Favorite Building

Royal Courts of Justice, London

Not one of the world's great works of architecture but the lobby of the Sherry Netherland Hotel in New York is attractive.

Sherry Netherland Hotel

The Swiss-Italian lakes are drying up. Terrible drought.

R4, maybe it will turn around like in California where there were years of drought, which did do damage to the redwood forests, but then there were a couple of years with plentiful rain.

Yikes. Some of these choices are gaudy beyond belief.

Any FLW prairie style building like Taliesin

Thanks, R7.

Of course there's Fallingwater.

Edificio Copan, São Paulo

Castel Sant'Angelo - Rome

Pantheon - Rome

Real Alcazar de Sevilla

Casa de Pilatos - Seville

Wells Cathedral - Somerset

Haddon Hall - Devonshire

R9 poorly conceived. All the ledges are inhabitable, city smog collectors, hard to clean, and now all covered with netting in various stages of decay.

Gamble House in Pasadena

The Bradbury building in LA.

The old Richfield Building, downtown LA. Pics never did it justice. The black and gold edges, shining in the sun...

It's gone, of course.

Neuschwanstein Castle

^ When I was a kid I used to draw that castle while imagining the life of the guy that built it... Little did I know he was Gay 🙂

This place... Biltmore

The mosque in Tarim, Yemen. That tower is mud brick.

^ What happens when it rains? 😳

@r14, I love Martin's blog, I read it everyday

I loved walking across W. 67th Street to get from where I lived on 69th to where I worked on Madison Avenue. A lot of the buildings had two-story artists studios, which I always imagined to be the perfect New York residences. Most famous among them was the Hotel Des Artistes, with its first-floor restaurant, Cafe Des Artistes (which closed in 2009).

This building has too many names, but it is my favorite:

Villa Farnesina in Rome

1 Centre St. NY, NY

R21 and the original pool survives!

New York Surrogate's Courthouse, which is very close to R24's Municipal Building.

If homes count, the Ford House is one of my favorites.

Mar a Lago

I like the interior of the Ford House, R27.

I love these chairs, r25. I have a set I had reupholstered in a blue-and-green fabric from Knoll Textiles.

I like the wonky modern building at 41 Cooper Square.

The Bayard-Condict Building at 65 Bleecker Street. It's the only Louis Sullivan building in New York.

The very grand dining hall of Biltmore, R17's choice.

One of my favorite places to visit. Been there twice and would happily go again

Gaudi's Sagrada Familia

....

LOL. R36 wins. Thread closed. Breathtaking architecture.

It's gaudy but I do like Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island.

The ballroom at Marble House.

Hey! Fat is where it's at

I've been there, OP!

Building: Taj Mahal.

Style: Half-timbered.

Did you enjoy Isola Bella, R41? It looks quite nice.

I like the 1950s L.A. futuristic style of that McDonald's restaurant, R40. Thanks for posting it.

115 Fifth Avenue in New York, the former Arnold Constable Dry Goods store. It was built in the Second Empire style.

But of course, r42!

Lakes Maggiore, Garda, and Como are primo!

Glad to hear it, R45. I'm jealous.

Metropol Parasol in Seville

The American Radiator Building on Bryant Park. I never realized it had a twin in the Richfield Tower (R14).

450 Sutter building in San Francisco. Home to many a dental office, including my former dentist and periodontist.

Another view of 450 Sutter.

Lobby area, 450 Sutter.

I used to live near Horatio West Court apartments in Ocean Park/Venice CA. Pictures never captured their magic. Just a perfect creation of space, angles, arches, and that green trim that emphasized the design magic.

R19 Annual rainfall in Yemen is under 5 inches.

^ Good thing, their building melt

The Watergate hotel (Washington, DC) is a cool-looking building. I've never been on the inside.

^ You should just break in and look around 😏

I loved seeing these on TV and in movies. And they look even cooler in person (at least from the outside).

Chicago has some great buildings, but these are my favorite.

r57 reminds me of how much I liked living in the Towers at the U. of Pittsburgh.

Speaking of Chicago, j'adore the River City apartment building. I can't find a good photo from water level.

Khufu's Pyramid

The Union Buildings in Pretoria, ZAF.

River City was a place I crushed on back in the eighties, but it has had some problems as of late. You're better off on printer's row.

