Amazing architecture [Archive]

adidasss

10-13-05, 06:47 PM

i love great architecture, and i thought we could share our favourite buildings....right now, i only managed to find these two amazing buildings
Kunsthaus in Graz - Austria
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/9278/grazer20kunsthaus5xx.jpg

Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain ( don't start froggy..;))
http://img430.imageshack.us/img430/3526/gugen13js.jpg
and there's one building, i'm not sure if it's the headquarters of the EU or some other major organisation that i find really amazing, but i can't really find it....
do share your own favs...( sorry if there's already been something like this )

chicagofrog

10-13-05, 06:51 PM

Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain ( don't start froggy..;))

hehe ;) :p :D :D :D i cannot shut up!!! :p :p but twas an invitation not to, right?
man, you know me better than the brother i don't have!
:cool:
so you meant Bilbo, Euskadi/Basque Country (for those who don't know, and there are many Adidasss :) :) )

very fine pics man!!!!!! do ya have more??

nice post! :)

Misirlou

10-13-05, 06:56 PM

The Walt Disney Concert Hall
http://www.nagata.co.jp/gyoseki/sakuhin/disney.gif

From the outside it looks a little weird, but the inside is beautiful :yup: and they play music :D

adidasss

10-13-05, 07:02 PM

hehe ;) :p :D :D :D i cannot shut up!!! :p :p but twas an invitation not to, right?
man, you know me better than the brother i don't have!
:cool:
so you meant Bilbo, Euskadi/Basque Country (for those who don't know, and there are many Adidasss :) :) )

very fine pics man!!!!!! do ya have more??

nice post! :)
you just couldn't help yourself could you?:)
and no i don't have more, i tried to find that awesome building in Bruxelles, but i couldn't find it...that's why i made a thread, so you could find them for me...:)
misirlou, i can't see you picture

Darth Stujitzu

10-13-05, 07:06 PM

What about the Segrada Famillia in Barcelona? ( not sure of the spelling Frog, go easy on me, I'm wearing a Basque whilst posting :randy: :laugh: )

chicagofrog

10-13-05, 07:07 PM

chicagofrog

10-13-05, 07:09 PM

What about the Segrada Famillia in Barcelona? ( not sure of the spelling Frog, go easy on me, I'm wearing a Basque whilst posting :randy: :laugh: )

:) :) ;)
you were pretty close buddy!
it's Sagrada Família in good Catalan!

http://www.eslovaquia.es/images/fotos_consulados/Sagrada-familia_ori.jpg

adidasss

10-13-05, 07:11 PM

What about the Segrada Famillia in Barcelona? ( not sure of the spelling Frog, go easy on me, I'm wearing a Basque whilst posting :randy: :laugh: )
i was actually thinking more modern architecture, there's simply too many amazing old buildings, although, the sagrada familia is rather new seeing as how it's not finished yet.... :D

chicagofrog

10-13-05, 07:13 PM

i was actually thinking more modern architecture, there's simply too many amazing old buildings, although, the sagrada familia is rather new seeing as how it's not finished yet.... :D

there's a Catalan film where it's "finished"*, reconstructed as it shall be thru computer...

* with the central tower twice as high as the others

adidasss

10-13-05, 07:16 PM

no, i couldn't, i'm your humble servant for necessary supplementary info!!!!!!

http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.ulg.ac.be/geoeco/lmg/jeunes_et_la_ville/logement/picts/schuiten.jpg

now what's this? i found it about Bruxelles/Bruissel :)
nah, that isn't it, it's a modern building made of glass and steel, and in one part, where it's oval, it starts normally but then there's less and less glass, there's only the steel, very abstract and amazing, i'm not sure if it's in Bruissel;) hey, that's actually how we call the town in croatia....we're smart aren't we...:)

chicagofrog

10-13-05, 07:17 PM

you Croats are! :D and Serbs too sometimes! :p

my fave city Chicago has this too:

http://www.loudthinking.com/albums/chicago2002/aba.thumb.jpg

adidasss

10-13-05, 07:19 PM

:D and Serbs too sometimes! :p

ouch

chicagofrog

10-13-05, 07:20 PM

hhehe :)

adidasss

10-13-05, 07:45 PM

Allianz Arena München - Germany
simply a stunning piece of architecture...what will they think of next...
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/9611/alianz2uj.jpg
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/6289/allianzstad037xj.jpg

