Amazing Architecture

[pawpaw]

I love buildings. I thought it would be cool if there was a thread where people could post pictures of their favorite buildings, maybe from around their home towns, something they saw while traveling, or read about online. Or...maybe I'm completely exposing my geekiness and nobody will be into this...except me :)

Here's a building that was just built in Singapore, an art school:



Here's little more info on it:

http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/01/23/amazing-green-roof-art-school-in-singapore/

We'll see how this one flies...

[BH]

That's awesome!   I think I have one.....

[BH]

New BMW Museum

[pawpaw]

That's awesome!   I think I have one.....

Thanks fellow engineer, I knew I could count on you to humor me with this ;)

Here are some details from one of the snazziest buildings ever built...The Chrysler Building. NYC, here we come!

[pawpaw]

New BMW Museum

Hell yeah BH, that's what I'm talkin' about! Good one, I've never seen this. Thanks for posting it.

[ycartrob]

I went to Minneapolis this Mat for the first time ans was really drawn to the Wells Fargo building.

[pawpaw]

I went to Minneapolis this Mat for the first time ans was really drawn to the Wells Fargo building.

That's a great one Tracy. I'm especially nerdy about high-rises, and see a lot of bland (lower cost to build) designs. This is sharp though, a very handsome building.

[ycartrob]

I went to Minneapolis this Mat for the first time ans was really drawn to the Wells Fargo building.

That's a great one Tracy. I'm especially nerdy about high-rises, and see a lot of bland (lower cost to build) designs. This is sharp though, a very handsome building.

yep, I was convinced it was built in the 30's or 40's b/c of the art deco look, but I did some brief research and was suprised it was built in 1989.

[MarkW]

Great thread!

I love the Chrysler building.  It's uber-Gotham. Here are some of my favourites that I have visited or live near:

The museum of contemporary art in Rio de Janeiro.  It's like the starship enterprise, but with a view of sugar loaf mountain and Christ the Redeemer:



King's College, Cambridge.  I live about 10 miles from here, and I love to just sit and look at it:



Angkor Wat is breathtaking:



And the Swiss Re building in the City of London is cool.  It's known as the Gherkin:

[The DARK]

An artist's rendition of the Chicago Spire, a 2000 ft tall all-residential building scheduled for completion in 2011.

[BH]

I think I have a new favorite thread.

Is that Chicago thing for real?  Holy crap.

[ycartrob]

this is in my hometown in Jackson, Mississippi. An architecture firm saved the old Greyhound bus station from being demolished and refurbished it and now work out of it. I love when old buildings get a second life.

[EC]

I love when old buildings get a second life.

that's what we do in my job!  we help companies restore historic theatres. :)


here's how they revamped our royal ontario museum.  i walk by it every day.  i actually really liked how it looked when it was being built - not sure how i feel about it on completion.  BUT, a funny thing, there were insane icicles hanging from the tips - directly overtop of pedestrians.  the entire front walkway was closed off.  i guess they hadn't thought about icicles in the design...

[Dorothy_Mantooth]

Tracy, that bus station is amazing.

Prada store in NYC, old news i know, but i love it.



One of the bath houses in Hot Springs, AR:


I love this building in Boston. I'm sure someone could tell me more about it:


And i know it's not exactly a building, but these stairs kill me. how impractical but lovely:

[EC]

pretty sure i would fall down those stairs.  pretty sure.

[ycartrob]

I love this building in Boston. I'm sure someone could tell me more about it:

that's City Hall in Boston (Government Center). I lived up there a bit, and it seems it's quite a controversial piece of architecture. Read more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_City_Hall

[ycartrob]

brigning it home. Love me some Frank Lloyd Wright

[EC]

now i have simon and garfunkel in my head. :)

[Jaimoe]

I love when old buildings get a second life.

that's what we do in my job!  we help companies restore historic theatres. :)

I'm thinking of volunteering for a Toronto heritage job in the near future. I admire what you do EC, besides the singing and songwriting.

I was excited about the ROM's Crystal, but the reality is that I'm less than enthused about the finished product because of the aluminum siding that domintes the glass.

[mjkoehler]

uhhh. everything I saw ruled, including the swanky bus station. I think all my favs were picked already so I got nothing to post.