OPPO Post your favorite architectural periods/ styles. 

"My citroen won't start" (lucasboechat) 09/12/2015 at 18:04 • Filed to: None

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I’m a sucker for Soviet Mordernist Architecture (beautifully portrayed in Frederic Chaubin’s book) . Very similar to the American Brutalism but a helluva lot kookier in my mind. How about you Oppo?

LongbowMkII > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 18:07

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like it.

I still like brutalism. It’s the architecture of my dystopian future dreams.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 18:24

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Modern international mixed with indigenous forms:

(currently doing a precedent study of the above)

and Prairie School style obviously (I’m a Kansan):

Alex B > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 18:24

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French Provincial:

French Country House:

Tudor:

Craftsman:

Colonial:

Modern:

OPPOsaurus WRX > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 18:25

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here are some random residential pics i’ve collected. I’m a big fan of craftsman and arts&crafts

Short-throw Granny Shifter is 2 #blessed 2b stressed > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 18:29

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Art deco, and then Brutalism. New York and London are my favorite architectural cities.

twochevrons > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 18:36

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I have a curious fascination with so-ugly-it’s-beautiful brutalism, especially in the context of the idealism and (often-misplaced) forward thinking that went along with them. I consider the clean lines and geometric forms of the International Style and Art Deco to be incredibly beautiful as well.

I very much admire the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, too. My own home, while not a Wright house (if only it were!), was designed by an architect for his own family, and it is obvious that he was a follower of Wright’s Usonian concepts. It’s small, square and flat-roofed, with beautiful natural materials (the living room is panelled in redwood!), big windows (for a 1940s house), and a layout that makes excellent use of space, and integrates well with the landscape. Unfortunately, the garage is only a single very narrow bay, with no room to expand, but aside from that, I love it, and count myself very lucky to have a house that, while not from the pen of a big name such as Wright, is architecturally distinctive.

ranwhenparked > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 18:43

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Number one for me has to be Art Deco, though I like most of what was going on in the 1930is-1960ish period - postwar mid-century, prewar Spanish revival, etc.

MultiplaOrgasms > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 18:46

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CB > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 18:46

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I’m a big fan of Gothic Revival. See the Canadian Parliament buildings as an example.

El Rivinado > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 18:46

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I have a really odd fascination with old churches.

I’m not even a religious person, but there’s something sort of haunting and oddly beautiful about an old house of god. Bonus points if the church in question is made out of brick.

Something like that, it just seems interesting to me. It doesn't even have to have a specific period, if it looks old and worn down, I'll be fascinated by it.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 19:03

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Mid-century modern, anything by Wright, an original Victorian house can be cool. All sorts, really. But I love Fallingwater. Wright is da man.

facw > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 19:09

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I love me some Brutalism (generally later stuff, early Brutalist stuff seems a bit cluttered to me). I’m currently sad because this guy is currently having its facade ripped off and replaced by boring mirrored glass:

Some other favorites:

(I may be the only person on Earth who like the J Edgar Hoover Building)

Tim (Fractal Footwork) > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 19:25

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I’m quite partial to Harry Metcalfe’s house with the stonework and Ivy growing up the side:

At my college most buildings were brutalist, and I would aimlessly walk around, through, inside the nicer buildings on campus just to escape the depression encapsulated in cinderblock. I literally compared the buildings I had all my classes in to broken-down mental institutions: puke-colored lighting and broken tile.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > ranwhenparked 09/12/2015 at 19:26

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OMG, I’VE SEEN THAT BUILDING, IT’S NEAR ME, IT LOOKS LIKE AN UNCOMPLETED EMPIRE STATE BUILDING.

WHY AM I USING CAPS LOCK.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 19:27

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I like old houses, so like Victorian and Colonial and that kinda shit.

ranwhenparked > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 09/12/2015 at 19:40

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I’ve only been by it once, on a business trip to Syracuse a few years ago when I was living in Albany, but I’ve always been fascinated by it. Has to be, hands down, one of the best Deco office buildings anywhere, and that includes NYC. The lightening goddess sculpture on the front is incredible.

norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback > ranwhenparked 09/12/2015 at 19:45

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Its a really, really neat looking building. My mom used to work down the road from it, so I would see it everytime I went to her office.

Cash Rewards > OPPOsaurus WRX 09/12/2015 at 20:06

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The 3rd and the 5th are great

facw > norskracer98-ExploringTheOutback 09/12/2015 at 20:59

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The Metlife North Building actually was supposed to be the base of a 100 stroy tower before the Depression messed things up:

The Hearst Tower was similarly unfinished until they gutted it and built a modern tower on top of it a decade ago.

facw > ranwhenparked 09/12/2015 at 21:07

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Aside from the Chrysler Building, my favorite Art Deco building in NYC is the McGraw-Hill Building:

It’s a bit out of the way tucked in behind the Port Authority Bus Terminal in the middle of a block, but that green is incredibly distinctive.

facw > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 09/12/2015 at 21:11

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I really like Frank Lloyd Wright’s try at applying the his flavor of the Prairie Style to a vertical building:

pip bip - choose Corrour > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 21:23

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early brutality , plain ugly concrete monstrosities!

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > My citroen won't start 09/12/2015 at 21:24

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Brutal ism is neat when it has some something to contrast like in your photo above with the jungle.

I like Georgian/colonial

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > facw 09/13/2015 at 03:14

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It’s interesting since the prairie school is all about the horizontal, it’s an oddity amongst his works

I saw the original scale model of this building at MOMA in NYC! It’s all hand cut and painted wood, and must’ve required a ton of time to complete,

facw > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 09/13/2015 at 04:14

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Yep. And then of course there’s this, which would have been a whole other thing altogether for him (though still having prominent horizontals when you look closely).

Dunnik > My citroen won't start 09/14/2015 at 12:33

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Like:

- Art Deco

- Romanesque

- Neo-Gothic

- Tudor

- some Modernist

Dislike:

- most post-Modernist

- Brutalist

Dunnik > facw 09/14/2015 at 12:34

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Wow, never seen that, didn’t know he did tall buildings. Looks like it could easily stand in for a 22nd-century lab in some sci-fi movie.

My citroen won't start > Dunnik 09/14/2015 at 12:35

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How very baroque of you.

Wacko > My citroen won't start 09/14/2015 at 14:21

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when I saw your first one it made me think of montreal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_6…

Dunnik > My citroen won't start 09/15/2015 at 00:53

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Heh