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... and say whether you have seen them in person or not.

Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 14 December 2002 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.expatica.com/www/upload_pix/tuschinski.gif

saw 'Signs' there back in September, the interior is particularly fantastic

stevem (blueski), Saturday, 14 December 2002 17:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

oops, its the Tuschinskitheater in Amsterdam by the way

stevem (blueski), Saturday, 14 December 2002 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

I really want to see this building in Munich desgined by Herzog & de Meuron:
http://www.walkerart.org/generalinfo/annualreport/2000/images/goetz.jpg

Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 14 December 2002 18:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't have the kind of connection that makes searching for quality pics appealing (I'll try to remember some lunchtime at work), but I'd seek pics of the Lloyd's building (favourite UK building), the Pompidou Centre (favourite modern building), Hagia Sophia (favourite religious building) and the Alhambra (favourite old building). Yes, I've visited all four. It's hard for ones I haven't visited to compete, for me.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 14 December 2002 18:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

the HUD building by Breuer here in DC is cool. I haven;t been inside yet. This picture doen;t give you an idea of how curvy it is.
http://www.sdfoto.com/images/Hud%201%203x4%20copy.JPG

Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Saturday, 14 December 2002 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

The questions I ought to most easily be able to answer I cannot. You see, architecture is my love, my life my passion ;-)

Gordon (Gordon), Saturday, 14 December 2002 20:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

This one was quite nice to visit - Centrepoint Tower in Sydney. I'm not very good with heights, so my knees went a bit wobbly by the time I got to the Observation Deck at the top.

http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/whatis/sld006.jpg

C J (C J), Saturday, 14 December 2002 21:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://data.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_1637237.jpg

st pancras station. i use kings cross much more, but ive been passed this many times, and used it once on a trip to Nottingham

gareth (gareth), Saturday, 14 December 2002 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://inauspicious.org/photos/films/021/11/classic-postcard-shot-of-the-atomium-11.5.jpg

the atomium in brussels is fantastic. and very strange inside, there are lots of 1950s science fictiony type things going on, and a large amount of foil

gareth (gareth), Saturday, 14 December 2002 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://decouvrirlille.free.fr/K0000106.jpg

this is in Lille, northern france. i'm not quite sure what it is, but i rather like it. Lille is the coldest place i have ever been

gareth (gareth), Saturday, 14 December 2002 21:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://65.107.211.206/art/architecture/pancras/1.jpg

a better pic of st pancras

gareth (gareth), Saturday, 14 December 2002 21:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.johnharveyphoto.com/Japan/Kyoto%20Day%202/KyotoTrainStation.jpg

a picture doesn't really capture it. There is view from the top where you can see the Kyoto tower, and there is an escalator that goes down very far in the middle of all these levels of a mall. The outside is entirely glass and it reflects the tower.

http://jjj.image.pbase.com/u8/ralf/large/1520477.PICT1575.jpg

A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 14 December 2002 22:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://data.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_2165673.jpg

A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 14 December 2002 22:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings.html

A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 14 December 2002 22:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 14 December 2002 23:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

case study house 22, koneig in la. i want to see it in august.

anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 14 December 2002 23:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 14 December 2002 23:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

erikson, the craige house-

anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 14 December 2002 23:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

canada house,london

anthony easton (anthony), Saturday, 14 December 2002 23:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://berlin1.btm.de/infopool/jsp/../../bilder/sehenswuerdigkeiten/fernsehturm_03.jpg

the fernsehturm, berlin

the lift inside this is very fast, and it was a bit high for me, i cant do heights, but the views are wonderful...and it is a great building

gareth (gareth), Sunday, 15 December 2002 01:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love the angles here. WHen they flew helicopters over for the first time, there was this gaping, weeping new structure that was post-modern sculputre gone apeshit on acid - touchingly beautiful.

http://www.linuxsnob.com/images/wtc.jpg

Queen G (Queeng), Sunday, 15 December 2002 06:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

that is an extraordinary picture

and gareth, where HAVEN'T you been eh? ;)

stevem (blueski), Sunday, 15 December 2002 14:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.thejourney.nl/pix/Rdam/Rotterdam%20-%20cube%20housing.jpg

i like these 'cube houses' in Rotterdam, not been there tho

stevem (blueski), Sunday, 15 December 2002 14:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anthony, the Pierre Koenig case study house is a private residence. I don't think people can visit it.

Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 15 December 2002 21:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://home.clara.net/huntsman/ebaypix/cathedrals2.jpg

David (David), Sunday, 15 December 2002 21:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://home.clara.net/huntsman/bpp.jpg

David (David), Sunday, 15 December 2002 21:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

i know its a private residence, i am thinking of knocking on the front door and asking for a tour.

anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 16 December 2002 00:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ha ha David's building is waving at you! Hello sir!

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 16 December 2002 06:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.wirednewyork.com/images/grace_conde_nast.jpg
this is on 42nd st across from bryant park

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 16 December 2002 06:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

it's called "the grace building" and there's ANOTHER one exactly like it like 3 blocks away! the first time i saw the other one i thought i was going insane.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 16 December 2002 06:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.westworld.com/~elson/larail/unionsta.gif

Union Station in Los Angeles. Absolutely timeless. (and I was just by there yesterday)

Chris Barrus (xibalba), Monday, 16 December 2002 18:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.kga.neva.ru/bagh/trip/hundertwasser.jpg

The garbage incinorator in Vienna by Hundertwasser. Driven by it many times.

Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 16 December 2002 18:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.chryslerbuilding.org/images/17.gif

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 16 December 2002 18:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.macrumors.com/Media/Tetris.jpg

Brown Science Library, Providence, RI

"World's Ugliest Building" -- floors color coded to pH scale

Jonathan Williams (ex machina), Monday, 16 December 2002 18:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_1153877.150.jpg

Aalto's Mount Angel Abbey Library

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.detroityes.com/downtown/20garfull.jpg

The GAR building in Detroit (it's in the video for "Loose Yourself"). It's a real life castle built in the 1920s by the Daughters of the American Revolution. It's right in the middle of downtown and has been abandoned for over a decade. If I had a lot of money I would buy it and have everyone I know live there.

Aaron W, Monday, 16 December 2002 19:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

hey wasnt that GAR building used in that film about the recluse author (Sean Connery) and the black youth who learns from him how to write proper after trying to squat in Seany's shack? or something

stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://home.clara.net/huntsman/bpp.jpg


I should have explained in my earlier posting - this is Bridgewick Pumping Station (built 1950), on the Dengie peninsula, Essex.

David (David), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

obvious classic
http://www.russianlondon.com/images/london/london%20west%20bridge.gif

stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.londonstills.com/i/cc0044_big.jpg

Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Chiswick, West London

stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.londonstills.com/sp0026.html

the rest of it is rubbish of course

stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.londonstills.com/i/sp0026_big.jpg

i mean, Wembley Stadium - the rest of it is rubbish of course

stevem (blueski), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

hey wasnt that GAR building used in that film about the recluse author (Sean Connery) and the black youth who learns from him how to write proper after trying to squat in Seany's shack? or something

Hmmmm... I don't think so. Was that Finding Forrester? IMDB sez that took place in NY. But I never saw it.

Sure it wasn't the Flatiron Building (which, well, is another fav)...
http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/Images/US/NY/NYC/FlatironBuilding-001.JPG

Aaron W, Monday, 16 December 2002 19:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.millersville.edu/~resound/*vol1iss1/suitable/oldpauls_spire.gif


Old St. Paul's (fascinates me, shame it didn't survive; same goes for the old London Bridge with houses and heads on spikes etc.)

David (David), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://data.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_colosseum_km_001.jpg

I love modern architecture but I'm also a sucker for the classics. It's really something to walk around the coloseum and think of all the people and beasts that have walked before. Plus think of what it took to plan and construct!

teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

wot the fuck! okay, you all know what the Colosseum looks like anyway.

teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jonathan I spent 20 hours a week shelving bound periodicals in the "Sci Li". Wish I'd been around for the Tetris game you picture there.

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 16 December 2002 20:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I see the wind that moves the clouds away.
It moves the clouds over by the building.
I pick the building that I want to live in.

