Beautiful Buildings

[nonperson]

Everything and anything architectural; from yurts to the Empire State, irrigation schemes to your grandfather's potting shed. Please tell us what we are looking at!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There should be lots of interesting picture as most of you who post here are foreigners and live abroad..........;)

To get us started,

http://www.cambridge2000.com/gallery/images/P40314378.jpg

Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier, 1929.

[nonperson]

http://www.wright-house.com/frank-lloyd-wright/fallingwater-pictures/fallingwater-2.jpg

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/De_la_warr_front_view.jpg/796px-De_la_warr_front_view.jpg

http://www.southamptoncameraclub.co.uk/html/scc2006/images2006/Main%20Pics/Intermediate/p09p_jd_de_la_warr_pavilion.jpg

http://www.psyonic.dsl.pipex.com/bw8.jpg

http://www.dlwp.com/images/cover_image40.jpg

http://www.imagesofbuildings.com/folderfour/pages/de_la_warr_2.htm

[Larkin]

I agree with your choice of Falling Water, but the Villa Saveye looks like a small corporate headquarters pretending to be a home. Unfortunately, many high end new homes imatate this style over Falling Water.

My choice is The Flat Iron Building in Madison Square, Manhattan. Built in 1901, it is regarded as the first skyscraper.

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Einsteinturm_7443.jpg

[Larkin]

Microsoft headquarters

[nonperson]

I agree with your choice of Falling Water, but the Villa Saveye looks like a small corporate headquarters pretending to be a home. Unfortunately, many high end new homes imatate this style over Falling Water.

My choice is The Flat Iron Building in Madison Square, Manhattan. Built in 1901, it is regarded as the first skyscraper.

I posted Falling Water to beat the Yankee-Doodles. I admit the Villa Savoye
and all International Style buildings aren't to everybody's taste. White clean simple faceted surfaces are emotionally cold and so invoke in most people a sense of discomfort even when viewed from photos. I am unsure why I like this style; perhaps it is because I spend my life in clutter, dust, and chaos!

I like the The Flat Iron Building not for its technology (there is a customs warehouse here in the UK that predates by some time) but the way its occupies space, its geometry.

[nonperson]

Microsoft headquarters

Yes. It is clever how the building's architecture mirrors that of the company's software. :grin:

[stopharian]

I agree with your choice of Falling Water, but the Villa Saveye looks like a small corporate headquarters pretending to be a home. Unfortunately, many high end new homes imatate this style over Falling Water.

My choice is The Flat Iron Building in Madison Square, Manhattan. Built in 1901, it is regarded as the first skyscraper.


As someone who hasbeen to the Villa Savoie I both have to agree with you and highly disagree with you. Saying that the Villa Savoie looks like a corporate headquarters is like saying that the lord of the rings is just another fantasy novel. It disregards the fact that these works vastly predate the genres that they are being compared to. Initially I wasnt a big fan of Le Corbusier myself, but after studiny and seeing many of his works I began to understand his genius. The Villa Savoie really isnt meant to be viewed from the outside. It is an example of the argument between those who believe that architects design objects and those who design spaces. Villa Savoie is an amazingingly groundbreaking design in its use of space. being inside of Villa Savoie provides a glimpse of just what an amazing new experience architecture was to become in the 20th century. It is as Le Corb said "A machine for living in". He belived that cheap industrial processes would allow for the world to become a clean new utopia for the masses.

As to the Flatirons Building.....Not the first sky scraper. The first skyscraper in New York, but Chicago is the home of the sky scraper and The Home Insurance Building is the first building to have a steel structural skeleton. It predates the Flatiron building by 20 years.



I leave you with some pictures of La Tourette. This french monastery is a much later design of Le Corb. Initially it probably looks like a corporate headquarters as well. but some of the interior shots may give you a glimpse into the changes it provided in the religious spaces as compared to older monasteries.
http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/latourette/tourette1.jpg

Inside the Chapel
http://home.worldonline.dk/jgkjelds/couvent8.jpg

http://www.vitruvius.com.br/arquitextos/arq084/arq084_01_04.jpg

[stopharian]

The Tempitto de San Pietro. On the supposed spot of Peter's martydom. Considered to be the best distillation and most perfect high renaissance building.

http://data.greatbuildings.com/gbc/images/cid_2296541.jpg

[stopharian]

The Maison Carree in Nimes France(also the home of clothe de nimes (Denim)) Is a Roman Temple built approx 16 B.C. This was the favorite building of Thomas jefferson and as such it inluenced his design of the Virginia state capitol building which is an almost exact replica. A number of US capitols were then designed along these lines (something like 16)
http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/754/391382.JPG

[rhinosaur]

Einstein TowerThere are hardly any windows! Imagine how dark and gloomy it must be inside.

[stopharian]

Lebbeus Woods is a theoretical architect. He has never had a built work. Many of his spaces are uninhabitable. He successfully won a lawsuit against eh producers of Twelve Monkeys for stealing his design for the interrogation chair.

http://arch.eptort.bme.hu/kep/Image514.jpg

The chair case (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.coldbacon.com/art/pics/lebbeuswoods/lebbeuswoods-chair.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.coldbacon.com/art/lebbeuswoods-12monkeys.html&h=249&w=250&sz=38&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=HCUc0Rx4SnBX_M:&tbnh=111&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3DLebbeus%2Bwoods%2Bchair%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN)

[stopharian]

There are hardly any windows! Imagine how dark and gloomy it must be inside.

Not to quibble, but as an astronomical observatory......

[Archvile]

Bankers Trust company building New York:
http://www.arch.tu-dresden.de/ibad/Baugeschichte/bilder/new%20york/bankers%20trust%20bdg%20ansicht.jpg
some building in Luxembourg:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Luxembourg0080.JPG/800px-Luxembourg0080.JPG
Williams Tower Houston:
http://www.hickox.us/news.s2.jpg

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[Hustler]

Burj Al Arab in the UAE
http://www.vacationlair.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/baaj.jpg

http://chau84.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/mini-burj-al-arab-2.jpg

[Methofelis]

Dubai has some wonderful ideas.

Soon to come:

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/Atkins_Lighthouse_dubai.jpg

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/lighthouse2.jpg

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/998_5_1000 Atkins Lighthouse 5.jpg

[Xaeir]

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/india.jpg

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/india2.jpg

[Rajah]

:wub: Gaudi

Sagrada Familia:

http://www.gaudidesigner.com/data/article/16.jpg

Casa Batllo:

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/12/7c/12/casa-batllo-at-night.jpg

[eyebyte_atWork]

Williams Tower Houston:

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I have driven by it a few times - it IS a good looking structure.

[slacker]

This is the roof of the Santa Caterina market in Barcelona. I love the way the roof works with the architecture of the market. The style also fits in nicely with its surroundings.

While I was searching for this pic, I realized that Barcelona is full of wondrous architecture, old & new - must visit the city one day.
http://img.slate.com/media/1/123125/2079215/2133224/2135224/2137045/2_SantaCaterinaMarket.jpg

[Rajah]

I have driven by it a few times - it IS a good looking structure.I lived across the street from Williams Tower. Its most striking detail is the fact that it's the only skyscraper in the area. It's kind of a (pretty!) sore thumb. ;)

Have you ever been to the Waterwall there? It's pretty cool.


While I was searching for this pic, I realized that Barcelona is full of wondrous architecture, old & new - must visit the city one day.It's incredible. Note my Gaudi love. :grin:

[Lurker]

Notre-Dame Cathedral seen from the River Seine.

http://www.essential-architecture.com/STYLE/me04-Paris.notre.dame.750pix.jpg



One of my favorites, the Neushwanstein Castle in Germany

http://www.texasgirlschoir.org/lgtr00/NeuschwansteinCastle1.jpg

http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/7/U/i/Neuschwanstein.jpg


Burg Eltz, another castle in Germany

http://www.egr.msu.edu/%7Enorconkm/images/eltz.jpg

[Nocapszy]

5437

[Lurker]

The World's Tallest Log Cabin, found in Russia.

http://www.joehallock.com/wp-images/2007/03/2007_03_28_01.jpg


The Urban Cactus, a high rise apartment building in Rotterdam

http://inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/urbancactus2.jpg


http://josegenao.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/hd30c.jpg

[Rajah]

I was looking for a link to images of some very odd architecture I saw when I was in the Netherlands. I can't find that, but I did find this cool thread (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6380) on a different forum.

[lbloom]

I can't really see some of those pictures without saving and shrinking them.

[Larkin]

I like this thread, it's stimulating.

As someone who hasbeen to the Villa Savoie I both have to agree with you and highly disagree with you. Saying that the Villa Savoie looks like a corporate headquarters is like saying that the lord of the rings is just another fantasy novel. It disregards the fact that these works vastly predate the genres that they are being compared to. Initially I wasnt a big fan of Le Corbusier myself, but after studiny and seeing many of his works I began to understand his genius. The Villa Savoie really isnt meant to be viewed from the outside. It is an example of the argument between those who believe that architects design objects and those who design spaces. Villa Savoie is an amazingingly groundbreaking design in its use of space. being inside of Villa Savoie provides a glimpse of just what an amazing new experience architecture was to become in the 20th century. It is as Le Corb said "A machine for living in". He belived that cheap industrial processes would allow for the world to become a clean new utopia for the masses.

I did take note of the date that the Villa Savoie was built. that is to it's credit. I think the problem i have is that when captains of industrie decide to built a home they want to make a statement. As an example, Falling Water is often considered an ideal, but when the costs and estimates come, they settle for the less expensive international style.