Augustusburg palace

The Santa Barbara County Courthouse - it's an exaggerated wet dream of Spanish Colonial opulence. Out of scale, bloated, theme park... but stunning in person.

Filoli, of Dynasty fame. But what a commanding, dignified house.

I really like that one, R63.

I love the old Art Deco buildings like the Fred F. French Building, 551 Fifth Avenue, New York. It was built in 1927. Here's the lobby.

Charles Scribner Building on Fifth Avenue

Another view of the Scribner Building.

One Wall Street

R61's choice. Very grand.

Radcliffe Camera at Oxford University

My house.

Post a photo, R71.

It's in all the architecture books but I still love Notre Dame du Haut.

Our Lady looks like she’s wearing a pompadour.

R74 I was thinking it was a giant slug eating the building.

Hagiai Sophia. It's really a marvel.

Nah, R74, the roof just completes the avant garde look. I hear the interior is disappointing because of the small windows but at least the exterior is cool.

The church of Val-de-Grâce in Paris

IAC Building in New York

R79 Ha, I was going to post "looks like it was influenced by Gehry, and they say he hasn't influenced others architects much...." Then I looked it up.

Oh right, R80. Gehry did actually design the building. I won't mention which Gehry building I don't like. I think threads have been deleted in the past for doing that.

The Great Court of the British Museum

OMG R82! That’s the first I’ve seen that, it is truly breathtaking!

R15 Seeing it in person was a mixed experience for me - a beautiful site, and definitely that German/Fairy Tale gestalt. But there was (is) something off about it for me.... it was built in the 19th century, and seemed more like a theme park rather than an actual old castle. Hohenzollern castle, parts of it built centuries ago, seemed more authentic, and less cutesy.

It does look impressive, R83. Building big courtyards with transparent ceilings has become a bit of a trend over the past twenty to thirty years. Here's the Kogod Courtyard of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.

Oh darn. The link worked in the preview.

Kogod Courtyard. Hopefully this link works.

Then there's the atrium at Brookfield Place in Toronto, designed by Santiago Calatrava.

R22, I knew the late owner of the Villa Rotunda, through some colleagues who were his architecture students at the University of Virginia, but I never got to see it with him -- an offer he very kindly and sincerely offered to pretty much everyone. Lovely guy, but what an amazing house...

Calatrava's insect-like TGV station Lyon Saint-Exupéry

Palazzo Doria Pamphilj in Rome

And now after R91, a little sorbet to cleanse the palate.

originally the U.S. Custom House at 1 Bowling Green in New York

25 Broadway in New York, originally the Cunard Building

Interesting how many "favorite building" pics are interiors.

Union Station, downtown LA.

Love that pic, R95. I remember L.A.'s Union Station was on the AIA's list of "America's Favorite Architecture".

Philadelphia's 30th Street Station

Looooooove this thread. It is a good reminder that we can built great pieces of architecture, even in America with all our history and our problems. If we built all of this using the labor of the poor before we had civil rights, imagine what we could build right now, and how the People who work on the crews can actually come out as winners too.

The slave trader mansions in Rhode Island are stately, elegant, and wonderful. Tarnished by their origins, of course.

Nightingale-Brown House is very refined. But still a bit cake like.

Love those two houses, R99 and R100. Thanks.

Many people probably already know that Newport, Rhode Island used to be popular in summer with the very rich in the late 19th and early 20th century. One of the mansions there, Rosecliff, was used as Gatsby's mansion in the 1970s version of "The Great Gatsby" with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow.

I thought Linden Place looked familiar, R99. I believe it was used as Daisy Buchanan's house when she first met Gatsby in the 1974 version of the movie.

The staircase at Rosecliff.

The staircase at Rosecliff is a masterpiece. As is the whole house. It's a pleasure pavilion. Grand Trianon. The white ballroom that opens on both sides, one to the sea. It's just the best. The scale is fantastic. Grand, but intimate too. Stanford White

The Great Synagogue of Rome is quite nice.

The buildings in Paris's Place Vendome.

28 Liberty Street, New York

56 Leonard Street, New York

56 Leonard Street, New York

There's a lot to love here, a lot of people here have great taste and an appreciation for classical architecture

If I had to pick just one favourite, it has to be Versailles.

Thank you for your post, v8fairy. A great work of architecture.

