Favourite buildings.

Started by vandermolen, January 02, 2009, 03:52:08 PM

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vandermolen

Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London (Christopher Wren, architect):

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Drasko

Few of my favorite local buildings.



Dragiša Brašovan, The building of Danube Banovina, Novi Sad (1936)




Dragiša Brašovan, The building of Royal Yugoslav Air Force Headquaters, Zemun (1935)


Dragiša Brašovan, The building of State Printing Company, Belgrade (1933)

and for something completely different:


Jovan Ilkić, Hotel Moscow, Belgrade (1906)



Lethevich

Bangladesh parliament building by Louis Kahn (click for larger):



I have also become very interested in the central European brick gothic style, partly because it is so alien in aesthetic to anything I encounter in the UK:



(A few more of these in a following post - GMG flakes out over large amounts of images in the same post.)
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Lethevich

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Who could possibly resist this one?

Sarastro

I love European Gothic style. Those cathedrals in Cologne, Rheims (Notre-Dame de Reims), Milan, Barcelona are simply majestic.


Quote from: Drasko on January 02, 2009, 04:52:11 PM
Moscow

Here is some of Moscow "gothics"  8)






There are seven similar buildings in Moscow, fortunately, the eighth was never built.  :o :o


Hollywood

The Vienna Secession, built in 1897, is one of my favorite buildings here in Vienna.



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vandermolen

Thank you guys (or chaps/gals as we say in England) for the fascinating responses. I had the good fortune to see Moscow University last February in rather foggy conditions and I love the soviet architecture. I also liked the unbuilt 'Lenin Tower' a great monstrosity.

Anyway, here is another of my favourites. Durham Cathedral. thanks again:

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

PSmith08

Call it a sentimental hometown favorite, but I have always liked the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington, IN. It's a pretty standard museum as far as layout goes (the collections are actually pretty nice), though done by I.M. Pei in the early 1980s, but the interesting fact is that there are no right angles in the building.

Hollywood

Another favorite of mine is Schloß Neuschwanstein. I hope to see this castle in person someday before I die.



"There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

A Hollywood born SoCal gal living in Beethoven's Heiligenstadt (Vienna, Austria).