Tacitus

10-13-05, 08:23 PM

http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/images/sectionimages/built/30yearlisted/mar3.jpg

On a more homely note, St Patricks in Dungannon. Do you see the roof just above the silver car? That's my house, that is. ;)

There's the view from my front window:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/4.jpg

Holden Pike

10-13-05, 08:29 PM

The Bradbury Building Los Angeles, CA
George Wyman, 1893

http://www.kellercms.com/Images/MainImages/Bradbury.jpg

http://geography.fullerton.edu/club/los%20angeles/bradbury7.jpg

http://www.disneymike.com/photoblog/bradbury_elegance.jpg

http://img63.photobucket.com/albums/v191/michifan/angeles/bradbury.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/2/26/350px-Bradbury_Building_Name.JPG

http://anitafried.de/downtown/1893_bradbury.jpg

Equilibrium

10-13-05, 08:55 PM

adidasss

10-13-05, 09:07 PM

ah...so true...completely forgot about that one....good job!

SamsoniteDelilah

10-13-05, 09:11 PM

Tacitus, I love the blue tiles on that church. So pretty. Your house is the only thing near it, from taht pic. Was it a rectory?

Holden, I didn't realise that building was in LA. Am going to look for it next time I'm downtown.

My favorite place is Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, in Akron, Ohio.
It's a tudor mansion built by the Seiberling family in the 1910's. There have a grape arbor, a rose garden, a japanese garden, a yard for tennis/croquet and a nice long trail for horseback riding. There is a terrace on the back of the house where they do Shakespearean plays in the summer. The rooms aren't huge (well, except the greatroom) but they're so pretty and also comfortable to be in. Here are some samples:

The front of the house:
http://www.ci.akron.oh.us/Tour/Graphics/1989.jpg

The terrace, from across the pool at the edge of the Japanese Garden:
http://www.caterersbypaparazzis.com/images/StanHywet.gif

The birch alley... You look down this from the main hallway on the ground floor, and where those people are standing, you can overlook one of the gardens and the Cuyahoga Valley. Miraculously, you see very few buildings from that vantage point:
http://www.victoriansociety.org/DSC00975.JPG

The Music Room (ok, I guess this is also a huge room):
http://www.wclv.com/image/DbGraphic/200507/126335.jpg

The end of the above room:
http://www.rosebudfloors.com/images/hywet_musicroom.gif

The Great Room:
http://www.cardcow.com/images/set30/thumbs/card00235_fr.jpg

Holden Pike

10-13-05, 09:23 PM

Holden, I didn't realise that building was in LA. Am going to look for it next time I'm downtown.

The Bradbury has been used in a bunch of movies, including BladeRunner, Chinatown, Wolf, Marlowe, Pay It Forward and the original D.O.A. (1950).

Golgot

10-13-05, 10:38 PM

The Bradbury has been used in a bunch of movies, including BladeRunner, Chinatown, Wolf, Marlowe, Pay It Forward and the original D.O.A. (1950).

It's in What Women Want as well isn't it? How could you omit a classic like that?

[minus Mel Points for you ;)]

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I kind of like London's new City Hall.

http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/cityhall2.jpg
http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/cobblestones.jpg

It's daft, and it already looks kind of retro. It's quite funky inside too...

http://www.britainusa.com/images/buildings/London/City%20Hall%20LondonL.jpg

'The pickle' is alright as well. In a giant-shiney-phallus kind of way.

http://www.aidan.co.uk/md/LonSwissReBlg3914.jpg

Tacitus

10-14-05, 07:01 AM

Tacitus, I love the blue tiles on that church. So pretty. Your house is the only thing near it, from taht pic. Was it a rectory?

The photo was taken at a very flattering angle as there's a street of beautiful Georgian townhouses to the immediate left of the photo and my place is at the apex of two more streets.

