^ 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.