Amazing architecture
 

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/img104/9...nsthaus5xx.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 )

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! :)

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

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

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: )

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

http://images.google.com/url?q=http:...s/schuiten.jpg

now what's this? i found it about Bruxelles/Bruissel :)

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

http://www.eslovaquia.es/images/foto...amilia_ori.jpg

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

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...:)

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

my fave city Chicago has this too:

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

ouch

hhehe :)

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/img399/6...zstad037xj.jpg

http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/images/secti...isted/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/b6...nspagbol/4.jpg

The Bradbury Building Los Angeles, CA
George Wyman, 1893

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

http://geography.fullerton.edu/club/.../bradbury7.jpg

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

http://img63.photobucket.com/albums/...s/bradbury.jpg

http://content.answers.com/main/cont...lding_Name.JPG

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

Burj Al arab


Greatest hotel ever

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

http://www.movieforums.com/community...tid=5356&stc=1

http://www.tailormadejourneys.com/im...arab-hotel.jpg

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

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/.../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/...rd00235_fr.jpg

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).