Use this thread to post your favorite buildings. Show us your favorite example of good architecture. You are allowed to post more than one. If you can, tell us why you like it but you don't have to.
1. The Menil Collection
The Menil Collection is my favorite example of architecture in all of Houston because I love architecture which is organic with the user in mind. Renzo Piano was chosen to design a museum of 15,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, and rare books which would be placed in a sleepy residential neighborhood of shingle-style townhomes located in Houston's inner loop.
Renzo made the building low and horizontal; the same height of the residential homes, he also used shingle-style walls, just like the local houses. Creating a massive museum that blended in with it's simple environment. He also used an open floor plan. He placed the parking lot a block away from the site, guiding visitors to the museum with a walkway, adorned with various sculptures he designed. Renzo also puts sculptures on the museums lawn.
An inspiration to many architects, future architects would choose to create architectural landmarks of their own in the same neighborhood. The neighborhood is now also home to the Rothko Chapel, The Byzantine Fresco Chapel and St. Thomas University which was designed by Philip Johnson. All within about three to six blocks from each other
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