Any toilet 🚽

Woolworth Building NYC

VIA 57 West, New York

The Morgan Library in New York

St. Regis Hotel in Rome

York Minster

Canterbury Cathedral

Rinascente department store, via del Tritone, Rome

I don't know. Isn't doing a major renovation of a department store kind of a waste of money? I thought they were all struggling and gradually going bankrupt because the brands they sell are cheaper online.

Galeries Lafayette in Paris

Holkham Hall in England

Codman-Davis House, 2145 Decatur Place, Washington D.C.

A lot of people need to learn to link to images that preview.

No sway. That's a useless skill.

Denver - the Shangri-La House

Very cool, R125. Thanks.

Just trying something.

Doesn't work.

Nobody for the House on the Rock?

What is that, R129?

Oh, I see. Interesting story behind it.

Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

Washington D.C.'s subway stations with their coffered ceilings

Whimsical, over-the-top New York Yacht Club at 37 West 44th Street. The bay windows represent the sterns of galleons.

Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo in Venice

Schwerin Castle

The marble walls glow inside.

Good choice, R137. The Beinecke Library does look cool.

An obvious choice. The main branch of the New York Public Library.

More NYPL

More NYPL

More NYPL

Sorry, but it's one of the more architecturally important buildings in the city.

Phillips Exeter Academy Library

Another beauty in, of course, Paris: The Palais Garnier (Opera House).

The exterior is gorgeous, but it's really the interior that's just breathtaking (Mary!!)

Great choice, Dutchie. A landmark of world architecture. Thanks. The staircase is a wonderful place to make a grand entrance.

Side view of the Opera Garnier

Well, as long as were looking at libraries: Powell Library, UCLA.

Very nice, R148.

It's not everyone's cup of tea but I like the tree-like design of the Geisel Library at U.C. San Diego.

I like that, R150

Thanks, Dutchie. Some people hate all Brutalist architecture.

Brutalism, Minimalism, Functionalism, et.al.

Some buildings arresting to the eye and pleasing. Some buildings abominations.

St. Mary's in SF.

That is really cool, R153, like a modern piece of sculpture. Great post. I've never seen that building before.

Boston's City Hall is another example of Brutalist architecture I like.

R139 through R143, no need to apologize, that is a beautiful building, you guys are lucky to have it and I'm glad its appreciated

Here's our ugly lump of a Public Library

R152 I know what you mean. As for me, I adore the baroque opulence of the Palais Garnier, but I can appreciate the Geisel Library just as much.

As long as one can recognise that there’s a CONCEPT behind it all, a vision — any style can look fantastic.

Versailles

That I've ever been in? Versailles, hands down. But fuck me, I need to travel more.

You beat me to it, R158!

Haha, v8fairy. I have to admit that your library is a little harder to appreciate.

Btw, I don't live in New York. I'm in Canada. I've visited NYC about four times and photographed the NYPL building. I also like the flagpole bases on the terrace in front of the library (linked photo) except for the ox skulls which don't show up in the photo. We have similar skulls as decoration in our local legislature which was built in 1913. Not sure if they're supposed to represent mortality or if they're purely decorative.

Not my favorite building but I do admire the creativity. Rome's Palazzo Zuccari

It doesn't have to be buildings you've actually visited, Native West Virginian. It could be buildings you admire just from photos.

Oops. The link stopped working. Maybe this one.

Atrium of the former Wanamaker's department store in Philadelphia.

A ha. I see you're in Auckland, New Zealand, v8fairy.

New York's supertalls definitely aren't my favorite buildings --- skinny pencils sticking out of the regular skyline.

A favorite: Casino Marino, designed by William Chambers and built between 1750-1775, just at the edge of Dublin. It's a mid-Georgian pavilion, a small 'pleasure house' which looks as though it might have two or three rooms on two or three levels, but instead has 16 rooms.

For me it's a great exercise in Georgian architecture, in pavilions as perfect buildings, and in the compromises that come --and there are always compromises-- in fitting in the necessary spaces of a proper, livable house in a small space where external appearance is everything and the interior a surprise.

(A few interiors views as well if you open the link)

R168 that's wonderful.

That is lovely, R168. Thanks for the post.

This is the most polite thread on DL. Something about architecture I guess...

I want to encourage other people to post, R171. God knows there are plenty of my choices on this thread already.

It is a nice thread! I like this

And R168, that is an absolutely awesome building, beautiful and right sized

Who wants some FUDGE?

Some of my favourites houses are those erected for the staff of the margravial properties, like here in Ansbach near the orangery. It has just the right dimensions. I would love living in one.

