What is your Favorite Building or type of Architecture?

[vidioman 21]

My favourite building is Taipei 101, and my favourite archetectural style is Structual Impressionism. After that, the Whalen Building in Thunder Bay, and Neo-Gothicism. Then the Provincial Building(Thunder Bay), and Post Modern.

 

-I also like Brutalism. Ugly, but weird to look at!

-vid

[jeeper 14]

I have to say my favorite buildings are still the WTC Towers. I just can't let go of them. I'm sure the architecture is just part of it, but they will always be my favorites. As far as architectural style, I'd have to say it's the New York style of the early 1900's.

[villarule 2]

i dont have a favourate building, but my favourate style is art deco, its so groovy and retro

[vidioman 21]

Date:6/24/2004 10:19:23 AM
Author:jeeper767

I have to say my favorite buildings are still the WTC Towers. I just can't let go of them. I'm sure the architecture is just part of it, but they will always be my favorites. As far as architectural style, I'd have to say it's the New York style of the early 1900's.

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When the WTC was being built, a lot of New Yorkers were upset because they were ugly! But after a while, I guess they got used to them. What about the freedom tower?

-vid

[EmergentFungus 29]

Gothic

 

 

and modern;

 

[Holy Knight Rivera 0]

Did you guys know that the WTC was made by a Japanese Architect? I was like Awesome. Those Japs they are so crazy but Cool

[Yellowlab 11]

Minoru Yamasaki designed WTC.  Interesting fact:  He was afraid of heights...hence the narrowness of the windows (only 18, I believe).

 

My favorite building...that's tough...but I like St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC.

 

My favorite (skyscraper) style is postmodernism and turn-of-the-century-1930s styles such as Beaux Arts and neo-gothicism.

 

My favorite skyscraper...hard to say, but I like Rockefeller Center and the Woolworth Building in NYC.

[RobledoRessainance 36]

I used to be a big fan of the structural expressionism, but when I started with BAT I found the beauty of older styles. I have three favourite styles now: (not in any particular order)
-Neoclasssical. -Not much of an original style, but it brings the beauty of ancient Greece and Rome to our days.

-Exotic Baroque, also known as Churrigueresco. -Full of grace and beauty. Quite exotic too .

-Art Nouveau. -Very French, but extended to many nations. Femenine, natural, exotic and delicated shapes. Very eye-pleasing. A noticeable use of stained glass.


I also like Beaux Arts and the other styles of Baroque, but those 3 are my favourite ones.

As for a favourite building, I can't really decide... But my favourites are Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico City), Teatro Nacional (Havana), La Sagrada Familia (Barcelona) and Catedral de Zacatecas (Zacatecas, Mexico).

[K_m_H 0]

The architecture that they have in Dubai where they mix middle easterna and western architectures.. very cool my favorite is the Burj al Arab.

i also like other skyscrapers like the Taipei 101, petronas towers and the oriental pearl tower.

[Duke87 1,070]

My favorite building type would be the Skyscraper, preferably in a Shiny modern or futuristic style. Taller is better!

[Smurfer2 7]

Date:6/24/2004 11:04:46 AM
Author:vidioman

Date:6/24/2004 10:19:23 AM
Author:jeeper767

I have to say my favorite buildings are still the WTC Towers. I just can't let go of them. I'm sure the architecture is just part of it, but they will always be my favorites. As far as architectural style, I'd have to say it's the New York style of the early 1900's.

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When the WTC was being built, a lot of New Yorkers were upset because they were ugly! But after a while, I guess they got used to them. What about the freedom tower?

-vid

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The Freedom Tower is too close to the Bank of China Tower.

My favorite building... hmm.... that's a tough one.. I guess Palace of Westminster.

[Holy Knight Rivera 0]

So what is it? My favorite is the Library tower and my favorite type of architecture is modern

[Chris M 406]

Well, I have to say my favorite building is Central Plaza in Hong Kong, I have always liked that buildings design and the interior is really quite nice. http://www.centralplaza.com.hk/MP.html check that site out and I believe they have a tour of the building.

[DuskTrooper 316]

Postmodern architecture. I started a thread about it.

