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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


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

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 )



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Originally Posted by adidasss
Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain ( don't start froggy..)
hehe i cannot shut up!!! but twas an invitation not to, right?
man, you know me better than the brother i don't have!

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!
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Originally Posted by chicagofrog
hehe i cannot shut up!!! but twas an invitation not to, right?
man, you know me better than the brother i don't have!

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...
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What about the Segrada Famillia in Barcelona? ( not sure of the spelling Frog, go easy on me, I'm wearing a Basque whilst posting )
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no, i couldn't, i'm your humble servant for necessary supplementary info!!!!!!



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



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Originally Posted by Darth Stujitzu
What about the Segrada Famillia in Barcelona? ( not sure of the spelling Frog, go easy on me, I'm wearing a Basque whilst posting )

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




Originally Posted by Darth Stujitzu
What about the Segrada Famillia in Barcelona? ( not sure of the spelling Frog, go easy on me, I'm wearing a Basque whilst posting )
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....



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Originally Posted by adidasss
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....
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



Originally Posted by chicagofrog
no, i couldn't, i'm your humble servant for necessary supplementary info!!!!!!



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...



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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.


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