The Cool Structures Thread!

[Perfection]

It's like babe thread but for cool structures!

I'll start of by posting pictures of Radio Telescopes because Radio Telescopes are badass!

Parkes Observatory

Arecibo Observatory

Effelsberg

Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope

Lovell Telescope

Mark II (Lovell in background)

Green Bank Telescope

Large Millimeter Telescope

RATAN-600

Very Large Array

Smiley

The Big Ear

Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope

 

[Ansar]

Aww, the smiley one is so cute!

 

[skadistic]

A 64k warning would have been nice.

Smaller pictures!!!!!!!!!

Because of my field of work I have a thing for glass buldings.
This is the NSA building.

 

[JonnyB]

The Space shuttle and launchpad

The International Space Station

 

[JonnyB]

The Large Hadron Collider located underground at CERN

 

[soul_warrior]

eurotunnel - what else?

the drillhead

 

[Trajan12]

Roma!!!!!!

 

[Irish Caesar]

Notre Dame Cathedral, Amiens:

 

[Fifty]

 

[JonnyB]

A Chandelier from the Church of Bones, in the Czech Republic

 

[Genocidicbunny]

This is just a small sample. Ive been there and the place is HUGE. And the thing is, It has a lot of fountains, and every single one is gravity operated

 

[Falcon02]

For Perfection
The Horn Antenna in Holmedel, New Jersey used in the first Satellite transmission

The VAB at NASA Kennedy Space Center

Goddard Clean Room Building
Couldn't find a picture of the exterior, but it's the largest clean room in the world.

The Wall to the right is all filter ventilation intakes, from Floor to Ceiling, with a Hubble testbed in this pic.

Overview of the room

The Door

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

 

[Heretic_Cata]

An orthodox monastery on mount Athos.

The Potala Palace:

Spoiler :

The Blue Mosque in Istambul

The Shwedagon Pagoda

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The Old State Department Building, just next to the White House. I saw this building yesterday, and it is one of the most beautiful structures I've ever seen; this picture hardly does it justice.

The Bank of China Tower

I'm no communist, but I've always loved this one, called "The Worker and the Collective Farm Girl."

And Blenheim Palace, outside of Oxford.

 

[Bluemofia]

WARNING! MASSIVE PICS!

Spoiler Yerkes Observatory :

Spoiler Telescope of Great Holiness. (largest refracting telescope in the world) Dome :

Spoiler Telescope of Great Holiness :

Spoiler Telescope of Semi-Great Holiness Dome. (40 inch Reflector) :

Spoiler 40 inch refractor :

 

[JonnyB]

An Apartment building in the Netherlands

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[Masquerouge]

Florence/Firenze Dom:

Tien tan (temple of the Sky) in Beijing:

 

[Truronian]

Local stuff:

Eden Project

Tamar Bridge

First suspension bridge to be widened while remaining open...

Truro Cathedral

 

[The Fjonis]

What's this guy doing then?