Architecture

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Post-modernism....yuck. :lol:

 

[argatoga]

https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/ryugyong-hotel-lg.jpg

Enjoy it while you can. That thing is bound to fall any day now. Go sub standard communist quality materials!

 

[Magnet]

https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/Pv_jensen-klint_05_grundtvig_memorial_church_1913-1940.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/010-CD3.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/100339-004-E725AA82.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/BabelsbergEinsteinturm.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/bot_Angkor-Wat-sunset_lg.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R85625,_Sowjetunion,_H%C3%BCttenkombinat_in_Magnitogorsk.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/chemosphere1.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/djenne-mosque-2-b.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/GreatKyzKala505.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/hampi-virupaksha-temple-01.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/helsinki-station01.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/himeji-castle-japan.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/la-sagrada-familia.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/lift19.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/mac-niteroi.gif
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/malaparte1.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/PR1970_-_Asmara_-_FIAT_Tagliero.JPG

 

[jetsetter]

Post-modernism....yuck. :lol:

Modernism is also terrible.

 

[jetsetter]

Various crap

In my opinion what you have posted represents the worst kind of architecture. I can't believe you included a Frank Gehry structure......gag. Frank Gehry is just about the most overrated architect today.

 

[Magnet]

Eh, each to their own.

Although I could sit and post half a dozen Art Deco buildings, I like ugly modernist, fascist, brutalist buildings just as much. I like the bravery of the designs, and the hideousness of them as well.

Hell, I enjoy looking at miles and miles of commie blocks much more than a gothic cathedral.

 

[Topgearfanatic]

https://pic.armedcats.net/m/ma/magnet/2009/04/09/wfm_stata_center.jpg

:lol: MIT Sued him for faulty design leading to mold buildup, water leakage, and cracks. They're is also a lecture hall in there that is known to induce vertigo. Architecture Fail on Gehry!

 

[Strelok16]

I have to say there isnt much modern stuff I like

Baroque FTW

I just finished writing a paper on this for my architecture history class:

Craftsman FTW as well

 

[Solberg]

WTF, is the guy in the first picture in the middle carrying a shotgun?

 

[bartboy9891]

WTF, is the guy in the first picture in the middle carrying a shotgun?

It could be an umbrella.

 

[Matt2000]

Plenty of architecture on this site.

http://www.pickeverard.co.uk/index.html

Yeah, I do work for this company.

 

[Aston Martin]

Mi6.

Gherkin.

Torre Agbar

ING headquarters

The Deep.

York minster.

 

[Clockwerk]

^Aston Martin, you might also like the Sprint Center in Kansas City, MO it kind of fits in with the other structures.

 

[Hidden_Hunter]

This is what $1 billion 1980's $ buys you...

Photo's don't really capture it so well but it's a fairly amazing building

and what it replaced

 

[.cmd]

Might not be a popular opinion here but I would say the new CCTV headquarters in Beijing is pretty amazing;

 

[Clockwerk]

I also like the CCTV building something very MC Escher-ish I also like The Grande Arche de la Fraternit? in the business district of Paris it is pretty similar.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

*cough* time for some good stuff...

The sensational Falling Waters

Johnson Wax Research tower (waaaay ahead of its time)

Taliesin West:

Villa Savoye:

Jubilee Church:

Fort Worth Modern Art:

Dallas City Hall:

Meyerson Concert Hall:

(entrance from parking garage!)

Salk Institute:

Barcelona Pavilion:

These are actually from an Architect I am friends with, he is a former Taliesin West fellow.
House for Betta: (been to this one, its insane)

Gaston House:
(drawing)

Dynaton Office:

Will post more as I think of them

 

[jetsetter]

If anyone was wondering........Brutalism is indeed quite terrible.

Indo-Saracenic

Lahore Museum
http://img6.imageshack.**/img6/5660/190390333adac2e0e7b1252.jpg

Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
http://img19.imageshack.**/img19/2070/306956445905d295b02cb13.jpg

Victoria Terminus
http://img13.imageshack.**/img13/4056/30695585217897f8bc82b14.jpg

Khalsa College
http://img22.imageshack.**/img22/6599/441339588b466570769o165.jpg

Gateway of India
http://img13.imageshack.**/img13/241/364758406e15aa5734ab199.jpg

Rashtrapati Bhavan
http://img23.imageshack.**/img23/373/275315338f52b609988b242.jpg

 

[Clockwerk]

While this isn't a particularly aesthetically pleasing building it is however interesting. This building is also in Tulsa, OK and is about a half scale version of the former Twin Towers in NYC although on a quarter the footprint, there were quite a few engineers who came to town and studied the building after 9/11.

Another oddity of design in Tulsa, the University Club Tower Apartments. This building although ugly as shit is the first building in the US to be designed by a computer.

 

[Peter3hg]

There are a few interesting buildings around Manchester.

Beetham Tower

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