I agree on Sagrada familia. Down one side on the side road where its just a typical street they've rushed it haven't they? Big bland slabs.
It looks so obvious what they've thought.
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The New A+A: It's Elfin's Tuesday Architectural Appreciation thread!!!
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Guggenheim museum in New York. Comes as quite a shock after the square-ness of most of New York's buildings
The inside is where it gets spectacular though
Seeing as it's now Wednesday, maybe we should save them for next week now...
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Stopped in a hotel in Sauze D'oulx like that DezB, was like being inside a giant toilet roll
Ah google says it was hotel la torre, pics here here here
And for those who like fornication this was a local bar
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Pretty cool that. I bet the contents of the rooms were slightly less erm, cultural...
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La Grande Arche de la Défense, Paris. This thing really is quite grande, particualarly when you're standing under it.
The one thing my home town is famous for. Interesting because it's not meant to be that shape
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Wells Cathedral - the upside down gothic arches that help hold the tower up:
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I work 30 yards from The Gherkin and hadn't realised anyone actually liked it - I've always thought it irredeemably repulsive. I will look at it again on my way home with an open mind...
..I love the Gherkin, as do many Londoners. It's a fantastic building. I can just about see the top of it from my bedroom window!
One London office building I've always loved is the Natwest Tower; big, solid, imposing and iconic; bin part of my experience of London for as long as I can remember:
Remembered this little Gem, in a place called Ringebu near Lillehammer in Norway:
It's an octagonal stone church. Very unusual and quirky little building.
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Maybe not the most striking of buildings but it's certainly the highest.....in this country anyway!
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A few from Berlin,probably a bit different now,these were taken in 2003,whilst I was working at Saltzgitter for 3 months.Posted 1 year ago # -
Seeing as how the footy's on tonight, a footy stadium:
Add 100,000 screaming passionate footy fans into the mix, and it becomes a volcano of noise. Incredible place to watch a game of footy.
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some nice ones on this thread...
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I love the Gerkin, although I always think of it as one of those Victorian glass paperweights. Can't wait until the pointy monster on the right is finished, the views across London Village are going to be truly spectacular:
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The Founders Building, Royal Holloway University at Egham. I'm currently working there constructing something much more modest, but this building is amazing from every aspect and is huuuuuge!Posted 1 year ago # -
La Grande Arche de la Défense, Paris. This thing really is quite grande, particualarly when you're standing under it.
I walked to it, and was impressed by the scale of it, but it wasn't amazing / boggling enough to do much for me. My main thought was that they hadn't lined it up properly with L'axe historique.
I like architecture that is mind-boggling, and sufficiently strong in itself to banish thoughts about whether it's in line with other stuff nearby. TBH I was more curious about the cemeteries west of La Grande Arche than I was about the arch itself.
No challenge / beef / diss intended, just sharing my view on things.
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R1013186 by stuartie_c, on FlickrPosted 1 year ago # -
Just stopped and had a look at the Gherkin as I came past into the office. You're right, it is a double skin - I'd never bothered to notice. Also spent a minute doing the tourist thing and looking up the side while walking round the bottom - can't believe I'd never actually done that before. Familiarity and contempt, I suppose.
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No beef taken duntmatter.
I walked the voie one day, from La Defense to the Louvre. I remember wondering why there's a fair chunk of it with absolutely bugger all going on. (Avenue Charles de Gaulle, looking at a map)
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40mpg - it also bends the laws of physics! The basement becomes the 1st floor somwhere half way along.
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