Post nice architecture

[Sharky.]

This thread needs to have "56k death trap" in the title, it's taken 5 minutes to load completely.

Anyway, my contributions:

 

[Plague.Ghost]

Completed in 1876, and my school is 151 years old.

 

[Danny]

Haha Colon Hotel!11!

10 Points for whosoever can identify this location.

^Not 100x100 👎

 

[TheCracker]

10 Points for whosoever can identify this location.

York 👍 - 15 miles east of where i'm originally from.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Adelaide's Festival Centre.

One of my favorite places. The West Beach Skatepark, does this count?

13ft big enough?

 

[Jordan]

A very interesting thread! Too bad most of you don't have your real location in your profile, I would love to know where most of this stuff is. Anyway, here are a few pictures from a new doctor's office in my home town, where I took my car for a photoshoot one Sunday afternoon. This is about as interesting as it gets around here.

 

[FoolKiller]

Louisville, KY

The Louisville Slugger Museum - World's Largest Bat

Kentucky Mirror and Plate Glass is in the background with the giant baseball going through a window.

The Humana Building

The Aegon Building - tallesdt building in Louisville, aka The Dome

Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanitarium - today and 1926 (when active)

It is supposedly haunted. The big dare for teenagers is to climb to the top of the "body slide" where they slid the dead bodies down to the morgue without other patients seeing them.

Southeast Christian Church - aka Six Flags Over Jesus

4th Street Live - Concert venue and nightlife district.

 

[Danny]

That bat is awesome!

 

[James2097]

Melbourne at night along the Yarra river, Southbank area.


The damned Federation Square - I do like the uber contemporary Zincalume cladding, even if it does look crinkled like a Tobelerone wrapper.


Fed Square contrasts with old school style.


There isn't a right-angle in the whole damn thing. VERY EXPENSIVE to make it like this - the tolerances for all the parts during assembly was insanely small...


More Fed Square, multicoloured stone tiles sourced from central Australia at great expense... At least the pavement leaves ribbed gaps to deter skaters...


Interior, I'm serious there is not a 90 degree angle in the entire place - including the steps... (quite stupidly - many old people experience vertigo and fall...)


Save the best till last... Williams BMW F1 car with Fed Square concourse in the background.


Sorry, but 56kers will die. Horribly horribly. Believe me, its best they don't see Fed Square anyway.

 

[FoolKiller]

That bat is awesome!

Five stories tall.

Up the street another company did a parody by creating a three story tall bat (flying kind) and hanging it from its wall. So they have the largest bat statue in the world.

 

[Raghavan]

LOL Architecture in this dinky town? Give me a break.

 

[Slicks]

Visit http://www.butchartgardens.com/main.php. About 20 minutes from me, and proably one of the premier gardens in North America, if not the world.

Craigdarroch Castle, was private for many years.

Hatley Castle

The Empress Hotel, in downtown Victoria.

The Parliament buildings in downtown Victoria, within view of the Empress Hotel.

Many more, as Victoria is a very historic city, being around since the 1850's.

 

[Kylehnat]

Perhaps not as inspired as a lot of buildings in the world, this is pretty cool for a library:

And even though the combined cost of these buldings to the taxpayers (i.e. ME) is close to $1 billion U.S., I think our stadiums are pretty cool (I couldn't find the picture I want, but as you come out of the last tunnel on I-90, and see Safeco Field and Qwest Field against Puget Sound, it's very pretty, especially if the sun is out).

 

[FoolKiller]

LOL Architecture in this dinky town? Give me a break.

Which town is that?

 

[TheCracker]

Sheffield, South Yorkshire in all its glory...

council offices


Rough nightclub / 'cultist' church?!?


posh end of town


swanky shops


more exclusive accomodation


Famine's place of worship



.....its grim up north!

 

[ExigeEvan]

Hatley Castle

Ha, that's not a castle...

This is a castle...

 

[Raghavan]

Which town is that?

Palo Alto, California.

I suppose the musicky tower at Stanford University could count but whatever.

 

[FoolKiller]

Hey, we have a castle in Kentucky.

This is the Versailles Castle, just east of Lexington, KY.

Cultural note: Versailles, KY is not pronounced in the French way of Ver-sigh but in the American way of Ver-sales, unless you actually live there in which case you pronounce it like Gomer Pyle, Ver-say-ules. Despite the pronunciation differences they do keep a sister city relationship with Versailles, France.

This is also the same town that much of the town footage from the movie "Elizabethtown" was filmed.

 

[Raghavan]

Some pics:

 

[Danny]

This is a shopping centre near me.

But then again, once you've seen one shoopping centre, you've seen a mall.

 

[Slicks]

This is a shopping centre near me.
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But then again, once you've seen one shoopping centre, you've seen a mall.

Puns should be punished by death.

 

[Vonie]

About an hour away...

Just ignore the Ikea.

 

[Dave A]

I've always like it in York, great place to go for a day with the missues and take a walk around the city walls the finish in one of the many pubs scattered about the place.
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/oc/Photos/York/york07.jpg
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/oc/Photos/York/york08.jpg

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/oc/Photos/York/york22.jpg
^Where the Roman Bath is on the left theres a pub on the ground floor, I've been in there a good few times.
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/oc/Photos/York/york21.jpg
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/oc/Photos/York/york01.jpg

 

[Danny]

Puns should be punished by death.

Eeek!

Is that stable?

I just wouldn't feel safe on the outside of the top part, or the top of the bottom part.

 

[Danny]

Sorry to bring this thread back, but I've shortened the criteria to just good/interesting architecture.

That's a Spa I've been to in Andorra La Vella. Brilliantly designed, inside and out.