The Cool Structures Thread!

[Urederra]

Local stuff too:

Segovia, Acueduct:

Madrid: Puerta de Europa.

Osborne bull road billboard.

Cuenca: Hanging houses.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

I would hate to live in those houses, mainly cus im somewhat afraid of heights...

Quite impressive considering how long it survived and how crappy the new one is. For those that dont know, this is the Mir Space Station, which was flying up there from the launch of the first component on February 19, 1986 to March 23rd, 2001 when it was was deorbited, through the method of just crashing it into Earths atmosphere.

 

[Atlas14]

St. Basil's Cathedral

 

[Masquerouge]

Palenque kicks ass!

 

[Atlas14]

Machu Picchu

 

[Mulholland]

In Perfection's vein.
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/

 

[Kyriakos]

double post! ...

 

[Irish Caesar]

Shame on the caption! Chichen Itza is Mayan, not Aztec!

 

[JonnyB]

Sacsayhuaman

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[Atlas14]

Shame on the caption! Chichen Itza is Mayan, not Aztec!

You're right, I missed that completely!

 

[Kyriakos]

I'll post a few pics of Thessalonike:

The international trade fair:

The governing house

The edge of Aristotle's square (downtown)

The White tower

The Ymca square + northern theatre

The tellecommunications tower

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

The Royal Palace of Norway

The Hermitage

The Reichstag, New and Improved!

Neuschwanstein Castle

 

[Appassionato]

Hundertwasserhaus, Wien, Austria:

Turning Torso, Malmö, Sweden:

 

[sonorakitch]

Good on ya Cheezy for posting the most graceful building in the world: the Bank of China.

In the theme of Observatories, here are a couple here in Arizona:

~Chris

 

[ShannonCT]

Good on ya Cheezy for posting the most graceful building in the world: the Bank of China.

~Chris

My Hong Kong girlfriend says that many people in Hong Kong compare the Bank of China to a razor blade.

How about this one for graceful:

The Burj al Arab hotel in Dubai.

 

[Kyriakos]

My Hong Kong girlfriend says that many people in Hong Kong compare the Bank of China to a razor blade.

How about this one for graceful:

The Burj al Arab hotel in Dubai.

This is really scary imo. It is like the rest of the buildings are lowly peasant huts.

And this is its tennis court i think:

 

[Perfection]

This is really scary imo. It is like the rest of the buildings are lowly peasant huts.

And this is its tennis court i think:

It's actually a helipad, it was temporarily converted to a helipad for an exhibition match.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

No pics yet, but cool . . . very cool.

 

[warpus]

Golden Terraces - Warsaw, Poland

Weird curvy building - Sopot, Poland
I wish I could find a better picture of it, but I have no idea what it's officially called

 

[JonnyB]

^^^ Is that Tim Burtons house?



And welcome to CFC Appassionato! Nice Pics!