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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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

oops, its the Tuschinskitheater in Amsterdam by the way

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

erikson, the craige house-

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

canada house,london

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

that is an extraordinary picture

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

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

― David (David), Sunday, 15 December 2002 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

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

― David (David), Sunday, 15 December 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

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

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

Russian Orthodox Cathedral, Chiswick, West London

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

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

the rest of it is rubbish of course

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

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 16 December 2002 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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-three years ago)

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

― erik, Monday, 16 December 2002 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I have been in a DC state of mind recently. So here are more local attractions!!!
DC's Union Station RAWKS!
http://www.nocturne.org/~jason/pics/was-dc/day1/Union%20Station.jpg
Dulles Airport, muthafuckahs!
http://www.goldsteinphoto.com/dulles.jpg
National Building Museum reprazent ya'll! (yo whasup i saw Andres Duany and Jane Jacobs speak there, but I was ill for Zaha Hadid, word to your mother!)
exterior!
http://www.crp.cornell.edu/psso/images/DC/abm.jpg
interior! (note scale of columns!)
http://www.artcom.com/museums/vs/mr/617.jpg

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 04:45 (twenty-three years ago)

This is in NEASDEN for god's sake!

http://www.artinternational.com/arzoz/media/heaven.jpg

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 10:56 (twenty-three years ago)

ahh, a pilgrimage to mystical Brent is on the cards i think...

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 12:15 (twenty-three years ago)

The new Erasmus Bridge here in Rotterdam

http://geoffreygoldberg.com/Netherlands/Erasmusbrug.jpg

― erik, Tuesday, 17 December 2002 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I was there this time last year. it was very windy and very cold.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.focus.de/D/DR/DRB/DRB36/PICS/GALERIE/7/1.jpg http://images.focus.de/D/DR/DRB/DRB36/PICS/GALERIE/7/2.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, calatrava's milwaukee art museum bit.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 23:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Ma' HOOD!. I kinda like all the buildings as a whole neighborhood. Nothing big, really.

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 17 December 2002 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.imgmag.org/images/norfolk/fernsehturm.jpg

fernseturm, berlin

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 9 January 2003 01:14 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.imgmag.org/images/norfolk/atomium1.jpg

atomium, bruxelles

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 9 January 2003 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.imgmag.org/images/norfolk/lille.jpg

lille

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 9 January 2003 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.imgmag.org/images/norfolk/fernmetterturm.jpg

fernmetterturm, koln

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 9 January 2003 01:22 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.imgmag.org/images/norfolk/rheinturm.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 9 January 2003 01:25 (twenty-three years ago)

oops, that is the rheinturn, dusseldorf

http://www.imgmag.org/images/norfolk/lighthouse.JPG

lighthouse under george washington bridge, new york city

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 9 January 2003 01:27 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.imgmag.org/images/norfolk/artbar.jpg

artbar, manhattan

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 9 January 2003 01:34 (twenty-three years ago)

http://catering.ucdavis.edu/resource_guide/images/pub.gif

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 9 January 2003 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

never been there, but.

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 9 January 2003 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, they're all loading now. some of mine had disappeared before, hence reposting the same buildings, albeit my own pics this time

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 9 January 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

can't do html but my favourites (that i've been to) are the emley moor transmitter and liverpool anglican cathedral. i also love the winter hill mast but i s'pose masts don't count.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 9 January 2003 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, Winter Hill Mast. If you can see it, it's about to rain. If you can't see it, it's raining.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Thursday, 9 January 2003 12:35 (twenty-three years ago)

http://p.vtourist.com/89919.jpg

Yes, predictable I know, but I enjoy visiting it more than any other building I can think of.

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 9 January 2003 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.origins-photography.co.uk/acatalog/TheUglyHouse.jpg

My house.

― Ham Goodge, Thursday, 9 January 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.sweetmedicinemusic.com/images/sting2B.jpg

This is Sting Tower in Bucks. You can't appreciate how huge it is from this picture.

― Karen, Thursday, 9 January 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

ham goodge's pic is of ty hyll - the ugly house - nr betws-y-coed, surely.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 9 January 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Yup. You're welcome any time.

― Ham Goodge, Thursday, 9 January 2003 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I've lived there with another poster, Plunging Hen, since buying the property from Martin Short in the late eighties.

― Ham Goodge, Thursday, 9 January 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I think you'll find Karen's picture is of Berks.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

aha, plunging hen of the famous "god googles everybody" thread?

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes ... her. Although I believe Plunging borrowed the 'God googles everyone' line from Rogan Whitenails' poem, published in his new book: 'Failure Crawled up my Leg 2002'. More information about the artist Whitenails can be found at www.electromancer.com. His poem was read out at our recent wedding.

