^ Yes, I'm afraid the people and country of Poland were hit particularly hard in the Second World War.


^ Those blank end-walls are just the perfect site for a mural; I think these two are my favourites, especially the last as it has a carefully designed paint job on the long facade too.

In England, on a much smaller scale, we also had post-war "prefabs", which also were used for decades longer than originally planned:-

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/55/cc...f1abdf9eea.jpg

We also have plenty of sixties tower blocks; it was a time when planners talked optimistically about "streets in the sky", ignoring the reality that a dull, narrow and windswept access-balcony miles from any communal facilities is nothing to enthuse about:-

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...3_2461323k.jpg

Can't have an Arch thread without FLW. A lot of his work is local to me, and I've visited a few places, but that was a long time ago when I was in school. You can see his influence in a lot of the later buildings around here too, so Frank Lloyd Wright 'inspired' designs are pretty common. I just perused a few images, here's some of the more popular works he's done:

Falling Water
https://blog.travefy.com/wp-content/...oyd-Wright.jpg

Robie House
http://s3.amazonaws.com/architecture...house-03-2.jpg

The Rookery
http://res.cloudinary.com/simpleview...7e53e927c3.jpg

Unity Temple
https://i2.wp.com/design.newcity.com...ity-Temple.jpg

Larkin Building
https://images.adsttc.com/media/imag...jpg?1486992115

Taliesin West (his winter home)
https://freshome.com/wp-content/uplo...n-Taliesin.jpg

^ Nice pics! "Falling Water" must be the most photograped house in the world I should think, though I liked the Robie House more - and the Winter home one too.
The Brit equivalent of FLW might be Charles Voysey; in the 1900s both were building houses for the rich in a style that everybody copied for years to come:-

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a2/41...b5136e6e69.jpg

He wasn't as innovative as FLW and in fact you have to bit a bit of a specialist to see that they're innovative at all. Also, he never got a song written about him either, so if this is an Architecture Wars thread, I'll concede this round to the USA. :(

^Without having any prior knowledge of him, and looking through a few of his works, I'd say his innovations were in the use of arches and off angles. Just a layman's observation.

...and, didn't we already beat you guys in some kind of war a while back? The War thing is so 3 centuries ago.

Guy Dreier is a local dude with some cool stuff. Not sorry for the big pics.

https://robbreportedit.files.wordpre...341.jpg?w=1000

https://robbreportedit.files.wordpre...7p41.jpg?w=991

http://guydreierdesigns.com/images/Mideastthumb.jpg

^ Now those buildings are exciting! Especially the top two.

^ Yes, that's about all I see too, also he occasionally went.... assymetric !

^ :laughing:

Cheers mate. Yeah it's definitely one of the better ones from the pre-war era imo, has the four individual stands that the old grounds have but the roofing is all level and well done, other grounds don't have that. Probably a bit lucky with it's location in that there is loads of room around it, grounds like Goodison are not really possible to just expand which is a shame.

I too would like to see posts from our European forumistas, I think Zaqarbal might be good in this thread. Hope he sees it.

Loving all these posts and pics :cool:

Reminds me of Paisley Park.

i can't remember if i posted this already but

http://www.condonova.ca/sites/defaul...k%20Condos.png

that's the apartment building currently being built across the road from me. can't imagine why anyone would want to live there. ugly building with way too much glass imo, i feel like there's no privacy unless you have a blind down in every window.

It's for people who don't throw stones.

Why not just build it with equivalent floors on either side? Was it for bants?

The building will look like shit when people move in and some blinds are down and others not.

dunno. seems like a strange concept to me. i believe it might be condos so i'm assuming they would wait until they've at least sold a few before starting construction, so maybe there is some interest. not for me though, looks silly.

Yes that's a very uninspiring building; the colour, the geometry, the materials are just not interesting. I hope it'll improve when a bunch of young couples move in and you buy yourself a telescope. ;)

http://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/...ndow.jpg?w=640

me :D

your mom looks kinda interesting

^Reminds me of this:

The Interlace - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interlace
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...3bb9b7530a.jpg

http://ctbuh.org/Portals/0/Feature%2...erlace/003.jpg

https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws..../L/1910652.jpg

^ This is an absolutely fabulous display of how high-density housing can be visually exciting too. A bit of imagination and the architects have created a very intriguing landscape from simple elements and easy-to-understand principles.

Bits to love about this design:-
i) the blocks stacked on each other feel "right", just as they would to a kid of five.
ii) the proportions of each individual block are satisfying; they are like ghetto blasters on display in a shop window.
iii) in picture #1 you can see between the blocks to the trees beyond.
iv) the little bits of roof terrace in picture #2, and the big, bold plinth that allows one block to oversail the swimming pool.
v) the plan of the site, which shows how a few straight lines, put together right, will turn into a circle.

I like The Interlace so much more than the kind of bizarre geometry that Frank Gehry has made fashionable. His approach seems to be, "We have the technology so let's do it, even if there's no clear structural reason for it."

http://3tgmli1sbjtj2hpytw6t8lw1.wpen...ilbaoabout.jpg

I'm sure in its way The Bilboa Museum is impressive to see, but all that shiny metal and the weird angles kind of puts me on edge. It reminds me too much of metal off-cuts, which we instinctively avoid touching:-

https://lselectric.com/wp-content/up...t-is-Swarf.jpg
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^ :laughing: Can you PM me your best shots please? Girl-on-girl action, girls and animals, you know, that kind of stuff.......

Yeah that is smart.

