House, factory, even a church - anything goes. If you know anything interesting about it, share that with us too!
I'm going to choose the Einsteinturm, which was built in Potsdam in Germany between 1919 and 1921 as a solar observatory. I've chosen it partly because I think it's one of the most beautiful buildings in the world, and partly because it represents an era when a Jewish architect such as Erich Mendelsohn could be given a commission to build such a radical structure and name it after a Jewish physicist - only a few years before Germany, which I adore, entered the darkest period in human history.
Einstein, incidentally, doesn't seem to have liked it very much.
The Queens Palace at Greenwich with the painted hall which is magnificent. I come from a small town called Lee green near Blackheath . Greenwich is set in a Royal Park with deer Henry the 8th built it and on the top of the hill above it you can look straight over the river Thames - there are then Parks to walk through all the way ot woolwich. The clock that is greenwich mean time is disappointint ot me just like a kitchen clock but there is a Maritime museum there too which is really good So A collection of historic Buidings all in one place.
I know the Queen's Palace and Greenwich very well - many beautiful buildings there. You're right about the clock, which looks like it cost £5 in Argos.
I also like Frank Lloyd Wright's house called Falling Water. It looks pretty neat with a river flowing through the house.
It was built, so it counts! I worked on an archaeological dig at a site very close to it back when I was a student.
I have visited the Gateway Arch:
It may not be very ecological friendly but I still have an admiration of it.
My ex's family was from the St. Louis area, I've been up in the Arch a few times, and loved the museum.
Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, the ancestral home of the Swan King, Ludwig II AKA the Mad King, sponsor of Wagner.
A superb building! I plan to go back there one day.
yep, that's a great one!
I have visited Neuschwanstein Castle before, it is a must see when you are stationed in Germany. It is fabulous! The stories of Mad King Ludwig are amusing, but sad.
the mosque at cadiz spain followed by alhambra , granada
Neuschwanstein because of it's fairy tale quality and Wieskirche. Yes Wieskirche is a church but after seeing so many dank, dark and imposing churches in Europe it was as if a great weight of oppressive expectations was lifted. It is open bright and pretty. It's also important to remember that Mad King Ludvig had Neuschwanstein built as a tribute to and symbol of German nationalism as laid out by Wagner. We all know what happened with that. @Jnei can you post pictures for these please? I have figured out how to do links but can't get the picture to show up.
Every year I go up to DC on a school trip. There are three things I see that I love to see every year and never get tired of them. President Jefferson's home (Monticello), The Jefferson Memorial, and the National Cathedral.
Growing up in the Bay Area I have always dug the Marin County civic center. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Mr. Wright was a poet and an artist with architect tools.
The Cologne Cathedral
I am partial to Gaudi
I adore Gaudi! Here's the Casa Batlló, because the Sagrada Família is too obvious. Interesting fact about the Casa Batlló: all the internal walls can be easily moved around, so if you get bored of your apartment you don't have to move - you can just rearrange it to your liking.
WOW..so beautiful.
My favorite building is a world favorite also..the Sydney Opera House. I loved seeing it when I was there and kept photographing it from the ferry boats as well.
Here are pics of the opera house in May 2005, one of me in front of it, one of me on the ferry boat with Sydney bridge and opera house in distance.
Old city hall in Richmond, Va, USA. My parents were married there 2 Feb, 1949. It now belongs to Virginia Commonwealth University.
To begin: Saint Basil's cathedral, Russia for the decorative spires. [en.wikipedia.org]
Also, the Ugly House, more correctly known as Tŷ Hyll, in Capel Curig, Wales - the English name comes from the stream flowing past it, the Llugwy. Nobody knows how old it is, nor who built it.
Cool building.
great photos very impressive keep on keeping on
There are some huge shaped rocks somewhere weighing up to 5 tons I think that are so well shaped you can't get a human hair between them of different sizes made long before machines where hade that are mind-boggling and there's a temple or something in Asia that's been half taken over by strangler figs etc that's amazing.
You're thinking of the Sacsayhuamán ruins at Cusco in Peru. The temple taken over by vines is, I think, Ta Phrom in Cambodia.
that's it I think and both just amazing for completely different reasons.
My home after trees came tumbling down during a storm.
You have a very beautiful home
Thank you. Taken 7 years ago snowstorm on Halloween.
Whoa, interior photos are really cool too. Love it.
Off the top of my head I love this freaky hermit's heaven house in California, think I read somewhere someone high up in Facebook bought it not long ago, the Doolittle house.