Nope it wasn't the rectory (but as the world and his wife must know by now, I still get mistaken for the flippin' Monsignor) but it was Church land. The place itself is pretty new though, the Church sold the land to a developer and there was an old house where mine stands which was knocked down. :)

Here's Belfast City Hall:

http://www.guide-to-nireland.com/cityhall.jpeg

http://www.lookaroundireland.com/imgages/north/large/BelfastCityHall.JPG

http://theseoultimes.com/ST/db2/images/1488-20050214171618.jpg

http://www.belfastconventionbureau.com/pictures/cityhalltour.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/35/Belfast_City_Hall_-_Grand_Staircase.jpg/250px-Belfast_City_Hall_-_Grand_Staircase.jpg

Built in 1888 and not bombed too much surprisingly...

I've laughed at Goths many times while walking past. ;)

There's also Smithfield Market, where bought many a pirate video tape.....

http://theseoultimes.com/ST/db2/images/1488-20050214171637.jpg

......and The Crown Bar, where I once met Shane MacGowan...

http://theseoultimes.com/ST/db2/images/1488-20050215094618.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~hories/Ireland/Belfast/P9190087.jpg

http://www.roseleighhouse.co.uk/images/crown.jpg

Loner

10-14-05, 12:27 PM

We have a Frank Gehry building here in Seattle, Experience Music Project.

http://www.geomembrane.com/040229%20Seattle%20072.jpg

Can't wait till they blow up that ridiculous looking piece of chit.

and no credit card needed! ;)
oops.

chicagofrog

10-14-05, 12:30 PM

and no credit card needed! ;)

adidasss

10-14-05, 04:27 PM

Casa Batllo 1906 - Antoni Gaudi - Barcelona

http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/1533/gaudi20un.jpg
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/2425/gaudi30zw.jpg
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/2453/gaudi127on.jpg

Agbar tower - Barcelona

http://img432.imageshack.us/img432/9628/agbar2so.jpg

chicagofrog

10-14-05, 05:29 PM

yep, i always loved the Casa Batlló (with the accent especially!) :)

SamsoniteDelilah

10-14-05, 05:51 PM

Great thread! There are some gorgeous places here.
Now I want to travel. :D

adidasss

10-14-05, 05:55 PM

yep, i always loved the Casa Batlló (with the accent especially!) :)
don't bust my ass for one letter, i don't even have it...( well i probably do, but i don't feel like searching for it )

chicagofrog

10-14-05, 07:04 PM

don't bust my ass for one letter, i don't even have it...( well i probably do, but i don't feel like searching for it )

i may like Billy Bob Thornton a lot more than i am supposed to, but i don't bust anyone's ass, okay?

A0C8C

10-15-05, 12:35 AM

I've always liked Thai architecture.

http://www.toursgallery.com/Thailand%202002/Thai%20Architecture.JPG

criss

10-16-05, 05:09 PM

http://anomalias.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/Le%20Corbusier-Ronchamp2.gif

http://anomalias.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/ronchampswindows.jpg

Ronchamp Church, by LeCorbusier

SpoOkY

10-18-05, 05:28 AM

Ronchamp Church, by LeCorbusier

oo very beautiful Criss :D. Here's a few pics from Melbourne.

Federation Square, Melbourne

http://www.travelvictoria.com.au/images/regions/melbourne/city/01.jpg

Flinders Street Station, Night.

http://www.travelvictoria.com.au/images/regions/melbourne/city/04.jpg

Flinders Street Station, Daytime. With Tram going by.

http://www.travelvictoria.com.au/images/regions/melbourne/city/05.jpg

Those are just my two favourite places in Melboure.

Golgot

03-03-06, 03:56 PM

Some miscellaneous buildings for Sssweatshop (http://www.2loop.com/strangebldg.html)

I mean Adidasss

;)

Pyro Tramp

03-03-06, 04:15 PM

Not sure if it's already been posted- the pics take an age to load on dial-up, but i saw this sweet place in Barcelona, can't remebmer what it's called though...

ash_is_the_gal

03-03-06, 04:32 PM

this is gonna seem like small potatoes....but...

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a44/ashisthegal/Misc/haywd1.jpg

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a44/ashisthegal/Misc/hay06.jpg

the apartment building i grew up in :)

Golgot

03-03-06, 04:39 PM

You had a river-n-waterfall-bridge affair? No fair!