The Boom Op. Blues
(working temporarily as a background artist)

This is a tale of bits, made whole,
When bound in the mouths that tell it;
A tale of debris - the bones of a vole,
Scuffling inside a pellet
Deposited by an owl;
A tale of failure and detritus;
Of going from Tie Rack to Titus
In two days - so distant:
Playing a scrawny sales assistant,
Serving the actors who starred,
Then playing a Roman guard,
Behind a gladiator.
I should be a boom operator,
A dubbing mixer, sound recordist;

My life is the fading scent on my wrist -
A perfume bottle - the Tester;
And I am Electromancer’s jester.
My life is last-orders, the coded bell;
My life is the tale that no one will tell
(Its bits are far too bitty);
Pyrotechnical self-pity,
Panic attacks, the dole:
A tale of debris, the bones of a vole.
The infinite emoticon,
The omniscient soul -
And God googles everyone,
Except the scuffling vole;
Except, it seems, the scuffling vole.

― Ham Goodge, Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/cgi-bin/awimage?dir=2001/0905&article=culture_1-2.html&image=11534_image_9.jpg

The Eames House. I've never been.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 January 2003 04:17 (twenty-three years ago)

oops, make that

http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2001/0905/images/11534_image_9.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 January 2003 04:21 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.gamblehouse.org/img/photos/front.jpg

The Gamble House by Greene & Greene, in Pasadena. I've been outside but not inside. But we've all been there - it was Doc Brown's house.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 January 2003 05:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Hehe the sad thing is The SciLi is the tallest point in RI, but if you goto the top the view is quite nice, yeah ugly building. Provience is a really nice place, surprised to see a Imax in the mall...

― Wha?, Monday, 20 January 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.fancyapint.com/thepubs/pubpics/pic231.jpg

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.norfolkwindmills.com/images/house.jpg

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/watts/pics/3towers.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.citidex.com/pictures/museums/guggenheim/guggenheim.gif http://www.aidem-media.com/lava/gallery/museums/wright/guggenh/gug1.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.skyscraper.org/tallest/Pics/t_chrysler2.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.cyber-cinema.com/italian/AnimalHouse.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 20 January 2003 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/gallery/2001/02/03/barcelona-gaudi.jpg

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 20 January 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The house I grew up in was about 300 feet away from this grand old hotel. Pfizer bought it and tore it down when I was 8. They kept the tennis courts in the back, though. Still, my neighborhood was *so* dull after that.

http://www.groton.k12.ct.us/WWW/wsms/Groton/IMAGES/HOTE3.GIF

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 20 January 2003 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Parliament Building in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

http://www.parl-bldgs.gov.bc.ca/images/photo.gif

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 20 January 2003 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/01glance/images/i005489a.jpg

The James Brice House in my home town, Annapols.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 10:16 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

space needle

marine building

holy rosary

cnr station

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 23 June 2003 06:13 (twenty-two years ago)

This is my favourite Gaudi building in Barcelona, la Predrera. The third pic is the chimneys on the roof. You can walk around the rooftop & the best thing about it, is the fact that there is no roof. You have to see it to truly appreciate it. It is complete genius.
http://www.neystadt.org/john/album/gaudi-house.jpg
http://www.archkidecture.org/images2002/structure_images/gaudi.gif
http://www.chimneys.com/calendar/images/shamas_chimney2.jpg

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 23 June 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.chipublib.org/images/HWLC.gif

The Harold Washington Public Library in Chicago. The pic here doesn't do it justice, obviously, but it does give a sense of the absolutlely Wagnerian drama it has about it.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lehigh.edu/~inctbuh/htmlfiles/featured_buildings/big_imgs/citicorp3.jpg

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Bradbury Building, downtown LA

http://www.structurae.de/photos/011976pv.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:17 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.photovault.com/Link/Cities/New/YorkCity/show.asp?tg=CNYVolume03/CNYV03P04_09

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Bonaventure Hotel, LA

http://www.los.angeles.the-hotels.com/pictures/s/000000/000050A.jpg

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.panamair.org/History/building.htm

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nycwebstore.com/images/products/stationary/nyc-scbt110wbox_lg.jpg

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:23 (twenty-two years ago)

(never mind the notepaper)

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:24 (twenty-two years ago)

the times square marriott marquis

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 06:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't the Pam-Am building generally considered something of a midtown eyesore?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/5/2002/06/151131.jpg

The RR Donnelly Building, which, pound for throbbing pound, is the single most phallic building I have ever seen.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.skyscrapers.com/files/transfer/6/2002/03/143034.jpg

Inside the AT&T Corporate Center, Chicago, which easily takes the award for "most overtly Art Deco thing built in 1989."

