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The Architecture Thread

Post by garethom » Thu Feb 27, 2014 3:56 pm

Share sick architecture:

The Jellyfish House by Wiel Arets Architects

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Remember this one in Prague

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Post by magma » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:01 pm

Are we allowed all eras?

One of my favourite churches:

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Copenhagen :Q:
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Post by Forum » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:05 pm

Some of the stadiums for the quatar world cup are going to look ridiculous

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Post by dickman69 » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:07 pm

maybe thats why theyre so far behind schedule

just make a fucking field w seats lol
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Post by magma » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:08 pm

Westminster Tube station always makes me feel like I'm in a Bond movie.

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Re: The Architecture Thread

Post by Riddles » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:16 pm

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antwerp train station is amazing!
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Post by jaydot » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:19 pm

Riddles wrote:Image

antwerp train station is amazing!
Dat symmetry.
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Post by magma » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:28 pm

Riddles wrote:Image

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Beautiful.
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Post by garethom » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:35 pm

Better than the battyhole new front to Birmingham New Street. The old one was actually better:

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Big up Birmingham Council, taking down old "ugly" buildings and replacing them with uglier-but-shiny new buildings.
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Post by wub » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:35 pm

garethom wrote:Better than the battyhole new front to Birmingham New Street. The old one was actually better:

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Big up Birmingham Council, taking down old "ugly" buildings and replacing them with uglier-but-shiny new buildings.
Giant mechanical Pacman about to eat people.
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Post by rockonin » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:40 pm

Wuxi Grand Theatre-China
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Re: The Architecture Thread

Post by garethom » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:55 pm

My girlfriend's dad got me one of those "1001 xyz to see before you die" books about architecture at christmas, really good, will go through it again and post some faves.

gotta say before this thread gets going, fuck frank gehry and if you down with frank gehry then fuck you too
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Re: The Architecture Thread

Post by Riddles » Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:59 pm

garethom wrote:My girlfriend's dad got me one of those "1001 xyz to see before you die" books about architecture at christmas, really good, will go through it again and post some faves.

gotta say before this thread gets going, fuck frank gehry and if you down with frank gehry then fuck you too
just did a google. all look shit.
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Re: The Architecture Thread

Post by lovelydivot » Thu Feb 27, 2014 5:59 pm

I like Gehrys residential work much better than his - big stuff...

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Post by m8son666 » Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:05 pm

garethom wrote:Better than the battyhole new front to Birmingham New Street. The old one was actually better:

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That's before the shiny bits been added tho? with the shiny bit its gonna look quite cool imo
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Post by m8son666 » Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:07 pm

Alot of the churches in prague are pretty cool
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Re: The Architecture Thread

Post by garethom » Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:15 pm

m8son wrote:
garethom wrote:Better than the battyhole new front to Birmingham New Street. The old one was actually better:

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That's before the shiny bits been added tho? with the shiny bit its gonna look quite cool imo
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still pretty batty imo

also lol if they think the surrounding area is gonna look like that with 4 or 5 people strolling around, actually filled with 9000 inner city secondary school kids
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Re: The Architecture Thread

Post by DiegoSapiens » Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:20 pm

GAUDI 8)
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Re: The Architecture Thread

Post by garethom » Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:21 pm

That building made me regret copying the link into my browser
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