http://www.we-find-wildness.com/wp-c...chitecture.jpg

http://www.we-find-wildness.com/wp-c...chumi003-1.jpg

http://www.we-find-wildness.com/wp-c...tschumi002.jpg

(from Bernard Tschumi's "Advertisements for Architecture”)

http://huntconstructiongroup.com/wp-...-stadium-6.jpg

http://prod.images.colts.clubs.nflcd...960&height=720

http://prod.static.colts.clubs.nfl.c...ickets/los.jpg

http://prod.images.colts.clubs.nflcd...960&height=720

http://www.skylinescenes.com/image?f...h=800&height=0

I like this one. Anyone been to it?

^ I love the way the glazing opens up to turn the front of the stadium into one huge proscenium arch, like you get inside a traditional theater. The football field becomes the stage - it's all very neatly done.

^ No comments on this pic, so here goes:

A typical Frownland type post that seems to invite the question, What is Architecture?

Rather than answer that just now, I thought I'd pick up on another aspect of his photo - the size of the construction. As you can see from the chair outside, it's pretty small. I was hoping to post some more small architecture, specifically a Native American wigwam and a London phone box, but I'm having real problems posting images recently; I copy the codes but they all seem to be blocked. :(

Is that Ronda?

Valencia train station:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...%2C_DD_122.JPG

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/esta...n-34563233.jpg

http://www.bluffton.edu/homepages/fa...ation/1918.jpg

After seeing the Sagrada Familia once again, I can say wholeheartedly that no other building I've ever seen is nearly as mindblowing.

A fantastic building.

Any city in the world would love to have such a building.

Can't wait for it to be finished. Will go there again immediately.

Anyone else think Trump when they read this?

Valencia Train Station is beautiful at first glance, and also in all its finely designed details. I love that last photo.Thanks.

This doesn't really compete with Valencia Station, and even less with the Sagradia Familia, but it is unusual. After all, how often does a city need to build a public elevator to take people from one street to the next? In Salvador de Bahía, the Brazilians solved the problem in style with the Lacerda Elevator:-

https://i1.trekearth.com/photos/82371/dsc00119.jpg

https://static.tripexpert.com/images...jpg?1519750474

As for the train stations I’ve been to I think Kyoto Station impressed me the most

Grand Central is something to see as well

Prefer Grand Central.

Looks like something you'd find in Europe. Incredible.

It’s such a contrast from right outside it’s surreal

Fisherman's Bastion, Budapest, Hungary:

https://oddviser.com/photo/place/160...jpg?1506085196

http://attractions.topbudapest.org/w...Picture-11.png

Matthias Church, Budapest, Hungary:

http://www.budapestagent.com/wp-cont...hiaschurch.jpg

https://www.gettingstamped.com/wp-co...ias-Church.jpg

Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany:

https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3622/3...0acdd084_b.jpg

https://i0.wp.com/outoftownblog.com/...80%2C853&ssl=1

Some nice ornate gothic cathedrals, MLM. Sadly, the Fisherman's Bastion is spoiled for me because it looks so like a Disneyland creation.
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Architects and town planners sometimes focus to much on street grids and stuff like that, but none of them until recently expected to have their work viewed from drone angle, so these photos are really catching architecture off-guard, showing us what we were never expected to see:-

Marrakesh:-
https://media.gettyimages.com/videos...5632?s=640x640

New York:-
http://airpano.ru/images/fb/1.jpg

Cathedral, Toledo:-
http://ep00.epimg.net/elpais/imagene...bum_normal.jpg

Please can you resize those pics Mindfulness?
Thanks xox

At the San Diego symphony hall right now, pretty stunning to take in

https://www.sandiego.org/-/media/ima...=500&w=700&c=1

^ Nice!

Here's the cinema where I saw Kubrick's 2001 when it came out:-

http://stories-of-london.org/wp-cont...ing-border.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...3dd95dcf55.jpg

It's now a Grade 1 Listed Building, which means it can't be messed about with, (although it has been converted to a Bingo Hall).

The population of Romania is slightly less than the pop of Greater London, both being round the 20 million mark. But if you're running the kind of repressive regime that Ceaușescu was operating, you need a pretty big office to operate from. Here's the totally OTT Government Palace in Bucharest:-

(i) unimpressive rear entrance showing the scale of the building: (check out the size of the cars):

https://www.local-life.com/bucharest...parliament.jpg

(ii) main facade, like a Vegas hotel:

https://balkangreenenergynews.com/wp...in-Romania.jpg

In comparison, the Mayor of London administrates from one small office block; (check out the size of the people ):-

http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/iede/files/20...-City-Hall.jpg

Bottom Line: For admin, Bucharest wins on architecture but loses on governance.

^Damn, that's overkill. Half of those rooms are probably just filled with pool tables and/or spiderwebs.

^ HaHa! Apparently it has 1,100 rooms, so they could probably squeeze in a pool table somewhere. Other surprising stats:-

* After the Pentagon, it's the biggest admin building in the world.
* It has eight levels underground, incl nuclear bomb shelters, which makes it the heaviest building in the world.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_the_Parliament)

Do you mean the London metropolitan area or another boundary?

For some reason, the number of floors seems way more excessive to me when 8 of them are underground. Makes it seem like some kind of bond villain hideout.

These are the figures I found on wiki before I posted that comparison:-

On a related map, London was shown as pretty much everything inside the M25, but yeah, figures vary a lot depending on where you define the boundary.

