Cool! An architecture forum!! :)

So what's your favorite kind of architecture? Modern? Victorian? Weird?

My favorite kind is the modern one, made mostly of glass! Vancouver is full of buildings like that!

http://www.concierge.com/images/destinations/destinationguide/usa+canada/canada/vancouver/vancouver/vancouver_002p.jpg

http://www.concierge.com/images/destinations/destinationguide/usa+canada/canada/vancouver/vancouver/vancouver_009p.jpg

http://www.concierge.com/images/destinations/destinationguide/usa+canada/canada/vancouver/vancouver/vancouver_015p.jpg

http://www.concierge.com/images/destinations/destinationguide/usa+canada/canada/vancouver/vancouver/vancouver_016p.jpg

http://www.concierge.com/images/destinations/destinationguide/usa+canada/canada/vancouver/vancouver/vancouver_014p.jpg

Genetic.

Actually, I like almost anything from 1700 AD or earlier in England, and also Québec City (Old Ville). Louisberg aussi. Ca fait aussi bien des edifices anciennes à France.

I like Stalinist/Soviet Architecture

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/moscow-hotel.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/STALIN-Azerbaijan.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/127.jpg

I like Chinese architecture.
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/architecture/pictures/sungpagodahongkong.jpg
http://www.chinapictures.org/images/temple-of-heaven/1/temple-of-heaven-31216144032033.jpg
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/media/collections/freeman/vietnam/600/vietnam_114.jpg

http://www.stable.nl/data/portfolio/5267f42a-80a7-4ab4-805f-8a9056ad8518/wide/mainimg1.jpg

http://www.stable.nl/data/portfolio/5267f42a-80a7-4ab4-805f-8a9056ad8518/wide/mainimg3.jpg

I like Chinese architecture.
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/architecture/pictures/sungpagodahongkong.jpg
http://www.chinapictures.org/images/temple-of-heaven/1/temple-of-heaven-31216144032033.jpg
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/media/collections/freeman/vietnam/600/vietnam_114.jpg

same


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do like indian and middle eastern buildings too, you gotta love the taj mahal,



http://www.envocare.co.uk/backgrounds/tajwater1024.jpg

also i love tibetan buildings, but not just because of how the construction and design of the building turns out, also because of where the building is placed. the area is very important.


http://zt.tibet.cn/english/zt/2005focus/pic/050426017.jpg

I wish I knew how to post photos:( Anyway, I love the old Gothic towers of Eastern Europe & Germany. I love drama in architecture. I hate modernist. Give me a blackened Czech castle anyday over a glass tube.

go to advanced post. click the little image icon that looks like a yellowish postcard. then a url bar will come up, get a picture from google images, click view image so that the link has only that image with no text. like this below.

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~lamdoo/pictures/bio/chewbacca.jpg


enter the link into the url bar but delete anything before www. and then post it.


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Or just put the link url in between img and /img with [].

ya that sounds much more simple :)

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I love gothic architecture. There's something so beautiful about it. I can't stand that wierd glass/metal modern architecture.

is architecture not part of engineering :confused: just curious with the subforum name.

No.

I'm rather fond of structuralist architecture. But damned if I can find any good pictures.

Starwarsian or... Coruscanti style...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Senate_front.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3c/Coruscantsky.jpg/800px-Coruscantsky.jpg

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After that, I'd have to say, neoclassical.

http://z.about.com/d/godc/1/0/3/2/uscap.jpg

http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/0/r/N/house3492.jpg

http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/photo/dc_memo.jpg

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Anything by Frank Ghery:

http://you-are-here.com/theatre/walt_disney.jpg

http://img2.travelblog.org/Photos/9130/104330/f/690812-The-Dancing-House-in-Prague-designed-by-Frank-Gehry-0.jpg

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Yes... Frank does cool stuff... :cool:

LOL! :D

I love star wars arcitecture too. Unfortunately, it is not real...

Yes... Frank does cool stuff... :cool:

LOL! :D

I love star wars arcitecture too. Unfortunately, it is not real...


its not? :wtf:


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That Frank Ghery stuff, me no likey. I'll take Frank Lloyd Wright though.

For example, we have this one here in my hometown:

http://www.galen-frysinger.ws/us/lincoln28.jpg



http://galenfrysinger.us/us/us193.jpg

That Frank Ghery stuff, me no likey. I'll take Frank Lloyd Wright though.

For example, we have this one here in my hometown:

http://www.galen-frysinger.ws/us/lincoln28.jpg



http://galenfrysinger.us/us/us193.jpg

that is as ugly as franks shit, :) i have to be honest in my opinion all of that modern stuff just does not compare to the older buildings,


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That Frank Ghery stuff, me no likey.

LOL! "me no likey".

