Architecture

[Eunos_Cosmo]

I know there are quite a few of us on here interested in architecture, so lets see your favorites.

I myself an am architecture major in college so its pretty much my other love aside from cars.

I'm particularly fond of art deco, and perhaps my favorite building in the world is the Chrysler building by William Van Alen.

Elevator doors (each of the 32 is a unique design)

I love the fact that under any lighting condition, any weather condition, the building looks absolutely stunning. I love the fact that it appears proud to exist. (unlike many, many contemporary structures) I love the fact that its adorned with machine age decoration, but it isn't overly done to the point of ostentation. It was finished shortly after the stock market crashed, construction was never halted. I love also that it was built in a period of time where men were fighting to build the tallest building in the world, all within the single small island of Manhattan. I think it is the best embodiment of what the United States was at its peak.

I think this pic summarizes the spirit of the day:

 

[bartboy9891]

Can that last picture be found in hi-res?

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Can that last picture be found in hi-res?

It can, because I have a book with it in high res, but I can't find it on the net for free anywhere.

The photographer that took it is Margaret Bourke-White.

 

[Clockwerk]

Well if you love Art-Deco you should take the short drive to Tulsa, OK. The city was at it highest point during the Art-Deco era. MSNBC article

Boston Avenue Methodist Church

Some Details downtown

Will Rogers High School

Basically there is tons of Art-Deco in Tulsa and I won't bore you with more, but there is the Philcade, Union Depot, Warehouse Market, Fire Alarm Building, Blue Dome, Oklahoma Natural Gas Building, and the list goes on.

 

[Clockwerk]

I split out my favorite building into a separate post, so if you take the Chrysler Building, I'll take hmmm...Cath?drale Notre-Dame de Chartres, I just love it for the quirkiness. I love Gothic architecture and this is one of France's finest. But this building was damaged and rebuilt so some of it is Gothic and some is Romanesque. I think that is pretty cool, the two styles together.

 

[fluke667]

I like nearly everything that Coop Himmelb(l)au has done.

https://pic.armedcats.net/f/fl/fluke667/2009/04/09/coop1.jpg

https://pic.armedcats.net/f/fl/fluke667/2009/04/09/coop2.jpg

 

[Topgearfanatic]

I love architecture especially if it is Georgian or Victorian.

The Guggenheim it is so unexpected in a city mostly of tall rectangles

The Biltmore because it is massive and beautiful

And the Neuschwanstein Castle for the same reason as the Biltmore

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

I love architecture especially if it is Georgian or Victorian.

The Guggenheim it is so unexpected in a city mostly of tall rectangles

The Guggenheim has always bothered me. Nearly everything by FLW I think is absolutely brilliant, but there's something *missing* with the Gugg. I think that if he was alive when it was completed it would have looked different/better. It looks too stark, I think, for something by FLW. If you look at his earlier sketches, they look so much better.

There is something unfinished looking about the building as it stands, and I think if it had all the plants/vegetation that FLW had drawn originally, it would look vastly better. As it stands, its too appliance looking. The drawing makes it seem like some ancient, almost alien architecture.


I too, love gothic architecture. I think the Cologne cathedral is the most magnificent example of the style.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Basically there is tons of Art-Deco in Tulsa and I won't bore you with more, but there is the Philcade, Union Depot, Warehouse Market, Fire Alarm Building, Blue Dome, Oklahoma Natural Gas Building, and the list goes on.

Thanks! I might have to check that out, I really had no idea. I know that there is a city in New Zealand that is almost all art-deco because it was entirely rebuilt in the 1920's. That Church looks amazing. If I ever get a tattoo, it will either be an art-deco eagle, or an art-deco angel (like the ones on that church)

 

[Jay]

I cannot say that I like one particular building or another, but growing up in Wisconsin, I have seen many designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. He was a master at making the artificial look natural in it's surroundings.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

I cannot say that I like one particular building or another, but growing up in Wisconsin, I have seen many designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. He was a master at making the artificial look natural in it's surroundings.

Yeah you really come to realize that there is not a single FLW building short of a masterpiece. He was essentially the Beethoven of Architecture. At least in my eyes.

 

[katwalk]

GOOD IDEA
You help kat with her big essay on that. :3

 

[Clockwerk]

Yeah you really come to realize that there is not a single FLW building short of a masterpiece. He was essentially the Beethoven of Architecture. At least in my eyes.

Hey look another chance to brag on Oklahoma....If you like Frank Lloyd Wright and ever visit Tulsa to see the Art-Deco, continue onto Bartlesville and visit the Price Tower the only skyscraper actually built that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

 

[Hidden_Hunter]

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Hey look another chance to brag on Oklahoma....If you like Frank Lloyd Wright and ever visit Tulsa to see the Art-Deco, continue onto Bartlesville and visit the Price Tower the only skyscraper actually built that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Yeah there are only a handful of his in Texas.


If only...if only...

 

[jetsetter]

1. Art Deco - With special emphases on the Fascist architecture of Italy, Germany, and Spain
2. Neoclassical
3. Indo-Saracenic
4. Toss up between the various other Revival styles

I'm not including Roman and Greek architecture as they are the inspiration for the above.

Some of my favorites:

http://img14.imageshack.**/img14/3955/2634288123f000632b57b06.jpg
http://img16.imageshack.**/img16/429/334090878205807bf834b07.jpg
http://img11.imageshack.**/img11/2065/2721688556799682871fb08.jpg
http://img22.imageshack.**/img22/5416/190390333adac2e0e7b1343.jpg
http://img19.imageshack.**/img19/2884/2355421117596780ec42b15.jpg

 

[GTR]

hey that last picture starfox posted reminds me of this

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

hey that last picture starfox posted reminds me of this

Its a Chicago architect that did that, and I have a feeling it drew some inspiration from FLW. The one that Wright drew was twice as tall though

 

[Zesty]

The Chrysler building really is beyond beautiful.
I hope to see it for real one day.

 

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