Imperialist revival and showing off wealth in the long nineteenth century edition
Pic related is the biggest thing built in the 19th century and the biggest courthouse in the world, bigger than St. Peter's Basilica.
>160 by 150 metres
>built ground surface of 26,000 m2
>104 (116 according to other sources) metre high dome
Truly a masterpiece of Leopoldian imperialist disorders
>>51949886
beautiful. got just the thing for ya too
>>51950004
>>51950004
>>51950078
This looks actually really based. Do the buildings still stand?
Pic related is glorious Art Deco Belgian National Cathedral, also one of the biggest churches in the world
Bumping with glorious Parc du Cinquantenaire, building that literally just exists because glorious Leopold wanted it for no real reason
>>51950378
What do belgians think about Leopold?
>>51950477
Thanks to WWI many less instructed people don't know anything about his atrocities and just see him as the "Builder King". He was extremely unpopular at the end of his reign, but the so called Rape of Belgium made people forget about it and now my hometown has a monument with pic related written on it
>I have undertaken the work in the Congo in the interest of civilisation and for the good of Belgium
Also he became even more unpopular because he fathered two sons with a French prostitute 50 years younger than him. Literal meme king
>>51949886
i sa this in bruxelles and i was like damn how much did that cost in hands
>>51950078
why do you not reunite w colombia
Showing off in the 20th century with the second biggest Christian basilica.
Saint-Guilhem abbay
>>51951053
>not linking this thread to the previous
It took me 30 minutes to find this
Anyways,
What do you guys think about Fascist Architecture?
Yay or nay?
>>51950923
Nice pathwalk to the church, the tower looks a bit off tho
Pic related is the main building of the Heysel plateau, in front of the Atomium and used for several World Expos. Nowadays it's main use is anime conventions to.
>>51951136
>>51951194
>>51951237
![eur_palazzo_civilta_italiana_1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/GsodkSJ.jpg "eur_palazzo_civilta_italiana_1[1].jpg")
>>51951136
yay
>>51951136
>>51951194
I never liked the building materials they used for their buildings in Nazi Germany, also it often feels soulless. I'm more into Italian Fascist architecture
Pic related is the Africa Museum, we had a "African village with real African people" main exposition there before WWI
>>51950223
yeah everything is as is, except trees and palms are much bigger
>>51950728
no m8
>>51951288
I know which building that is but if you showed me something today similar of that I would think it's a modern building.
Classy and stylish.
>>51951325
Germany still builds building today with the same style. Pic related was built in just the last few years.
>>51951288
mussoliis architecture is far better than hitlers. speer seems to have been pretty boring and everything is gray. look at how beautiful that palazzo is.
![dkx7[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ynbyXVU.jpg "dkx7[1].jpg")
>>51951136
>yay or nay
SI'
![Sabaudia_torre_civica[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/eTPMCgT.jpg "Sabaudia_torre_civica[1].jpg")
this tower is so simple in shape, but I like it very much
>>51951583
m8, I really don't want to burst your bubble, but that building was built during Hitler's time. It was even used as SED-Zentralkomitee during DDR times. They built a new thing next to it, but it doesn't look at all like your pic.
t. war schon paar Mal in Berlin
>Just fuck my shit up
![Sabaudia_piazza_originale[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/0Wo1a18.jpg "Sabaudia_piazza_originale[1].jpg")
>>51951759
back then
FUCK YES I love nice buildings I just scrolled through the last thread and it looked awesome.
I wish people would stop building steel and glass buildings nowadays they are such an eyesore
the Finnish parliament building's pretty based
>>51951776
Lol whoops wrong building. I got mixed up in pictures on google :s But nevertheless they just finished a similar looking building in West Berlin a few years ago
>>51951812
rare example of fascist church
This is going to be built where I lived last year, what do you think ?
>>51951951
>>51951855
I know that the architect of the Gateway Arch was Finnish-American and his father did sweet stuff in Finland too, like the Helsinki Railway Station
>>51951997
seems to blend in pretty well into the environment tbqh
>>51951951
>>51951997
JUST
FUCK
MY
SKYLINE
UP
>>51951951
0 privacy but that's OK, some can care less. What's the surroundings, are they old style or modern? It's also hard to judge looking at the building from a height, not like you normally see it.
