The Cool Structures Thread!

[warpus]

^^^ Is that Tim Burtons house?

Hehe

It's a really cool building, I've been in it. It's in a small resort town (that just happens to be right in between 2 large cities, but anyway), and has tons of cool architecture and hot girls wandering around. The building in question has a restaurant/cafe in it.. We stopped there for lunch, I think. It was cool inside too. The bathrooms had all these surreal fold-out mirrors everywhere.

 

[MamboJoel]

Hundertwasser Haus in Vienna is nice :

Fernsehen Turm in Berlin (East Side) :

 

[sonorakitch]

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.

Thats funny...many people in Hong Kong dislike the building and this is true, but only because it disregards the fundamentals of Feng Shui (so I am told). The two towers at the summit resemble chopsticks standing up in a bowl, a symbol of poverty and starvation to the Chinese people.

But I love it.

~Chris

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Local stuff:

The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest:

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Bran Castle

And the same castle from another angle:

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[nc-1701]

Taipei 101

Cheyanne Mountain

The Vehicle Assembly Building

Three Gorges Dam

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

And this is its tennis court i think:

Where\what\how high is that? Playing tenis up there looks like fun but I imagine that you'ld lose a lot of tenis balls.

 

[ShannonCT]

Where\what\how high is that? Playing tenis up there looks like fun but I imagine that you'ld lose a lot of tenis balls.

It's on the helipad of the Barj Al-Arab hotel in Dubai. The hotel is 321 meters tall, and I would estimate that the helipad is at 220-240 meters. Unfortunately, the tennis court was only temporary, and few of us can afford to stay at the hotel anyway.

 

[brennan]

Start with a no-brainer (especially in a Civ forum) {image size now reduced}

Temple of the Sun in Teotihuacan...

The Barg al arab reminded me of the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth...

Houses of Parliament...

 

[Sidhe]

I've never been to the spinaker tower and I live nr Portsmouth. I've seen it fairly close up though. Must visit it sometime.

Here's something even closer to home Portchester Castle. Nice to have history in your back garden

Largish picture:-

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There's Portsmouth's dockyard in the background, I think that tower might be the spinnaker tower.

Big picture.Tevatron collider. A great little physics project.

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[Urederra]

I've never been to the spinaker tower and I live nr Portsmouth. I've seen it fairly close up though. Must visit it sometime.

Here's something even closer to home Portchester Castle. Nice to have history in your back garden

That reminds me of Avila wall...

and the bended house reminds me of Gaudi.

 

[brennan]

I've never been to the spinaker tower and I live nr Portsmouth. I've seen it fairly close up though. Must visit it sometime.

Don't get stuck in the lifts!

 

[Kyriakos]

Roman & Byzantine buildings in Thessalonike:

Roman:

- The arch of the tetrarch Galerius

-The forum

-Ruins of the palace of Galerius

-Polytheistic temple (later it became the proto-christian church of st. George)

Byzantine

-Part of the walls

-The church of Hagia Sofia

-The church of Acheropoietos

-The cathedral of st. Demetrios

 

[Mulholland]

 

[Mulholland]

Big Bucky Ball

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[Mulholland]

St-Joseph's Oratory

 

[JonnyB]

Time for a break from the manmade structures!
Termite mounds

 

[Kyriakos]

Termite mounts are impressive If you compare them, replacing a human with a termite, to the size of human cities, they are still rather large, and amazingly high.

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

That second one would be fun to destroy...from a distance of course.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

St-Joseph's Oratory

That is absolutely gorgeous.


I give you the National Mall, from the top of the National Capitol.

 

[bhsup]

Liberty Memorial