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Different from the skyscrapers thread, obviously, so let those low rise dreams start! Yeah.

― Bill, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For the record, I think mine is fast becoming St Pancras station. Went in there the other day and it's just so reassuringly old and dusty inside. And big and sturdy. And the booking office is nice and full of wood. Want to go in the old hotel becuase that just always looks spectacular.

― Bill, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, I suppose this could be a favourite station thread, a slight variation on the underground one. DG can you change it???

― Bill, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No please don't change it because then we'll get a load of Jubilee Line Extension obsessives.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You rang?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ding dong!!

my favourite building is the Taj Mahal. it is beyoooottifulll.

― katie, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

St Paul's Cathedral, or else the Radcliffe Camera. I've been known to walk around both at 3 or 4 in the morning, when it's really quiet and there's no-one around. Once went to the Rad Cam on Christmas Day and it was amazing...

― Paul Strange, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Pagoda in Kew Gardens. Various Art Deco buildings. My old junior school.

― james, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In London: Festival Hall, Friends House in Euston, Natural History Museum.

― chris, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Possibly the Pitt Rivers Museum. It's the smell. University Museum when it's raining is special too. Has ILE turned into I Love Oxford? And my parents house.

― alix, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My house. It's cosy.

― DG, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DG's house

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 16 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fuck! why did that happen? T his?

― ambrose, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five years pass...
Amarillo National Bank

― Friendly Tree (688), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

state department for traffic hq, tblisi

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Public building - errr, either St. Pancras (obvious choice) or the Prudential Assurance building on High Holborn.

Private - hrrrmmm, maybe Penshurst Place or Milton Earnest? (Though I've never seen the latter in the flesh.)

Also very very fond of the Museum of Natural History in London.

― Fire and Worms (kate), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

St. Pancras (obvious choice)

ooooh-kay.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

i have so many favourite buildings!!

here is one of my favourites in my city though... council house:

http://www.websmart.com.au/images/contactus_office.jpg

― gem (trisk), Monday, 5 February 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

By St Pancras do you mean the Midland Hotel? I mean the station is shaping up into something fairly awesome too.

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I being an idiot - 'public building'! So the old station amirite? That is pretty cool also.

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

probably the Metropolitan Opera House

― pasticheneb (gabbneb), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Mine.
http://www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia/uk/images/uk_london_royalfestivalhall.jpg

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

new london: gherkin (broing)
old london: bps probably
older london: v&a museum (more for the inside)
greater london: hoover building, perivale
incomprehensibly london: the tiny russian orthodox church in chiswick just off the a4

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Really? I was just gonna say the National Theatre. Never had much love for the RFH though. (xp to ned trifle)

― ledge (ledge), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I like it all round there but the RFH just always seemed the best bit. Also I have fond memories of picnic-ing in it at various times and having a birthday party in The Peoples Palace so I'm sure it's all connected. I'm not sure I'm going to like all the "renovations" but I'm keeping an open mind.

― Edward Trifle (Ned Trifle IV), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)


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