Leopold II is also responsible for the GOAT tier Antwerp Railway Station btw
>>51952027
As long as they put it far from the center and pretty buildings it'll be alright, the city has few modern building pic related
![redipuglia[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/cBBYb1c.jpg "redipuglia[1].jpg")
1
>>51952098
forgot pic
The new central library of Helsinki is going to look surprisingly good.
![Redipuglia2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/h9cQ8MA.jpg "Redipuglia2[1].jpg")
>>51952147
2
de-zooming
>>51952071
After I checked the surroundings should be like this pic >>51951951, it'll indeed be near the river and I know the place it looks like this. It's alright as long as they don't mix it with the historical center, and they won't
Royal York Crescent, Bristol
>>51951951
I would lean my ass over the railing on shit on my neighbor below.
Shit/10
>>51952071
According to internet the building will be right where it is in this picture
![Redipuglia_01[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ba5obs4.jpg "Redipuglia_01[1].jpg")
>>51952200
3
de-zooming
>>51952192
The other new buildings there are shit though
>>51952244
It'll probably happen more than once
Also puke, that city is full of drunks
Terrace housing, Australian style.
>>51950652
>>I have undertaken the work in the Congo in the interest of civilisation and for the good of Belgium
Lel
>>51951997
Oh, I missed this angle. Looks cozy here.
![redipuglia-13%20copia[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Ch0Y7mE.jpg "redipuglia-13%20copia[1].jpg")
>>51952325
and on every small step there are written the names of soldiers died during WW1
40.000 of these soldiers are buried there
Mussolini built it
wooden Neo-Renaissance!
>>51950923
Impressive.
>>51951136
Mostly nay.
>>51952514
>40.000 of these soldiers are buried there
100.000 fixed
40.000 identified
60.000 unidentified
The Cathedral of Kaposvár
The Mikó Castle (Romanian: Castelul Mikó; Hungarian: Mikó-vár) is a fortified castle in Miercurea Ciuc (Csíkszereda), Romania. It is among the city's most important monuments, and today houses an ethnographic museum devoted to Székely heritage.
>European "castles"
>>51952464
I wouldn't mind living in it as long as I'm on top floor
>>51951812
Man that building is pants.
>>51952703
>European "castles"
Yes ?
>>51952539
Looks Russian.
Saint Constantine and Elena Cathedral
Bălți, Moldova.
The cathedral was built in neo-Byzantine style.
>>51951950
Thank God they didn't build more.
>>51952147
Presente, the most superfluous Italian graffiti artist.
>>51952182
Love that building. Reminds me of a wristwatch.
>>51952222
Nice aqueduct
![castel-del-monte-tramonto[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/sXneSCV.jpg "castel-del-monte-tramonto[1].jpg")
>rationalist castle
>>51952840
post vatican council churches are even worse..
>>51952369
Beautiful statue. Love that it isn't too big. Looks like a guardian angel.
>>51952905
AYY
>tfw there is people who values fucking banski over king robbo
Stadium High School, Tacoma
>>51952807
More like European hotels.
>tfw nowadays Terijoki is part of Russia and ruined
>>51953149
I live in the city of Banksy, though I move in the next few days. Pic related here >>51952229
Kokura Castle (小倉城 Kokura-jō?) in Kitakyushu, Japan was built by Hosokawa Tadaoki in 1602. It was the property of the Ogasawara clan (from Harima) between 1632 and 1860. The castle was burnt down in 1866 in the war between the Kokura and Chōshū clans.[1]
The keep was reconstructed in 1959, and the castle was fully restored in 1990.
Gooks love concave vertices.
>>51953377
Also
>Japanese "castles"
>>51949886
>they will never EVER finish to restore it
>>51953481
>Starting in 2003, renovations have begun on the building. These renovations pertain to the repair and strengthening of the roof structure and the walls as well as putting a new layer on the gilded cupola. Progress is slow, and in 2013, it was reported that the decade-old scaffolding was so rusted and unsafe that the scaffolding itself was in need of renovation.[8]
>>51953572
MY
FUCKING
SIDES
>>51953121
Like this one
>>51953572
my god it's literally worse than the roads thing
Posting some pics from my hometown
>>51952378
really enjoy seeing all those backstreets lined with these town houses on my way to uni
too bad they're all filled with hipsters
>>51953630
The inside is somptuous btw
>>51953572
>in 2013, it was reported that the decade-old scaffolding was so rusted and unsafe that the scaffolding itself was in need of renovation
what a time to live in this country
Post your parliament lads
>>51953790
>>51953630
>things I fear will be turned into mosques in my lifetime.jpg
Germany's also rebuilding this Prussian thing. Leftists are predictably hiney holocausted.
