https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanbutsu-ji

It’s well over 1000 years old.

It sure as hell does. Algeria has some cool **** like that too iirc (from pictures)

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If anyone wants a photo-montage of some modern buildings, check out this video (Tip: turn off the audio before the music drives you mad.)

Hyper accelerated urban decay in Beirut

https://i.postimg.cc/RCWJXV56/2-B1-B...4-E5-C35-F.jpg

That's like a shot from a post-apocalypse movie. :(

Beirut: in happier times a tourist destination:-

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Some cities are the scenes of human tragedy and (obviously of secondary importance) architectural disaster too. Berlin, Allepo...it'd make a long list.

If I could buy this joint for me and my dog I’d so be a capitalist.

I love the viewing deck on that Mountain Retreat house, and the old photo of the Overview residence.

Not residential, but famous are the following:-

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Both designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who was clearly unfazed by the size of a project.

His son was an architect too, and got the prestigious job of extending London's Guildhall, a kind of nerve-racking commision because the Guildhall, through various incarnations, dated back to Saxon times:-

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...C_with_car.jpg

See the strange black curve in the paving? That's a marker indicating the position of a Roman amphitheatre which was discovered while they were excavating for the new building.

Reminds me of the cover of Pink Floyd Animals

Yes, Paul, it's the exact same building: a famous London landmark even before Pink Floyd gave it international stardom.

For nerds, here are some things of note about the building:-
i) built in the 1930s, it was a design challenge to find a style that could make a power station attractive in some way. Sir GGS went for a kind of stripped-down eclesiastical style, with chimneys instead of spires.
ii) it is still one of the largest brick buildings in the world. The scale of it is hard to appreciate, until you look carefully at the surrounding buildings.
iii) it doesn't matter where you look at it from, you always get the feeling that the main entrance must be round the other side. This may be a consequence of the fact that it is actually two buildings, built about a decade apart. Here is a rare snapshot in time, when it was still only one building:-

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...2C_1938%29.jpg

Two more buildings by Sir GGS. One of them shows an elegant solution to the design problem: in an urban setting, how can you disipate huge quantities of unwanted hot air safely? The other building is a power station.


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