La Alhambra, Granada, Spain, 13th-15th Centuries

3 photos at link

That's an excellent choice, R175, one many North Americans wouldn't be familiar with. Love the honeycomb decoration of the Alhambra.

The Palacio Barolo in BsAs

I like this photo of the roof of the Printemps department store in Paris. That's probably the opera house in the background.

A larger photo of R178's choice, the Palacio Barolo in Buenos Aires.

Casino de Madrid

Chatwal Hotel in New York

There'xs a twin of the B.A. tower in Montevideo, Uruguay

Ah okay. The Palacio Salvo in Montevideo. Same architect.

Thanks, R183.

40 West 10th Street in New York

Nothing spectacular but kind of cute. This used to be a carriage house. Italian liquor heir Enrico Cinzano owned it for a couple of decades. Sean Parker, Napster co-founder and former Facebook president, bought it in 2011 for $20 million. In 2014, neighbors complained when Parker brought in construction crews to dig up part of the street to deliver faster Internet service to the house.

Cartier store in New York, former Morton F. Plant mansion

R186 In college I had a drunken 3-way with a Whitney and a Plant. They had huge cocks and I, only my working-class Irish Catholic nubbin.

Good to know, R187. Which college did you go to?

I was at Brown and they were at Yale of course.

400 Riverside Drive in New York

Oh I see, R189. Some people have all the luck. They came from old money and were also well endowed.

8 East 62nd Street

The reason this thread is soooo pleasant is that many of our trolls are on sabbatical.

Sydney Opera House.

R193 you rang?

Chenonceau

Chambord

7 East 91st Street

7 East 91st Street

1109 Fifth Avenue

Lloyd's of London

King's Cross Station

Book Tower in Detroit

Laverstoke Mill, England

Bard College, Center for Performing Arts

I wonder how the Gehry fantastical mathematics will age. Interesting in 2006, but silly and overblown in 2066?

Haha. Please don't criticise Gehry too much. I think threads have been deleted in the past for that reason (or maybe that's just my impression). My favorites of his buildings are probably the Guggenheim Bilbao and the concert hall in L.A.

Another chateauesque mansion at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 79th Street, the former Harry F. Sinclair house. I thought the exterior was used as a location in the movie version of "Great Expectations" with Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow. It stood in for the New York home of the Anne Bancroft character.

Castle Howard, England

I first came across this stately home when I watched the 1981 version of "Brideshead Revisited", with Anthony Andrews and Jeremy Irons.

Rotunda Room, Neiman Marcus in San Francisco (Union Square). I ate there once or twice. It felt like a "Ladies That Lunch" place in the best possible way.

Thanks, R208. Beautiful place.

427 Broadway in New York

101 Spring Street, New York

Not the world's most beautiful building but I really like the photo.

Lobby of Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower in Brooklyn

Wellington Square, Chelsea, London

Plaza Mayor, Salamanca

Really beautiful, R214. Thanks. If you have any more ideas, please post them.

Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux

New Town Hall in Munich

Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków, Poland

Wawel Castle

Łazieńki Palace in Warsaw

Łazieńki Palace

Real Alcazar de Seville, Spain. 10th - 16th Centuries

[multiple images in link]

Karlstejn

Great choices, R222 and R223. Thanks.

My favourite home town building, The Anzac Memorial, Sydney. A good place for some quiet contemplation

Attractive imposing building, R225. Thanks.

I just read that the Alcazar of Seville was used as a location for "Game of Thrones". It was supposed to be the royal palace of the House Martell.

Brussels' Grand-Place with another grand town hall, like the one in Munich.

Frederiksborg Castle in Denmark

Place des Vosges in Paris

Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome

Hallgrimur Cathedral, Reykjavik, Iceland

Not my favorite cathedral, but sitting on top of a hill it dominated the city and has an odd aesthetic based on old-time Lutheran churches.

I really like that bold, modern look, R231. One of my favourites.

Place Stanislas in Nancy, France. I can't find a bigger picture that I like.

Though the ornate gate to Place Stanislas is a bit much. Too Baroque or Rococo or whatever the style is.

Speyer Cathedral in Germany

Obvious choice. Florence's cathedral.

R236 My older brother has, it turns out, trypophobia, which revealed itself by a viscerally negative reaction to the cathedral in Florence. Who knew?