Let me say this about Chicago: if you love buildings and you have never been here, you don't really know how much you love buildings.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG...Kenan, you're picking all of the worst buildings! :) The Astor Tower by Bertrand Goldberg is my underdog favorite, but there isn't a decent picture online. You should pick up a copy of the AIA Guide to Chicago if you want to scout out buildings.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG...Kenan, you're picking all of the worst buildings! :)

You are terribly terribly wrong.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

You're right about Astor Tower, though. I took your advice and rode past it this afternoon. Big weird concrete stilts. I like.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.tristatedrilling.com/images/BU_2.jpg

http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/thumbs/197.jpg

Minneapolis also has some cool skyways (see also Replacements thread)
http://www.btr-architects.com/images/northstar_skyway-1.jpg

http://www.phototour.minneapolis.mn.us/pics/2449.jpg

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

BCE Place here in Toronto is amazing to walk through at night.

http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/album-winter00-bceplace.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Castle Green in Pasadena.

http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~roy/pasadena/p35.jpg

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://web.library.emory.edu/subjects/humanities/visual/seagram.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 07:10 (twenty-two years ago)

the fabulous Communist-era Hotel Praha in Prague..

http://www.htlpraha.cz/img/snaps/large/hotelback1.jpg

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 07:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://quapawgardenclub.org/images/PhotoContest/2001/BestInShow.jpg

http://www.lbln.org/images/IMG0055_small.jpg

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Spencer's Seagram post inspired me to post my own

http://www.webcom.com/~trw/London/images/38343632.jpg

i wouldn't say it's a favourite of mine but it does stick in my mind, it's in Hammersmith, West London

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.vatbuiltheritage.org.uk/steanor.jpg

steanor bottom toll house, todmorden, west yorkshire. havent been there, but i think maybe at christmas

― charltonlido (gareth), Sunday, 30 November 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.craiguk.co.uk/scotland/images/index/pineapple.jpg

― anthony, Monday, 15 March 2004 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

We went to the Pineapple House last year! You can't get it to it though, it's rented out as posh holiday accommodation by the National Trust. It is such an excellent, if slightly barmy, concept for a house though.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

...get IN to it...

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure that this truly is my favorite building.. But whenever someone asks me what my favorite building is, this is the first thing I think of:
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/mies/860_880_1.jpg
860-880 Lake Shore Drive Apts, Chicago, 1948

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 15 March 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/losangeles/lawalk/civic/dwp.jpg
This is the most beautiful building in Los Angeles, the DWP building, 1964

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

a bold claim, esp. given its neighbors. i like it too.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I love it without reservation, which there's always a bit of when thinking about it's neighbors...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

what are its neighbours like?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The Metropolitan Opera House, New York

http://www.yamaha.com/publications/accent/Accent499/images/18_met.jpg
http://www.kapelle.jp/classic/boston/photo/metropolitan_opera_lobby.jpg
http://www.commercialfloorcare.com/CFC/FILES/IMAGES/74562.jpg
http://www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia/usa/images/usa_nyc_metropolitanopera_5.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Across the street from the DWP Building is the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

http://www.you-are-here.com/downtown/1969mc2.jpg

and next door to that is Frank Gehry's new Disney Concert Hall

http://www.agohq.org/2004/gfx/DisneyExter.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

here's a great area shot:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/losangeles/lawalk/civic/cath.html

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

whoops:
http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/losangeles/lawalk/civic/CBDCathedralGeoff03.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

that pic shows the new cathedral (which I think might be overrated). Just east of these is the Metro Detention Center (which adorns the cover of 'City of Quartz')
http://www.usc.edu/dept/geography/losangeles/lawalk/civic/jail.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be many good online pictures of Eero Saarinen's John Deere Headquarters in Michigan:
http://www.deere.com/en_US/compinfo/media/images/student/headquarters1.jpg
the interior garden is incredibly beautiful in photographs (I've never been)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

I don't have any pictures right now, but here are some of my new favorite buildings:

The public library in Seattle
Chicago state building
the Chapel at the Navy academy in Co. Springs

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 18 October 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

also getty center

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 18 October 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.chicagoartdecosociety.com/milwaukee/images/pic8.jpg

this is the only photo i could find online, but this building is on a hill in milwaukee, just north of downtown, overlooking lake michigan...