Not sure if it's already been posted- the pics take an age to load on dial-up, but i saw this sweet place in Barcelona, can't remebmer what it's called though...

Was it one of Gaudi's melty looking buildings? Or his spindly bulbous church mebe?

I was 16 when i went there, and was practicing my drinking, so most things look melty in my memory anyway. Occasionally twirly too.

Pyro Tramp

03-04-06, 09:58 AM

I don't think it was finished, was like a big church thing. With funky outside walls.

adidasss

03-04-06, 11:08 AM

Some miscellaneous buildings for Sssweatshop (http://www.2loop.com/strangebldg.html)

I mean Adidasss

;)
hahaha *cough*bastard*cough*
and fantastic link man, this was exactly what i meant by amazing architecture....that dancing house is one of my favourites!! amazing...
and pyro, i think you're thinking of the Sagrada familia church...( check the first page for pictures )

adidasss

03-04-06, 11:17 AM

i finally found that building ( i guess it wasn't in Bruxelles after all....wooops!) , it's the European Parliament *is embaressed for not knowing this before*
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/8705/strasbourgbuilding1mr.jpg

adidasss

03-04-06, 11:20 AM

oh and ash, could you somehow resize that gargantuan image image of yours?

SmegFirk

03-09-06, 08:48 PM

Burj Al arab

Greatest hotel ever

http://www.firstclasstravel.de/burj-al-arab-cool.jpg

http://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=5356&stc=1

http://www.tailormadejourneys.com/images/dubai/dubai-bur-jal-arab-hotel.jpg
This was my first thought too :)
http://users.volja.net/jkodri3/Zanimive_slikice/BURJ-AL-ARAB.jpg

http://www.reger.rmc.de/bild/Arab_Tower_nachts_2_m.jpg

I also have emotional ties going back to 1990 for this, even though it's ugly heh.. To see it 'in the flesh' in 2001 was great :cool:

http://david.dupplaw.me.uk/photos/places/USA2/SanFransisco/images/San%20Francisco%20-%20Coit%20Tower%20-%20View%20of%20Transamerica%20Pyramid%20%28150dpi%29.jpg

http://www.still-magic.com/objects/images/sfskyline2.jpg

Godsend

03-09-06, 10:07 PM

I know architect is mainly aligned with buildings and what not, but I had to present this little piece.

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/2608/8494358089oq.jpg

And holy moly....

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/7273/kone3or.jpg

SmegFirk

03-09-06, 10:23 PM

I know architect is mainly aligned with buildings and what not, but I had to present this little piece.

http://img354.imageshack.us/img354/2608/8494358089oq.jpg

:eek: that is so cool.

The Millau Bridge, France. More than 300m (984ft) high - taller than the Eiffel Tower.

http://www.redbull.co.uk/mime/1088444845515-1482852098/bridge.jpg http://www.otua.org/acier/soudure-pont-millau.jpg

http://www.interbat.com/french/images/tribunes_img/viaduc_millau.jpg

SmegFirk

03-10-06, 07:30 PM

where is that tunnel which goes underneath what looks like the harbour... thanks

limboslam

03-20-06, 12:33 AM

Horton pPlaza, San Diego

limboslam

03-20-06, 12:39 AM

San Diego Convention Center

limboslam

03-20-06, 01:02 AM

I'm on a roll. Balboa Park, San Diego

OG-

03-20-06, 01:10 AM

http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/.Pictures/vistasaereas/CasadeBolsa.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/.Pictures/vistasaereas/NaveDisfrazada.jpg

Taken from this amazing gallery (http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PhotoAlbum31.html).

Golgot

12-04-06, 06:04 PM

Everybody needs...

Russian architecture (http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/2006/11/russian-architecture.html)

Oh, and the 'chaos theory art installation' stuff that Ned Kahn (http://nedkahn.com/videoGallery.html) uses to pretty-up buildings is amazing. But then, so is all his other stuff. I want me a toy tornado :D

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Taken from this amazing gallery (http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/PhotoAlbum31.html).

Oh my lawd. That's just not right...

http://homepage.mac.com/helipilot/.Pictures/vistasaereas/CasitasGeo.jpg