[Rajah]

I've always thought my law school is beautiful...

http://www.thecornersgallery.com/cornell/lawschool.jpg

http://schools-wikipedia.org/images/34/3491.jpg

Library interior:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/d/d3/Biocrawler.Cornell_Law_School_2.jpg

The gorge:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/375702246_ad23ba2402.jpg

[Ponderous]

This thread is so awesome, thank you. Architecture is often a widely underappreciated art form.


but I did find this cool thread (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6380) on a different forum.
And thanks for sharing that. When I saw the building below, my response was "Wow" for the concept. Then of course, there were many other concepts to "wow" there.

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/wow.JPG

[stopharian]

I like this thread, it's stimulating.

I did take note of the date that the Villa Savoie was built. that is to it's credit. I think the problem i have is that when captains of industrie decide to built a home they want to make a statement. As an example, Falling Water is often considered an ideal, but when the costs and estimates come, they settle for the less expensive international style.

Seems like it would be counter intuitive but International style or any minimalist type of architecture is the most expensive architecture to build.

Why because there are no ways to hide the connections or fasteners, many of the conventions of construction exist to hide the sloppiness of the construction technique.

Example base boards: when you remove baseboards the wall finishes need to be perfectly done to the floor and flooring needs to meet the wall it can double the cost of both.

Sloppy 70s international style can diminish what the original ground breaking designers were trying to do. Le corbusier I consider to be a modernist but not really of the international style. If you look at buildings and furniture of Mies Van Der Rohe who is pretty much the central figure of international style , you will find everything to be extremely expensive.

[zhang_bob]

I nominate New Inn, despite being on corner of one the most grotesque and ghastly streets I have ever set foot on.

New Inn is the earliest surviving three story house in Oxford, built between 1386 and 1396 as New Inn. Now a few shops, it was originally five, with workshops and accomodation over. The most northerly section was restored in 1950, the remainder in 1985.


http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9638/124916098298067549chn0.th.jpg (http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=124916098298067549chn0.jpg)
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/3161/383479451a7a52a8deti3.th.jpg (http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?image=383479451a7a52a8deti3.jpg)
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/5508/21197306072761f1571aw6.th.jpg (http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=21197306072761f1571aw6.jpg)
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/2995/366312788b1efab81f7id5.th.jpg (http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image=366312788b1efab81f7id5.jpg)
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/387/4949961271391ec1678ps9.th.jpg (http://img99.imageshack.us/my.php?image=4949961271391ec1678ps9.jpg)

[Larkin]

Sloppy 70s international style can diminish what the original ground breaking designers were trying to do. Le corbusier I consider to be a modernist but not really of the international style. If you look at buildings and furniture of Mies Van Der Rohe who is pretty much the central figure of international style , you will find everything to be extremely expensive.

You know your field, my compliments, The sloppy 70's is exactly what I was refering to.

The problems in Falling Water were highly individual because of it's setting. It was a real one-off

[zhang_bob]

Now time for a building not in Oxford. The Phaeno Science Center is one of a select few contemporary buildings I can tolerate to any degree. I even have a poster of The Phaeno Science Center on my door.:)

BMW Central Building, Bergisel Ski Jump, and Vitra Fire Station by the same architect - Zaha Hadid - are also cool.


The Phaeno Science Center is a new interactive science center in Wolfsburg, Germany. Phaeno arose from progressive urban planning by the City of Wolfsburg. In 1998 City officials were developing a plot of vacant, public land immediately adjacent to Wolfsburg's railway station and just south of VW's huge, then-unfinished attraction Autostadt. An art museum was planned for the site, but Dr. Wolfgang Guthardt, then the City's Director for Culture, Sports and Education, knew that such an institution would compete with Wolfsburg's successful Kunst Museum (Art Museum) and needed other options. Guthardt visited Technorama, a science center in Switzerland and became convinced that a science center in Wolfsburg would complement both Autostadt and the Kunst Museum.

Preliminary planning began in November 1998, and one year later Joe Ansel, an American consultant and designer, was approached to handle the exhibitions and other operational aspects of the project. An architectural design competition was held in January 2000 and the prominent architect Zaha Hadid won, in conjunction with structural engineers, Adams Kara Taylor. About five years later, phaeno opened to the public on November 24, 2005 with over 250 interactive exhibits from Ansel Associates, Inc. all enclosed in an astounding concrete structure designed by Zaha Hadid and her German associate, Mayer B?hrle architects. The architectural design has been described as a "hypnotic work of architecture - the kind of building that utterly transforms our vision of the future."

The building effectively stands on concrete stilts allowing visitors to the Autostadt to pass through without having to interfere with the workings of the building. Phaeno is connected to the Autostadt via a metal bridge accessed by escalators and stairs either side. The underside of Phaeno is illuminated and the "stilts" are too.

Dr. Guthardt is now Phaeno's first Executive Director. Phaeno has enjoyed high attendance and broad public acceptance since its opening

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9283/phaenosw4.th.jpg (http://img528.imageshack.us/my.php?image=phaenosw4.jpg)

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/6015/zahahadidtwobu5.th.gif (http://img530.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zahahadidtwobu5.gif)

[djm]

The Selfridges building at the new Bullring development in Birmingham:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Birmingham_Selfridges_building.jpg/467px-Birmingham_Selfridges_building.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/Bullring%2C_Birmingham_%28UK%29.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Selfridges%2C_Birmingham_escalators.jpg/800px-Selfridges%2C_Birmingham_escalators.jpg

IO am not normally a fan of medern buildings, but it's a big improvement on the hideous carbuncle it replaced even if it does resemble a hubcap covered slug.

[stopharian]

The Selfridges building at the new Bullring development in Birmingham:

[IMG]

IO am not normally a fan of medern buildings, but it's a big improvement on the hideous carbuncle it replaced even if it does resemble a hubcap covered slug.

I understand wht you are saying about contemporary architecture, but this building isnt modern, its post-modern. It is very much a reaction to and statement against the ideas of the modern period.

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/Lloyd%27s_%26_Willis_Building_from_Lime_Street_%289.7.07%29.jpg


The big picture on Wikipedia. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Lloyds_Building%2C_London_-_2007.jpg)

[Limey]

IO am not normally a fan of medern buildings, but it's a big improvement on the hideous carbuncle it replaced even if it does resemble a hubcap covered slug.

Unfortunately, I believe the central Library is still there though, the building that initially coined the phrase from Prince Charles of, "monstrous carbuncle", "place for burning books" etc.
I still believe that the giant concrete elephant in Coventry is a greater crime against architecture.

[nonperson]

http://www.geocities.com/darthdusan/Pompidou.JPG

http://www.bcee.concordia.ca/images/thumb/9/92/Center-pompidou-georges.jpg/350px-Center-pompidou-georges.jpg

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Travel/Pix/gallery/2001/02/01/f13.jpg

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/771/508742.JPG

The big picture at Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Pompidou")

[nonperson]

http://www.bcee.concordia.ca/images/1/19/British_Museum_Great_Court_roof.jpg


The Big Picture at Wikipedia. (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/British_Museum_Great_Court_roof.jpg)

[nonperson]

http://rehmeier.de/wp-content/millau_bridge.jpg

http://www.millau-ulm.com/LE%20VIADUC.jpg

http://www.catnip.co.uk/tracks/bridge/photos/millau001.jpg

http://www.bcee.concordia.ca/images/d/d3/ViaducDeMillau.jpg

[nonperson]

http://www.bcee.concordia.ca/images/thumb/d/d8/WaterBridge.jpg/800px-WaterBridge.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Trogbr%C3%BCcke_Magdeburg.jpg

[Rice-Tactics]

The Getty. I could spend days here.
http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/mzvy2sufffl2zhq7.jpg

[djm]

The Rathaus, Vienna

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Rathaus_Vienna_June_2006_165.jpg/746px-Rathaus_Vienna_June_2006_165.jpg

I had the good fortune to attend a ball there a few years back.

[djm]

All in one of favourite cities Istanbul:

The Blue Mosque:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a6/Blue_mosque_interior_panorama.jpg/800px-Blue_mosque_interior_panorama.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Sultanahmet_Camii_2006.JPG/800px-Sultanahmet_Camii_2006.JPG

Agia Sophia:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Ayasofya-Innenansicht.jpg/397px-Ayasofya-Innenansicht.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Aya_sofya.jpg/800px-Aya_sofya.jpg

Topkapi Palace:

http://home.comcast.net/~jspreitz1/turk/top11.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~jspreitz1/turk/top_rm1.jpg

[djm]

Brummy nostalgia

The rotunda:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a1/The_Rotunda%2C_Birmingham.jpg/613px-The_Rotunda%2C_Birmingham.jpg

Villa Park:

http://static.userland.com/images/trinity/front000515.jpg

http://static.userland.com/images/trinity/gable2000515.jpg

http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium_pictures/europe/united_kingdom/england/west_midlands/birmingham_villa_park2.jpg

Fort Dunlop:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/malcolm.evans3/Barges_at_Dunlop_1918.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a2/Fort_Dunlop_from_M6.jpg/800px-Fort_Dunlop_from_M6.jpg

HP Sauce factory:

http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/astonhall/astonarea/aston%20pics/AstoncrossclockHPfactory.JPG

Longbridge:

http://aphrabehn.files.wordpress.com/2006/09/longbridge-3.JPG

Cadbury factotory Bournville:

http://www.reedboats.co.uk/routes/canals/wor4.jpg

[Rajah]

Yeah, okay, I know it's not a building... but if we're talking interesting design, I just found this link (http://www.stlloftstyle.com/transforming-furniture/) on reddit... I especially love the couch that converts into a bunk bed, and the kitchen table and bench that retract.

