a very in demand architect.

I recently took a long walk through oak park in chicago, and saw all the AMAZING frank lloyd wright homes from the 1890s and onwards. really funky amazing stuff. enjoyed it immensely. can't be arsed to get pics however.

Stephen Holl:

Tom Kundig:

Rem Koolhaas:

  On 5/2/2010 at 6:29 PM, beerwolf said:

I would like to visit the Islands of Skelleg St. Michael in Ireland, where ancient monks built beehive monastries on a jagged rock many centuries ago.

On a clear day, can see it from about 100 yards up the hill behiond my house!

louis kahn

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bd/Basilique_du_Sacré-Cœur_Upward_Angle.JPG/450px-Basilique_du_Sacré-Cœur_Upward_Angle.JPG

Sacré Coeur.

  On 5/3/2010 at 12:51 AM, ms-dos said:

louis kahn

 

oh fuck yes louis kahn is the shit. also the socialist realism shit is so totally awesome ezky is dead on.

I like a lot of the architecture in Fairbanks.

Gruening Building, UAF:

Museum of the North, UAF:

  On 5/2/2010 at 6:57 PM, Philip Glass said:

  On 5/2/2010 at 2:32 PM, viscosity said:

 

I wanna know what the point of that fence is

 

and ofcourse I really like falling water, beautiful integration

 

 

Gehry had a fascination/fetish of steel fencing during his childhood. He would build models as a teen from scraps of wood/metal/whatever he could take from the hardware store. If you see his "first period" until the end of the 80's, you'll notice a lot of fencing (His Serpentine, his house, Santa Monica Place Mall, etc..). Dude, It's just like panting, architecture is like that. People have obsessions for texture/materials.

interesting, i gotta pick up a book on him at some point. or deconstructivism in general

  On 5/2/2010 at 2:32 PM, viscosity said:

 

and ofcourse I really like falling water, beautiful integration

I've got tickets for a tour of falling water next weekend, I'm pretty psyched.

Gallarus Oratory. 1500 years old and in the very wet Dingle Peninsula, and still dry as a bone inside.