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And Deserved To Be Praised Online50 Times Architects Really Outdid Themselves
Liucija Adomaite and Austėja Akavickaitė ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN3 DAYS AGO
Every now and then, we hear about funny architectural fails where lack of taste meets poor aesthetics and greets atrocious execution. Check out our previous features with such examples here, here, and here.
But way more rarely do we hear news about impressive architecture, time-defying buildings, and incredible structures. This is because it’s way more difficult to create an architectural wonder that reflects our environment, values, history, artistic sensibility, and many other aspects of our daily life.
Luckily, there is this corner of Reddit that collects “the beautiful impossibilities that we want to live in” and shares them with its 1.3M members. The subreddit is dedicated to high-quality photographs of some of the most impressive, conceptual, and historical buildings on our planet. So pull your seat closer and scroll down! After you’re done, be sure to share part 1 of the article.
#1 Preserved Edo Period Neighborhood In Japan
Roman Hans 3 days ago (edited)
Takayama, about five hours by train from Tokyo. It's wonderful. Will never forget a little store that made their own soy sauce. (Because I was the idiot who thought, "You can actually MAKE soy sauce?")
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#2 Persian Mosque
#3 Spellbinding Bookstore In Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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“We’re fascinated by architecturally unique buildings because we live in a world where most goods are standardized and mass-produced—including the structures we inhabit,” Lisa Yaszek, a Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Georgia Tech, told Bored Panda. Yaszek researches and teaches science fiction as a global language crossing centuries, continents, and cultures, and was happy to share some insights about architectural wonders with our readers.
According to Yaszek, “modern buildings depend on modular construction and prefabricated design, Western architectural trends that date back to the 1600s, when Parliament created the first modern building codes after the great fire of London in 1666 and when colonial settlers in America demanded homes built with English construction methods.”
#4 Ukraine - Lviv, Staircase In The House Of Scientists
#5 Hans & Gretel Pancake House In Zeewolde, Netherlands
#6 Kylemore Abbey In The Fog, Connemara, Galway, Ireland
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“Today, modular construction based on simple geometry and industrially produced components is used to create everything from houses to public buildings for the simple reason that it is extremely cost-effective,” the professor explained.
Moreover, “by way of contrast, both the very old and the very new, sometimes still conceptual buildings that people share on the ‘beautiful impossibilities we want to live in’ subreddit are anything but standardized boxes designed with cost-effectiveness in mind. Instead, these buildings tend toward the elaborate and surprising, whether that comes in the form of flowing organic lines, strangely abrupt geometries, or dizzying feats of engineering,” Yaszek explained.
#7 Nasir-Ol-Molk Mosque, Also Known As Pink Mosque, A Traditional Shiraz Mosque, Iran
#8 The Reading Room - Royal Portuguese Cabinet Of Reading - Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
#9 Les Espaces D'abraxas, France
Athens 3 days ago
In Noisy-le-Grand (12 km from Paris), a large complex of 591 apartments consisting of three buildings was designed by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill, in 1978.
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“Similarly,” she argues, “whether they are intricately detailed or severely plain, whether they dazzle the eye
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