[eyebyte_atWork]

Yeah, okay, I know it's not a building... but if we're talking interesting design, I just found this link (http://www.stlloftstyle.com/transforming-furniture/) on reddit... I especially love the couch that converts into a bunk bed, and the kitchen table and bench that retract.

Cute stuff


Makes me want to buy that Couch Bunk Bed thingy.

[C.J.Woolf]

I want this!


Transforming Sofa Car

This awesome sofa is not just for sitting....its also the worlds fastest motorized sofa, going an amazing 87 miles per hour. It has a v8 engine under its cushions, and has 220 horsepower. The man who built this sofa also build a 4 post bed with an embedded 1800cc Volkswagen engine...and a full washroom on wheels. Amazing. (damncoolpics.blogspot.com)

[djm]

Oh and when talking Brum, how could I forget Spagetti Junction:

http://www.birmingham-photos.co.uk/images/PB3/C4photos/C4JPEG/PB3p56.jpg

Gravelly Hill Interchange, better known as Spaghetti Junction, is junction 6 of the M6 motorway where it meets the A38(M) Aston Expressway in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Its colloquial name was coined in the 1970s by a sub-editor of the Birmingham Evening Mail, Alan Eaglesfield, after he realised that an aerial picture of the complex system of intertwined loops and ramps reminded him of a plate of spaghetti. It provides access to and from the A38 (Tyburn Road), the A5127 (Lichfield Road/Gravelly Hill), and local roads.
The junction covers 30 acres (12 hectares), serves 18 routes and includes 4 km (2.5 miles) of slip roads, but only 1 km (0.6 miles) of the M6 itself. It has 559 concrete columns, reaching up to 24.4 metres (80 ft) height.
Construction started in 1968 and the junction opened in 1972. It has undergone major repair work several times since, due to the very heavy traffic through the junction, and some alleged cost-saving measures during its construction.

Underneath the motorway junction are the meeting points of local roads; the rivers Tame, Rea and the Hockley Brook; electricity lines; gas pipelines; the Birmingham Cross-City and Walsall railway lines, and Salford Junction where the Grand Union Canal, Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and Tame Valley Canal meet. The importance of the site for so many services led to the belief that it was a strategic target for a Soviet nuclear weapon during the Cold War.

[djm]

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/india.jpg

http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/india2.jpg

Is that the Bahai temple in Dehli? I visited that the last time I was in India.

[nonperson]

http://www.take-a-trip.eu/uploads/pics_bezienswaardigheden_nl/Atomium.jpg

http://www.magicaljourneys.com/Belgium/images/images-brussels-atomium2.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/388986-Atomiumor_Geoff_as_us_Withnalians_call_it_-Brussels.jpg

http://antwerp.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/atomium1.jpg

For more info see here. Belgians aren't boring!!!!! (http://www.atomium.be/Main.aspx?lang=en)

[nonperson]

http://www.bristoljpg.co.uk/2004/suspension-bridge.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Clifton.bridge.longview.750pix.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/IKBrunelChains.jpg

IKB was the consulting engineer on God's Universe project.......

[INThoughtPolice]

http://forums.intpcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5459&stc=1&d=1193529672

[Rajah]

The University of Tampa:

http://www.tampachamber.com/images/subpic_ti_05.jpg

http://www.chrisgurrie.com/image/obj130geo92pg4p3.jpg

[djm]

Powys Castle:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/PowisCastle.jpg/800px-PowisCastle.jpg

Nearby is Leighton woods, where an eccentric aristocrat planted a giant sequoia plantation, and built a hydro-powered underground railway (not open to the public but tours can be aranged). There there is probably the worlds most impressive chicken coop, he used the manure to generate methane for the manor house. I cant find and pictures.

[djm]

The grandfather of all iron buildings, and the start of the industrial revolution - Thomas Telfords Iron Bridge. Ironbridge gourge, salop:

http://www.wku.edu/Geo/studyabroad/Britain04/ironbridge.jpg

[LastRailway]

Taj Mahal
http://bulgar.no-ip.info/downloads/snimki/wall/Taj%20Mahal,%20Agra,%20India.jpg

Alhambra:
http://www.finca-ferien-andalusien.de/einige_ausflugsziele/Granada,%20die%20Alhambra%20bei%20Nacht.jpg

[LastRailway]

World time clock, Berlin:
http://media.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2006/oct/berlin/clock200.jpg

[LastRailway]

Park Guell, built by Gaudi, Barcelona:
http://lakedistrictwalks.com/cruise2/park_guell_colonnade.jpg

[bluebell]

Borobodur, Indonesia:

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/Indonesia/Highlights/BorobodurLion.jpg
.
http://www.tmd3.com/Southeast_Asia/Indonesia/Borobodur/images/borobodur9.jpg

[bluebell]

Sydney Opera House:

http://www.hartransom.org/Hart_Ransom/7_wonders/7wonders_hammond/images/sydney%20opera%20house%201.jpg

[Erratic]

:wub: Gaudi

Gaudi is awesome. I think of him as a large scale sculptor instead of an architect.

And now, a couple more buildings in Spain.

Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (1997):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Guggenheim-bilbao-jan05.jpg/800px-Guggenheim-bilbao-jan05.jpg

And the one that has impressed me the most, the Alhambra in Granada.
http://www.ladrondeagua.com/album/alhambra/alhambra5_g.jpg

[Lurker]

I was looking for a link to images of some very odd architecture I saw when I was in the Netherlands. I can't find that, but I did find this cool thread (http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6380) on a different forum.

I love this:

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x70/BelladonnaBengals/japartment.jpg

[zhang_bob]

[Picture of Le Viaduc de Millau.]
I will have to go on that bridge when I next go to France.


Brummy nostalgia
[Villa Park]
:lol:

On the subject of Villa Park, I take it the architect who designed the new Trinity Road stand, and the Birmingham Planning Department - who let the lovely old Trinity Road stand be demolished - were jealous Small Heath fans. ;)

[djm]

I will have to go on that bridge when I next go to France.

:lol:

On the subject of Villa Park, I take it the architect who designed the new Trinity Road stand, and the Birmingham Planning Department - who let the lovely old Trinity Road stand be demolished - were jealous Small Heath fans. ;)

Don't get me started on this topic, it would turn into a very long rant.

The trinity road end was designed by Archibald Leich and cost over ?100k in the 20's when it was built. It had marble staircases, and wonderful mosaics which ended up in a skip when it was demolished. The vandalism was allowed as unlike the Holte end it could not get listed building status as no one part was old enough due to a few alterations carried out over the years. When the Holte was redevoloped they had to keep the entire victorian brick facade.

I still fondly rememeber it in its prime when it still had a tiled roof, and the fans in the upper tier used to make a noise by banging their feet on the wooden floorboards.

There was no point redeveloping one of the finest pieces of architecture in football for a poxy extra 4000 seats that get filled maybe five times a year at best. There again in the scheme of stupid decisions by Herbert Douglas Ellis it barely registers. Look at what the clown did to the old Witton Lane end, and then he had the brass neck to name it after himself.

Despite this Villa Park is still one of the best grounds in football, and has more character than the rest of the premier leagues identikit mecano buildings combined with the notable exception of Craven Cottage.

The new American owner seems a bit more respectful of Villas history, and has done a good job of renovating the Holte Hotel. If I had my way they would put the AVFC floodlight pylons back up too.

And yes the council leader is a Blues fan, hence we were not allowed a victory parade when we last won a cup.

[nonperson]

http://www.freespiritspheres.com/images/Index_ErynnEric.jpg

Thanks Red! ;)

More info about the spheres here... (http://www.freespiritspheres.com/)

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Bucklers_Hard_%282%29.JPG/800px-Bucklers_Hard_%282%29.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Bucklers_Hard_%283%29.JPG/800px-Bucklers_Hard_%283%29.JPG

Buckler's Hard was the place where several warships of the Nelsonian era were built (including Nelson's own favourite the 64-gun Agamemnon). In the area between the rows of houses ships were constructed from wood taken from the nearby New Forest. Today it is a popular tourist destination for people visiting the New Forest and Solent area.

See here. (http://www.beaulieu.co.uk/bucklershard/introduction.cfm)

[nonperson]

http://www.grantdavey.co.uk/images/spinnaker/spinnaker004.jpg

Winner of the 2006 RICS Project of the Year award. The building site was a record breaker for its comparative small size (covering a similar area to that of a tennis court) in relation to the height (size) of the building under construction. See Wiki for more info. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinnaker_Tower)

http://www.grantdavey.co.uk/images/spinnaker/spinnaker005.jpg

http://www.hago.org.uk/spinnaker-tower/photos/051027-view-north.jpg

A view north from the tower. In the immediate foreground can be seen HMS Warrior (blue hull, buff funnels) the world's first ironclad. The north-east corner of Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard and HM Naval Base fills the middle of the picture. HMS Victory can be seen in the approximate centre of the view. After the blue expanse of Fareham Creek on the horizon can be seen the chalk of Portsdown Hill where Palmerston's Forts can be found. Finally halfway down the extreme right hand side can be seen the grey shape of HMS Bristol permanently moored at HMS Excellent (Whale Island). During my time with cadets spent many a happy week onboard the Bristol.

http://www.rics.org/NR/rdonlyres/595A2A61-9420-4F38-B4B2-4924843F1269/0/RICSAwardsWinners2006066.jpg

[nonperson]

http://www.intpcentral.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=5463&d=1193599794

http://www.palmerstonforts.org.uk/gall/gallery16/large/n02.jpg

http://www.palmerstonforts.org.uk/gall/gallery16/large/n15.jpg

http://www.portsdown-tunnels.org.uk/images/legends_mysteries/palmerston_forts/fort_nelson_moat.jpg

http://www.palmerstonforts.org.uk/gall/gallery16/large/n12.jpg

Fort Nelson is one of five forts built on Portsdown Hill in the 1860s to defend Portsmouth from the French and is one my favourite places. But to appreciate it you have to be on the ground! Well actually more underground hence the Google Earth image. For those of you who are interested see here (http://www.palmerstonforts.org.uk/) and here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston_Forts,_Portsmouth)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Portsmouth-from-PortsdownHill.jpg

A view from Porstdown Hill, the site of the Fort Nelson, back towards Portsmouth. As you pan right the Spinnaker Town can be seen. The land mass to the top of the image is the Isle of Wight.

