.: The Sexiest Public Buildings on the Planet :.

[Hed Kandi]

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO THIS THREAD!

[Austinlee]

This planet is getting pretty futuristic.

[matthew2109]

nice pics, indeed spectacular pics

[ardecila]

Can I get an ID on these four?






As an overall trend, I like how modernism is embracing ornament... it may have some sort of rationale behind it, of course, and it's definitely not acanthus leaves or gargoyles, but it adds visual interest. Modernism has come a long way from Mies.

[staff]

Hyllie Hotel aka. "the Killer Slug", Malmö, Sweden. Merely a proposal at this stage.
Architect: Gert Wingårdh

[Austinlee]

Why does it have to be a killer slug? It looks pretty friendly to me, in fact I hear it has a penchant to ramble on about the latest happenings of its grandchildren. Why just last week they took a lovely day trip to Copenhagen and had gelatos and they all smoked cigarettes down by the pier and got busted by the cops. Or so the slug says.

[Dequal]

There is some really nice work here. Although I don't really like the Hyllie Hotel, it's too dark & black.

[Future Mayor]

While all those rendering are, as the thread title suggests, Sexy. They all look like just that, renderings. Are any of these actually in existence?

Here are a couple of pics from my home town, while not so futuristic as the above renderings I do think they are both pretty sexy in their own right.

Salt Lake City and County building. (Salt Lake City's City Hall)

image courtesy of wikipedia

Salt Lake City Main Library (atrium pic)

image courtesy of AIA


And a few pics with both

image courtesy of APEM

image courtesy of james

[Dequal]

Originally Posted by Future Mayor

While all those rendering are, as the thread title suggests, Sexy. They all look like just that, renderings. Are any of these actually in existence?

The Olympic Stadium of Beijing is built.

[texcolo]

The Denver Art Museum exists. I've been inside it.

[muppet]

this is being built in China, the Guangzhou Opera House

[muppet]

Guangzhou Science Hall

[WilliamTheArtist]

The BOK Arena is probably the Sexiest building being built in Tulsa right now. Bringing back a little of that class that Tulsa used to be known for.







Inside is starting to take shape.

[Hed Kandi]

Originally Posted by Future Mayor

While all those rendering are, as the thread title suggests, Sexy. They all look like just that, renderings. Are any of these actually in existence?

Most of the projects are built or are under construction. 9 of the pics I posted above are actual photos, not renders.

[alps]

Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building:



(scarlettgreen, flickr)

National Gallery of Canada:



(Art.Roz, flickr)

[hauntedheadnc]

The Florida State Capitol always turns me on. Google it and tell me it doesn't get you all hot and bothered too!

[lawsond]

still sexy after 43 years.....

[CGII]

Milwaukee County War Memorial Center, by Eero Saarinen.

One of my favourite buildings in the city, however, the floating effect was remarkably compromised by the construction of the Milwaukee Art Museum underneath it. This is what it looked like when new:


gabyu on flickr.com

warmemorialcenter.org

and what it looks like today:

warmemorialcenter.org

[WonderlandPark]

I'm too lazy to make a thread of this and post some of kazillion shots of public buildings that I do have, but I can share the link to my website below. Predock, Mayne/Morphosis, Gehry, Meier, OMA, ect. Civic Centers, Libraries, Museums, University buildings and so on.

http://www.pixelmap.com/architecture.html

[Zerton]

Whatever happened to symmetry in modernism... :[

although I thought the Denver Art Museum looked amazing.