Ok so, last week was stuff local to you, this week, how about stuff you've seen on your travels; holidays, work trips, anything. And as usual, not so much of the obvious, but maybe the lesser known and unnoticed stuff. Buildings that have caught your attention and imagination. So, could be a little church, or a railway station, or some industrial complex. Anything really.
I rarely venture outside the M25, as you all know, but I have seen the odd thing of occasion...
Karlsplatz U-Bahn station, Vienna:
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Vikingskipet, Hamar, Norway:
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Stolzenfels castle, near Koblenz, Germany:
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United Reform Church, Saltaire:
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Let's see yer stuff!
I found this strangeness whilst wandering around Munich on Sunday, occupying part of a side street:
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[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asamkirche,_Munich ]Asamkirche[/url]
We didn't go in but an image search reveals that we should've - the interior is stupendous.
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Bloody hell!
That's what I'm on about; the kind of things that aren't quite on the tourist trail, the quirky and the odd.
Staying here next week;
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Madrid Barajas - An airport shouldn't really make you gasp in wonder, should it? Well this does!
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This one did, for me - Hong Kong
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That Madrid one looks like Helsinki but bigger 🙂
Not just one building I know but lots, this is Porec in Croatia and its how many buildings can you fit in the smallest area possible, tiny cobbled streets and the church is 13th century
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The hotel I've stayed in is on an island across the harbour and its where Edward used to take Mrs Simpson on hols
Sorry mines boring... lol 🙁
The ST Louis Arch does it for me. You can actually go inside the thing, tremendous.
I can't post pics of it on here though for some reason.
Bilbao airport's not bad either
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I loved Napier in New Zealand as the whole place was built in this beautiful Art Deco style. Like stepping back into a different era. One where things actually looked good. Its amazing
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Not at all Bagpuss. Quite the opposite in fact. This is all about stuff that [i]you[/i] like, and it's great to see the lesser-known things that you might otherwise be totally unaware of.
Me getting in the way of some Icelandic architecture.
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The wife took this one before I could spoil it.
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Never been there, but I absolutely will. This place looks amazing. Alexandria Library, Egypt:
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and some of mussolini's modern stuff
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Prague TV Tower. Built to be a bully symbol overlooking the city. It has a super fast lift up to the viewing area and those babies crawling on it are the size of transit vans.
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Also in Prague: The Dancing House.
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Taken when in France in 2008 Rocamadour in the Lot, the river at the bottom just out of shot is the Dordogne.
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Wow - there are some cracking buildings in this thread
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Les Palais des Papes - Avignon.
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Kushum saravor, UP, India.
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My kids inside the Red Fort
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I get to stay here often as a guest. One of my employers houses.
Elfinsafety -
Fifth post from the end.
Sapporo Dome - floating football pitch which hovers in and out of the stadium through mahoosive doors. atmosphere inside (during a baseball match) was immense.
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The Takikistan presidential palace. quite an impressive building, and at a cost of (reportedly) 7% of GDP, its a good job it looks impressive! (rather new, think it was finished last year)
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Had the pleasure of going here a couple of times.
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via Cuzco with its 3D walls
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thats great!
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Naples, Italy
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Bristol's best building
Unfortunately I've not been.
Swedish tree house hotel
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Madrid Barajas - An airport shouldn't really make you gasp in wonder, should it?
And make you wonder where all the aeroplanes are as the air traffic controllers are on strike again!!!
Temple of the tooth.
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way up north, like way, way up North, a few miles short of Cape Wrath, where the population density per sq. mile is lower than it is per sq. metre in the cities, the scenery is wild and barren, and the road looks like a ribbon dropped onto the landscape. And then you come across the Kylesku Bridge. It's nothing great, just a simple beautiful curve in an otherwise chaotic landscape, and I think it's absolutely beautiful
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Madrid Barajas - An airport shouldn't really make you gasp in wonder, should it?
...wonder at how form came to dominate over function quite so much...
I can't do picture links for some reason but Google this place for some heavy duty brutalist industrialist architecture : IJmuiden Steelworks
Of all the lovely places to be sent abroad...
Marin Civic Center.
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View out onto my terrace overlooking Florence on a summer scholarship.
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Alhambra
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Bigbutslimmerbloke - great pic, and loved the way you described it.
Anyone (who's more tecnically savvy than me - ie everyone!) - how do you do the picture links from images you've got from t'internet?
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Last proper holiday Millie and I had before first child. I stood around looking bleak pretending I was in Kraftwerk 😀
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I lived not too far away from this for a little bit. Points for location as well as how cool observatory domes look anyway.
One that some on here should recognise, the Moorish village of Zuheros
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The medieval spice town of Uzes
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The timeless city of Arles
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The Roman aqueduct of Pont du Gard
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I lived not too far away from this for a little bit. Points for location as well as how cool observatory domes look anyway.
Is that looking up to the top of Mont Blanc, from the cable car on the other side of Chamonix?
Zugspitze?
I've been to the Pont du Gard btw.
Not quite finished a couple of weeks ago, but an interesting looking thing - the Metropol Parasol in Seville
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This might be obvious but anything by John Outram is impressive IMO
🙂 there are some amazing pictures on this thread
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Could we have a thread for landscape monuments please?
The 2000 year old amphitheatre in Nice-Cimiez :
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I spent a lot of my childhood summer holidays playing in the monastery gardens next to that.
Where I went last weekend
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Mont Serrat monastery, north of Barcelona.
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I was there on a college trip but only for a couple of hours. Everyone else went to look at the art collection in the monastery. I ran up the mountain.
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As always, it's fascinating and makes me think of places I'd like to visit.
Radio Tower, Montjuic Barcelona:
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Stayed in this one, Trump Tower NY:
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Flinders St station, Melbourne:
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