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Long overdue.
Speaking of preservation, recently I was blown away by the "cantilever" built to protect Mackintosh's Hill House.
Borderline overkill, but it makes for some cool imagery.
Damn that looks nice! Where is this?I really like some of the architecture in the town I live in. A big part of why I moved there.
much of it is between 500-200 years old
A small town called Frome in Somerset Southwest England. I love it here. Beautiful buildings and villages and towns dotted around all over in rolling countryside. Home of King Arthur and King Alfred the Great, ancient mystical sites and Skyrim style barrows everywhere.
Apparently the house (1902) is in very bad condition due to water infiltrations. So the cantilever works both as a temporary roof and as a drying hall (like where they store wood) thanks to the porous envelope. Moreover, rather than a simple technical solution, they wanted to have a "building within a building", you can think of it as a temporary musueum where the original house is the artifact.
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Looks like something from Speed Racer. Hard to believe it's real...
so many colors, any pics from the inside
SUMC University Medical College
Is there a estimated launch date for this ship?
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There's some on instagram but it's just a big open theatre and most of the photos are during shows where it's dark so nothing interesting to see lol
so many colors, any pics from the inside
Great topic OP! Love talking about buildings and architecture in general.
The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha by I.M. Pei (RIP):
I love the way it blends influences from Islamic architecture and more modernist impulses, resulting in a structure that's monolithic, almost sacred, yet strangely compelling. Feels more like something you'd find in a painting than real life, but there it is.
The National Gallery in Singapore:
Exterior:
A repurposing of the former supreme court building dating back to colonial times. I just love how the old and the new interact here. Use of natural lighting (of which Singapore gets a lot) is also excellent
Smailholm Tower, Scotland
There's just something about ruined castles in the wilderness that captures the romantic imagination; like the tower has so many stories to tell and secrets hidden in its stones. I think there's something to be said about its geometric simplicity as well. It's perhaps no surprise that Sir Walter Scott, a prominent figure in European literary romanticism, spent much of his childhood there, a source of at least some inspiration later in his life.
The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha by I.M. Pei (RIP):
I love the way it blends influences from Islamic architecture and more modernist impulses, resulting in a structure that's monolithic, almost sacred, yet strangely compelling. Feels more like something you'd find in a painting than real life, but there it is.
The National Gallery in Singapore:
Exterior:
A repurposing of the former supreme court building dating back to colonial times. I just love how the old and the new interact here. Use of natural lighting (of which Singapore gets a lot) is also excellent
Smailholm Tower, Scotland
There's just something about ruined castles in the wilderness that captures the romantic imagination; like the tower has so many stories to tell and secrets hidden in its stones. I think there's something to be said about its geometric simplicity as well. It's perhaps no surprise that Sir Walter Scott, a prominent figure in European literary romanticism, spent much of his childhood there, a source of at least some inspiration later in his life.
Coventry, UK has for some bizarre reason an Elephant on their Coat of Arms:
Which gets into places like the badge for Coventry City Football Club:
So, obviously, the city of Coventry had to build a building that looks like an Elephant:
You can see it on Google Maps here:
Which gets into places like the badge for Coventry City Football Club:
So, obviously, the city of Coventry had to build a building that looks like an Elephant:
You can see it on Google Maps here:
You guys should be sister cities with that part of Thailand which also has an elephant building!Coventry, UK has for some bizarre reason an Elephant on their Coat of Arms:
Which gets into places like the badge for Coventry City Football Club:
So, obviously, the city of Coventry had to build a building that looks like an Elephant:
You can see it on Google Maps here:
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Building (it was Bangkok... not as remote as I recalled)
Haha. Totally. I just searched for "Elephant Building" in Google Maps and they were the only two options:
I've always had a soft spot for Lucy the Elephant
Sweet Jesus. This is what I get for not entering this thread for a while, damn.
Kinda looks like what would happen to the Farnsworth house if it came in contact with some retromutagen:
While I'm here, I'll post some pictures of I think my favourite house ever in Grand Designs, which is reminiscent of the above:
https://i./i/pix/2015/09/08/18/2C12D88600000578-3226633-Clinton_Dall_stunned_Grand_Designs_presenter_Kevin_McCloud_with_-a-39_1441732616984.jpg
https://i./i/pix/2015/09/08/18/2C12D89F00000578-3226633-Outside_a_small_swimming_pool_adds_to_the_simplistic_style_of_th-a-40_1441732616986.jpg
https://i./i/pix/2015/09/08/18/2C12D8CA00000578-3226633-Clinton_worked_hard_to_take_the_house_from_a_vast_steel_frame_to-a-45_1441732617034.jpg
I hate people with money.
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I always loved Disney's Contemporary Resort in Orlando. Such a cool design and the monorail goes right through it.
Interior:
I really like the Fendi Headquarters at Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana
And anything by Xavier Corbero
And anything by Xavier Corbero
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It is nice and I always thought it was a real shame that fascists hijacked that kind of neoclassicism. It guess the likes of Chipperfield is getting close to reviving it.
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Reminds me of Oblivion (the movie)