What is your favorite building, or the most interesting you've ever seen?

I personal like the Jubilee Church (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/images/Feature0123_05x.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/Feature123.htm&h=640&w=506&sz=39&tbnid=iNihz2BnbKkm2M:&tbnh=135&tbnw=106&hl=en&start=7&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djubilee%2Bchurch%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3D en%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN) in Rome

This Opera house in Tenerife (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek03/tw1003/1003pw_calatrava_tenerife.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek03/tw1003/1003pw_tenerife.htm&h=221&w=305&sz=16&tbnid=7PDG5DDhFU8MuM:&tbnh=81&tbnw=112&hl=en&start=4&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcalatrava%2Btenerife%26svnum%3D10%26h l%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGGLG,GGLG:2006-21,GGLG:en) is pretty amazing too.

St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/St_Basils_Cathedral-500px.jpg
Looks way too happy to have existed at the heart of the "Evil Empire", though...
;)

the burj al arab hotel in Dubai

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e375/lifeoffever/BURJ-AL-ARAB.jpg

wow, I'd never seen that, that's an amazing hotel

http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/233/jacksitalian1404yk.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

the basilica di san marco, sorry the picture is not very good but it was the best one i took when i was in italy without having a whole load of people in front of it

The Sagrada Família church in Barcelona!

http://www.spain-holiday.com/spain-travel-information-photos/p_61_La-Sagrada-Familia-barcelon.jpg

http://www.spanish-fiestas.com/andalucia/images/sagrada-familia.jpg

http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/Spain/Barcelona/Sagrada-familia.jpg

Great thread DJ

The Sagrada Família church in Barcelona!

http://www.spain-holiday.com/spain-travel-information-photos/p_61_La-Sagrada-Familia-barcelon.jpg

http://www.spanish-fiestas.com/andalucia/images/sagrada-familia.jpg

http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/Spain/Barcelona/Sagrada-familia.jpg

that is amazing

i would have put up the milan cathedral but sadly they had building works across the entire back and it kinda put me off it a bit

My favourite building would have to be Empire State Building in New York, simply because I've been there several times with family and friends and have some great memories.

I'd like to visit the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpar. I saw a documentary on how two seperate companies were employed to build a tower each. This turned into a construction race on a massive scale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petronas_Twin_Towers

Overall, I'm always impressed with the size of structures... can't wait to see the Burj Dubai!

http://www.joelertola.com/grfx/grfx_update_feb_05/tall_buildings.jpg

Chartres Cathedral

http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/math5.geometry/unit9/0940.jpeg

http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/goldslide/gold11.jpg

http://sacredimaginationjournal.typepad.com/photos/inspiration/chartres_interior.jpg

Oh, alright - since you insist. A few more:

http://www.pilarcabrera.com/conciertos/chartres/images/organ.jpg

http://arthist.cla.umn.edu/aict/images/medieval/GT/512/078.jpg

http://www.chartres-csm.org/images/cathedrale.jpg

The Center Pompidou (http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Centre_Pompidou.html) is another great one. It's like Piano turned the building inside out.

falling water and the guggenheim museum by frank lloyd wright can be found here:
http://www.delmars.com/wright/flw8.htm

How about the Basilica di Sant Maria del Fiore in Florence?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_maria_del_fiore
Also, the skyline of San Gimignano, near Florence, is very impressive.

Baikonur cosmodrome: The gateway to cosmos

http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/marsexpress/images/launchplatform.jpg

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6581/kgbdnsc8601094jpg6zu.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

this place seems up your street dragon

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6581/kgbdnsc8601094jpg6zu.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

this place seems up your street dragon

so that picture represents your favorite building? ...

And...what city is this? St. Petersburgh?...the cars do look russian...but its not Voronezh...nor is it Moscow...

And...and I dont live in Russia now...I live in Michigan, USA.

The amazing thing about the Sagrada Familia church is that it is still under construction. Whole blocks of other interesting buildings are going to be demolished so that Gaudi's masterpiece can be finished true to his plan. Oh, and not one ounce of cement has been used in this painstaking construction of amazing stonework. I think they need another 50 years or so to finish it.

The amazing thing about the Sagrada Familia church is that it is still under construction. Whole blocks of other interesting buildings are going to be demolished so that Gaudi's masterpiece can be finished true to his plan. Oh, and not one ounce of cement has been used in this painstaking construction of amazing stonework. I think they need another 50 years or so to finish it.

you know as beautiful as it looks, it looks like a place of devil and not God. Those grey morbid walls...like tears of people make this church a castle of satan. Beautiful evil...

Sears tower in Chicago.

so that picture represents your favorite building? ...

And...what city is this? St. Petersburgh?...the cars do look russian...but its not Voronezh...nor is it Moscow...

And...and I dont live in Russia now...I live in Michigan, USA.

its the old kgb building you buffoon

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He must have been a good little Party Comrade when he lived there, so he never saw "room 101"...

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He must have been a good little Party Comrade when he lived there, so he never saw "room 101"...

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go Abu Graib you fool, CIA is way worth then KGB.

Overall, I'm always impressed with the size of structuresTwo structures fitting into that category would be Stonehenge and Maiden Castle in Dorset, respectively:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Stonehenge_back_wide.jpg/250px-Stonehenge_back_wide.jpg

http://www.historic-uk.com/DestinationsUK/maidencastle4.jpg

Yeah, speaking of size of structures, Hagia Sophia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia) is simply amazing. I believe its the largest enclosed space in the world, and its over 500 years old. I wish religions still put enough money toward creating incredible buildings that things like this were being built today.

my favorite building hmmmph

a haunted house in bucks county would do great...

why do you wanna know anyways?

the burj al arab hotel in Dubai
Hey, have you seen that picture where they played tennis on the top of that building? It's amazing. The building itself is amazing.

I believe its the largest enclosed space in the worldIsn't that the VAB at the Kennedy Space Centre?
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/vab.html
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/facilities/vab.gif

Yeah, it seems familiar that it took over the title when it was built. Still, its amazing that a building that old was built so large and so well.

Zion,
I'm an Architecture student, so I just thought I'd bring up a topic of conversation I found really interesting

I haven't looked at enough buildings to confidently say what my favorite building is, but recently I've been impressed with the design of Soviet architecture:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Palace-of-soviets.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Russia-Moscow-VDNH-Space_Pavilion.jpg

I haven't looked at enough buildings to confidently say what my favorite building is, but recently I've been impressed with the design of Soviet architecture:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Palace-of-soviets.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Russia-Moscow-VDNH-Space_Pavilion.jpg

there was no such building in soviet union/russia. This is part of american propaganda of cold war, trying to make it seem like Lenin was like a GOD, sort of like prioritizing the evil that hovered like cloud on top of the country.

I would choose something like in the first post a building with lots of light...
the hotel looks cool too..