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#2594169 30-Oct-2020 21:39

I like the frontage of the Smith and Caughy building in Auckland's Queen St:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/yFcCC6yNZoY81Pd67

The pataka inspired architecture and detail is the only reminder on Queen St of New Zealand's indigenous culture and architecture. The picture does not do it justice. Looking up from the street in person the design and detail is striking. Designed by Roy Lippincott, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright's.

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#2595176 30-Oct-2020 23:18

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In the NZ context, I was really taken by the new Govett Brewster Gallery in New Plymouth. Not just the exterior; the interior alongside the glass is magical, with such striking light, and alcoves in those spaces where the building folds out. Another good reason to visit NP.

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#2595177 30-Oct-2020 23:34

Sagrada Familia is probably the most amazing building I've been inside, but there have been some amazing ones, especially in places like Italy and Paris.

St Peters Basilica in the Vatican would be the most spiritual.

Versailles Palace was impressive for very different reasons. Incidentally, outside the palace, was a vendor in the Gardens selling freshly squeezed orange juice (as in front of you). The only way to describe that glass of juice was liquid sunshine. Never in my life have I tasted anything like it since.

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#2595180 31-Oct-2020 00:00

networkn:

St Peters Basilica in the Vatican would be the most spiritual.

I vote for St Peter's. Not because it is 'spiritual'.

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#2595183 31-Oct-2020 00:23

networkn:
Sagrada Familia is probably the most amazing building I've been inside, but there have been some amazing ones, especially in places like Italy and Paris.

St Peters Basilica in the Vatican would be the most spiritual.

Versailles Palace was impressive for very different reasons. Incidentally, outside the palace, was a vendor in the Gardens selling freshly squeezed orange juice (as in front of you). The only way to describe that glass of juice was liquid sunshine. Never in my life have I tasted anything like it since.

Sagrada Familia - agree

St Peters - felt very unspiritual and vulgar, "The entire interior of St. Peter's is lavishly decorated with marble, reliefs, architectural sculpture and gilding" only redeemed by the chapel containing The Pieta.

Never got to Versailles. Rumor has it that in its hey day the ultimate destination of the glass of liquid sunshine would have been a chamber pot emptied out the window by a servant. Some Palace!

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#2595191 31-Oct-2020 01:38

jonathan18:
In the NZ context, I was really taken by the new Govett Brewster Gallery in New Plymouth. Not just the exterior; the interior alongside the glass is magical, with such striking light, and alcoves in those spaces where the building folds out. Another good reason to visit NP.

It was a fun building to build. It's not a particularly complex building, outside of the facade, but I do like the tall skinny windows at the "inside corners" of the wavey bits.

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#2595192 31-Oct-2020 01:45

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Frank Lloyd Wright.

Like the architecture, but the architect himself was a bit of an a**hole, and like too many architects he was great at building neat-looking but totally impractical/unliveable/unmaintainable structures.

The Organisation Todt was similar, but they at least built things to last.

Don't get me started on architects. Solid plaster ceiling with complex services behind them is the least of their sins.

That's ok though, control systems can overcome physics and somehow work with no sensors or access to actuators /s

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#2595255 31-Oct-2020 07:54

There's a huge amount of amazing architecture in Bangkok, although the MahaNakhon Tower would probably be my favourite building. There's a skywalk/observation deck as well :-)

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#2595261 31-Oct-2020 08:03

This:

Some stories recently about this as it was refurbished:

https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/buildings/the-seductive-fantasy-of-saarinens-twa-terminal_o

Was developed by Eero Saarinen - he designed some amazing buildings - well worth a trip down the intertubes for a look.

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#2595287 31-Oct-2020 10:37

I love Brutalist architecture.

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#2595515 31-Oct-2020 15:01

Of recent experience, the marae of Ngāti Ira because you can look right into the Waioweka George through the rear windows.

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#2595562 31-Oct-2020 15:57

McLaren MTC as a favourite building.

https://www.mclaren.com/racing/mclaren+/news-and-offers/10-facts-you-didnt-know-about-mtc/

In an NZ context - there's a few buildings at Auckland University which are quite interesting - the old Science building which was designed with a small-scale reactor in mind as an example of brutalism, the Student Union Buildings that used to house Shadows (RIP) and the Architecture Faculty building was also just all sorts of weird.

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#2595601 31-Oct-2020 19:17

Anything designed by Richard Meier.

In Germany, I worked in one of his buildings, the Daimler Benz research centre on top of the Eselsberg.

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#2595602 31-Oct-2020 19:23

I'm a big fan of The Oldest House in the game Control. It's a bonkers place in the game, but has an arguably stranger inspiration in real life at 33 Thomas Street in Manhattan - a completely windowless skyscraper that is a supposed mass surveillance hub for the NSA. It's worth reading about.

https://control.fandom.com/wiki/Oldest_House

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street

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#2596154 2-Nov-2020 10:32

neb:
Fred99:

Frank Lloyd Wright.

Like the architecture, but the architect himself was a bit of an a**hole, and like too many architects he was great at building neat-looking but totally impractical/unliveable/unmaintainable structures. The Organisation Todt was similar, but they at least built things to last.

"Artistic temperament" is a thing.

As for architects, we shouldn't put them all in the same basket:

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