[GaryReggae 81]

Modernism in its various guises, definitely.  Particularly seaside style architecture and Brutalism.  As for my favourite buildings, they would be Portsmouth's Clarence Pier or Tricorn Centre (now demolished ) or London's Barbican Centre.

[Superstar 69]

I would definitely rather postmodern over any other style, but some certain buildings which or not actually postmodern are pretty cool

[hdorriker 190]

I love Brutalism and Organic Modernism all the way,
Le Corbusier, FLW, Niemeyer and a lot of the 1960's/70's stuff.

Oscar Neimeyer rocks

As does Frank Lloyd Wright (Although this building of his design was constructed after he died)

Le Corbusier rocks (although this picture doesn't show much)

And Le Corbusier's Brutalism rocks too.


stuff like that.


As for more recent things,
I love deconstructionism and soft-modernism. Liebeskind.
Although I find Frank Gehry's deconstructionism to be pretentious and uninspired.

Liebeskind Rocks:




And Gehry sucks:



And there are a few international style buildings I like, I suppose. But I passionately hate postmodernism

This is why:



(I really dislike Robert Venturi)

[hogmeister 7]

I just like good architecture that knows what it wants to be and either works with the surrounding environment or dominates it depending on the buildings design purpose.

 

Though i must admit, anything with columns is very close to my heart, lol.

 

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[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

Victorian and Industrial Revolution, Canals and Railways!

 

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Beutifull Picture! ^^^^

[hogmeister 7]

Those Victorian transport edifices look great Tonks, they were designed to uplift the spirit and impress you with their solidity and permanence, and many of the best examples are still around today.

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

The Canals and Railways in my opinion have always been a defining aspect of this Country. Indeed we were the first Counry to have a network of railway lines and we have a really good canal network with the prettyest barges around (just dont try and drive one, i caused a traffic jam on the Kennet and Avon canal, oops).

 

I love UK buildings of the Era, and the massive mills up north have always interested me, Buildings at 10-12 stories in the 19th century.

[RadioheadFan 1]

Hmmm...my favourite building would have to be...First Canadian Place, in Toronto. I don't know why...just a building that I like seeing downtown and such.

RHF

[justanothersim86 83]

^ I like FCP , I'm surprised that some people don't like First Canadian Place, it goes in the skyline very well.

 

My favourite stlyes would have to be gothic and art deco. There is some modern architecture I like quite a lot though.

[Tunafish 48]

I'm all steel and glass, modern baby. I love the Jin Mao tower in shanghai

[brtim2 11]

Me? I like bricks, bricks more bricks. With some steel thrown on there as an accent. Especially green steel. Buildings that look like they are going to be there forever.

Like the Bank of America Building in Baltimore. Just look at those shoulders. Broad! (And probably my most favorite building)


And I like how it can go from really tall to really long. Like the longest Warehouse in the East Coast. The B&O Warehouse in the Camden District. Sure, there was a time it wasn't being used. But it survived a lot. Some fires, the decline of industry in the area, and a Ken Griffey Jr. homerun.


And no matter the changing tide of thought. Like getting powerplants away from tourist attractions, seriously? They said that? The buildings stand, even under new management.

[masher 3]

Hmm favorite building?...Transamerica Pyramid....favorite style?...Modern?

[Deathtoall 28]

um possible world tower sydney or the kenith building(i like it's slanted roof) and contempory modern

[ACEfanatic 7]

Date: 6/24/2004 11:16:54 PM Author: Yellowlab

Minoru Yamasaki designed WTC.  Interesting fact:  He was afraid of heights...hence the narrowness of the windows (only 18', I believe).

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Actually, the windows were narrow because the exterior beams held the building up (no internal columns, except for the core).

Anyway, my favorite styles are Art Deco/Neo-gothic. 

Favorite building, easy, Woolworth, though the Chrystler Building is a close second.

-ACE

[DuskTrooper 316]

Hdorriker: Yes,I loathe THAT type of postmodernism. I only like it if it is applied in a proper neoclassical fashion to a building. Stuff like that, as well as works by Micheal graves- blech. I'll stick to KPF, and Phillip Johnson.

[GingerBlokey 30]

Le Corbusier anything 1960/70s