I must be an architectural fence-sitter, 'cause I really like 'em all. Both Frank's are awesome. FLW's - I've been to PA to see Falling Water, plus I lived in Phoenix where much of his work can be seen; and FG's - is awesome too, when I lived in Spain, I went to Bilboa to see the Gugenheim[sp] and here in Cleveland the Peter B. Lewis building was designed by him. Hands down-- Gehry wins, though!

~String

Not sure if it's real, but I like this too. http://sharkride.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/waterworld1.jpg

Gehry's most eye-catching work is probably the Weisman Art Museum. Don't know if this will change anyone's mind:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Weisman_Art_Museum.jpg

The Baroque:

http://www.lib.duke.edu/lilly/artsearch/guides/periods/erlach.jpg

http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t628/T628535A.jpg

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/italy/rome/carlofontane/0089.jpg

I like the usual : IM Pei, Norman Foster, Cesar Pelli, and the Spanish dude who designed the bionic tower concept.

Fucking awesome, I've been trying to discuss Architecture for a while on here, finally theres a good place for it.

I'd have to say that Santiago Calatrava is one of the best right now. His combination of Design and Engineering education really shows in the dynamics of his buildings. Also, they all have at least one element that opens and closes by folding.

http://vt.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31871648&id=6202494
http://vt.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=31871643&id=6202494
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/sijpkes/D%2BC-winter-2005/pavillions_concrete/calatrava_tenerife_opera_house_02.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://www.arch.mcgill.ca/prof/sijpkes/D%2BC-winter-2005/pavillions_concrete/Page.html&h=400&w=400&sz=21&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=OPgtDCPN0VzkZM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcalatrava%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl% 3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Calatrava_Puente_del_Alamillo_Seville.jpg/800px-Calatrava_Puente_del_Alamillo_Seville.jpg

Koelner Dom, 157m high.

http://fam-tille.de/deutschland/koeln/2001_045cathedral.jpg

world's tallest tower (in Dubai) with Architecture Award: Infinity Tower (Dubai Marina)

http://web8.p15170619.pureserver.info/fileadmin/images/building/building_03.jpg

http://web8.p15170619.pureserver.info/fileadmin/images/building/building_06.jpg

That doesn't exist... yet....

I wonder how they will deal with the winds, given the twist...! :eek:

That doesn't exist... yet....

I wonder how they will deal with the winds, given the twist...! :eek:

the tower can still sway even though it has a twisted structure. it would just require a few alterations.


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It's actually designed to utilise the wind power to generate power for other structures. It's able to power up to ten identical towers this way.

It's actually designed to utilise the wind power to generate power for other structures. It's able to power up to ten identical towers this way.

by using the sway of the building itself to generate it?


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No, by using wind turbines in between each floor (incidentally, seems I was wrong about it powering 10 identical towers. A mere five, it seems):

http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/images/pictures/wind-powered-skyscraper.jpg

http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/wind-power-rotating-skyscraper/

Each turbine can produce 0.3 megawatt of electricity, compared to 1-1.5 megawatt generated by a normal vertical turbine (windmill). Considering that Dubai gets 4,000 wind hours annually, the turbines incorporated into the building can generate 1,200,000 kilowatt-hour of energy. As average annual power consumption of a family is estimated to be 24,000 kilowatt-hours, each turbine can supply energy for about 50 families. The Dynamic Architecture tower in Dubai will be having 200 apartments and hence four turbines can take care of their energy needs. The surplus clean energy produced by the remaining 44 turbines can light up the neighborhood of the building. However, taking into consideration that the average wind speed in Dubai is of only 16 km/h the architects may need to double the number of turbines to light up the building to eight. Still there will be 40 free turbines, good enough to supply power for five skyscrapers of the same size.

No, by using wind turbines in between each floor (incidentally, seems I was wrong about it powering 10 identical towers. A mere five, it seems):

http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/images/pictures/wind-powered-skyscraper.jpg

its a good idea, they could make so many improvements on all of the modern buildings for energy supply, i think all buildings should be built with turbines and solar pannels as standard.

we could solve all of the worlds energy crisis with solar, wind and hydro powers, the deserts of the world are not even used much, we could erect huge amounts of solar systems in the deserts, im sure the calculatios have been done in the past, and i bet we only need to use 1-2 deserts to solve most of the worlds power supply problems,


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i bet we only need to use 1-2 deserts to solve most of the worlds power supply problems,
Not even. The red squares indicate the areas that would need to be equipped with solar plants in order to meet current energy requirements
for the world, Europe and Germany respectively:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Fullneed.jpg

Not even. The red squares indicate the areas that would need to be equipped with solar plants in order to meet current energy requirements
for the world, Europe and Germany respectively:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Fullneed.jpg

lol so what are we waiting for? oh yeah i forget the leaders dont actualy care about advancing. because they are assholes.

