Most beautiful building in your city - Page 11

arkhitektor · #**201** Posted **Feb 27, 2007, 11:41 PM**

Salt Lake City has got some really beautiful (and some not so nice looking) buildings. Here are my top Three:

The LDS Temple:

The City and County Building:

And the City Library:

Since the title of the thread is most beautiful building in your city, I'll pick the LDS temple as the nicest.

Xelebes · #**202** Posted **Feb 28, 2007, 8:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by muppet

i LOVE the entrance.
argh why dont we put up sculpture/ carvings anymore to embellish our architecture?

It's too bourgeois to do, must make it for the proletariat we are!

Evergrey · #**203** Posted **Feb 28, 2007, 12:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by LostInTheZone

hey Evergrey: what about the Heinz Chapel? That's probably my favorite out of the buildings on the Oakland Acropolis. It has such unusual massing and it's pretty tall for such a little church:

Indeed, it is a gorgeous chapel... it's inspired by the French Gothic period... have you ever been inside? There is so much ornate artistry inside... the woodwork, the metalwork, the stonework, etc... it's all... gothic.... the stained glass windows are actually amongst the tallest in the world.

btw, sorry I didn't see this earlier... it's that whole "lack of a search function" thing

alps · #**204** Posted **Feb 28, 2007, 3:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by arkhitektor

Salt Lake City has got some really beautiful (and some not so nice looking) buildings. Here are my top Three:

Beautiful library...designed by a Canadian, I think.

Exodus · #**205** Posted **Mar 1, 2007, 3:41 PM**

I like this building so much that I drew it

I drew the two dimensional one, but I still need to work on it.

Fisher Bldg. Detroit

To see the one dimensional side from the east, go to the diagram board.

DecoJim · #**206** Posted **Mar 1, 2007, 7:33 PM**

Oh yea? I like the Fisher Building so much, I built a replica of it out of Lego bricks:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/decojim/398371952/
(link to a picture of it on Flickr.com)

Exodus · #**207** Posted **Mar 1, 2007, 8:30 PM**

I posted one of the pics if you don't mind. My mouth dropped when I saw it. I'm totally impressed.

Did you do the Penobscott and David Stott also ?

theWatusi · #**208** Posted **Mar 2, 2007, 4:39 AM**

That is freaking sick!!!!

DecoJim · #**209** Posted **Mar 2, 2007, 6:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Exodus

Did you do the Penobscott and David Stott also ?

Yes (although the Penobscot model is still under construction).
I plan to display all three at Cobo hall this July as part of the NMRA National Train Show.

Exodus · #**210** Posted **Mar 2, 2007, 10:00 PM**

I would love to go to that. Too bad I won't be able to. I do expect photos though

I'm not good with legos, so drawing will have to do for me. Heres my two dimensional drawing of it.

Michi · #**211** Posted **Mar 2, 2007, 11:07 PM**

Good grief, man! Did you build a warehouse onto the back of your house just for this Lego masterpiece?!

lol

lawsond · #**212** Posted **Mar 3, 2007, 12:29 AM**

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hey, to each his/her own. The thing with Mies' boxes is that they are laden with details... just not ornamental ones. It's the precision and purity of his work that is fascinating. But, whatever...

nothing calms you down more than sitting on the benches....perfectly proportioned and placed at the td centre. it is gorgeous. 5/10/40. can't beat it. but can you believe the whore-ish creatures they have built as part of that complex?
the fifth building...which contains the design exchange...must be the biggest architectural train wreck ever designed. how sad..the design exchange...it is to larf. a mies building squatting on an art deco building painted black. just kill it now.
then again, it makes the real mies, especially the real real mies banking pavillion even closer to perfection. i'm sure you already know this know, but the tellers in the bank are five feet apart...precisely.

LostInTheZone · #**213** Posted **Mar 9, 2007, 12:14 AM**

finally found a pic online of one of my smaller favorites, even if its crappy:

13th & Pine in Philly, housing the Last Drop Cafe with its delightfully crooked hundred year old interior. I've made many posts on their free wireless. The flamboyant architecture really stands out among the brick Quaker rowhouses- that cornice juts out 5 or 6 feet.

mcdonnell77 · #**214** Posted **Mar 11, 2007, 1:42 AM**

Chrysler Building and ESB

alleystreetindustry · #**215** Posted **Mar 11, 2007, 8:29 PM**

surely symphony tower.

Jasoncw · #**216** Posted **Mar 19, 2007, 5:02 PM**

Depending on my mood, the Buhl Building can be my favorite building in Detroit.

Jasoncw

DetroitSky

bohemianrobot

I'm glad to see some beautiful modernism in here too.

DecoJim · #**217** Posted **Mar 20, 2007, 6:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by Jasoncw

Depending on my mood, the Buhl Building can be my favorite building in Detroit.

I like the Buhl too, but unfortunately it is right across Griswold from the Guardian Building! As both were designed by Wirt C Rowland, at least the Guardian was the result of the same architect trumping his earlier Buhl.

Snoshredder21 · #**218** Posted **May 8, 2007, 4:50 AM**

I live in the middle of NY and Philly so ill do them both and Newark.

NYC-Trump Building

Newark-National Newark & Essex Building(744 Broad)

Phily-30th Street Station

and 1 Liberty Place...love that building

jure · #**219** Posted **May 11, 2007, 9:16 AM**

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Originally Posted by Trumbull

I was going to say something about the MCS because it really is a beautiful building. I mean, where else can you find detail like this:

Also, regarding the Book Building, I wonder what it would look like today if the second tower had been built.

actually in every single european city

TwoFace · #**220** Posted **May 11, 2007, 11:05 PM**

The Marine Building (1930)
http://www.greatervancouverparks.com...ardPhotos.html