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Favourite buildings and houses (pg. 5)
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| rabbitjoker |
TransAmerica Building - San Francisco |
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| rabbitjoker |
Pompidou, Paris's Modern Art Museum
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This is a really cool building. The idea was to make it look as if they put all the pipes, heating ducts and everything on the exterior of the building - sort of a building inside-out. |
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| rabbitjoker |
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain.
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Deconstructivist building at its finest. |
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| Endlesswave |
| The Guggenheim is nuts from what pics I've seen, I'd love to go see that, one day when I get to see more of Spain. But the Gaudi stuff is very impressive for me. Also, disko kandi, the Walhalla building looks like a rip off off the Parthenon no? :p :whip: |
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| disko-kandi |
| quote: | Originally posted by Endlesswave
Also, disko kandi, the Walhalla building looks like a rip off off the Parthenon no? :p :whip: |
yes! you're 100% correct. ;)
"In 1826 [King Ludwig I] commissioned a temple above the Danube near Regensburg, modelled after the Parthenon in Athens."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walhalla_temple
he also had the 'Liberation Hall built' which stands upstream of Regensburg on the Danube at the confluence of the Danube and the Altmühl, i.e. the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal.
... both Bavarian Kings Ludwig I & II were known for their eccentricities, especially King Ludwig II aka 'the crazy king of Bavaria' who built Schloss Neuschwanstein, Linderhof Palace, the complex of royal buildings at Herrenchiemsee and whatnot.
anyways, here is Linderhof Palace
...where also the famous 'Venus Grotto' is housed and where him & Richard Wagner used to hang out. the grotto is basically an illustration of the First Act of Wagner's "Tannhäuser" opera & little bit of the realization of Ludwig II's dream to have his own 'Blue Grotto of Capri'.
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| Endlesswave |
| Nice! :) I wonder if they created the curves in the replica of it as well, it's in the original Parthenon to have an illusion of the Parthenon being straight. If it were actually built straight it would look weird/off somehow. Also Ayia Sophia is a must for me to visit one day...check out the Byzantine Icons... |
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| *~LiSa-LoO~* |
| quote: | Originally posted by shanny
W.R. Grace Building
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Thank you :)
And ya Laura, I always want to snowboard off it or something...nutso.
P.S. You suck at teh computer. |
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| smuncky |
a stadium i found really interesting. Allianz Arena. the outside shell can change colors according to the colors of the team playing there.
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| Truepioneer |
Hopkin's and Partners Westminster Station, the coolest subway/tube/metro (whatever you call it) station anywhere!
Very futuristic |
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| Nostrum |
| quote: | Originally posted by spitty
so i was going to add pictures to the owen thread, but that was closed and since i spent so much time find a pretty picture of dundurn castle, i'm putting it here
uh, thats all i can think of now |
But you forgot the best one in London!! The "Gherkin"!
Even better in person
 
The "Diamond". Addition to the National Library of Denmark, Copenhagen.
There's a lot of Frank Gehry in this thread, wow. |
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| zokissima |
Most of the cathedrals in Prague. Just beautiful.
IMO the Paris museum of modern art is a fantastic concept, but just an ugly building. |
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| MKpacha |
lol when I traveled Spain, we stayed at this hotel that was right down town Barcelona with a pool on top... if you stood around the edge, you could get up on the railing and squat above it and, well, the "Gherkin" looked more like a dildo.... bwhahaha.
oops sorry not the gerkhin, but one that looks like it.
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