― frankE (frankE), Monday, 18 October 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/StPeters/

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 18 October 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i love it too cozen

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 October 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.myswiss.jp/spa/img/spa04_vals.jpg

http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/global/images/snaps/spa1.jpg

http://www.tiscover.ch/ch/images/RGN/31/RGN31ch/wellness_3.jpg

http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/Architecture/cities/d_webdes/barron_web/images/vals5b.jpg

http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/Architecture/cities/d_webdes/barron_web/images/vals6b.jpg

http://www.therme-vals.ch/bilder/left/treppe.jpg

Peter Zumthor's spa at Vals in Swizerland.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 October 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.mymarinacity.com/small_balcony.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 18 October 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.filmnorthflorida.com/locations/Century:-Shotgun-Mill-Houses/Century:-Shotgun-Mill-Houses_02.jpg

― Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 18 October 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG TEH BLAIR WITCH HOUSE.

― todd swiss (eliti), Monday, 18 October 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to vals, in february.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

oh you bitch!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 18 October 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I should have studied architecture.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I was sorta skimming through this, but Kim's BCE Place just stuck to my eyeballs hardcoredamn. /Wow/.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images/56/89228t.jpg
(if only because of a Pink Floyd connection)

http://www.vividlondon.com/files/images/buildings/centrepoint/left.jpg
(if only because of a Killing Joke connection)

http://www.gvsingers.org/images/JeffersonMkt1.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/alexinnyc/.Pictures/Photo%20Album%20Pictures/2004-08-25%2010.18.00%20-0700/Image-FDB3238AF6B911D8.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

you just posted that last one to show the amazing picture you took.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 18 October 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Ya caught me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 October 2004 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

In Australia?

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/liverpoolphotographs/images/tobacco.jpg

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

still have love/hate feelings for the OCAD building

http://www.ists11.org/ocad_h436.jpg

http://www.hughpearman.com/illustrations5/toronto%20OCAD1b.jpg

http://www.canadianinteriors.com/archive/2004/ja04/ocad-p1-pix.gif

http://www.brucebelltours.com/assets/images/Grange2--OCAD.jpg

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 20 May 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hong-kong-hotels-network.com/hong-kong-photographs/pictures-image-pages/central_bank_of_china.jpg

― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 20 May 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

roof house - http://www.tezuka-arch.com/english/works/roof/img/roof005.jpg http://www.tezuka-arch.com/english/works/roof/img/roof011.jpg http://www.tezuka-arch.com/english/works/roof/img/roof012.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 20 May 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

http://kwc.org/blog/archives/resources/2005/ando.churchonwater2.gif

― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 20 May 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

jed, wow.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 20 May 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

jergins, phil, jergins, wow.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 20 May 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

just for Hopkins:
http://static.flickr.com/31/54133911_44ee5b34ce.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/24/54133910_fb150fc9a0.jpg

― Porkpie (porkpie), Saturday, 20 May 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

SANAA's moriyama house:

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

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 21 May 2006 07:02 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Sunday, 21 May 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

what is the brick building, its pretty

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 21 May 2006 08:03 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

gah

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

― ath (ath), Sunday, 21 May 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

if only my picture posting prowess was as structurally sound

― ath (ath), Sunday, 21 May 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

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

so straight so narrow

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 21 May 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

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

so straight so wide

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 21 May 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/project/uploaded_files/221_385%20Blue.jpg

lolz

― JW (ex machina), Sunday, 21 May 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hat.net/album/middle_east/004_egypt/day_46_pyramid/038_great_pyramid.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 21 May 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.my-discount-hotels.com/images/ChicagoSofitelWaterTower1.jpg

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Sunday, 21 May 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cameraobscura.com/albus/nyork.jpg

― sinful caesar sipped his snifter (kenan), Sunday, 21 May 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 22 May 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

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

Knarraros Lighthouse, Iceland

― ☠ (roxymuzak), Saturday, 9 April 2011 18:44 (fourteen years ago)

amazing!

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

one year passes...

http://asset0.itsnicethat.com/system/files/012013/50efd8ea5c3e3c4959000192/img_col_main/HL7.jpg?1357896009

The Giraffe Children’s Centre, Paris
http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/hondelatte-laporte-the-giraffe-childcare-centre

― heartless restaurant reviewer (ledge), Friday, 11 January 2013 16:03 (thirteen years ago)

Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo

http://emilyconrad.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/nakagin.jpg

http://smallspaceliving.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/nakagin04.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-n5bfHHqEvKo/ToHY-S7CxeI/AAAAAAAANA0/J8k98SuI4R4/s1600/nakagin-capsule-tower2.jpg

Happily it was just 5 mins walk from the Hotel I stayed at in Tokyo.

― MaresNest, Saturday, 12 January 2013 19:36 (thirteen years ago)

Palias Stoclet

Philip Johnson's Glass House

Cathedral of Learning

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

Oh nuts, I meant to post the images.

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

eight years pass...

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

― calstars, Friday, 23 July 2021 18:30 (four years ago)

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