Post some cool architecture photos here.

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1. Here's a shopping mall that was built in 1827.

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2. I used to stay in this building from time to time.

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3. This is pretty neat. Venetian Victorian.

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4. Probably my favorite

Guggenheim

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5. Yeah. It's a Gehry, isn't it?

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7. Yep

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34. Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris

The building is not so terribly impressive on first glance, but each of those frames, each one resembling an intricate Arabesque, is actually a complex of light-sensitive irises that open and close automatically. I just read about this building the other day and I'm dying to go see it. It's a building that's alive, basically.

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18. New Gehry going up down the street.

Millenium Park Music Pavillion

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6. This is a pretty interesting concert hall.

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8. Here's a Charles Rennie Macintosh interior.

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9. I've always liked this....

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10. I see what you mean. Nice Art Deco monument. Very impressive.

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11. How do you like this one?

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12. What's the story behind it?

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24. It's the Gamble house in Pasadena, about 3 miles from

where I'm sitting. A Green & green design (that reminds me; are you familiar with Castle Green? I can post that, too.) that is almost definitive of Arts & Crafts.

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27. Yeah, post the Castle Green photo. I do like Arts and Crafts.

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35. Here's Castle Green, Pasadena

When it was first built, 1899:


and currently:



a couple of interior shots:

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13. Burg Al Arab Hotel in Dubai

I visited a couple of months ago. Cool place.

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16. How is it on the inside?

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28. I saw a tour of it once on travel channel or some such place....

very impressive, not the cliche atrium - well, there is an atrium, but it's not cliche'.

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39. Luxurious detail

The cheapest room was $1200/nightU.S. It had this Arab contemporary look to it. They are so rich they don't skimp on the gold or marble.




Take a peek inside: http://www.pbase.com/jortega/dubai

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14. Brussels

Brussels has wonderful architecture.

The Grand-Place:



Art Nouveau architecture like the Musée Victor Horta:





And the Atomium, a quaint, decaying monument to a future that never arrived:

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15. Of course! The Atomium!

Back from when people believed in the future.

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20. Have you been inside it?

I visited a couple of years ago, ceilings were leaking, escalators broken, insulation falling out of the walls, general air of decay.

"Remember when we said there was 'no future'? Well, it's here!" – elderly punk rocker on Max Headroom.

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17. Here's the first public museum in Scotland, from 1807 - The Hunterian

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19. this one's on my street up a few blocks

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22. Now that, I like. Very bold, very cool.

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Is that over by the port authority?

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21. Rookery Building Lobby

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23. Where's that?

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26. 209 S. LaSalle, Chicago

The lobby was designed by FLW.

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29. Very nice. Frank Lloyd Wright was quite the marvel.

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30. That's Frank??!! I never would've guessed it.

And it doesn't leak or anything? (just joking).

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38. Burnham & Root did the building....

But FLW did the lobby. I believe it was a remodel.

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25. Here's a subway station in Glasgow.

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31. this one's down my other street

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32. The Harry Adams House in Oak Park, IL

The last Frank Lloyd Wright house in Oak Park.

Edit - the Balch House is great, too.



http://www.oprf.com/flw/index.html (More pics here)

Deleted pictures - see link!

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43. Now, don't you see a lot of similarities between the Gamble House

and the Adams House? Or am I just showing my ignorance and FLW was a happy part of the Arts & Crafts bunch? Fallin Water, the same deal, especially the interior of Falling Water & the Gamble House.

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47. There are definitely constant themes throughout FLW's work.

I can almost look at a house and tell if Wright designed it. It's hard for me to put a finger on, but one can just tell.

Fallingwater is on my list of things to see in person before I die.

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33. Here's the Washington Mutual Tower in Seattle.

It's one of the most beautiful buildings on the West Coast, IMHO.

What do you think?

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37. I own that building

Well, the company I work for owns that building...but I own stock in the company

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36. Couple of my uncle's designs - be kind

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42. It seems as though he likes juxtaposing shapes.

I'm not a fan of the exposed steel girders, etc. But I like the outsides of both buildings, especially the one on top.

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44. You got it - he did like that sort of arranging. Both buildings are

from the mid-60's, by the way. Wish I could find a better exterior shot of the children's museum, though.

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40. More Frank Lloyd Wright - The Marin Civic Center

I have a great poster of this building I bought on a visit up in my office.

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41. I go for castles

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45. A couple from Richmond, VA

The top pic is the old City Hall that they actually wanted to tear down but luckilly got a clue and saved.

The other is the abomination that is the "new" city hall that replaced the original gothic gem:

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48. Good Lord! What is the matter with people?

what is that new city hall - the lowest bid? Designed by a box manufacturer? Utilitarian idealism? We had a similar problem in Omaha - one of the elementary school gyms needed redoing, and there was serious debate and argumentation to prevent the school board from putting a flat roof on the thing. because flat roofs are cheaper.

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51. to make matters worse...

now they are in the process of re-cladding the entire building because the marble panels on the outside kept cracking and falling off. They were actually retrofitted in the mid 90s with over 5000 fiberglass straps (sort of like tie-down straps used to hold stuff on truck beds) to hold the facade in place.

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46. I love this one

picture of guys building it:

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49. I love that one, too!

Especially in the evening, when the moon and evening stars are visible overhead, and that ghostly blue is glowning from the cube. Lovely! :thumbsup: (The inside is impressive, too.)

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50. How about this?

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52. This is probably the most interesting new building in NY

The Austrian Cultural Institute on 52nd St. off of 5th Ave.

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54. I walked by that every day while the old building was torn down and

that one was put up.

It was quite cool walking by it and watching the progress and finally seeing the weird-assness of the final building.

And while the Time Warner building in Columbus Circle was going up, I walked by that a lot, and could also see the cranes and watch the building from my 30th floor office down the street.

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55. I like the ACI. Haven't gotten enough of a sense of the Time Warner.

I checked out the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, though, and I definitely approve! :thumbsup: But the standard room is $595 a night. :thumbsdown:

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53. What are your views on The Beehive?

I rather like it.

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56. los angeles central library