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.
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 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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burj-al-arab - dubai - w.s. atkins, 1999   . |
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the overlook hotel - s.king/s.kubrick 1980  . |
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los angeles - bradbury building, 1893 - blade runner 1982  . |
the enormous penis building. La Sagrada
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Not so subtle, is it?
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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..
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I used to call this the Metropolis Building, but they call it the Fleet Bank Building in Providence.
 and Koln Cathedral  |
il pantheon roma  |
galleria umberto naples  |
Casa de Azulejos (House of Tiles), Mexico City
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flatiron building toronto  |
les salons de l'atalaïde bruxelles   |
st. basilius mockba  |
some pink house in new orleans  |
. guggenheim - bilbao - frank o. gehry - 1997  . |
London has the best uncircumsized building
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off the top of my head...
the new seattle public library is pretty cool  (just a note.. my office building is peeking out on the top left)    |
I really want to take a trip up to Seattle just to see the new library. And I'd visit my friends up there, too. But I really want to see the new library.
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it's well worth the drive up I-5, even if you do have to suffer through a few pressure points on your bum.
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Boulee Cenotaph (Never Built)  In 1784, French architect Etienne-Louis Boulée designed a memorial for Newton. This cenotaph was to be a vast hollow sphere. Hundreds of meters across, by day light would shine through small holes pierced in the dome to form a star-field, a predecessor of the planetarium. By night, a great lamp lit a giant orrery suspended in the sphere’s center. The entirety of the universe as known in the late 18th century would be represented within. Boullee adhered to Neoclassical geometric principles and worked mostly with large, clean, solid forms. It was not until the 20th century that the technology to create buildings this size even existed, but his works inspired architecture for centuries hence, including the Hayden Planetarium, and unfortunately including Speer’s fascist designs for the 3rd Reich and the Soviets’ monumental plans in the 1920s.* *from here |
^^^That's pretty cool.
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la sagrada familia - barcelona
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samarkand - uzbekistan
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I always wanted an apartment here
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alhambra - grenada, spain
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 Neuschwanstein Castle Bavaria |
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Ohhhhh, yeah! |
 st pancras station, london |
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