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Several projects are under way but are still at the conceptual stage, I think. Here's one of the biggest:

http://www.trecers.net/concept.html

And here's an interesting article:

http://www.upi.com/Energy/view.php?StoryID=20061027-015934-7322r

First of all, Trieb said, the solar plants in North Africa and the Middle East should be used to satisfy that region's own electricity hunger, which by 2050 will be as big as Europe's.

"The electricity first and foremost is for the North African and Middle Eastern states," Trieb said. But after a decade or so, the sheer mass of energy could enable those states to sell cheap electricity to Europe, Trieb said, which -- in the best of all cases -- provides the poorer African states with additional income.

"It would be great if the whole project had a stabilizing effect, socially and economically, for the African states."

Trieb said North African and Middle Eastern states have already warmed up to the idea, and in Spain, a solar thermal power plant with a capacity of 50 megawatts is currently under construction.
Imagine that: Europe going cap in hand to Africa begging "Please Sir - can I have some more?" Heh heh.

lol. im reading the links now. thanks. oliver twist style.


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Gothic Architecture;

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/arts/apictureofbritain/images/gallery/england_midlands/urban/7/web/111926508512130334197_1_web.jpg

Now, look at that and tell me you don't want to start humming the theme tune from 'The Omen'!

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:7fVAHwx3vycduM:http://architettura.supereva.com/files/20050825/06_c.jpg
http://architettura.supereva.com/files/20050825/01_c.jpghttp://architettura.supereva.com/files/20050825/04_c.jpg

I love contemporary architecture. Clean, beautiful lines, refreshinglooking and functional. I love a combination of bamboo, stone, marble, glass and steel. The whole world should be populated with them. Let's lobotomize all the people who want to ugly towns and cities with their oldworld track homes. Let's get trekkie.

all of the new buildings lack a certain quality. i dont know how to put it to be honest, but all of the new buildings seem to be "dead inside" like they have no soul.


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I like the icy look.

http://www.usefulandagreeable.com/libeskindberlin4.jpghttp://architectook.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/caltrans-7.jpg
http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/IST/IST168/EB1859.JPG

all of the new buildings lack a certain quality. i dont know how to put it to be honest, but all of the new buildings seem to be "dead inside" like they have no soul.


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They have a soul, a higher vibrational, clean and new one. Get in line to be lobotomized in my world as architect god.

Joking aside, it's not the building but the people in them that create the atmosphere or soul of any area.

I like the icy look.

http://www.usefulandagreeable.com/libeskindberlin4.jpghttp://architectook.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/caltrans-7.jpg
http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/IST/IST168/EB1859.JPG

lol that far right building looks like a block of crap. an ugly square block of ungraceful junk.




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I wouldn't say it's ugly but simple. It's not uglier than the very ugly buildings you see everday. As a matter of fact, in all *honesty* I think it looks damn better. I used that example to highlight the fact I like the look of steel.

http://www.xenophilia.net/olympics/nevsky2.jpg


http://peking.org/images/img/temple-of-heaven.jpg


http://www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/History/India/02/donaldson/tajmaha.jpg

modern buildings just dont have the soul.


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I wouldn't say it's ugly but simple. It's not uglier than the very ugly buildings you see everday. As a matter of fact, in all *honesty* I think it looks damn better. I used that example to highlight the fact I like the look of steel.

i can appreciate steel, i think a hand forged sword is beautiful, i respect your personal opinion and taste, but i just think that big building looks like a lump of ugly shit lol.


i just dont see the same beauty in new buildings, i think they are rushed and without love. they just dont compare to the quality and artistic style of old buildings.


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Hey guys,

I reall like that discussion about alternative energies. I started another thread to discuss that...:

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?p=1435566#post1435566

I few pics of Badshahi Masjid in Lahore, Pakistan built by the Mughal ruler Sultan Aurangzab Alamgir

http://www.islamicarchitecture.org/architecture/i/mosques/badshahi/i100.jpg

http://www.mofa.gov.pk/Pages/Punjab_clip_image005.jpg

http://www.johnhbradley.com/photos/061004lahore/img_4745.jpg

The traditional buildings are great. Modern buildings are not as daring - they need to be somewhat Western to be acceptable. Even small compromises - such as the Taipei 101's modelling upon the pagoda - was criticized by many. Although I still definitely like it.

I like Bauhaus and Antonio Gaudi is amazing as well

Bauhaus is stunning. Gropius & co did some brilliant work.
Some of Gaudi's stuff is also fantastic, some of it over-rated.

Really? What it is that you consider overrated? I have a book about him with the buildings and many of his architectural ornaments (metal and others) and I find him to be really creative and full of imagination. His aesthetics really appeal to me. And even though I am not an architect, the engineering part of the buildings doesn't look easy either.