All I have to do is walk into the fab shop (here at work) and I instantly start bleeding. Kidding of course, but yeah, that's a heightened instinct when you work with steel. I see exactly what you mean with the Bilboa. It never really occurred to me.

^ HaHa! Yes, I think anyone who comes near that stuff is very careful!
I wonder if the word "swarf" ever made it across the Atlantic? Somehow, I suspect not; even in England it didn't make it out of the factories up north afaik.

The Semperoper in Dresden, Germany.

http://monipag.com/margaux-wossmer/w...b3b8b5e_04.jpg

School of Art & Science in Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...%26Science.jpg

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/scho...e-64067260.jpg

Love these.

Been following a development here for a while that I was planning on posting when it neared completion, but with the collapse of Carillian I don't know what is happening with it now. I was really excited about it.

https://dornob.com/wp-content/upload...id-house-2.jpg

https://dornob.com/wp-content/upload...em-fol.no_.jpg

This was a very cathartic read: Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture

The Shah Cheragh in Shiraz:

http://momenti.al/wp-content/uploads...e_hamze_11.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d6/c7/b5/d...ace-mosque.jpg

http://www.allempires.com/forum/Uplo...rs/Shrine1.jpg

http://lh5.ggpht.com/-3p3N0foxsLk/VC...5B2%25255D.jpg

http://cdn.yomadic.com/wp-content/up...agh.jpg?x35322

Just imagine lying down in here at night while listening Tim Hecker's Virgins. I would die.

I approve.

Best cabins to get murdered in scored on a scale of 1-10:

https://cdn.trendir.com/wp-content/u...x450-23137.jpg
9/10. Unnerving. Makes me think of a dental office in the underworld. David Lynch lives here.

http://novovrijeme.ba/wp-content/upl..._PORTOLANO.jpg
A good traditional folk tale style murder spot. 9/10.

https://images.adsttc.com/media/imag...jpg?1467882548
10/10. Inexplicably unsettling. If I saw this building in a dream I would run as far away as possible.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...f225250798.jpg
3/10. Boring. Looks like an abandoned forest condo that Gwenyth Paltrow might have rented when harvesting quail eggs for her $18,000 elixir of youth supplements or whatever it is she does.

I love the second one. I wanna see the inside. Do you know where it is? If I could live in a place like that and have internet, I'd be set for life.

As for the rating system.. I think the first one is by far the creepiest. I could easily imagine a dead body and blood everywhere in that first image. It's really just asking to be the opening crime scene of some "artistic" psycho on Criminal Minds or something. That, or someone just hanging from the center light fixture(?).

I don't find this one creepy at all. It's adorable! I seriously, no joke, want to live in a building like that.

It's located in the Bosnian woods.
"A magical cabin converted from a watermill by a Serbian painter whose father owned and operated minimills along this Bosnian river.”

Can't find a picture of the inside :c

Also there's an official cabin porn website apparently: Cabin Porn


No you're right, it is adorable; I would kill to be able to live there. I can't think of a more ideal Chio dwelling.

^ These are beautiful pictures of two beautiful buildings. The mosque is just fabulous, isn't it? :thumb:

Of Chiomara's cabins, I really like the third one - the minimalist black one with corrugated cladding and steep roofs, but this one is nice too:-

^ This must be your Scandanavian roots calling out to you, MicShazam, because it looks so much like these "stave churches", from the earliest days of Christianity in Norway:-

http://cdn.touropia.com/gfx/b/2017/0...ave_church.jpg
http://cdn.touropia.com/gfx/d/touris...church.jpg?v=1

I don't know about that, since we don't have churches like that in Denmark, but they do look amazing! Our churches, on average, look like this:

http://www.thorninger.com/0vejlednin...irke281214.jpg

The white walls, red tiled roof and stairstep gables on the tower are very typical. Quite a boring design, especially compared to the Norwegian churches above. At least they don't burn as easy.

oooh! "stairstep gables"! This is impressive vocabulary, MicShazam ;)

It looks to me like a really nice church, but you're right, it's relatively simple and un-adorned, and as with all designs, if you see too many similar ones, too often, they become boring.

(Also your photo makes the church look particularly good; the sky has a darker tone than the building, which is always the best lighting arrangement for a bit of building porn.)

I had to to google how to translate "gavl", which is the end walls up near the roof. I'm not even sure gable is the right term :laughing:

Danish churches looking boring is perhaps only fair to say when compared with the impressive old churches found all over other European nations. Old Danish churches were relatively utilitarian and modest in design.

No, you're absolutely correct with "stairstep gable"!

Yes, Europe has some very inspiring old churches, but while still in the far frozen north of places like Denmark, I thought I'd post this famous modern church from Reykjavik, Iceland:-

http://all-that-is-interesting.com/w...h-daylight.jpg

That's an interesting design. Almost everything in the design seems conceived as an upright standing pole. Also kind of looks like a 50's b-movie rocket.

it's wildly massive. couldn't get a photo of ourselves with the entire church in one shot. Reykjavik also his their opera house, which is gorgeous both inside and out

https://www.iconeye.com/images/2014/...harpa-main.jpg

http://www.stagesconsultants.com/per...ics/harpa8.jpg

Reminds me of container homes:

https://www.icontainers.com/resource...ner-homes1.jpg

https://www.containerhomeplans.org/w...iner-House.png

I've designed a few office containers, fully insulated with HVAC, full electrical packages, stretched, windows, doors, and a host of other amenities, but we've pretty much stayed away from the residential aspect of it all, being that I'm not a licensed architect. Plus, it's a bit of a niche market.

Watching the NFL show. They're doing a Super Bowl special.

Love that stadium.