[Closed] In your humble opinion whats your favourite man made structure (building)

Ironically (and a juxtaposition?) Mine is

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No caves, no trees no shelter. Mankind saying "It's OK, I'll be fine". I'm sure there are much earlier examples like the brochs in Scotland, but I'm from Ireland so that's my pick.

The Great Glass House at the National Botanical Garden of Wales.
Designed by Sir Norman Foster, ground breaking construction technology at the time. We supplied the steel frame and it was the first job we did using 3d detailing software ( everything was set out using X,Y & Z co-ordinates.
The main legs have Stainless steel balls on the end that sit in sockets , so itis not actually pinned down to the ground as such.
Love the shape of it

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As much as I love the new, you gotta respect the old...( and because it was in the news yday) started in 1088 and the world's (reported) tallest building for over 200 years.

Lincoln Cathedral

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No favourites (I don't do favourites), but these are up there:

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MMU's Broomhurst Hall in Didsbury, Manchester

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"Toast Rack", Manchester

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Tate & Lyle Sugar Silo, Liverpool

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Smithdon High School, Hunstanton

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Kingsgate Bridge, Durham

Am I allowed the Millau Viaduct?

Have been across it; in fact I based a whole motorbike journey around it.

It's magnificent.

My tent! 🙂

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ourmaninthenorth, I really hope you are jesting!

Sagrada Famililia

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Chrysler Building

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No one favourite, but some of mines are -

The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, Oslo
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The Italian Chapel, Lamb Holm, Orkney
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The Great Pyramid
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The Great Temple at Karnak
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EDIT oh oh and i forgot but found whilst looking for images of ancient Egypt - The funerary temple of Hatshepsut, Egypt's female Pharoah
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[i]MMU's Broomhurst Hall in Didsbury, Manchester[/i]

You'd love my old school, and probably 1000s of other schools. 🙂

+1 for Chrysler building

I have this waiting for me at home tonight, the real one is probably my 2nd favourite building exterior
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I had few, but after a recent trip in a car along the motorway from Amsterdam Airport to Germany the list has been extended for additional 100 buildings...

I would not disagree with most of those but my personal favorite is Stonehenge rising out of the morning mist at dawn in summer.

You did have to be there and it would have been better without the more recent clutter

This is a bit special,

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But for a building nothing has impressed me as much as the Pantheon in Rome.
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Can I do one that doesn't really have an exterior? St John's Chapel in the white tower of the tower of London. It's kind of hard to put in words, there's just something perfectly welcoming and... I don't know, human about it, so many british churches and chapels are out to dazzle or intimidate or just plain terrorise you with god's power but St John's is a place for people, to be at one and at peace with their god- you can't imagine a hellfire preacher or a guilty doubt in it. I'm not religious but it fits my idea of what godliness should be.

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A church made by people who love god, not fear or glory him

How did I forget this?!

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Preston Bus Station, Preston

Preston Bus Station

Jinx!

Haha, think we genuinely posted that at exactly the same time - how bizarre! 🙂

This one made an impression when I first saw it many years ago
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Falling Water. Frank Lloyd Wright.

I'm also quite fond of the Lloyd's Building
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I have a bit of a thing too for auditoriums (though externally they are often a bit drab).
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Birmingham Symphony Hall

I'm liking Broadcasting Place/Tower in Leeds at the moment...

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Be lovely when they finish it!

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St Govan's Chapel

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Warnscale Bothy

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Rock Hall, The Roaches. Better in the Doug days.

There's lots more like this in my top 10.

ourmaninthenorth, I really hope you are jesting!

Nicest one I have seen recently and soem lovely architecture in Liverpool
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the Bus station/car park is pretty gash IMHO See it every week Same town about 200 yds away
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Great minds, grum, great minds....

The Forth Rail bridge is pretty special
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I remember seeing the old Buckinghamshire county hall on some programme about bad architecture, but I thought it was a fantastic bold building.

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ourmaninthenorth, I really hope you are jesting!

Nope.

I am a great fan of concrete.

never forget the 1st time I walked out and saw this
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and...
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One from Madrid, the Torres Blancas (White Towers). They're grey 🙂

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If we're talking bridges (as opposed to buildings) then I humbly submit Boothferry Bridge near Goole.

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OK elegant it's not but it has history. I used to go over this on the way from home to the seaside, so it's forever associated with holidays. Then, my first job as a graduate civil engineer was knocking lumps of rust off it and measuring what was left. How much sense that makes when you are actually swinging under the thing is open to debate. It also taught me a think or two about bridges in general and swing bridges in particular which proved useful in designing this:

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Preston Docks Swing Bridge

Natural History museum in London. Pictures really don't do justice to the external colours.

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Battersea power station.

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Durham cathedral.

The only thing that springs to mind right now is this

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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guédelon_Castle

It looks a bit different now and still isn't finished. Spent about 4 hours walking round it last summer and could easily have spent much more but the boy got a bit restless.

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but if it has to be a building then maybe this

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This, I know it means nothing to you but to me it's a place that draws me year after year every September for the Maxi Rolex Cup.
Yacht Club Porto Cervo, Sardinia.

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Most of the old and modern buildings on the Pier head Liverpool, and most of the city centre buildings,

Esselgruntfuttock wins. Unless I'm allowed 2 combined, and that's Durham Castle and Cathedral viewed from the train as it pulls into Durham station.

My favourite building in my favourite city.

Turning Torso, Malmo.

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Struggling to find a good photo but Otto was genius and with help from Schlaich this is pretty awesome:

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Munich Olympic Stadium

Esselgruntfuttock wins. Unless I'm allowed 2 combined, and that's Durham Castle and Cathedral viewed from the train as it pulls into Durham station.

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SMITHDON HIGH SCHOOL?

Yep! That's it. You can see the window of my old student room in that pic.

I know it's a bit of a cliche - but I've always like Sydney Opera House, photos don't really do it justice - whoever designed it really considered its location - the way it looks in different weather - poking out of the fog, bathed in a bright red sunset or in the middle of the day - the way the 'sails' reflect the light is amazing.

Casa del Fascio in Como.

Posting the pic didn't happen but the library at Ephesus.

Struggling to find a good photo but Otto was genius

only coz the real replica in vegas never got built

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My favourite place on Earth.

Cranes. I really like cranes. There's the giant hammerheads like the Finnieston crane of course, but I also have a soft spot for the Inchgreen level-luffing cranes:

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Old building, I have to say, this one; I never get tired of looking at these two aspects of it
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Wells Cathedral
And new one, well this one just excites me:
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I don't think I need to identify it...

Kubuswoningen In Rotterdam.

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Slowoldman - I live bout an hour away from Fallingwater.

The train shed at London st pancras.

Victorian engineering ambition at its finest.

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Bigbutslimmer beat me to it. Karnak temple. I've spent hours amongst those pillars watching the light change as the shadows move.
And the Natural History museum in Oxford for the pillars and glass roof.

I have always liked the upturned boats on Lindisfarne. Will dig out a picture or two later on.

@JoeG
Ah the Vehicle Assembly Building. In my youth it used to be called the Vertical Assembly Building. I remember reading clouds form inside at the top.

So is Fallingwater all it looks in the photos?

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I just looked up the natural history museum in Oxford eddiebaby mentioned and it's pretty stunning. Maybe the Smithsonian courtyard is the modern equivalent.

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Is this the return of the Fred?

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Grand Central Station.

Mr Woppit - Member

Is this the return of the Fred?

Interior - never been, but I'd love to visit Alexandria Library, Egypt:
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Exterior - the ruins of Ta Prohm, Cambodia
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Hoover Dam

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esselgruntfuttock FTW, especially when illuminated by the evening sun.

Please point out any redeeming features of Smithdon High School. It is possibly the most bland and uninspiring building on this thread! Your black and white photo indeed does make it look better that in the real light of day.

In a previous life, I checked and signed off the castings for the ramps of the UK Euro tunnel vehicle ramps.

So, not so much my [i]favourite[/i] man made structure, but at least one I've had a part in producing, amongst other structures.

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Since starting out, creating the profile of the sky line which you all drive past during your journey, I now contribute to designing the vehicles you use to travel in, passing the structures I had a hand in creating.
So, in my small way, I've been strangely fortunate enough to have participated in creating the vehicles you use to pass by the structures I've also had a hand in creating.

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