Post a picture of great architecture here:

[applegrove]

The inside of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. Some day I will visit it.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I really want to see that!

[applegrove]

2. It is supposed to be a forest. And it does give you that feeling of fractals in nature.

[NYC_SKP]

3. How funny that I imagined selecting a Gaudi work while reading your OP, before seeing pic.

How about that?!



Now I'll have to find something else...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Ha, me too. When asked for an example of great architecture

I usually think of Sagrada Familia first. Then the Gothic cathedrals, like Chartres and Notre Dame.

[NYC_SKP]

7. I didn't know where to go next, Chartres was on the list tho!

Also the Pantheon, a Shinto shrine, Machu Pichu, Hagia Sofia, and I almost posted the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies Van der Rohe.

Then I remembered the ancient arch in Iraq...

[applegrove]

10. I thought of those Gaudi apartments too.

I‘m even more serious about going to barcelona now that you mentioned other great architecture there. But for sure I will lie on my back with a really good digital camera and try and and replicate the photo I posted above in actuality. I love moments like that. I once went hand to hand with a native petrogliph in Bon Echo park.

[NYC_SKP]

5. Here you go, some Fourth Century Mesopotamia goodness:

In it's heyday, this was part of the largest city in the world.



The Tāq-e Kisrā (Persian: طاق كسرى , also called Iwān-e Kisrā (Persian: إيوان كسرى meaning Iwan of Khosrau), is a Sassanid-era Persian monument in Al-Mada'in which is the only visible remaining structure of the ancient city of Ctesiphon. It is near the modern town of Salman Pak, Iraq.

[HarveyDarkey]

6. This is more to my liking

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Falling Water.

That's always been a favorite of mine, too. I also like this one, Schröder House in Utrecht, Netherlands. I once posted a pic of this one on a similar thread here and got a reply from a DUer who grew up in a house designed by the same architect.

[kwassa]

24. That was me. I grew up in a Gerrit Rietveld house.

I don't have online pics. We moved out a long time ago.

The exterior walls of our house were white stucco, yellow stucco, purple siding, and black high-gloss ceramic brick.

[Rhiannon12866]

39. There you are! Thank you! LOL! What are the odds that you'd see this post?

Yes, I remember that well and how impressed I was. I took three semesters of architecture quite a few years ago and this Schröder house has stuck in my mind all this time, loved the way it looked. You are so fortunate to have experienced this personally.

[NV Whino]

16. Although I like Gaudi, this would be my choice, too

I could happily live there. I love the steps down to the stream from the living room.

[Brother Buzz]

19. It's hard to believe at times but the same architect designed this

[mrmpa]

25. I've been there..........

it is absolutely breathtaking

[BlueJazz]

8. Kinda' like the Chrysler Building.

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[NYC_SKP]

11. Yes. To me it stands alone among all skyscrapers.

I've always admired it, though the lobby is much smaller than it's only slightly taller cousin the Empire State building, so it's not as accessible to the public.

I met with a patent attorney years ago on who had his office in the Chrysler- it's the only time I've been beyond the elevator lobby.

Terrific building!

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. I live less than a mile from this house.

[handmade34]

14. Wright's work

is so nice and he has homes and building in many out of the way towns...

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. That house is in Oak Park, IL.

It's on the same street as Wright's house and studio, as well as several other houses he designed. An amazing street, really.

[handmade34]

13. I am partial to these...

Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser did pretty interesting stuff...



when I was working in Uniontown, PA a few years back, I noticed lots of really funky, interesting homes... Wright must have brought some good architects to the area


but also, considering the history.... I have always admired Duke Chapel

Construction of the Chapel was begun in October of 1930 and completed two years later. During that time students continually congregated at the stonemasons’ huts to watch the Chapel take shape. It was first used for Commencement in 1932 and was formally dedicated on June 2, 1935.

[JPZenger]

17. The Lawn of the University of Virginia, designed by Thomas Jefferson

In Charlottesville, Virginia.

[Agschmid]

18. Looks exactly like the university in SimCity...

Guess I know where they got the idea from!

[snagglepuss]

21. Wow. Thanks. i've never heard of Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser

Stunning.

[hunter]

23. Here's a Hundertwasser interior, a public restroom...

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

I love using "random" materials especially if they are truly random, but that's rarely possible in commercial construction where buildings can't really grow spontaneously.

[handmade34]

32. Oh, I do like that...

"Watt's Tower" is a pretty interesting sculpture in LA... visited there a few years back... love structures with history!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Towers
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I am no builder but I love to play... built myself an outhouse this summer out of scraps that would have gotten thrown out otherwise...
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[hunter]

36. That's a lot friendlier than my great grandma's outhouse was.

She also had an abandoned outhouse, all the wood was slivered, the cracks between the planks had opened, the knotholes had fallen out, and it was full of spiders.

A haunted outhouse...

[Hoyt]

30. Wow, Hundertwasser's designs are very cool.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

20. The great Neolithic monuments at Carnac

located in Brittany, France. Long stone walls, gigantic erected stones, and primitive temples more than 6,000 years old.

[politicat]

22. Biblioteca Laurenziana, San Lorenzo church, Florence, Italy.

All of the architecture is inside because the Medicis were smart enough to know that letting Michaelangelo completely off leash without giving him plenty of marble was dangerous and likely to result in an atrocity similar to the rage-fest known as the Sistine Chapel. (Seriously, the fresco is a testament to Michaelangelo being entirely frustrated and annoyed that he had to work in paint and plaster instead of stone or bronze. It's half audition -- see what I can do with the right material?!? -- and half grotesque FU to the Pope for demanding a freakin' ceiling fresco.)

But the library... It's gothic before Italian Gothic, and really rather intimidating (that lava flow of a staircase has a creep factor of 1000). Those arches and columns -- totally unnecessary and yet they're absolutely needed because that's the entry to the library -- a literal ascension through darkness into light. The blind windows are the blindness of ignorance. The floor space is tiny compared to the height of the room, to give the scholar a sense of being at the feet of giants and it's chaotic and nonsensical as is the uneducated mind. And it opens into this:



See? Light, sense, symmetry, order, reason.

It's performance art as architecture.

[kwassa]

26. another wonderful architectural tradition

Islamic architecture. The last three are from the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, which I've been to.

[Locut0s]

27. I love architecture, some that come to mind:

Islamic architecture as posted by politicat

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-86CX5pr8KrM/Tw7q_T52N2I/AAAAAAAABVs/2jRO_CSjd2k/s1600/islamic+art.jpg

More gaudi:





Some more modern stuff:









And the tallest building in the world:

[handmade34]

33. Wow!!

love Gaudi... my brother (an architect) went to Spain on his honeymoon just so he could see some of Gaudi's work (don't know if his bride felt the same )

[a la izquierda]

28. Uxmal

And San Juan de Ulua prison

[Scuba]

29. Hobbit House

[Jamastiene]

31. Wow, I love that!

[jakeXT]

34. Not finished, yet

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2428015/To-bat-cave-Arizona-architect-comes-futuristic-design-bound-appeal-Bruce-Waynes-world.html

[LWolf]

35. The ice hotel.

[yuiyoshida]

37. Taipei 101, Taiwan

[Aristus]

38. One of my all-time favorites:

[samuel786dean]

40. Wonderful Architectural Designs in the World

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