i like the CN tower, tallest builing in th world and i see it everyday on the way to school

Dam's, Like the Hoover and so forth. The power they posses to hold back the volumes of water they do. The image of strength.


Edited by - Finalday on 10/9/2004 6:24:15 PM

I've always been partial to bridges myself. The Mackinaugh Bridge in Michigan is my favorite.

i like airports. they take so many different forms and have seats and stores, you can pretty much shop in them, go places. besides, mode of transport is so much more unique. not everyday you see roads filled with planes. you also have towers and nature around it too.

edit: they are really cool things, airports. so many things happen in them, to both extremes. reunions of families long parted, uber arrests on criminals and the likes.

Edited by - kimk on 10/9/2004 9:26:27 PM

Canterbury Cathedral.

Sydney Opera House

If only i had a digital cam i would be showin a few buildings from Leeds

Can't find pics on the web unfort

I prefer the more classical forms of architecture, Greek and Roman especially, but Gothic is also quite impressive.

anything by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Peter Behrens, and more recently Richard Rogers (met him once, took me on an architectural tour of the Embankment - lovely man, very clever)

there's very little architecture I don't like, except anything pastiche or false, i hate that. In ancient works I'm particularly fond of Assyrian/Babylonian/Persian styles, Egyptrian of course, Greek and Roman go without saying, esp the works of Anthemius of Tralles. Indian and Chinese are cool too, and Japanese architecture and design just makes me weep with it's simplicity and functionality. What a fortunate people to be born with an inherent sense of aesthetic.

Not a big fan of the Gothic styles, despite the workmanship and effort that went into it; it's still medieval and fussy compared to the splendiferousness of the Renaissance. Firenze is a little piece of God's mind made manifest on Earth in the form of the most sublime architecture ever produced.

I'm rather ambivalent to the Baroque. it doesn't do much for me except notably for Wren, Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor (a very strange man) In scale i think it's wonderful, English Baroque with its emphasis on scale rather than effect is essentially neo-classical, and Versailles in plan impresses me, but the over-wrought baroque of Italy, Spain, Germany and France doesn't do a great deal for me. It's too much, my functionalist tastes recoil at such riotous decoration and form. Having said that, i was once driving through S Germany and came past Wurzburg at dawn and the morning sun lit up the rose marble and stone that the town is largely made of quite beautifully

Islamic architecture really turns me on. the forms are massive and simple but provide fantastic large areas for continuous non-figurative decoration. beautiful geometries and harmonies reflect the architectonic hierarchical world-view of islamic culture. I feel much the same about Byzantine architecture, it manages to be rationalist and sensuous at the same time.

19th century aping of classical and gothic traditions leaves me cold. the idea that every English village should have a gothic church, whether it originally had one or not? pooh off. chocolate box architecture and false false false. thank God for the International Style and the dranatic use of reinforced concrete, which swept all that rubbish away! Admiration also for Constructivist/Suprematist design in the early Soviet Union, esp the Monumant to the 3rd International by El Lissitsky. Tony Garnier's Cité Industrielle was a fascinating project also and he did actually build some of it in and around Lyons (but it did form a big part of my MA work so maybe I'm a bit biased there)

as for now? I don't really "dig" the Post-Modern *style* it's just eclectic pastiche nonsense for immediate visual effect. Purism is what we want back in architecture, simple forms dedicated to their purpose *FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION* burn it into your hearts and minds, my friends.

oh congrats! you chose my favouritest subject ever!


Edited by - Tawakalna on 10/10/2004 3:53:42 AM

Edited by - Tawakalna on 10/10/2004 3:54:46 AM

I was thinking about posting an architecture thread, manly due to Taipei 101's recent completion.

Not to mention a certain tower to be built in Dubai.


And the hotel:


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Edited by - ~Corsair#01~ on 10/10/2004 3:13:06 AM

The great pyramid, Giza. It goes to show that if we can make something that intracate about 6thousand years ago, we should have INCREDIBLE architecutral designs by now

castles

Sigs are so overrated. I would never think of us..uhm nevermind
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modern architecture is vastly ahead of the Egyptians. ok they built huge pyramids - never mastered the dome. did they? architects have always aimed at maximum coverage of space with minimal use of materials, before the Romans no-one had managed to do this.

I like egyptian architecture, but the Pyramids aren't that hot, they;'re just big and complex. real style is shown in the architectonic temples that seem to blend with the landscape rather than impose themselves on it.

sw, castles? you've never even seen one, there aren't any in S Africa (afaik) I must admit castles are fun places and i've passed many a delighful hour in a British or European castle, and a lot of Moselm rabats too. But impressive as they look from the outside, they're all much of a muchness. Big walls, courtyard, small rooms, draughty and usually cold - that's it. now Japanese castles, they're a different matter (but I've never been to one )

Edited by - Tawakalna on 10/10/2004 4:01:20 AM

We've got a castle in Cape Town
and I've seen pics of castles(st the mo I am only talking outsides btw)