IIRC it was (particularly) Santiago de Compostela. But it's many years since I studied architecture, I think there were a couple of others.
The Guggenheim though nearly offsets that :)
Some of the interior design I found offensive (from an engineering/ architectural perspective that is...)

By santiago de compostela you mean the cathedral? I don't think it was by Gaudi. Anyways, I have to admit that in most of his works there's too much, well, stuff! But everything is subjective when it comes to taste.

What did you mean about Guggenheim? My English is not very good and there are comments I just don't get! I should start asking more :)

By santiago de compostela you mean the cathedral? I don't think it was by Gaudi. Anyways, I have to admit that in most of his works there's too much, well, stuff! But everything is subjective when it comes to taste.
I had been informed that some of the interior was by him. Could be wrong... too many years, too many beers :)

What did you mean about Guggenheim? My English is not very good and there are comments I just don't get! I should start asking more :)
My mistake - I was thinking of the Guggenheim at Bilbao and it was Gehry's design, not Gaudi's :o

Maybe you are right about the interior, I don't really know.
I just saw the Bilbao Guggenheim, didn't like it either :)

Ancient Roman architecture.

Really old architecture, I don't care what - the older the better. I'm partial to the beaker culture forts/fortesses.

Thatched cottages and tree houses, i no like the modern junk.

[QUOTE=redarmy11;1404361]Gehry's most eye-catching work is probably the Weisman Art Museum. Don't know if this will change anyone's mind:




that musuem is amazing, all of the differant faces, its probaly the coolest museum ever.

I can't believe no one mentioned Gaudi
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Casa_Batllo.jpg/423px-Casa_Batllo.jpg
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/spain/barcelona/gaudibatllo/roofdet2.jpg
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/spain/barcelona/gaudibatllo/facdet3.jpg

still standing

http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/3088/sharkhousefd7.jpg

Proofing. I like it, a lot. I guess as far as sky lines go, return to Thy Caves. No, nevermind.

On a personal note, it's like color, I guess. I've always liked storm-proof glass structures. No,

Seriously, I guess that since personal dwellings are just that, it suits the owner. Myself, A-frame, River view, nice "Deayeck", and such.
As far as large structures, Amphitheaters, good luck there...I do like the layout of St. Augustine University. No, I'm serious. That, is a well constructed locale.

Anything by Frank Ghery:

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Frank Gehry is definitely extremely talented. His work on the Hotel Marques De Riscal is astonishing. Both the color and the shape bring life to the building. The undercarriage of the roof is wrapped in pink, gold and silver titanium ribbons. Its eye catching and unique.

I really like the buildings designed by Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. They're unique because there isn't a single right angle anywhere in or on the building, including the floors. He uses nature inside the buildings and on top of them, so they are eco-friendly.

Buildings without right angles are becoming a popular trend. Zaha Hadid and Herzog + De Meuron have both built buildings like this.

http://www.giombetti.com/wp-content/gallery/fc-bayern-vfl-bochum-allianz-arena/img_8719-large.jpg

Allianz Arena by Hezog + De Meuron

http://www.hiepler-brunier.de/phaeno/image/hibr_00021191pre.jpg

Phaneo by Zaha Hadid


Personally, I think its an awful way of doing architecture. Hadid's buildings often need to be structurally repaired. They were pouring completely new footers on Phaneo when I was there. There is no rationality or reason to building a structure this way. These architects are simply sensationalists who do these things to attract attention, not to create a sound building.

Towers with built in helical wind turbines! Awesome!

http://www.deskpicture.com/DPs/Places/Neuschwanstein.jpg

Look everybody, its Hogworts! ;)

Taiwanese:

http://ati.iblp.org/ati/students/opportunities/taiwan/images/building.jpg

http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/7/N/k/Taipei101.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/CKS_Memorial_Hall.jpg/300px-CKS_Memorial_Hall.jpg

http://www.usask.ca/communications/ocn/05-feb-18/images/thorvaldson-stone.jpg

http://koti.welho.com/rhurmal1/linnat2004/8063.jpg

http://www.anchortintern.co.uk/images/Abbey/abbey2.jpg

http://shireswalk.com/images/castell_coch.jpg

http://www.photoshoptalent.com/images/contests/tee%20pee/fullsize/sourceimagesmall.jpg

http://www.jqjacobs.net/southwest/images/cliff_palace_4.jpg

http://www.photosaga.com/monumentvalley/images/Navajo%20House.jpg

http://tecnocientista.info/Imagens/applications/PhotoGalleryManager/images/Machu_Picchu_Peru.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/477201657_f79eac82cd.jpg?v=0

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/tejas/fundamentals/images/ic-house2-lg.jpg