5463

[nonperson]

http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek05/tw0107/0107arch_11seattle_b.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Seattle_Public_Library.jpg/800px-Seattle_Public_Library.jpg

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/seattle/jpgs/seattle_library_philipperuault_oma_270307.jpg

http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/Images/US/WA/SPL-004.jpg

http://weibel-lines.typepad.com/photos/seattle_public_library/spl15.JPG

http://weibel-lines.typepad.com/photos/seattle_public_library/spl02.JPG

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Robie_House.jpg/800px-Robie_House.jpg

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/wrightrobie/extfrmlr.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1427/799885262_0425ddc18d.jpg

http://www.jlsloan.com/treelife.gif

[nonperson]

http://www.rics.org/NR/rdonlyres/7A424908-73DB-4315-9184-A5A2D492E5A0/0/Honingham_scheme_2006.JPG

RICS Sustainability Award winner for 2006 (http://www.rics.org/AboutRICS/Awards/RICSAwards/RICSSustainabilityAward/sustainability_award_2006.html); each unit costs ?4 ($8) per week to heat.

[djm]

The Liver building

http://jonathan.rawle.org/pg/liverpool/images/liver.jpg

[nonperson]

I see your Liver Building and raise you.........

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d2/Cunard_Building_Front.jpg/800px-Cunard_Building_Front.jpg

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Liverpool_Pier_Head_by_night.jpg/800px-Liverpool_Pier_Head_by_night.jpg

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bf/Port_of_Liverpool_Building_Front.jpg/800px-Port_of_Liverpool_Building_Front.jpg

[Roger Mexico]

Sorry, I have to:

http://nazibuilding.ytmnd.com/

Apologies.

[nonperson]

:shock: :yay: :theclap: :rofl::banana:

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Artmuseum22.jpg

http://www.museum.cornell.edu/HFJ/rental/img/HFJ_east_night_web.jpg

[djm]

Sorry, I have to:

Apologies.

That awful music shattered my peace and quiet :mad:

Talking of Nazi buildings though, the architecture at Nuremberg was quite impressive. Albert Speer was a good architect in my opinion, even if he may have kept questionable company.

The refurbishment of the olympic stadium in Berlin hs been done very well too:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5d/1936_Olympics_Bell_-_Berlin.jpg/800px-1936_Olympics_Bell_-_Berlin.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/Zz-Olympiastadion-001.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/1936_Olympics_Stadium_-_Berlin.jpg/394px-1936_Olympics_Stadium_-_Berlin.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Berlin_Olympiastadion_nach_Umbau_2.jpg/800px-Berlin_Olympiastadion_nach_Umbau_2.jpg

[Archvile]

Budapest Nyugati railway station:
http://www.fsz.bme.hu/hungary/budapest/kepek/nagyok/nyugati.jpg
today:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Budapest_nyugati_trams.jpg/800px-Budapest_nyugati_trams.jpg
opera
http://www.ohb.hu/_photo/city/budapest15.jpg

.

[nonperson]

http://www.visitcumbria.com/carlset/ribblehead-7772.jpg

http://www.visitcumbria.com/carlset/ribblehead-70522a.jpg

It is 104ft high, with 24 arches spanning 440yds, and took 2,000 men 4 years to build.

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/LittleMoretonHall.jpg/800px-LittleMoretonHall.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/LittleMoretonHall_gable.jpg/450px-LittleMoretonHall_gable.jpg

One of the finest surviving Elizabethan timber frame buildings. Visit Wikipedia (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/LittleMoretonHall_gable.jpg/450px-LittleMoretonHall_gable.jpg) for a full write up. And have a look at the second picture magnified so that you can read the writing above the windows.

I am slightly ashamed to say that even though Little Moreton Hall is only 4 miles or so from my home yet I have never visited it.

[nonperson]

http://forums.intpcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5466&d=1193780838

For some 360 degree panoramic views click here. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/stoke/360/stgiles/01.shtml)

And this is worth a look as well. (http://www.tilesoc.org.uk/dpagecheadle.htm)

A little too bright for a good Protestant boy like me!

[nonperson]

http://www.feelmadrid.com/photo118.jpg

The cross is the tallest in the world with a height of 500ft.

http://www.feelmadrid.com/photo124.jpg

http://www.feelmadrid.com/photo128.jpg

The basilica is dimensionally bigger than St Peter's, but smaller in terms of consecrated ground.

[LastRailway]

Great wall of China
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/images/ga/china_great-wall-jinshanling.jpg

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Forbidden_City1.JPG/800px-Forbidden_City1.JPG

[LastRailway]

Sung Pagoda in Hong Kong
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/china/architecture/pictures/sungpagodahongkong.jpg

[LastRailway]

Clock tower, Kowloon:
http://zhar.net/attic/hongkong/hkisland/ClockTower_FerryTerm.jpg

[djm]

Baddersley Clinton - Warwickshire

http://www.ism.ac.jp/~eguchi/images/photo/baddesley.jpg

[Fictionarium]

I applaud those who put the workd of Gaudi, but how can you ignore HUNDERTWASSER? </rabid-hundertwasser-fan>
http://www.vvs.de/download/freizeitportal/bilder/plochingen_hundertwasser.jpg
http://www.aber-online.de/images/busrakirche.jpg
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/3/38/Waldspirale_Hundertwasser.jpg
http://www.poster.net/hundertwasser-friedensreich/hundertwasser-friedensreich-hundertwasser-haus-winterabend-9700537.jpg

[nonperson]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/asia_pac_three_gorges_dam/img/1.jpg

See Wikipedia for the project's awesome specifications. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam)

http://na.unep.net/digital_atlas/pictures/site_115_pic_515.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Three_gorges_dam_locks_view_from_vantage_point.jpg/800px-Three_gorges_dam_locks_view_from_vantage_point.jpg

The five chamber shiplock will raise ships a height of 113m.

http://i.n.com.com/i/ne/p/2006/threegorg_395x600.jpg

[nonperson]

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/1054/512343.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f8/Vena_19.jpg/390px-Vena_19.jpg

[djm]

You can chalk me up as another Gaudi fan, I adore Barcelona. The Hunterwasser buildings are amazing BTW, I have never seen anything by him before but will certainly make a detour the next time I go to Austria.

As I posted some Nazi buildings earlier in the interests of balance I will now post a communist one. The palace of culture (Warsaw) is an intimidating building that dominates the skyline.

http://p.vtourist.com/2056714-Stalins_Palace_of_Science_and_Culture-Warsaw.jpg

Karlmarx (the INTPc one) would certainly approve of the impressive sculptures that surround it too:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/WarsawPKiNStatueWithBook.jpg/450px-WarsawPKiNStatueWithBook.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Socrealizm.jpg

[djm]

Another building with that most essential prerequisite for a INTP home (the moat). The Imperial palace Tokyo:

http://www.keegan.org/jeff/googleearth/googleearthimgs/LA_la35.68475393899309_lo139.7524597221864_r2298.356249135484_t7.909211180032625_h84.34698095462433_p139.7524597221864,35.68475393899309,0_n=Imperial+Palace,+Tokyo,+Japan.jpg

http://www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/Photos/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/images/TokyoImperialPalace02.jpg

[Decoy^]

http://home.online.no/~krevne/images/Borgund%20Stavkyrkje%2016.06.2001.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/MontserratMonastery01.jpg/800px-MontserratMonastery01.jpg

I am not a big fan of modern steel and concrete construction. Wood and stone is such a great material, and gives the structure a completely different atmosphere.
And the surroundings of a contruction is such an underrated part of good architecture. For example castle Neuschwanstein which Lurker posted, blends into it's surroundings so beautifully.

[nonperson]

I am not a big fan of modern steel and concrete construction. Wood and stone is such a great material, and gives the structure a completely different atmosphere.
And the surroundings of a contruction is such an underrated part of good architecture. For example castle Neuschwanstein which Lurker posted, blends into it's surroundings so beautifully.

OK natural materials for the next zillion posts......;)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Todaiji_daibutsuden2.jpg/800px-Todaiji_daibutsuden2.jpg

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/OsakaCastleM0783.jpg/800px-OsakaCastleM0783.jpg

OK! Sorry it is obviously the 1997 reproduction and made of concrete...

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/HiroshimaCastle.jpg

....as is this splendid construction.

