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  • The Chrysler Building, I love Art Deco.
  • My great-aunt's house in Miami, FL. She was an artist, and being an artist myself, I love that she designed it and had it custom-built to have the feel of a museum so she could best display her favorite works of art. It was a really fun house to visit as a child, too.
  • My House
  • Any of the ones build by Gaudi in Barcelona Spain, truly an architect way ahead of his time: http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Casa_Batllo.html http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Casa_Mila.html and my favorite: http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Sagrada_Familia.html
  • My house-if I didn't have it I wouldn't have anywhere to live!
  • I have always loved the architecture of Cathedrals... They are beautiful... Any Cathedral gets my vote.
  • The Pentagon. I worked there for 16 months and it was just the most incredibly well-designed building, as far as making the most of the space available, layout, etc. So huge, it's like a mini-city, complete with store, shoe-shine kiosk, credit union, cafeteria, subway, etc.
  • The Dom Cathedral in Koln, Germany. It is massive and ornately decorated. There's a narrow spiral staircase leading to the top that will wear you out and make you dizzy, but the view from above is worth it.
  • The headquarters of the Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh.
  • St Basils in Moscowas old The Cathedral of Intercession of the Virgin on the Moat (Russian: Собор Покрова что на Рву or simply Pokrovskiy Cathedral, better known as the Cathedral of Saint Basil the Blessed or Saint Basil's Cathedral) is a multi-tented church on the Red Square in Moscow that also features distinctive onion domes. The cathedral is traditionally perceived as symbolic of the unique position of Russia between Europe and Asia. The cathedral was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible and built between 1555 and 1561 in Moscow to commemorate the capture of the Khanate of Kazan. In 1588 Tsar Fedor Ivanovich had a chapel added on the eastern side above the grave of Basil Fool for Christ (yurodivy Vassily Blazhenny), a Russian Orthodox saint after whom the cathedral was popularly named. Saint Basil's is located at the southeast end of Red Square, just across from the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin. Not particularly large, it consists of nine chapels built on a single foundation. The cathedral's design follows that of contemporary tented churches, notably those of Ascension in Kolomenskoye (1530) and of St John the Baptist's Decapitation in Dyakovo (1547). Modern Sydney Opera House "The construction of the beautiful freestanding, sculptural tripartite Opera House was one of the longest contractual sagas of the century. Sadly, architect Jorn Utzon became the scapegoat of a scandalous political affair and in 1966 withdrew from his project. Sitting on Bennelong Point, virtually in the Harbour and overlooked by the great Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Opera House is completely exposed, as three-dimensional as the orange segments its forms are based on. It is all roofs with an imposing base. These were made possible by Ove Arup. Originally the winner of an international open competition in 1957, it was a scheme that broke most of the rules. It was finally completed in August 1973 by other hands under the direction of Peter Hall."

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