Unique World Developments

[purelife]

Now, why can't we have some of these unique buildings instead of the drabby looking Shangri-La!!!!!!!!!  Feel free to add some cool buildings in progress or already up!

   CCTV Headquaters, China

  [img height=255 src="vny!://www.thefutureisawesome.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/regatta-hotel-jakarta-small.jpg" width=345] Regatta Hotel, Jakarta



 Russia Tower, Russia



[img height=1489 src="vny!://img237.imageshack.us/img237/9109/aquaresizedaw8.jpg" width=454] Aqua, Chicago, USA

  [img height=489 src="vny!://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2005/07/dubai_01_598x533.jpg" width=469]

  And finally, the Burj Dubai, Dubai!

[Michel]

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[Sportsdude]

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ooops
wrong thread.
hahaha
best soviet building though. I can't think of any others that are quite nice looking like this.


hmm purelife likes futurism...



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Valencia, Spain

Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències

its a bunch of buildings celebrating the arts.

[img style="width: 645px; height: 277px;" src="vny!://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/El_Palau_de_les_Arts_Reina_Sof%C3%ADa%2C_Valencia_-_Jan_2007.jpg[/img]


The Opera House

the hemisphere is an imax theatre/planetarium




   

[P.C.]

[img style="WIDTH: 258px; HEIGHT: 445px" src="vny!://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Moscow_Ukraina_hotel.jpg"]

  Now to me ...THAT'S architecture !  (not one of my faves....but nice just the same)  You can have ALL the rest.  Most of these modern monstrosities have no art....no craftsmanship......they leave me cold.  The 'needle' in Dubai...the Aqua in Chicago.....they just don't do it for me.

[Sportsdude]

 hmmm you like that building too? cool!

That building though would work better in a place like Montreal though, too many glass towers around in Vancouver.

That building is part of the "Seven Sisters" in Moscow
Hotel Ukraina still the tallest hotel in Europe.



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[Sportsdude]

Karl Marx-Alle, Berlin

 

[Michel]

     
 

[Sportsdude]

  hahaha
well I can't find any good pics of  Kurfürstendamm
   

[Michel]

     
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[Sportsdude]

its funny, last people who tried to make super tall structures look interesting were the soviets. Besides Burj Al Arab, everything else is predictable and boring.

[img style="width: 623px; height: 467px;" src="vny!://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Burjalarab1.jpg"]



 

[purelife]

I really enjoy Temples... like the Budda Temple in Richmond...Taj Mahal is gorgeous.

That futuristic pic you posted, SD, looks like a hedgehog...mmmm...hedgehogs!  LOL!
 

[P.C.]

We watched a program last night....and I wished I had paid better attention.  It was about the building of a temple of worship in India.....and it was all built without modern structural technology.  Each piece of stone was carved by hand....and pieced together with the precision of degrees measured in the thickness of 2 credit cards.  It was ALL stone....and hand carved to fit with uncanny precision.  The end results were breath-taking.  (I can't find anything on Google...grrrr)

[Van]

I like the modern and the ancient buildings.

[Sportsdude]

  purelife wrote:
I really enjoy Temples... like the Budda Temple in Richmond...Taj Mahal is gorgeous.

That futuristic pic you posted, SD, looks like a hedgehog...mmmm...hedgehogs!  LOL!
 
haha I'll find the new Beijing airport or the new terminal in Heathrow.

well since you said temples...

[img style="width: 518px; height: 445px;" src="vny!://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/2006_Berliner_Dom_Front.jpg"]
Berliner Dom- Lutheran Cathedral in Berlin

[img style="width: 543px; height: 811px;" src="vny!://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Dresden_Frauenkirche_Saint_Mary_october_2005.jpg"]
Dresdner Frauenkirche- Dresden (finally completely rebuilt after the allies bombed Dresden) Lutheran Church

[img style="width: 608px; height: 455px;" src="vny!://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Koelner_Dom_bei_Nacht_1_RB.JPG[/img]
Cologne Cathedral
 

[Michel]