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Umeda_Sky_building.jpg/559px-Umeda_Sky_building.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/4/6191736_d2730976c8.jpg

http://www.dsphotographic.com/g2/10863-3/Umeda+Sky+Building+-+004.jpg

http://pullonsupermanscape.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/dsc_01750080.JPG

[nonperson]

http://www.pellinor.nl/images/LofotenVikingMuseum.jpg

And in the snow....

http://www.travels-in-time.net/graphics/norway/norway01mona.jpg

[nonperson]

http://birdblog.merseyblogs.co.uk/church.jpg

http://www.fssbirding.org.uk/Images/fintripphoto13.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1385/947711137_bb7c3d47ec.jpg

http://www.ub.uit.no/baser/arkinord/data/big/230/Nesseby_kirke_03_med.jpg

[djm]

I like some of the Shinto shrines in Tokyo

Meiji shrine (this ones in a lovely arboretum

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/MeijiShrineTorii1167.jpg/486px-MeijiShrineTorii1167.jpg

http://www.npointercos.jp/images/Tokyo2007ssIMG_7273.jpg

Atago shrine

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Atago_jinja_Tokyo_main_building.JPG/800px-Atago_jinja_Tokyo_main_building.JPG

[nonperson]

Yes lovely. But they are not made of concrete are they! ;)

[djm]

Well materials do not come more natural than mud.

The mud mosque (Djenne, Mali) the worlds largest man made mud building (there are termite mound complexes I suspect that are bigger in extent from the animal kingdom):

http://www.visitgaomali.com/DjenneRemudding7.JPG

Mud Mosque (Kawarra, Ivory Coast)

http://www.pitt.edu/~tokerism/0040/images3/328.jpg

I have not seen either of those, but I have seen plenty of mud buildings in Yemen. Sanna the capital has large suburbs made entirely of mud, including 7-8 story high mud 'skyscrapers' all decorated with white patterns.

http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/shibam06.jpg

http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/shibam10.jpg

http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/shibam01.jpg

http://www.inhabitat.com/wp-content/uploads/amiriya07.jpg

[nonperson]

We are getting some real variety now in the structures posted. djm hope you didn't think I was being rude re your Japanese structures; my concrete castles were a cheeky response to Decoy's post about natural materials. :)

Yes mud or cob or rammed earth is an excellent material to build with. Haven't got time to post now, but for the time being here is a cob house in California.


http://www.cobcottage.com/files/images/cb1-13-2.low.jpg

[Decoy^]

djm hope you didn't think I was being rude re your Japanese structures; my concrete castles were a cheeky response to Decoy's post about natural materials. :)Ok, glass and steel it is then... :p
http://davinci-code.info/imgs/data/louvre-pyramid-1.jpg
http://www.shunya.net/Pictures/France/Louvre-pyramid-evening.jpg

[booyalab]

I love art deco http://www.absolutedsm.com/images/Sioux%20City/badgerow%201.JPG

[Archvile]

I love art deco
:highfive:

http://www.newyorkreporters.com/galerie_1/empire_state_building_2.jpg
http://www.newyorkreporters.com/galerie_1/chysler_empire_buildings.jpg
http://www.newyorkreporters.com/galerie_1/empire-state-building_4.jpg
http://www.newyorkreporters.com/galerie_1/mandarin-lobby_001.jpg
pure awesomeness!

.

[djm]

Art Noveau - Charles Rennie Mackintosh

The Lighthouse

http://www.crmsociety.com/FileAccess.aspx?Id=182

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/books/everythingthatrisesimages/stairs345.jpg

House for an art lover

http://www.crmsociety.com/FileAccess.aspx?Id=54

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/travel/tg/poi/9b/240x240_9b9bef8df3fa58d9f88c8d704220dee0.jpg

http://www.metropotam.ro/La-zi/2007/05/art8698868491-C-R-Mackintosh/House_for_An_Art_Lover.jpg

http://www.scotland.org/images/features/margaret-macdonald.jpg

Willow Tea Rooms

http://www.37signals.com/images/svn_posts/willow_tea_rooms.jpg

http://www.crmsociety.com/FileAccess.aspx?Id=533

http://digilander.libero.it/LauraCamilla/images/Mackintosh/fig8_mini.jpg

[rawr]

http://photo.net/bboard-uploads/00Lx3h-37573784.jpg

it's just so evil and looming, how could you not love it?

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/HillHouse.jpg

Further to djm's earlier post another Mackintosh classic.

[nonperson]

Further to Archvile's post...........

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Chrysler_Building_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/235px-Chrysler_Building_by_David_Shankbone.jpg

http://www.adobe.com/special/america24_7/images/photo1.jpg

http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/statue/1287/English/ArtDeco/chrysler/mural4.jpg

http://www.rion.nu/v5/post/030904/IMG_2275med.jpg

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/746/127424.JPG

[djm]

Some buildings in Stratford-Upon-Avon:

Shakespeares birthplace

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/heartofengland/stratford/guidebirthplace.jpg

Harvard House (Grandmother of the founder of Harvard University lived there).

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/heartofengland/stratford/harvard.jpg

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/heartofengland/stratford/guideshakespearehotel.jpg

The New Place (Shakespeares next door neighbor)

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/heartofengland/stratford/guidenewplace.jpg

The Old Grammer School (Shakespeare was educated here)

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/heartofengland/stratford/guideschool.jpg

Halls Croft (his daughters home)

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/heartofengland/stratford/hallscroft2.jpg

Anne Hathaways Cottage (his wife), this one is in nearby Shottery

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Hathaway_cottage.jpg

Mary Ardens House (Wilmcote) his mothers home

http://www.onlineshakespeare.com/maryarden.jpg

And a more modern building in Stratford the Shakespeare theatre

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/heartofengland/stratford/guidetheatre.jpg

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/heartofengland/stratford/guideswantheatre.jpg

I'm all shakespeared out now, but some fine Tudor buildings there. I did my A-levels in Stratford so I spent a fair bit of time there.

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/Bbc_broadcasting_house_front.jpg


Home of BBC Radio.


NB: BBC stands for Brown's Broadcasting Company; formerly Blair's Broadcasting Company.

[djm]

The Red House (William Morris)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/The_Red_House%2C_Bexleyheath.JPG/800px-The_Red_House%2C_Bexleyheath.JPG

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/b/bc/250px-Red_House_window_detail.JPG

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Southwark_reconstructed_globe.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Globe_Galleries.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Globetheatrestage.jpg/450px-Globetheatrestage.jpg

[charred_heart]

http://www.visitdubai.info/the_palm_dubai/the_palm_dubai_01.jpg


http://www.visitdubai.info/the_palm_dubai/the_palm_dubai_03.jpg


http://www.dubaicondoproperty.com/images/dubaipix10/ThePalm/palmjumBanner.jpg

The Palm, Dubai (Under Construction)

[charred_heart]

http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/student/club/meaba/Spec.%20Burj%20Al%20Arab%20web%20lay-out.jpg


http://www.burjalarab.dubai-city.de/image104.jpg



Burj Al Arab, Dubai

[LastRailway]

Burj Al Arab, Dubai

The tallest hotel of the world?


More Dubai buildings:
Chelsea Tower
http://www.aidan.co.uk/lg/AeDxShkZChelTwr2x6219.jpg

Etisalat Building
http://aidanorourke.fileburst.com/lgx/AeDxEtisCnstV6227.jpg

And more here: http://www.aidan.co.uk/photos16-Modern&#37;20Architecture.php

[LastRailway]

Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong
http://z.about.com/d/architecture/1/0/B/8/pei-bankhongkong-pritzker.jpg

http://my.tdctrade.com/photolib/hk/0100056L.jpg

[djm]

Petronas tower - Kuala Lumpar

http://www.peaceofangkorweb.com/Malaysia/Petronas-Towers.jpg

Blackpool Tower

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/BlackpoolTower_OwlofDoom.jpg/450px-BlackpoolTower_OwlofDoom.jpg

[nonperson]

The Palm, Dubai (Under Construction)

I was waiting for our Gulf Correspondent to the post a picture of this. :)

[djm]

Surprised nobodys mentioned the other big project in Dubai, the world islands:

http://realestate.theemiratesnetwork.com/developments/dubai/images/the_world.jpg

[charred_heart]

I was waiting for our Gulf Correspondent to the post a picture of this. :)

I'm not done yet! Should I post some more?

[djm]

I'm not done yet! Should I post some more?

Yes please.

[LastRailway]

The Palm Jumeirah Shoreline is pretty impressing, too
http://www.dubaiprop.com/images/sea&#37;20view%20bldg.jpg

[LastRailway]

The Hydropolis (http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail/711.php)

http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/Images/UAE/Hydropolis-002.jpg

[nonperson]

http://www.falmouth-cottage.co.uk/images/Minack%20Theatre%20lg.jpg

http://tommythomas.org.uk/images/2000/minack01.jpg

http://community.iexplore.com/photos/journal_photos/DSCF0020(14).JPG

http://www.islesofscilly-travel.co.uk/leq/map/%20(Aerial)%20The%20Minack%20Theatre.jpg

See here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minack_Theatre)

[nonperson]

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/f/f2/2000px-Royal_Crescent_in_Bath,_England_-_July_2006.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Royal.crescent.aerial.bath.arp.jpg/787px-Royal.crescent.aerial.bath.arp.jpg

Actually I always find the house backs more interesting than the fronts because
over the years they have been altered.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/BathRoyalCrescentAirial.morecontrast.jpg

http://www.stockhillhouse.co.uk/Royal%20Crescent%20Bath.jpg

See here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Crescent)

[nonperson]

http://www.lawhf.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5E31B4A9-8E2C-4992-BA8F-E35B4E123C73/0/RoyalCrescentCircus.jpg

[LastRailway]

The Peak Tower, Hong Kong:

http://www.asia2002.gov.hk/press/pict/large/98.jpg

[djm]

Broadway Tower, at the other end of the Cotswolds. You can see 13 counties from it on a clear day.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Broadway_tower_edit.jpg

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Bath_Circus_3.JPG/800px-Bath_Circus_3.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Bath_Circus_1.JPG/450px-Bath_Circus_1.JPG

http://www.tylwythteg.com/WALESTRIP/Bath/bathcircus.jpg

[LastRailway]

Broadway Tower, at the other end of the Cotswolds. You can see 13 counties from it on a clear day.

