Coaster Cow Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Off topic, but seeing the number of post-modern lovers around here I thought I would recommend a hilarious book, From Bahaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe. Really great scathing commentary on the entire movement, got some solid lol's put of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The49er Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Don't forget: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Stratosphere Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Personally mine has to be the NBC Universal Building at Universal Studios Hollywood. Sometimes, depending on how you look at it, it just looks like a set piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitro4ever Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 The Hearst Tower in NYC The Guggenheim Museum (the one in new york) The interior is especially cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastercrazy 9 Posted July 11, 2012 Share Posted July 11, 2012 Love New York City architecture? Watch my new video! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginzo Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 1 World Trade Center is shaping up to be a nice looking building. Maybe it shouldn't have been built because of the brutal cost (latest estimate $3.9 billion), but it is a very respectable effort. It'll be interesting to see what they do to make the windowless, reinforced concrete base look more appealing. Not much to see down there currently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal1br3tto Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 ^Agreed. I'm looking forward to seeing it in person soon, especially with the way it's been progressing lately. I've read a lot of hate on the design, and I'll admit I'm not positive how I feel about it yet, but I have kind of a random taste in buildings and this seems to work for me. Okay, and I also really like how tall and visible it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanks4me05 Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 ^I personally think it's a very attractive step into the future, and IMO a much needed step into the future for NYC; while there are several buildings that are nice, the landscape always seemed older to me, not entirely in the good way either, though I admit seeing so many skyscrapers in one place is pretty impressive. A building that I really like is Davis Hall, the brand new Electrical Engineering building at SUNY University at Buffalo, where I am currently enrolled. I love studying in there, but since I'm a mechanical engineer, I don't have a card that gives me access to the building so I have to hope someone's near the door to let me in if I want to go in and study or work there: Interior, I like to generally study where the tables are on the top floor as you see here. The front. It's the cool one on the left. The one in the background is Jarvis Hall (machine shop, named after Greg Jarvis, UB alumnus and one of the victims of the Challenger shuttle explosion) and the one on the right is Furnas Hall (Mechanical Engineering, it's really over twice that height; that's only part of the building.) The back of the building Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MayTheGForceBeWithYou Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 (edited) Nerddom moment... Earl's Court TARDIS, London EDIT: Fixed link Edited July 14, 2012 by MayTheGForceBeWithYou Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tribar Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopper39 Posted July 24, 2012 Share Posted July 24, 2012 I always loved the "Batman Building" in downtown Nashville, technically the AT&T Building. Always had a cool look to it that really stands out in the skyline of hat city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thri!!er Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 It gives so, so many fantastic skyscrapers and postmodern skycrapers in the Staates, especially in Chicago and New York (but not only there of course...), some of you named it yet... also in the world indeed, it’s very difficult to me, to decide Only for ONE. But my all-time favourite on the Westcoast (U.S.A) is in any case the TransamericaPyramide because of its simply, aesthetic pyramide shape. Thri”and I’m not a free mason”!!er Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrillerman1 Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 ^^ Or as some here like to call it...the metal building \m/ . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thri!!er Posted August 22, 2013 Share Posted August 22, 2013 Hi Mark... ^I am not so much into the (skyscraper-)scene like you and your american fellows, but if you say it - I just believe it Regards, Thri!!er Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcjp Posted September 6, 2013 Share Posted September 6, 2013 I've always found these buildings in Madrid funny. Not my favourite ones, just an interesting engineering achievement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniellazarus Posted September 7, 2013 Share Posted September 7, 2013 One of my favorites is the Eureka Tower in Melbourne. It even has a ride at the top where you are in a giant glass cube that extends out over the edge 91 stories above the ground. Also an awesome place to live. Eureka Tower in Melbourne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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