>>51953980
Are the muslims really becoming that big of a demographic?
>>51953980
>things I fear will be turned into mosques in my lifetime.jpg
>>>/pol
Also the Berlin castle will get one of the facades in a modernist style because they didn't want to remake a full copy.
>>51953967
Neoclassical buildings are nice but get boring pretty fast imo
>>51953980
Hopefully the statues from each churches and cathedrals will come to life and slay the heretics the day it happens
Monumental cimitery in Milano
>>51954142
no. He's being retarded
>>51953967
We wanna be Rome sooooooo bad
>>51954187
And the Romans wanted to be Greeks. Welcome to world history.
>>51950378
Mah nigga
>>51950477
He was a good lad
>>51954144
>Neoclassical buildings are nice but get boring pretty fast imo
That's true, but I'd take them over buildings like the European parliament everyday (although that one isn't that bad)
Pic is the inside of the French one
>>51954163
Inside the main building
>>51954288
And now Greeks want to be American. Full circle
The Lincoln memorial is one of the coolest things in the country. If you see it in person its like you are looking at a god
>>51954329
Maximum cozy
Sammezzano castle
>>51953967
NEO-GOTHIC
>>51954329
Eh I like it. Aesthetically speaking, we should move the EU to Strasbourg to be honest, it is a much prettier city.
>>51953967
US Capitol already posted, so here's the California state capitol.
>>51954473
I think it's fitting having the EU in Brussels since the EU isn't a real union and Belgium is not a real country.
>>51954460
One of my favorite cities in north america, New Orleans. Some have called it the closest you will ever get to Europe in America. Such a shame the people who inhabit it are shit. The city council should sponsor visas for French citizens to move there and open up French shops and teach French to children and locals and turn it back into a francophone city.
This photo was taken just after Katrina in the French Quarter. Take away the police and FootLocker sign and you could probably convince someone this was actually taken in France.
>>51953454
Yeah pretty much, it wouldn't stand a chance against european medieval siege tactics not to mention the 16th century ones.
>>51954510
And here's San Francisco city hall.
>>51954534
>>51954548
>Some have called it the closest you will ever get to Europe in America
I always hear people saying this about San Francisco tbqh, but New Orleans or at least the French Quarter is a cozy comfy city.
>>51954521
We're having a comfy thread and then there's always a loud drunk brit yelling shit. Just like when I have a beer with friends.
>>51954187
Here's the old capitol, pre-expansion.
>>51954142
The equivalent for you would be telling you "I'm afraid they'll rename the White House the "Casa Blanca"
It's too meme
>>51954608
San Francisco is easily the most Euro feeling US city.
>>51954632
Here's the order shit was built in.
Royale Palace.
I know, it's muh neoclassicism but the area is very nice
>>51954619
>modernism
>architecture
come on
>>51954619
I'm not drunk, how dare you.
What are some interesting examples of modern churches?
>>51954473
Strasbourg is a great city yeah and since it'sx a mix of French and German things it's still a "multicultural" city (I having troubles using this word unironnicaly now that I go to 4chan)
>>51954619
Tell me m8, don't you feel like every time Belgians make threads unrelated to shit memes it becomes comfy as fuck? I've literally seen over a dozen threads like this in the past two weeks, it's nice.
Royal Palace incoming
>>51954676
Democracy grows like cancer it seems.
Petit sablon.
Lesser-known comfy part of Brussels
>>51954682
Sorry m8, didn't see you already posted the Royal Palace.
