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Original question by @Wahots@pawb.social
I think art deco is one of my favorites. It still has a clean, modern look that ages surprisingly well, even a century later.
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Cyclopean. We just don’t make 'em like we used to; with big, irregular stones and zero mortar.
Ecclesiastical Art Deco. There are surprisingly few examples of this. Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa is probably the best one.
Ok that’s pretty sick
That’s where I had my senior <whatever non-denominational church thing right before you graduate> ! Stunning, inside and out. Much pink!
Google says: Baccalaureate service. ? Sure doesn’t sound right to me.
Whatever architectural style the Weekend at Bernie’s is:
Looks like brutalism to me. Not sure if there might be some more specific subcategory I’m not familiar with, but generally anything using big geometric slabs of concrete is brutalist.
Art deco for sure, possibly turn-of-the-century industrial as well.
Seriously look at this steam engine. It looks like it belongs in a massive cathedral or something.
Any. Very few modern buildings can be said to have any style at all. They are just functional blocks.
I advocate for Rococo
Art deco, deco noir, and deco Gothic.
And whatever the style is named for the hyper themed buildings. They were popular in LA for a long time and then spilled out in the 80s and 90s until the mid 2000s.
Not sure what it’s called but I’d like to see buildings looking like this again
This is the Library of Congress in Washington DC
Neoclassical, palladian, renaissance. The majour difference from similar archictectural styles is the geometric perfection of the spaces and the lack of irregular features. Opposite of that, baroque is all about overdecorating things and having irregular features, like a non spherical ‘barrueco’ pearl. Hence the name.
Utilitarian - Row houses and small single family starter homes.
Detached single family housing is suffocating this country and the environment. I’d rather leave the woods to nature and nature walks, not streets and houses.
In addition to that, utopian architecture, like arcologies.
I don’t think that’s what was being asked. You could have your row houses art deco. That’d be kinda cool actually.
Victorian homes like this
And the Art Deco crowd wins the poll!
Had cousins whose entire home, bar the sun room, was Art Deco. Not just the furniture and paintings, even the magazines and lighters and ash trays. Quite a collection!
Brutalism always fascinated me, i tried to model some building in 3d modeling tools in this style, churches public squares you name it. These huge, empty and vast monuments to the industrial nature of a building are like monolyths in a city. They claim their existance and you can’t ignore them.
I am 100% with you on Brutalism. It is often vilified but I think it’s beautiful.
i would like more brutalism because my country desperately needs affordable housing…
Beaux-Arts, I just think it’s beautiful and intricate. I’m also a fan of Frutiger Aero and Googie mentioned already, which seems contradictory. Is there an architecture style that somehow combines Beaux-Arts with either one of those?
Brick gothic
And brick factories with high arches windows and rounded roofs
Yes.
This is one of my favourite styles!
There was a very prolific architect in Sweden back in 1890-1915, who designed several iconic buildings of Stockholm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Boberg
He designed these absolutely gorgeous gasometers:
Just look at the drawings!
Here are drawings of other utility buildings at the same gas works also designed by him:
He also designed the fire station in Gävle, which as far as I can see is still in use:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gävle_brandstation
He designed this water tower in Stockholm:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosebacke_vattentorn
There are plenty of other architects, but I just love that era of Ferdinand’s work…
I enjoy the Art Deco look. Sleek yet confident.
