Your favourite architecture/buildings

i love the contrast from exterior to interior. so unassuming from the outside.

  On 11/10/2011 at 4:30 PM, ruiagnelo said:

 

 

 

 

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john lautner

I'm lucky enough to work on London's beautiful South Bank, and I've got a lot of affection for the 1950s and 60s brutalist architecture around here:

I understand I'm in a minority here - but I can't stand neo/classical bullshit that gets given so much praise. St. Paul's, I'm looking at you. That's the real ugly building round here.

  On 11/10/2011 at 4:38 PM, verticalhold said:

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Not a fan of the building itself, but Hearst Castle has some beautiful interiors (and outdoor pools).

  On 11/10/2011 at 4:44 PM, Iain C said:

I'm lucky enough to work on London's beautiful South Bank, and I've got a lot of affection for the 1950s and 60s brutalist architecture around here:

I lived in London for a couple of years and I did come to enjoy some of the architecture on the south bank, but I don't like what the London Eye does to the city landscape.

hope those trees are pretty stable!

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this was always my favorite building of new york growing as a kid, i was always looking to it every chance i could, an eagle in my mind.

this made going to the library a fun experience

welcome to sheffield

manchester beetham tower

bullring

allianz arena

peter zumthor

interior:

thermal baths

6a architects

brasilian architects

João Batista Vilanova Artigas

Lina Bo Bardi

My dream house.

Also I was in cappadoccia in Turkey few years ago and those were really impressive.

There also was a forest of dicks

Good thread.

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (Spain)

  On 11/13/2011 at 11:30 PM, Dropp said:

Those stands are so so cool, but I can't deal with football grounds without stands behind the goals, even if they are replaced by cliffs!

Riga has some gorgeous art noveau architecture, highly recommend going there if you're nearby and interested in buildings (or cheap alcohol):

Nordic viking churches are just plain badass.

Barcelona has some very fascinating art noveau and other styles.

But germany has had its shit together for a very long time..

I seem to have a soft spot for any architecture that's been spunked with lasers from a particular french synth chap.

particula

good ol frank

I'm a huge erich mendelsohn fan.

Einstein tower is fucking great

hat factory is post modern before modernism had existed lol

Here are some classics I really like.

Fallingwater by Frank Lloyd Wright is a briliant concept and execution:

The composition and design of Brasilia by Niemeyer is beaufitul:

Someone already posted the railway station in Portugal, made by Calatrava, so here's is another detail:

But here is something that really works for me. The amount of thoughtful detail is amazing, yet it seems almost like random ideas thrown together:

(it's the chapel in Ronchamp by Le Corbusier)

And some Istrian architecture which I adore, and would like to have a house in this style someday (somewhere in Istria of course):

Maorian architecture in Europe (mainly in Spain) is beautiful. Like this Alhambra fortress:

  On 12/31/2012 at 1:06 AM, Godwin Austen said:

The composition and design of Brasilia by Niemeyer is beaufitul:

 

Holy shit