My building has every convenience.
It's gonna make life easy for me.

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 16 December 2002 20:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://members.rott.chello.nl/e.visser25/FavouriteBuilding.jpg

erik, Monday, 16 December 2002 21:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.ruralstudio.com/intro.html

Pretty much anything built by the Rural Studio, esp. the Newbern baseball field

milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link

The tower at Lakeside:
http://flickr.com/photos/824086_bcd6a05bc1_m.jpg

David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:44 (nineteen years ago) link

http://members.aol.com/baldwin54/foyer.jpg

The Astor Theatre, right down the road from my house. Beautiful restored example of artdeco cinema building. Love it to bits. This is the foyer.

Also:
http://www.wilmap.com.au/gallery/ACT/natgallery.jpg

Canberras National Gallery - a lovely sombre study in cavernous, abstract concrete, gives the rooms and spaces a very reverent silent feel. This photo in no way does the building any justice.

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Skyways are just a horrible idea, no matter how pretty you make them. Keep those pedestrians on the street level or it'll look like a ghost town.
-- David Beckhouse (dbeckhous...), September 16th, 2003.

You will change your tune when you find yourself in the windy outdoors at 20-some degrees below zero.

Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link

In Australia?

David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link

http://a760.g.akamaitech.net/7/760/33/12c01777fbd802/images.citysearch.com/profile/88/59/1838571p1.jpg

CASA BONITA

and I agree with David, too.. Lakeside has some great-looking stuff. I wanna go back!

battlin' green eyeshades (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link

I second all the sarnien buildings above and would mention that the John Deere hq is in IL.

This picture sucks, but Kahn's library at exeter is just gorgeou, though I've never been.

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/kahn/exeter7.jpg

Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link

a better one
ihttp://intro2arch.arch.hku.hk/arch/Kahn/library1.htm

Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Machado and Silvetti's Allston branch of the Boston Public Library is my favorite building that I regulary used at one time.

http://www.machado-silvetti.com/projects/all/allston/58_allston8.jpg
http://www.machado-silvetti.com/projects/all/allston/58_allston1.jpg

Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Deborah Berke might be my favorite architect working today, this is her McCann house in e Hampton

http://www.dberke.com/architecture/mccann/mccann3.jpg

http://www.dberke.com/architecture/mccann/mccann9.jpg

Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 05:35 (nineteen years ago) link

ihttp://flickr.com/photos/rotgutt/823410/
ihttp://flickr.com/photos/rotgutt/823401/
Anything with a marquee

David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 12:43 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...
http://static.flickr.com/2/2431291_f6d1637e29_o.jpg

Guys hospital tower, London Bridge. Glowers ominously out over SE London

Bidfurd (Bidfurd), Saturday, 20 May 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/tour/images/chapel007.jpg - so insanely underrated?

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 20 May 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a minor obsession with the Bank of China building:

http://img1.travelblog.org/Photos/4040/23485/t/111550-Bank-of-China-Building-0.jpg

jergins (jergins), Saturday, 20 May 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.finnishdesignshop.com/newsletter_images/newsletter/8/maf1.jpg http://www.hs.fi/kuvat/iso_webkuva/1101981016558.jpeg http://www.finnishdesignshop.com/newsletter_images/newsletter/8/maf2.jpg

MAFOOMBEY IS A SPACE MADE OF CORRUGATED CARDBOARD | made of corrugated cardboard by cutting and piling. |
“The initial concept for the design evolved from an ambition to create a strong spatial intensity within the volume of the dimensions given for the competition (2,5 x 2,5 x 2,5 m)”, tell the designers. “It soon developed into an idea of an intuitive freeform space cut into a rectangular stack of material.”

Kalliala and Ruskeepää decided to use corrugated cardboard as their material because of its low cost and strong aesthetic appeal. The interior contours of the cube were carried out mainly by means of computer design. When a pleasing form was found, the 3D model was sliced into horizontal layers in order to produce the cutting files for the computer-controlled Kongsberg cardboard cutter.