^ Yes, it seems excessive, but that's what wiki says. I count, at its highest, ten floors above ground, and of course the bit below ground is presumably much smaller in floor area. Wiki mentions an anti nuclear bunker with conc walls 1.5m thick, so yes, a classic Bond villain hideout!

Vincent Callebaut has some amazing designs.. I'm not sure how many have been realized.

TAO ZHU YIN YUAN proj Vincent Callebaut

https://images.adsttc.com/media/imag...jpg?1480100333

Those apartments kind of remind me of the turning torso in Malmö

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/me...ning-torso.jpg


Anyway,other architecture greats. I always liked the moorish palaces of Southern Spain because of how they integrate nature and geometry. I mean, they are so detail rich.

Alcazar in Seville, Spain
https://devoursevillefoodtours.com/w...-web-size.jpeg

The Alhambra, Granda

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/w...g/p05d1gkg.jpg
(The neat thing about this place is that there is a Parador in the Alhambra. A Parador is a state hotel where you can stay for the night. I know that Washington Irving stayed there (the guy who wrote the "Headless Horseman" tale).

And , for another area of the world:
The Giger bar in Switzerland (for those Alien fans)
http://www.hrgiger.com/images/gigerb...yeres_0159.jpg

It's all in the details.

I think you mean Moopish, not Moorish.

^ That's an elegant example of greener architecture than we've seen so far. Here's something from Japan - very worthy because of all the "fruit and veg" on it, but not as eye-catching as VC's tower:-

https://inhabitat.com/wp-content/blo...CROS-Japan.jpghttps://3clcll19jy8r2en3h8244ra3-wpe...-Side-View.jpg
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@Lilja: yes the detail on the Alhambra is extraordinary, but the Giger Bar is not a place I'd like to stay in for long. :eek:

Here's some more detail from the small building I mentioned in post #21 :-

http://www.victorianweb.org/painting...ecture/14b.jpg.....https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...k_-_453930.jpg

https://www.animalpolitico.com/wp-co...68-960x500.png

^ My photo is of the Pedregal Artz shopping mall in Mexico City, a building which is not remakable of itself. After all, to put a slanting face on a shoebox and stack a few of them together is quite a common design idea these days - I think there's a museum in Liverpool that's similar. One thing we can reasonably expect of a building, however, is that it stays up, or to use the industry's prefered phrase, "It maintains its structural integrity." Yesterday, part of the Predregal Artz mall failed that test! As no one was hurt in this completely unprovoked collapse, I think we are entitled to laugh with a free conscience:-

I just heard about this on the radio today. I might have to make a trip out there.

Chicago Architecture Center opens August 31*·*Chicago Architecture Center - CAC

^ Wow! I bet that would be interesting - especially to see Chicago itself. Have u been there, Plankton? As I'm sure you know it was "the birthplace of the skyscraper." Skyscrapers were a great solution to the problem of putting big office buildings on small sites, but when you have the luxury of space, there's a another solution too:-

^There's some structural spaghetti for ya. Very cool.^

I live in the south suburbs of Chicago. Aside from a stint in the military and being stationed in Germany, I've lived here my entire life. It's a beautiful city. We used to park along LSD and bike down to Rush St and hit a few bars every now and then. I remember working next to the stock yards by Comisky (Guaranteed Rate Field now... smh), doing some electrical drawings for the McCormick Place expansion project, and the smell of bacon was everywhere.

https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/site...stockyards.jpg

https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...kyard+Gate.jpg

Many Cubs games, many Sox games, Bears games, Sears Tower (Now Willis Tower... again, smh) trips, Water Tower Place, Navy Pier, Boating down the Chicago river and into Lake MI, Air & Water Show, Oak St Beach, concerts at the many venues around town, and an occasional convention or two. I probably left some things out, but I can safely say I've done just about everything you can do around here. It's way too crowded though.

I wanna live in Hobbiton:

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/me...-set-tours.jpg

Bumping because, like architecture itself, it should be difficult to escape from this thread entirely. Probably, as you read this, you are sitting in a piece of architure already and even if you rush outside, you'll have to shut your eyes to avoid seeing more of the stuff.

If you are sitting at home, I wonder how you like your house? Mine is more or less like one of these:-

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...Kz1xz-dyyhCffR

It's unexceptional and too modern for my liking, but it's practical and, as it's only rented, I can console myself by dreaming of the day I buy Hadlow Tower in S E England:-

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...VJmh8PmIiynJmg

^ This is a private home, built rather whimsically in the Victorian era. Does it remind anyone else of the more famous Burj Khalifa Tower? Burj K is on a slightly grander scale of course, but its designers seem to have followed some similar engineering principles, especially in chosing a shape for max stability and wind resistance:-

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...A9y_VWL7VJ87uQ

(My house, in comparison, adopts the Shycouch approach to wind resistance: Huddle down with everyone else and perhaps the wind won't notice you. :shycouch:)

I'm sitting in one of these:

http://www.fhf-gmbh.com/img/texte/603.jpg

...but modified into an office.

^ :laughing: ten out of ten for being loyal to your own product!

Stretched and Kemlite lined with full HVAC, tiled flooring, and electric, with 8 windows and 2 doors, plus emergency lighting and a sloped roof with drainage. My own refrigerator and a microwave too.

:thumb:

There's a full office next to me and down the street, but I like it in here.