What's your favourite building/building space

defsdoor · Post by **defsdoor** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:41 pm 0

Was in London this weekend and popped into the natural history museum. This is one of the most fantastic building in the country. The main entrance hall is just awe inspiring and the outside beautifully intricate.

So, what building or building spaces inspire you ?

merman · Post by **merman** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 11:50 pm 0

The courtyard at the British Museum is pretty special too, with the reading room now surrounded by a vast glass roof

Tmuk · Post by **Tmuk** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:02 pm 0

I love the Barbican. Also, I was down on the Southbank this weekend, and I really like the National Theatre.

Not to everyone's taste though, I know!

Baggypants · Post by **Baggypants** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:23 pm 0

I like the HSBC building in Manchester

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:28 pm 0

The guerkin. It really has to be seen up close to really appreciate it.

Sid James · Post by **Sid James** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:58 pm 0

The inside of the Luxor pyramid in Las Vegas blows me away everytime I walk in.

chub · Post by **chub** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:07 pm 0

All of Gaudi's buildings in Barcelona, especially Sagrada Familia and Casa Batllo. Ingeniously engineered and crammed with loads of unique details to make each bit different. Also the organic style he used makes them look like nothing else I've seen.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:08 pm 0

http://www.maxfordham.com/projects-item.php?id=98&cat=6 is up there. If I can love a building which I spent hours in revising for exams, there has to be something to say for it...

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:10 pm 0

Oh, and the ticket hall at Canary Wharf Jubilee line station. I love how you go down the escalators, and rather than the roof dropping down along with you like a normal underground station, it opens out into this utterly massive space.

Stone · Post by **Stone** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:13 pm 0

Flabio wrote:Oh, and the ticket hall at Canary Wharf Jubilee line station. I love how you go down the escalators, and rather than the roof dropping down along with you like a normal underground station, it opens out into this utterly massive space.

Agreed, I love the way the ceiling is way up above and all the speakers / announcement boards are dropped down to form an open 'ceiling' at a conventional height. Like walking into the set of a sci-fi film

Stone

Tmuk · Post by **Tmuk** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:41 pm 0

I don't know Canary Wharf station, but some of the bits new parts of the Jubilee line are stunning. It might be Waterloo I'm thinking of where the esculators criss-cross each other in a massive underground cavern, it's like being in a James Bond baddie's lair

IanJ · Post by **IanJ** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:30 pm 0

Anything Derelict

From 28dayslater.co.uk

http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/sho ... hp?t=15143

I know its been posted a few times, never hurts to repost this site once in a while

F-ZeroOne · Post by **F-ZeroOne** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:18 pm 0

Kyotos main railway station; its like a space colony that fell backwards through time and crashed into Kyoto, where the population decided to make use of it. Its a devil to photograph, though:

Outside, across the street:

Osaka Aquarium (if you're there - go. You won't regret it!):

And this place, for obvious reasons (well, if you know what I like, anyway... )

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WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:46 pm 0

The view from the front of the Bellagio Hotel in Vegas is also pretty awe inspiring - even more so when they've got the fountains going in the evenings. I hope to make it back there one day.

XOR · Post by **XOR** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:13 pm 0

The interior of the Victoria and Albert museum...nice smell too.