what's your fave building?
 

thanks to smartypants for the idea.
here's one of mine: 'Der Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt' in Berlin (aka The Pregnant Oyster):

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Biltmore Estate
Asheville, North Carolina
Richard Morris Hunt, Architect
1895

I don't know why, but I've always been a little crazy for van der Rohe's Farnsworth House. It's some sort of visceral thing.

Favortie residence: Fallingwater
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Location: Pennsylvania, US
Year: 1935



Favorite modern commercial building: Transco Tower
Architect: Philip Johnson Stomping along on this big Philip Johnson...
Location: Houston, TX US
Year: 1983






Favorite modern commercial building (it's a tie): Chrysler Building
Architect: William Van Allen
Location: NYC, New York, US
Year: 1930

All the majesty of a city landscape
All the soaring days in our lives
All the concrete dreams in my mind's eye
All the joy I see
Thru these architect's eyes...

But I also love this place:



It's a steel mill. Now defunct. Here in Cleveland. Built in the 20's or so. Renovated in the 40's and again in the 50's.

And I used to love these grasshoppery things:



They are/were Hulett Ore Unloaders. They were built around 1919 for the purpose of unloading steel ore from freighters traveling along the Cuyahoga from the Upper Great Lakes. Some shortsighted arsehole developer group tore them down in 2001. There was a fight to preserve them but it didn't succeed. What's in their place now? Nothing. Just...nothing. And they call it an improvement.

Okay; I'm done.

skyscraper, i love you!

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the enormous penis building. La Sagrada

Not so subtle, is it?

le sacré coeur de montmartre
 

it's such a special building. sometimes in summer you can climb it through a very narrow staircase and walk around on the roof, from where you have a very pretty view of the city.

tate modern, london. particularly the entrance hall



and the mirrored rooms of amber fort, jaipur india

The boobs in San Onofre..