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The Back Room => The Diner => Topic started by: vandermolen on January 02, 2009, 03:52:08 PM

Title: Favourite buildings.
Post by: vandermolen on January 02, 2009, 03:52:08 PM
Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London (Christopher Wren, architect):

Title: Re: Favourite buildings.
Post by: Drasko on January 02, 2009, 04:52:11 PM
Few of my favorite local buildings.

(http://members.tripod.com/Vasiljevic/News/IMAGES/novi_sad_1.jpg) (http://members.tripod.com/Vasiljevic/News/IMAGES/novi_sad_2.jpg)
(http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m235/Vlastimir/nsbanovina1-1.jpg)
Dragiša Brašovan, The building of Danube Banovina, Novi Sad (1936)

(http://members.tripod.com/Vasiljevic/News/IMAGES/zmun.jpg)
(http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m235/Vlastimir/Capturettttt.jpg)
(http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m235/Vlastimir/vaz.jpg)
Dragiša Brašovan, The building of Royal Yugoslav Air Force Headquaters, Zemun (1935)

(http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m235/Vlastimir/Capturerrr.jpg)
Dragiša Brašovan, The building of State Printing Company, Belgrade (1933)

and for something completely different:
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_PCNkrpM969w/R9xYkKhd4II/AAAAAAAAEvU/EZ1wB0XqQSE/IMG_3519.jpg)
(http://lajme.dervina.com/foto/6b3f3d138f11cd520602f7b24217a961/belgrad_hotel_moskva.jpg)
Jovan Ilkić, Hotel Moscow, Belgrade (1906)


Title: Re: Favourite buildings.
Post by: Lethevich on January 02, 2009, 07:04:31 PM
Bangladesh parliament building by Louis Kahn (click for larger):

(http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/576/94072222lh8.jpg) (http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/576/94072222lh8.jpg) (http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/4210/19624128cl2.jpg) (http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/4210/19624128cl2.jpg) (http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/9788/26672869te9.jpg) (http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/9788/26672869te9.jpg)

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:

(http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/214/61109879dr4.jpg) (http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/214/61109879dr4.jpg) (http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/4019/84273996li9.jpg) (http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/4019/84273996li9.jpg) (http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/8296/67229381xk9.jpg) (http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/8296/67229381xk9.jpg)

(A few more of these in a following post - GMG flakes out over large amounts of images in the same post.)
Title: Re: Favourite buildings.
Post by: Lethevich on January 02, 2009, 07:06:00 PM
(http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/9995/69506829sw2.jpg) (http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/9995/69506829sw2.jpg) (http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/3600/99341408bo6.jpg) (http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/3600/99341408bo6.jpg) (http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/9314/21578538sd3.jpg) (http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/9314/21578538sd3.jpg)

(http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/1092/77831742yt4.jpg) (http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/1092/77831742yt4.jpg) (http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/8766/29501278fr0.jpg) (http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/8766/29501278fr0.jpg) (http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/5936/92192011gh7.jpg) (http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/5936/92192011gh7.jpg)
Title: Re: Favourite buildings.
Post by: imperfection on January 02, 2009, 07:34:23 PM
(http://keralaarticles.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/louvre.jpg)

Who could possibly resist this one?
Title: Re: Favourite buildings.
Post by: Sarastro on January 02, 2009, 07:40:26 PM
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)

(http://www.npointercos.jp/images/Moscow2004ssCRW_3762.jpg)(http://picturesofmoscow.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/lomonosov-moscow-state-university.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Kotelnicheskay.jpg/450px-Kotelnicheskay.jpg) (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Hotel_Ukraina.jpg/800px-Hotel_Ukraina.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Moscow%2C_Dushkin%27s_Tower.jpg/477px-Moscow%2C_Dushkin%27s_Tower.jpg)

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

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Palace_of_Soviets_-_perspectice.jpg/648px-Palace_of_Soviets_-_perspectice.jpg)
Title: Re: Favourite buildings.
Post by: Hollywood on January 02, 2009, 10:51:09 PM
The Vienna Secession, built in 1897, is one of my favorite buildings here in Vienna.

(http://www.twip.org/photo/europe/austria/photo-8922-16-11-06-09-15-47.jpg)

Title: Re: Favourite buildings.
Post by: vandermolen on January 04, 2009, 02:00:41 PM
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:

Title: Re: Favourite buildings.
Post by: PSmith08 on January 04, 2009, 04:08:51 PM
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.
Title: Re: Favourite buildings.
Post by: Hollywood on January 04, 2009, 10:43:58 PM
Another favorite of mine is Schloß Neuschwanstein. I hope to see this castle in person someday before I die.

(http://www.hogwild.net/images/Misc/castle-neuschwanstein-castle.jpg)