Interesting, R237. I've never heard of this phobia. I actually think the designs on the exterior walls make the cathedral even more beautiful in a Renaissance kind of way. I wonder if Florentines considered the patterns a more "modern" and pared down version of all the ornamentation on Gothic cathedrals in northern Europe.

What I don't like is the striped columns inside Siena's cathedral. Kind of an odd design choice.

Another view of Florence's cathedral

R238 Kind of like the mosque in Cordoba. Visigoth arches - made into a mosque - then build a Christian cathedral right in the middle of it. One of the most interesting buildings in the world, for sure...

Definitely not this building. What an eyesore.

Sharp Centre for Design, Ontario College of Art, Toronto

That looks very nice, R240. I've never seen that mosque-church before. Thanks.

The striped columns in Siena's cathedral look too busy and gaudy. They'd be kind of distracting if you were trying to meditate.

Vufflens-le-Château, like a storybook castle, but 100% authentic, no ersatz.

29 boulevard Haussman, Paris

Les Invalides in Paris

Azay-le-Rideau

Château de Blois

Château du Clos Lucé in Amboise, the last home of Leonardo da Vinci

Château du Clos Lucé

We've got some Richard Morris Hunt spammer in here. Nobody gives a fuck about the Loire chateaux anymore! They aren't pretty.

Thanks for trolling, R250.

Don't be silly, R250. Almost every architecture book has the staircase from the Chateau de Blois.

3246 N. Halsted

The Steamworks bathhouse in Chicago, R253? Interesting.

Chateau Margaux, of vineyard fame

Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower in Tokyo

Ginza Place in Tokyo

This building seems like a really bad idea - too exposed to the elements, lack of security.

R258 lack of security is not an issue in civilised Japan. Many people dont even lock their cars there

I'm very surprised, v8fairy. There's one cultural difference to admire. Good to know.

I'm in a smaller city in Canada. I went to a grocery store in the suburbs in what I thought was a safe, middle class neighborhood. It was after dark, maybe 9 pm, but there were still lots of people going in and out of the store. Unfortunately, I like to park away from the majority of cars, closer to the edge of the parking lot. I know you shouldn't do this but I left two parcels on the back seat. When I came out of the store after half an hour, the back car window had been smashed and the smaller package on top had been stolen. The thief probably thought there were expensive electronics in the package but, in fact, it was $30 worth of vacuum cleaner filters so it was definitely worthwhile smashing my window for that. I went inside to ask about security camera footage but they said they only had cameras pointed at the front of the store. I think this was the first time in my life that my car has been broken into. I'm naive and I never thought there were people walking through the parking lot and checking out if there's anything worth stealing inside the cars, especially in that neighbourhood. Now I park close to the other cars and hide everything in the trunk.

In Canada and the U.S., they joke that farmers in rural areas don't lock their doors because they have nothing worth stealing 😆.

GRASSLE!

Please post buildings that you like, R250.

My favorite

Thanks for the interesting video, R263. I heard that "Little House on the Prairie" was quite popular in France, especially the Nellie Oleson character.

Cube Houses in Rotterdam

U.S. Air Force Academy Chapel in Colorado Springs

U.S. Air Force Academy Chapel

Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus in Berlin

Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York

135 West 70th Street, New York

R270 That building entrance reminds me of the tire factory in Santa Ana... as a kid I was entrigued by it, and how and why they'd make a factory have ancient Assyrian details. Then tire production stopped and ,uncharacteristic of California, it was so interesting they redeveloped it as a shopping mall.

20th century California: an Assyrian tire factory, of course.

^^ so intrigued I lost the ability to spell.

Many malign it, but I still think Graves’ Portland Building is one of the most stunning and intriguing Post Modern buildings and I’m glad it escaped the reactionaries who wanted to demolish it.

This one

Cool building, R271. It looks like there was a taste for exotic architecture in southern California in the 1920s and the palace of King Sargon was being excavated at the time. The owner of the factory chose this style to project strength.

R271, the building at R270 was originally the Pythian Temple. It's now luxury condos. It was built in 1927 to serve as a meeting place for the 120 Pythian lodges of New York City. From what little I've read, the Knights of Pythias sound a bit like the Masons. Louis Armstrong, Nelson Rockefeller and presidents Harding, McKinley and Franklin Roosevelt were Pythian knights.

Lady Gaga's parents live or lived in the building.

