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Remember the weekly architecture thread from days gone by? How about we start it up again?
This week – Megalomania Special
Prora. [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prora ]Hitler’s holiday camp.[/url]
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Massive, unfinished, barking.
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[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilia_(building) ]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilia_(building)[/url]
Worlds most expensive and ugly house.
The Peoples Palace in Romania. An enormous, hideous, pointless expression of one mans ego
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Ironically completely surrounded by the most nondescript, concrete, communist era, brutalist hideousness
The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. Uncle Joe's present to the proles.
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Ceausescu's Palace is pretty immense....
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EDIT - spent too long deciding on what pic to link to and beaten to it by binners....
A return of the architecture thread? I'm In.
Proper megalomaniac architecture here. Zeppelinfeld, Nuremburg. Like horse guards parade but for Nazi's
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Ceausescu's Palace is pretty immense....
As a 38 year old Brit who never lived under communism and was still a child when the wall came down - even I find that a big "**** you" to the 'ordinary person'.
You can only imagine what the downtrodden, oppressed and materially poor Romanian citizens thought every time they clapped eyes on that monstrosity.
No wonder they offed him and his missus at the first chance.
McMoonter's woodshed?
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Milan Centrale railway station - for trains that run on time
Top Trumps?
Got to be up there..
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Trump you say...
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Why is it that I can't look at the 'Trump Tower' without a vision of a similar tower with 'PILLOCK' written on it coming into my mind....?
Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party headquarters in Rome (1934), nothing intimidating here.
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Why just have a building when you can have a whole island? Necker in this instance for Mr Branson
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or Ile Gagnon, Quebec for Canadian warbler, Celine Dion
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Celine's pool looks a bit manky.
Well, not quite fitting the scope of the thread. but hey...
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Celine's pool looks a bit manky.
's full o' pish.
Just like her albums.
Julius S'sage should have picked somewhere with a better balcony.
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Is that the balcony on the Death Star?^^^^
Corporate meglomaniacs?
Googleplex...
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Hell, just look at just about any modern picture of the skyline in London or New York and see the various monuments to corporate megalomania
This I believe is Trump's actual house, or one of them...
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Megalomaniac French king anyone?
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As tasteful as his hairstyle. Trump I mean. Not Louis. He had nice hair. Well, wigs.
And nice legs.. 😆
Most Zaha Hadid projects look like something from Bond, but this one actually got built! (and isn't an expo building).
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Unfortunately, it's not a remote island-headquarters though - a shopping complex!
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Or another bond-villain house:
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Private home in Australia
http://luxatic.com/futuristic-home-alkira-is-a-private-paradise-from-australia/
Private home in Australia
That's spectacular. Imagine spending the night there, out in the rainforest?
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That one in Oz looks a bit like a cutaway Millenium Falcon has crashed and been abandoned, which someone has reclaimed and 'repurposed' it for family off-grid living. Can see Kev McCloud busting a nut over that...
Private home in Australiahttp://luxatic.com/futuristic-home-alkira-is-a-private-paradise-from-australia/
Lovely location, hideous building, inside and out. It kinda reminds me of Troy McClure's house in the Simpsons.
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I can see one from my seat...
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Blimey - they're so megalomaniacal that their building dims the lights of all others around it!
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Villa Malaparte
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[url= http://www.theladbible.com/articles/staggeringly-cool-prototype-cliff-house-is-a-criminal-lair-waiting-to-happen ]Mr Big[/url]
I'd post a picture of a Victorian folly but I can't be bothered to try and link from a phone
Not a home, ohhh noooo.. but a building full of meglomaniacs?? 😆
My office, well it's just behind it.
Go on a Banker Bashing spree..
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Is anyone else humming the bond theme?
Anything by John Lautner
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Haussmann's Paris, one of the more megalomaniacal bits of city planning out there:
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Rashtrapati Bhavan by Lutyens in New Delhi.