I take it you don't mean real countries?

edit: Oh, nevermind, I see you don't.

[nonperson]

http://www.kilowatthouse.co.uk/images/home_img.jpg

See here. (http://www.kilowatthouse.co.uk/home.html)

[outmywindow]

I take it you don't mean real countries?

edit: Oh, nevermind, I see you don't.

Which is why he wrote "counties."

[LastRailway]

Which is why he wrote "counties."

Yes, so obvious (sigh)

[charred_heart]

Royal Crescent and Circus (Bath, England).wow, that's a huge tree!!

http://www.martinandalex.com/images/dubai&#37;20ski%20finished.bmp


http://www.condohotelcenter.com/images/dubai-ski.jpg

Ski Dubai, Emirates Mall (2006)

4c temperature in the middle of the desert. How cool is that?

...and what you can do with no budget, no resources and no cranes:

http://static4.bareka.com/photos/medium/1470955/nilain-mosque.jpg

Al-Nilain Mosque, Sudan

[LastRailway]

...Al-Nilain Mosque, Sudan


Wow!

Different style (different country too: Thailand)
http://www.piatom.com/pic_reizen/lampang8_big.jpg

[djm]

Old Campden House - Chipping Campden

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2004/09/08/EastBanquetingHouse3.jpg

High Street Chipping Campden

http://www.cotswoldadvisor.com/cotswold_pictures/campden450.jpg

Market Hall Chipping Campden

http://www.ballou.cx/Cotswolds2002/images/ChippingCampden_OriginalMall.JPG

[nonperson]

Ski Dubai, Emirates Mall (2006)

4c temperature in the middle of the desert. How cool is that?



I wonder if when they start to drill for the oil in the Arctic the Inuit will spend their money on a giant hangar, heat it to over 30c, and fill it with sand and camels..................:grin:

[LastRailway]

Though I don't really like this style, this church in Barcelona is impressing:

http://www.usuarios.interar.com.ar/josnell/catedralbarcelona.jpg

[Decoy^]

I wonder if when they start to drill for the oil in the Arctic the Inuit will spend their money on a giant hangar, heat it to over 30c, and fill it with sand and camels..................:grin:If you live on a sheet of ice, floating on the water, you'd want to be careful with the heating... :ph34r:

[charred_heart]

If you live on a sheet of ice, floating on the water, you'd want to be careful with the heating... :ph34r:won't stop them from trying hehe :grin:

I imagine they'd want a beach rather than a hot sand box.

[LastRailway]

An Arctic dessert. Imagine some camels, too (white).

http://www.trentobike.org/Countries/Iceland/Tour_Reports/North/HverarSolfatara.jpg

[nonperson]

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NC/Weeksville_NC_06_hgr_se.jpg

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NC/Weeksville_NC_clamshell_02.jpg

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NC/Weeksville_NC_aerostat_02.jpg

The Inuit would need hangar about this big............

[djm]

They could try biomes like the Eden Project:

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/eden-387.jpg

[nonperson]

I think I am in danger of de-railing my own thread...........:devil:

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Iglu_1999-04-02.jpg/800px-Iglu_1999-04-02.jpg

[LastRailway]

Pigmy's house, made of banana leaves and branches

http://www.kikimimi.net/tatsu/report/newsletter01/image/040.jpg

[charred_heart]

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/dendur3.jpg

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/dendur9.jpg
Temple of Dendur. Wadi Halfa, Sudan (now in New York! :mad:)


http://photos.igougo.com/photos/journal_photos/lion_temple.jpg


http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/54248150-L.jpg

Roman Kiosk, Sudan


http://www.philae.nu/philae/HetHertTempl5a.gif

Het-Hert Temple, Sudan

[nonperson]

No apologies for displaying this in macro. I should imagine everybody who posts here has something in their house which has past through here. As a ship enthusiast I think its awesome, but the environmentalist in me sees it as the event horizon of the globalization catastrophe.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/Singapore_port_panorama.jpg

[LastRailway]

What remains from the palace of Phaistos, Greece (imagine a labyrinth around there):

http://www.odysseyadventures.ca/trips/crete/phaistos.jpg

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/ECT_waalhaven_bij_nacht.jpg

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/PetraTreasury.JPG

[LastRailway]

Port of Rotterdam at night.

That's not a building! Should I knew it, I'd had posted a lot more excellent pictures of cities, ports, etc

[charred_heart]

No apologies for displaying this in macro. I should imagine everybody who posts here has something in their house which has past through here. As a ship enthusiast I think its awesome, but the environmentalist in me sees it as the event horizon of the globalization catastrophe.


WTF! I had to scrooolll through that, and I have a 30" monitor!

[nonperson]

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archstories/images/spaceship_800.jpg

[LastRailway]

We could post some bridges, too:
Old stone bridge, Shanklin, Isle of Wight:

http://www.shanklin.shalfleet.net/images_shanklin_chine/stone_bridge_shanklin_chine.jpg

[charred_heart]

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/archstories/images/spaceship_800.jpg
beautiful

[LastRailway]

Puente de Montanana, Huesca:

http://ago.webcindario.com/Puente.jpg

[nonperson]

[SIZE="3"]Everything and anything architectural; from yurts to the Empire State, irrigation schemes to your grandfather's potting shed. Please tell us what we are looking at!!!!!!!!!!!!!



That's not a building! Should I knew it, I'd had posted a lot more excellent pictures of cities, ports, etc

[COLOR="Red"]Please see quote from the OP (me!).

Those blasted Brits!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)

[LastRailway]

Please see quote from the OP (me!).

Those blasted Brits!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)


*deep sigh*

[nonperson]

WTF! I had to scrooolll through that, and I have a 30" monitor!

The Russians have a saying,

"There is a point when quantity takes on a quality all of its own!"

[LastRailway]

Amazar river:

http://www.transsib.ru/Photo/Zab/7001.jpg

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/KingsCollegeChapelWest.jpg/800px-KingsCollegeChapelWest.jpg

[zhang_bob]

Palace of Versailles, Ch&#226;teau de Versailles, or simply Versailles.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4812/versaillespalacegb7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[nonperson]

http://home.c2i.net/panser/fjellhallen/fjellhallen.jpg

Built (tunnelled) for the XVII Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer (Norway, 1994) the Mountain Hall is the world's largest underground sporting venue. The main cavern is 25m high (that's nine stories), 91m long, and 61m wide; total seating capacity is 5100. It is has a secondary function as an air raid shelter!

I want to thank Decoy for tracking this pic' down for us; my Norwegian isn't as good as his English!

For me details click here. (http://www.tunnel.no/article.php?id=65)

[nonperson]

http://thewolery.files.wordpress.com/2006/09/20060814-047web.jpg

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Grytvikenchurch.jpg

[nonperson]

http://www.shelterpub.com/_lloyd/COB-05-lo-res.jpg

Built from cob, rock, and driftwood.

[nonperson]

http://www.manxscenes.com/01&2/May%2003/17.jpg

Change here for the mountain..........

[LastRailway]

http://aftnn.org/stuff/images/tour-eiffel.jpg

[nonperson]

This is wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I assume these are some of your pictures. I had to do a drawing of the Eiffel tower when I underwent my first MBTI test. I began my drawing at the top of the page and just kept on adding detail; apparently typical INTP behaviour.

[JazzTulip]

The Liver building

http://jonathan.rawle.org/pg/liverpool/images/liver.jpg

my home town, thank you. Haven't seen it in quite a while.

[LastRailway]

http://aftnn.org/stuff/images/tour-eiffel.jpg


This is wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I assume these are some of your pictures.

You assume too much :grin:
Though, hopefully, next month I might be able of posting some of my own pictures of Eiffel tour

[JazzTulip]

I see your Liver Building and raise you.........

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d2/Cunard_Building_Front.jpg/800px-Cunard_Building_Front.jpg

And thank you also. Good pictures, by the way, you take most of them yourself? I take it you're an architectural photographer.

[nonperson]

You assume too much :grin:
Though, hopefully, next month I might be able of posting some of my own pictures of Eiffel tour

I had better go out and get that 42inch LCD HD TV in preparation... :banana:

I think I have created a monster! ;)

[nonperson]

And thank you also. Good pictures, by the way, you take most of them yourself? I take it you're an architectural photographer.

Bless no! I am just OK at finding (half) decent pictures.

[nonperson]

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/9/95/Albert_Docks_Liverpool.jpg

[JazzTulip]

Bless no! I am just OK at finding (half) decent pictures.

:-)

I only ask because my partner is an architectural photographer and I'm recognising some tricks in the images. You've picked some good ones. Good thread.

[nonperson]

:-)

I only ask because my partner is an architectural photographer and I'm recognising some tricks in the images. You've picked some good ones. Good thread.