I liked the old LAPD building (Parker Center) in DTLA. Sad that it was demolished.

Thanks, R277. It's sad when you think of all the great buildings have fallen into disrepair and been demolished.

I like L.A.'s Department of Water and Power Building, which I was introduced to on one of DL's architecture threads.

The Municipal Services Building in Philadelphia, near City Hall.

Not groundbreaking architecture but I think it's attractive. I think it looks better in person than in photos.

The Transamerica Pyramid building in San Francisco isn't my favorite building, but it's unique. When walking around the area in SF, it's a good reference point.

New York City Hall

1908 lobby of Dime Savings Bank, Brooklyn

Colony Club in New York

Metropolitan Club, New York

Enid A. Haupt Conservatory in New York Botanical Garden

133 avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris

630 Ninth Avenue, New York

Hotel de Soubise, Paris

Marine Building in Vancouver, Canada

Marine Building

Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Canada - interior ramps

Canadian Museum for Human Rights - atrium

40 West 23rd Street

originally Stern Brothers Dry Goods store

I like this photo of R14's choice, the Richfield Tower in L.A. It was demolished in 1969 unfortunately.

38 East 69th Street NY

Sanssouci palace in Potsdam, Germany

University College, University of Toronto

Victoria College, University of Toronto

My bank

University of Pennsylvania Singh Center for Nanotechnology and "We Lost" sculpture

The Waystar building.

Llanfair

La Mirage (Hotel)

R302, the exterior of the Waystar Building in "Succession" is 28 Liberty Street, which is at R107.

Thanks for your choices.

Llanfair does seem like a pretty Welsh town.

Personally I don't think the St. Regis Hotel in New York is a very attractive building. Not my style.

But it does look good in this photo.

Peabody Library in Baltimore

What all do y’all have against posting actually pictures of buildings instead of just links?

Masonic Temple of Philadelphia

It's too technically difficult, R308.

Certosa di San Martino in Naples

Church of St. Maximilian in Dusseldorf.

The last four photos are the works of photographer Candida Höfer.

Church of Saint Andreas in Düsseldorf

All these very ornate church interiors. I have a friend touring for month in Italy who (is obsessed by and ) posts endless pics of a renaissance and baroque churches and chapels.... every 15 or more different spaces with frescos, paintings, sculptures, arches windows. Too much detail.

So here's a Hungarian minimalist church space: some sorbet to cleanse the palate.

It would be a good place to fall asleep, R314, if the pews were more comfortable.

I don't think R312 is that ornate, R314.

Howard Peter Rawlings Conservatory in Baltimore

That is spectacular, at R307 (Baltimore library).

Thanks, R319. Baltimore does have some impressive historical buildings.

The one that is close to where I parked my huge new SUV

The Whitney. So sublime and elegant. I just love how it’s gray and has a big window.

One picture doesn't really do this beauty justice but here is the Basilic in Buenos Aires where Pope Francis was baptised. I just doscovered it, it's crazy how you can spend almost an entire life in a city and still not discover all of its jewels.

Another one from B.A, the Congreso. slightly run down but one of the most imposing buildings I've been in front of.

No love for the Casa Rosata?

[quote]I just love how it’s gray and has a big window.

You've sold me. I also like the Whitney.

Beautiful, R323 and R324. Thanks for your choices.

R326 I actually find that one a bit generic. Here's a residential building that I love, near my house, another one I discovered just by mistake. Posting the full article because one picture is not enough.

Casa de Pilatos (from R10) in multiple photos. Seville, 15thC-17thC.

The town funeral home

Admiralty Arch on state occasions.

Any latrine!

Galerie Vivienne in Paris

Chateau de Chantilly, the fabulous setting for this Valentino fashion show

Amsterdam Centraal Station

Grand Gothic Renaissance Revival building completed in 1889.

Zuiderkerk Amsterdam

Haringbuisdijk, Amsterdam

Haringbuisdijk, Amsterdam

Ca d'Oro, Venice

Aldred Building in Montreal

Montreal Biodome

New York Life Insurance building in Montreal

Commerce Court North in Toronto

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Toronto

Vancouver House

Lobby of 550 Madison in New York

My home

Though the original lobby seemed to look better.

Please post some photos, R347.

garden of 550 Madison

Love this dramatic photo of the entrance to 550 Madison.

A house in London. Of course, they don't bother to give the location.

Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia