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The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 3:56 pm
by garethom
Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:00 pm
by Forum
Remember this one in Prague

Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:01 pm
by magma
Are we allowed all eras?
One of my favourite churches:
Copenhagen

Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:05 pm
by Forum
Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:07 pm
by dickman69
maybe thats why theyre so far behind schedule
just make a fucking field w seats lol
Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:08 pm
by magma
Westminster Tube station always makes me feel like I'm in a Bond movie.

Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:16 pm
by Riddles
antwerp train station is amazing!
Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:19 pm
by jaydot
Riddles wrote:
antwerp train station is amazing!
Dat symmetry.
Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:28 pm
by magma
Riddles wrote:
antwerp train station is amazing!
Beautiful.
Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:35 pm
by garethom
Better than the battyhole new front to Birmingham New Street. The old one was actually better:
Big up Birmingham Council, taking down old "ugly" buildings and replacing them with uglier-but-shiny new buildings.
Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:35 pm
by wub
garethom wrote:Better than the battyhole new front to Birmingham New Street. The old one was actually better:
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.
Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:40 pm
by rockonin
Wuxi Grand Theatre-China

Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:55 pm
by garethom
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
Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 4:59 pm
by Riddles
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.
Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 5:59 pm
by lovelydivot
I like Gehrys residential work much better than his - big stuff...
interior shot:

Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:05 pm
by m8son666
garethom wrote:Better than the battyhole new front to Birmingham New Street. The old one was actually better:

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

Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:07 pm
by m8son666
Alot of the churches in prague are pretty cool

Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:15 pm
by garethom
m8son wrote:garethom wrote:Better than the battyhole new front to Birmingham New Street. The old one was actually better:

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

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
Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:20 pm
by DiegoSapiens
GAUDI

Re: The Architecture Thread
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 6:21 pm
by garethom
That building made me regret copying the link into my browser