What a job! I think if I took pictures they would be as fuzzy my brain. :)

Get him posting; we are doing OK but could do with some professional help.

[nonperson]

http://www.darkhorse.co.uk/images/dukw.jpg

[nonperson]

http://jonathan.rawle.org/pg/liverpool/images/rc1.jpg

[nonperson]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/346053750_34f4a80d87.jpg

[nonperson]

http://www.airfield-research-group.co.uk/Speke_Terminal-Tower_29.10.81_BHA.jpg

[LastRailway]

Liverpool looks cool

[nonperson]

http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/International/International_images/SKYVIEW.png

[nonperson]

http://srs.dl.ac.uk/Annual_Reports/AnRep02_03/crypt.jpg

[JazzTulip]

This is a facade from a building in Munich..... ok why is it coming up like a thumbnail. That's not how I loaded it.

[LastRailway]

Singapore:

http://www.dia.org.au/images/news/singapore.jpg

http://techfreep.com/images/singapore.jpg

[JazzTulip]

What a job! I think if I took pictures they would be as fuzzy my brain. :)

Get him posting; we are doing OK but could do with some professional help.

Ok, he just phoned, I've told him to log on and take a look (Hi gorgeous, if you're watching).

[JazzTulip]

Liverpool looks cool

Believe it or not, it is, and next year it's the European City of Culture.

[nonperson]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/t.woof/gen/StGeorgesIMG_0470-ch-tx.jpg

http://culturechat.merseyblogs.co.uk/cath2.jpg

http://www.visitsthelens.com/dmsimgs/st_georges_hall.jpg

[LastRailway]

Believe it or not, it is, and next year it's the European City of Culture.

The football team is certainly cool. The port looks nice, too, as all ports do

[LastRailway]

More Hong Kong:

http://forums.intpcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5468&stc=1&d=1193861082

[nonperson]

The football team is certainly cool. The port looks nice, too, as all ports do

Liverpool are drawing 0-0 with Cardiff according to Manx Radio.........

[LastRailway]

Liverpool are drawing 0-0 with Cardiff according to Manx Radio.........

Cardiff plays football and Manx has radio? What a strange world...

[djm]

http://srs.dl.ac.uk/Annual_Reports/AnRep02_03/crypt.jpg

I used to have to take exams in there when I was an undergraduate.

[djm]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/t.woof/gen/StGeorgesIMG_0470-ch-tx.jpg

http://culturechat.merseyblogs.co.uk/cath2.jpg

http://www.visitsthelens.com/dmsimgs/st_georges_hall.jpg

The last time I was in there was to accept the New business of the year award :) The time before that it was my graduation ball. Great building.

[nonperson]

The last time I was in there was to accept the New business of the year award :) The time before that it was my graduation ball. Great building.

Yes it is. It certainly deserved to have that 27 million pounds spent on it. It is huge. I think it has a court in there somewhere. Going off to check that.......

[nonperson]

I used to have to take exams in there when I was an undergraduate.

On your own probably knowing your record. ;)

[JazzTulip]

More Hong Kong:

Beautiful atmospheric recession there. And I see you have the thumbnail problem too. Is it a Mac thing maybe?

[JazzTulip]

Cardiff plays football and Manx has radio? What a strange world...

Manx has radio, fairies which you must never ignore (or they curse you), some very outdated laws regarding the person and a very 'liberal' tax regime. But on the plus side, very good kippers. What can I say, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other.

[LastRailway]

Beautiful atmospheric recession there. And I see you have the thumbnail problem too. Is it a Mac thing maybe?

Maybe a non-windows thing (Linux here).
Though, I just had some high-secret information on how to fix it :) Trying it now and tell you if it works

edit: Yes, it works.

[JazzTulip]

Maybe a non-windows thing (Linux here).
Though, I just had some high-secret information on how to fix it :) Trying it now and tell you if it works

edit: Yes, it works.

Hi Linux.

[LastRailway]

Hi Linux.

Oh, hi Mac

[djm]

Oh, hi Mac

I run a mac too.

[JazzTulip]

I run a mac too.

What can I say, good for you. Hi.

[nonperson]

Manx has radio, fairies which you must never ignore (or they curse you), some very outdated laws regarding the person and a very 'liberal' tax regime. But on the plus side, very good kippers. What can I say, it's six of one and half a dozen of the other.

You forgot the world's best ice-cream and that other Manx staple "chips-cheese-gravy". We know where you spent your hols at kiddie!

[LastRailway]

...
Though, I just had some high-secret information on how to fix it :) Trying it now and tell you if it works...

After my source agreed of my posting the top-secret info:
You simply copy the location of the attachment (from the file properties) and post it as a link.

[Decoy^]

http://www.youth-reporter.de/img/wfimage/youthreporter,image,image,id%3D1893;249557;geometry_400x400,colorspace_RGB,format_jpeg.jpghttp://www.regelung.ee/pics/Suurmunamagi.jpg

And by the way, nonperson, you just had 666 postcount! This whole thread was just a plot to invoke the power of the beast I'll wager... :devil:

[nfinityi]

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040830/olympics/closing/images/cl5.jpg

http://users.california.com/~csuppes/Olympics/1972Munich/aerial.jpg

http://qcwa-58.rmhcn.org/attractions/images/dia.jpg

[JazzTulip]

You forgot the world's best ice-cream and that other Manx staple "chips-cheese-gravy". We know where you spent your hols at kiddie!

You'd think, wouldn't you? Actually I've been there precisely once, on a school trip, but the place was such a staple of north west holidays before the days of mass tourism abroad that we all knew people who been there and the knowledge and the myths and the stories just spread.

We had one of those painted velvet hanging scrolls (do you remember them??) hanging on the wall at home when I was a kid of the Isle of Man, complete with island motto in, I believe, Manx. Something something 'jequeris', meaning 'whichever way you throw me I stand' referring to the three legged symbol of the island.

What else? They still have horse drawn carriages on the seafront of Douglas, although I believe they're now there purely for tourists.

[nonperson]

http://www.youth-reporter.de/img/wfimage/youthreporter,image,image,id%3D1893;249557;geometry_400x400,colorspace_RGB,format_jpeg.jpghttp://www.regelung.ee/pics/Suurmunamagi.jpg

And by the way, nonperson, you just had 666 postcount! This whole thread was just a plot to invoke the power of the beast I'll wager... :devil:

On Halloween too! (Hop-tu-Naa)

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/features/2005/07/images/0522devil.jpg

[djm]

For our resident expatriate Scouser - The marvolous Williamson Tunnels

http://www.williamsontunnels.co.uk/Photos/001.jpg

http://www.williamsontunnels.co.uk/Photos/003.jpg

http://www.williamsontunnels.co.uk/Photos/005.jpg

http://www.williamsontunnels.co.uk/Photos/012.jpg

Link for anyone interested in this English eccentric:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson's_tunnels

[nonperson]

For our resident expatriate Scouser - The marvolous Williamson Tunnels


Link for anyone interested in this English eccentric:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson's_tunnels

I had forgotten about those. Another tunnel...........

http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/centreofthecreativeuniverse/images/hardman_mersey_large.jpg

Arty in monochrome.

[Limey]

I had forgotten about those. Another tunnel...........

http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/centreofthecreativeuniverse/images/hardman_mersey_large.jpg

Arty in monochrome.


I have to ask, where the hell is that?
They drive on the left, unless the photo was mirror-shopped
yet, the UK would never put "FAST" on the road, because we don't need any fucking encouragement in that area (mostly)
(I was just in GTFOMW mode coming back from the airport, myself)
That leaves Japan, India, Australia, UK Caribbean and Malaysia?
Doesn't look like any of those.

[djm]

I have to ask, where the hell is that?
They drive on the left, unless the photo was mirror-shopped
yet, the UK would never put "FAST" on the road, because we don't need any fucking encouragement in that area (mostly)
(I was just in GTFOMW mode coming back from the airport, myself)
That leaves Japan, India, Australia, UK Caribbean and Malaysia?
Doesn't look like any of those.

Looks like the Wallasey tunnel to me?

[nonperson]

I have to ask, where the hell is that?
They drive on the left, unless the photo was mirror-shopped
yet, the UK would never put "FAST" on the road, because we don't need any fucking encouragement in that area (mostly)
(I was just in GTFOMW mode coming back from the airport, myself)
That leaves Japan, India, Australia, UK Caribbean and Malaysia?
Doesn't look like any of those.


Mersey Tunnel Interior by Edward Chambre-Hardman.

The not too subtle clue was in the post title. And a brief look at the image's file properties would have helped too (and you a super-secret-squirrel-IT-hero-type-person).....:grin:

[djm]

Mersey Tunnel Interior by Edward Chambre-Hardman.

The not too subtle clue was in the post title. And a brief look at the image's file properties would have helped too (and you a super-secret-squirrel-IT-hero-type-person).....:grin:

It's the Entrance between Scotland Road, Byrom Street and the Museum I think. The reason the cars are on the wrong side is it's one way traffic.

[djm]

Although Gaudi has been mentioned, I don't recall seeing any images of La Sagrada Familia

http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/image-files/albums/gaudi-sagrada-familia/images/sagrada-familia-04-2_jpg.jpg

http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/image-files/albums/gaudi-sagrada-familia/images/sagrada-familia-02_jpg.jpg

It like the Smurfs build a cathedral - super.

[Ferrus]

It's not the greatest selection of buildings in the world, but I sort of like my university's central architecture, high Victorian work, commissioned by the famous mayor of Birmingham, and colonial minister (partially responsible for the Boer War), Joseph Chamberlain (father to two leaders of the Conservative party, Austen and Neville).

