Your Favorite Building.

[Double L]

Use this thread to post your favorite buildings. Show us your favorite example of good architecture. You are allowed to post more than one. If you can, tell us why you like it but you don't have to.

1. The Menil Collection

The Menil Collection is my favorite example of architecture in all of Houston because I love architecture which is organic with the user in mind. Renzo Piano was chosen to design a museum of 15,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, and rare books which would be placed in a sleepy residential neighborhood of shingle-style townhomes located in Houston's inner loop.

Renzo made the building low and horizontal; the same height of the residential homes, he also used shingle-style walls, just like the local houses. Creating a massive museum that blended in with it's simple environment. He also used an open floor plan. He placed the parking lot a block away from the site, guiding visitors to the museum with a walkway, adorned with various sculptures he designed. Renzo also puts sculptures on the museums lawn.

An inspiration to many architects, future architects would choose to create architectural landmarks of their own in the same neighborhood. The neighborhood is now also home to the Rothko Chapel, The Byzantine Fresco Chapel and St. Thomas University which was designed by Philip Johnson. All within about three to six blocks from each other



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www.architecture.uwaterloo.ca



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[Metro-One]

One Wall center in Vancouver Canada

I love modern architecture. I have always adored this building for its elegance and curves.



Picture is my own.

[muppet]

Cleveland Terminal Tower, the perfect balance:



or perfect geometry, Shanghai Jinmao:

[theWatusi]

I can't get enough of Philadelphia City Hall





(my photos)

[jtk1519]

Fountain Place in Dallas


http://www.veribrum.com/builder2/main/page/49.html


http://www.fountainplace.com/

[The Chemist]

Shanghai World Financial Centre

[Texas Tuff]

My favorite building is still the Chrysler building in NYC. It is a true classic art-deco masterpiece.




Source: http://search.msn.com/images/results...ing&form=IGRE#

[olga]

Here's one of my favorites. Medborgarhuset in Eslöv (Eslöv Civic Hall), southern Sweden. Architect Hans Asplund, built 1957.

All photos taken by aiert at Flickr.

[staff]

Wow, that's cool. I had no idea.

[M.K.]

Top first is still Bank Of China in Hong Kong

Just because of that simple tringle prismatic crystal quartzo levels you simple build.

[America 117]

Is and always will be the best...... The empire state building

http://jasoninhollywood.blogspot.com...d-more-as.html

http://www.readio.com/archives/0310/index.html

http://www.newyorklogue.com/empire-state-building

http://www.skyhousecondo.com/constsiteviews.html

[Skyscraper100]

petronas towers

still my favorite building

[Skyscraper100]

my 2nd fav
GT tower in Makati city, philippines

[TANGELD_SLC]

Sorry if I over-did it, but...

city-data.com:http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicc/cfiles9579.jpg
Salt Lake Temple

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint's largest, holiest and most famous temple is far and away my favorite religious structure. It isn't overly ornamented like many cathedrals are, and yet it's architecture drips with "divine geometry", masonic symbolism, austere beauty, quiet mystery and subtle grandiose.

http://www.utahhdr.com/gallery/d/227...e+Temple-1.jpg


Designed by LDS freemasons, construction began in February 1853 and the temple was finally dedicated April 6, 1893 after forty years of hard labor, and the near bankruptcy of the LDS Church. It's stone exterior is quartz monzonite, which has a sparkling quality and is similar to granite. It is topped with a golden statue of the Angel Moroni, who, according to Mormon lore, appeared to LDS Church founder Joseph Smith.


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2337/...5618bf79b8.jpg


It is one of America's finest examples of Masonic architecture and will be a subject of Dan Brown's TBA sequel to the bestselling "The Da Vinci Code" novel.

It sits in downtown Salt Lake City as the heart and centerpiece of the beautiful ten-acre Temple Square, which is one of the biggest tourist attractions in the United States, and something of a mecca for LDS faithul from around the world.


Zooomr.com

One of the main reasons I like this building so much is because you can't quite pin it to any single architectural style. It is Gothic, Baroque, Masonic and many other styles all wrapped in one.

These pictures are from flickr.com, can't find original credits

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/13/88...f2f908.jpg?v=0

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/...22cd91.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399/...eb5941.jpg?v=0

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1344/...45f8f2.jpg?v=0

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/245/5...26caa2.jpg?v=0

Interior pictures(from moroni10.com)

"Terrestrial Room"

"Celestial Room"

A Sealing Room

Solemn Assembly Hall

[America 117]

^^^WOW!!! thats truly what great architecture is!

[scalziand]

Locally, I'm rather fond of these two buildings:
The Hopson Block:

and this one:

[photoLith]

Its a toss up for me. In my area I would have to go with..

The beautiful post-mordern Bank of America Center by Phillip Johnson



In the distance you can see some blue buildings that were designed by I.M. Pei of which I am quite fond of also.


or the art deco Gulf Building, both of which are in Houston







Took these photos last Friday before I had to come back to Arkansas, YAY!!!!!!!!

[AtlantaMustang]

I really like One Atlantic Center

http://www.hines.com/toolkit_images/...t_lres_web.jpg

http://www.hines.com/toolkit_images/...r_lres_web.jpg
Along with its neighbor 1180 Peachtree..

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3046/...b8f4ca.jpg?v=0

[LMich]

I've always, always loved One Detroit Center in Detroit. It's not just the architecture, but how it added some needed balance to the skyline from almost all views. It's so Detroit, and one of the few nods back at history in the post modern style that I actually think works.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/abuccel...10442/sizes/l/


Sabatoa


Official Building Website

My only criticism has ever been about the scaling. It's scaled purposefully to look squatter and shorter than it really is, and that's really unfortunate.

[Jibba]

The John Hancock Center in Chicago. Muscular, graceful, brawny, elegant, rational, expressive, honest, soaring, confident, etc.: