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Anything architecture. Post away!

 

Here are some of my favorites:

 

Antoni Gaudi - Sagrada Familia. Barcelona, Spain

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Jean Nouvel - Arab Institute. Paris, France

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Louis Kahn - Salk Institute. San Diego, CA

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Oscar Niemeyer - Contemporary Art Museum - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Let's not forget, since we like aviation, here's my favorite aviation-related building:

 

Eero Saarinen - TWA Flight Center - New York, NY

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Nice.

My favourites are

The World Trade Center Tower 1 Abu Dhabi
The World Trade Center Tower 2 Abu Dhabi
The Etihad Towers
The Nation Towers

Abu Dhabi has a great architecture and even more is being thought of. Sorry no pics. Doing this for my iPhone

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May I present Georgian Ministry of Highways

 

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And one from home-ish


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^^ Fantastic! I love the brutalist style.

 

Turning Torso by Santiago Calatrava. Pretty good as well!


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^^ Fantastic! I love the brutalist style.

 

Same, brutalist is by far my favourite style ^_^

 

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Well s*** I'd better dig up the analyses on different works I've done over the years.

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Avaz Twist Tower

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ex-Holiday Inn (todays Hotel Holiday) and the UNITIC Twin Towers - Momo and Uzeir

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RTV Dom/BHRT Building

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Same, brutalist is by far my favourite style ^_^
 
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Very nice

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Rotterdam Central Station :awesome:

 

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And my favorite aviation related building:

 

DXB's terminal(s) :awesome:

 

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My favourites:

The Hamburg Elbphilharmonie (If it ever gets finished :( )

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This is SAHMRI or the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, locally known as the cheese grater

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I also like this, the Budludzha, the former HQ of the Bulgarian Communist party

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^^ Nice examples so far!

 

Here's a message from the great Frank Gehry himself. ^_^

 


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Shanghai Tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center - Two of my favorite skyscrapers. And they happen to be right next to each other!


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Starting off with a shoutout to the father of the skyscraper, coiner of "form follows function", and mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright: Louis Sullivan.

 

I think his best work is the Sullivan Center (also the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building). I think this building is a stellar example of early movement into the modern open structure of large structures we continue to build today.

 

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Its proportions and lines are classical for sure, yet not a single one is unnecessary and out of place. The use of steel (still uncommon in 1899) allows an incredible amount of window area, a pioneer in an age of buildings made from stone. And the detail on the facade is just amazing, all done in cast-iron pushed to its limits.

 

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Next up Toyo Ito and the Sendai Mediatheque. This building is like a small forest, the structure is all in those bendy trunks while all the floor space is the tree canopy. 

 

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Each floor's program is incredibly flexible too, intentionally so. It's like a combination library, video store, record store and event space. But people seem to like it so there you go.

 

 

I've never been to this one but the High Line in New York is neat. Old converted elevated rail line turned into a very long very thin park. 

 

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https://www.behance....on-city-project

 

Link's not mine but this is a nice overview of R. Buckminster Fuller's Triton floating city concept. An "organic", modular floating community taking advantage of the fact that 3/4ths of the Earth is water. Personally I'd make them slightly smaller scale (ideally the max you want a residential block to be is about 5 or 6 stories) but it's got merit.


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The High Line is a personal favorite of mine as well, Steve. It's really turned what was once an eyesore into a beautiful and charming part of the city.

 

Another personal favorite of mine is the New York Times building:

 

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https://www.behance....on-city-project

 

Link's not mine but this is a nice overview of R. Buckminster Fuller's Triton floating city concept. An "organic", modular floating community taking advantage of the fact that 3/4ths of the Earth is water. Personally I'd make them slightly smaller scale (ideally the max you want a residential block to be is about 5 or 6 stories) but it's got merit.

 

Steve, have you seen earthships?

 

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Not specifically but I use the concepts in almost every design I work on. Passive solar heating, digging cooling pipes into the earth, even using hemp fibers in insulation to reduce the buildings carbon footprint. Really anything to up the performance of the building.

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Not specifically but I use the concepts in almost every design I work on. Passive solar heating, digging cooling pipes into the earth, even using hemp fibers in insulation to reduce the buildings carbon footprint. Really anything to up the performance of the building.

What have you worked on?


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Not specifically but I use the concepts in almost every design I work on. Passive solar heating, digging cooling pipes into the earth, even using hemp fibers in insulation to reduce the buildings carbon footprint. Really anything to up the performance of the building.


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