The Great Hall:

http://www.geocities.com/ramonatang/GreatHallUniversity.jpg

http://www.educationuk.org/pls/hot_bc/obj_pls_image?p_img_id=5440

Inside:

http://www.publications.bham.ac.uk/birmingham_magazine/b_magazine1996-99/ghall.gif

Reception:

http://www.has.bham.ac.uk/core/core_picker/loadimg.asp?id=4986

'Old Joe', a very tall clock tower named after Chamberlain, it can be seen throughout S.E. Birmingham.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Old_joe.jpg

From above:

http://img-fan.theonering.net/writing/reviews/images/spain_image2.jpg

[djm]

Port Meirion, a village constructed entirely by Sir Clough Williams Ellis in the 1920s. A kind of giant collection of follies.

http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/details.jpg

The Stone boat

http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/boat/amisreunis4.jpg

http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/boat/amisreunis1.jpg

Castel Deudraeth

http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/castell/5Castellfront.jpg

Camera obscura

http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/cameraobscura/camera.JPG

All the buildings were either moved from the Itallian coast and rebuilt in Wales, or designed by the owner Sir Clough Williams Ellis himself. The Village was the location where the cult 60's TV show The Prisoner was filmed.

[Limey]

It's not the greatest selection of buildings in the world, but I sort of like my university's central architecture, high Victorian work, commissioned by the famous mayor of Birmingham, and colonial minister (partially responsible for the Boer War), Joseph Chamberlain (father to two leaders of the Conservative party, Austen and Neville).



Chamberlain was a great leader and statesman, the same, fortunately for Hitler, cannot be said of his sniveling son, Neville. Though maybe, on some level that I'm not privy to, I'd like to think that Hitlers betrayal of Neville's agreement highlighted Hitler's true intentions at not just gaining living space, but actually occupying Europe. so I suppose he served his purpose. I just recall my grandparents not being too fond of him, but having great respect passed down for Chamberlain senior and what he did for "brummies" and the having the Industrial revolution help those that fueled it.



'Old Joe', a very tall clock tower named after Chamberlain, it can be seen throughout S.E. Birmingham.


We used to say that London has Big Ben and that Birmingham has little Willy, so I'll always know it as "little willy", not Old Joe.


Mersey Tunnel Interior by Edward Chambre-Hardman.

The not too subtle clue was in the post title. And a brief look at the image's file properties would have helped too (and you a super-secret-squirrel-IT-hero-type-person).....

I know, I know, I just didn't check the file name. I used to get called secret squirrel at another job. Lots of secret squirrels and even a Morrocan mole on this forum :)

[Ferrus]

Though maybe, on some level that I'm not privy to, I'd like to think that Hitlers betrayal of Neville's agreement highlighted Hitler's true intentions at not just gaining living space, but actually occupying Europe. so I suppose he served his purpose.
Although, to be fair to Neville, Hitler at this stage was not seen as being greatly different - certainly the term fascist had emotive overtones but not to the extent it had after the Holocaust - to the multitude of right-wing dictators who existed throughout the world, especially in Europe, with whom the UK had always been forced out of necessity to deal with diplomatically.

[C.J.Woolf]

As I recall, A.J.P. Taylor in The Origins of the Second World War wrote that appeasement was defensible at the time. The wiser politicians knew that the Versailles treaty was a bad one, and ultimately unenforcible.

[djm]

I think that he at least needed to try for a peaceful settlement before commencing a world war.

Agree Chamberlain senior was one of the more notable Brummies though, along with George Cadbury.

[Limey]

I think that he at least needed to try for a peaceful settlement before commencing a world war.

Agree Chamberlain senior was one of the more notable Brummies though, along with George Cadbury.

Here's a good link for you. Add Tolkien to the list.
...And Enoch Powell, if like me, you're "ballsy" about your politics and sociological causality.

http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/people.htm

I may be related to Burne-Jones, I've yet to find the link, may be farther back than is relevant though.

[djm]

Here's a good link for you. Add Tolkien to the list.
...And Enoch Powell, if like me, you're "ballsy" about your politics and sociological causality.

http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/people.htm

I may be related to Burne-Jones, I've yet to find the link, may be farther back than is relevant though.

Haha Oswald Moseley was a Midlands MP too for that matter.

[Poster]

Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, the Experience Music Project in Seattle, and the Gehry Tower in Hanover, Germany.

[djm]

On the Tolkein front what about Sarehole Mill

http://www.bplphoto.co.uk/TolkiensBirmingham/Images/Big/4594-23.jpg

[LastRailway]

Aqua Claudia, Rome

http://www.fabiopiferi.it/0/mdpro/Acquedotto0.JPG

[JazzTulip]

I had forgotten about those. Another tunnel...........

http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/centreofthecreativeuniverse/images/hardman_mersey_large.jpg

Arty in monochrome.


Oh that brings back memories, it really does.... every year, summer holiday in north Wales and went via the Mersey Tunnel!

[JazzTulip]

Port Meirion, a village constructed entirely by Sir Clough Williams Ellis in the 1920s. A kind of giant collection of follies.

http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/details.jpg

The Stone boat

http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/boat/amisreunis4.jpg

http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/boat/amisreunis1.jpg

Castel Deudraeth

http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/castell/5Castellfront.jpg

Camera obscura

http://www.virtualportmeirion.com/cameraobscura/camera.JPG

All the buildings were either moved from the Itallian coast and rebuilt in Wales, or designed by the owner Sir Clough Williams Ellis himself. The Village was the location where the cult 60's TV show The Prisoner was filmed.

Portmeirion is where they filmed 'The Prisoner', the iconic 1960s drama series about a kidnapped spy transferred to a private police state. Back in the real world they have apparently just installed CCTV there..... oh irony of ironies.... all together now..... "I am not a number.....!"

[djm]

Oh that brings back memories, it really does.... every year, summer holiday in north Wales and went via the Mersey Tunnel!

You must have been posh else you would have gone to New Brighton

http://www.new-brighton.co.uk/fort_purchrock.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/images/2007/01/15/storm_nbrighton_470x336.jpg

[LastRailway]

Another aqueduct (Nerja, Spain)

http://aquaduct.hobbysite.info/images/spanjenerja&#37;20aquaduct.jpg

[JazzTulip]

You must have been posh else you would have gone to New Brighton

http://www.new-brighton.co.uk/fort_purchrock.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/images/2007/01/15/storm_nbrighton_470x336.jpg

ha bloody ha.... we're from Huyton, but we had a car thanks to my dad's job.... :-)

[LastRailway]

Segovia, Spain:

http://www.atpm.com/12.12/europe/images/Roman%20Aqueduct,%20Segovia,%20Spain.jpg

[JazzTulip]

After my source agreed of my posting the top-secret info:
You simply copy the location of the attachment (from the file properties) and post it as a link.

thanks..... still working on this... I'm not the most technically competant Mac user. Me and technology is a long and winding story, I still write with a fountain pen, for goodness sake, which I fill from a bottle of ink (I'm not joking here).

<talks to self> Should have gone to art school. Physics? What was I thinking of..?

[LastRailway]

thanks..... still working on this... I'm not the most technically competant Mac user. Me and technology is a long and winding story, I still write with a fountain pen, for goodness sake, which I fill from a bottle of ink (I'm not joking here).

<talks to self> Should have gone to art school. Physics? What was I thinking of..?

I think it's OS independent. It happens if I try to post pictures from attachments.

<talks to self> Physics? What were you thinking of..?</talks to self>
ehh... yeah, I mean, it can happen to anybody :grin:

[C.J.Woolf]

Portmeirion is where they filmed 'The Prisoner', the iconic 1960s drama series about a kidnapped spy transferred to a private police state. Back in the real world they have apparently just installed CCTV there..... oh irony of ironies.... all together now..... "I am not a number.....!"
Next step: Rover. :ph34r:

[nonperson]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Wfm_db_forth_bridges.jpg/800px-Wfm_db_forth_bridges.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Bb-forthrailbridge.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/ForthRoadBridgeFromNorth_TakenByEuchiasmus.JPG

[nonperson]

It's not the greatest selection of buildings in the world, but I sort of like my university's central architecture, high Victorian work, commissioned by the famous mayor of Birmingham, and colonial minister (partially responsible for the Boer War), Joseph Chamberlain (father to two leaders of the Conservative party, Austen and Neville).


On the contrary it is a great selection of buildings!!!

[nonperson]

http://www.manxscenes.com/01&2/Apr/10.jpg

[LastRailway]

And a Hong Kong photo, just to change my style a bit:

(Road in Tsim Tsa Shui, Kowloon, feel free to assume that it was a rainy afternoon)

http://forums.intpcentral.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5473&d=1193960519

[djm]

The Humber Bridge

http://lcjb.cjsonline.gov.uk/area18/images/humber_bridge_pic.jpg

http://www.davep.org/photographs/Humber%20Bridge%20Montage/img/Humber-Bridge-Montage.jpg

http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/pls/xximages/docs/Humber-bridge%20small.jpg

[djm]

The new Severn Bridge

http://www.severnestuary.net/sep/images/severn%20bridge5.jpg

http://www.atkinsglobal.com/skills/environmentalservices/images/4571949_severn.jpg

Old Severn Bridge

http://www.sbe.hw.ac.uk/staff/arthur/frbpc/april2005/images/Severn%20Bridge%20at%20Sunset_jpg.jpg