Each of the 360 layers of Mafoombey consists of two pieces of cardboard resulting in almost a ton in weight when assembled. Cardboard columns run through each corner of the cardboard cube stiffening the structure. No glue is used. Speakers, stereos and lamps are all integrated within the stack, allowing music and light to seep in through the cardboard structure.

jed_ (jed), Saturday, 20 May 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

http://static.flickr.com/21/31263010_a593a2e561_m.jpg

the prada store in aoyama tokyo

phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 20 May 2006 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Tadao Ando's Church on the Water, Japan:

http://www.haukedressler.com/japan/japan_media/8_kirche.jpg

jergins (jergins), Saturday, 20 May 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

jed, wow.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 20 May 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

jergins, phil, jergins, wow.

Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 20 May 2006 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.projects.v2.nl/~arns/Texts/NSK/htmlkollektiv/NSK%20under%20Tatlin%20Tower%20klein.jpg
Although is was never realized :(

also:
http://www.cbu.edu/~bbbeard/Summer2001/SanMiniatoUpClose06July01a.jpg
San Miniato del Monte (I'm not usually one for churches, but I really like the geometry, plus it happens to overlook florence, so the view is amazing...)

val (notvalery), Saturday, 20 May 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

SANAA's moriyama house:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y296/imomus/moriyamahouse.jpg

cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 21 May 2006 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm pretty fond of the mtl biosphere geodesic action these days.

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/208/dscn2480.jpg

rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 21 May 2006 07:16 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.schpidi.ch/america/montreal/biosphere.jpg

rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 21 May 2006 07:20 (seventeen years ago) link

what is the brick building, its pretty

anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 21 May 2006 08:03 (seventeen years ago) link

The Theodore Geisel (Dr. Suess) Library at University of California San Diego, La Jolla.

http://images.google.com/url?q=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f5/Geisel_library.jpg/325px-Geisel_library.jpg

Great because it looks like the spaceship from Flight of the Navigator.

ath (ath), Sunday, 21 May 2006 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

gah

http://img321.imageshack.us/img321/2269/geisellibrary7jy.jpg

ath (ath), Sunday, 21 May 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

if only my picture posting prowess was as structurally sound

ath (ath), Sunday, 21 May 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.aviewoncities.com/img/chicago/kveus1882s.jpg

so straight so narrow

Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 21 May 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

ihttp://k41.pbase.com/o4/43/559343/1/53390786.1412025merchandisemartc.jpg

so straight so wide

Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 21 May 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

University Hall, McMaster University - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

http://www.geocities.jp/shuji_ca/University_Hall_Fall.jpg

Maple Leaf Gardens - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

http://www.sportsecyclopedia.com/nhl/tml/MLG_361x225.jpg

JR Nagoya Station - Nagoya, Japan

http://oldmaproom.aki.gs/m03e_station/m03e_nagoya/nagoya_sta00_0.JPG

Nadya Park - Nagoya, Japan

http://www.pref.aichi.jp/koen/keikan/image/mk5-5.jpg

J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Monday, 22 May 2006 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link

http://arch.cside.com/t991228/asahibeer03.jpg

http://arch.cside.com/t991228/asahibeer04.jpg

Asahi Super Dry Hall, Tokyo, Philippe Starck 1989

I'm sad enough to have all kind of photos of the interior I took when I was there, even the toilets.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 22 May 2006 07:49 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the last building that made me gasp when I saw it

Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 22 May 2006 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link

ihttp://www.ncvb.or.jp/photo_e/image/big/oasis21_2.jpg


Oasis 21 - Nagoya, Japan

J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Monday, 22 May 2006 09:49 (seventeen years ago) link

four years pass...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/98/223297256_173d8d78ed.jpg

Knarraros Lighthouse, Iceland

☠ (roxymuzak), Saturday, 9 April 2011 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link

amazing!

I love my puppy -- and she loves me! (Viceroy), Saturday, 9 April 2011 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Oh nuts, I meant to post the images.

Das Aqualungenlied (doo dah), Saturday, 12 January 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link

eight years pass...

https://i.imgur.com/I5SxOUb.jpg

calstars, Friday, 23 July 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link


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