More National Cathedral
Neo-classical is really nice
>>51954691
Yes you are you even ended up living in the UK, man
>>51954830
i came out of my mums chuff here, I had no say in the matter sir
>>51954608
The Garden District is comfy af. Taking a bike ride down St. Charles St is amazing during the summer, the beautiful neo-classical and art nouveuo estates and houses tucked behind the willow tree lined street. NOLA is a seriously underrated city, just needs to get ride of the black problem.
Here's a pic I took of my city hall, it's quiet nice
>>51954705
Mario Botta's churches are amazing.
Medieval quarters are extremely cozy
>>51954937
I agree
>>51954753
>Belgians make threads unrelated to shit memes it becomes comfy as fuck
Unity through comfyposting :3
A street in Brussels
>>51954879
Most of New Orleans is a shithole. Only a very small section is nice.
Who /dildo/ here
>>51954911
I live in the capitol of my state (Kansas). Here is our capitol. The Iron dome on top was recently restored a few weeks ago including the facade. The building beautiful inside and is home to a world famous mural which is close to the Governor's office.
neo-classicism/5
>>51955029
does /abstractdildo/ count
>>51954937
>>51954978
I second this
>>51955025
>t. someone who has never been to New orleans
>tfw the country's biggest brownstone mine is depleted
damb
rip new york
>>51954980
cont.
>>51955073
It's dedicated to science. Independent of taste, I think the idea is based
>>51955047
*years not weeks lol
Also the color of the Dome before restoration was a very ugly green because the metal that covered on it had oxidized a long time ago
>>51955095
Been there half a dozen times. New Orleans is objectively not a nice city by any serious measure. The French Quarter is a small fraction of the city. I bet you think Washington DC is nice because the national mall and Georgetown are nice.
>>51955029
reporting in
>>51955047
Looks good, also I'm loving that archer statue
>>51955073
The dildo is merciful and accepts his mishapen brethren
>>51954978
More nice Tournai
>>51955145
I totally agree with you. I even think it looks very nice compared to many other modern monuments.
>>51954705
this is a chapel, not a church, but check this out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkYBAvA47oU
>>51955203
inner space
>>51955125
>>51955179
>If there are blacks it's shit
Yes I also think D.C. is nice too. I mainly like foggy-bottom and a few of the Virginian suburbs like Alexandria. There are plenty of nice areas around NOLA. I'd bet you were raised in some shitty hellhole suburb in Arizona.
>>51955190
Reminds me of the weird glass pyramid you want to build in Paris, has construction already started?
Namur is nice actually, they finally started cleaning the shithole parts
>>51955296
Shit, not again
>>51954601
>>51954534
>>51954460
Yhis is fantastic, like acid vision
>>51955273
I love how different the various medieval areas in different countries look.
Familiar yet different
>>51955294
You're not talking about NOLA or DC then, you're talking about suburbs. You LITERALLY just admitted that.
>>51955203
a Finnish example of a modern chapel
>>51955357
>a slice of carrot
k
>>51955332
I genuinely like the Louvre pyramid tbqh
>>51955357
the interior looks like this
>>51954548
I live in New Orleans and you give it too much credit. I've included a map of the shit parts and non-shit parts. The problem is, the shit parts are some of the absolute worst places in the country. Its also going to sink within this century.
But if we could turn it into a francophone city it would be so fucking cool. I'm currently learning french right now. I wish we maintained our frenchness like Quebec did. I'll volunteer to swap locations with any frenchman as I'd much rather live there
>seeing what pleb's favorite buildings are
lol
who /architect/ here
>>51955356
I didn't anything about NOLA suburbs and places like Alexandria which is considered by many to be a D.C. suburb and is certainty not your typical cookie cutter cheap tract housing bs you see in the midwest and sunbelt so much.
Medieval cathedrals are stunning
>>51954705
Cinquantenaire again, during a fresh autumnal weather.
I think I'll go to bed, friends. Thread was comfy as fuck. Goodnight :3
>>51955517
>>51955190
My state's contribution to the dildo club
>>51955545
>>51955425
I'd include Treme as it is rapidly gentrifying. And yes there are some pretty shitty parts of NOLA no doubt but if you think it is the worst part of America you apparently haven't been to North Miami.
>>51954980
I agree belgians are some of the best posters. I always chill in Belgium threads and architecture stuff
>>51955418
Me too actually, I don't even live in Paris anyway
>>51954879
The streets are lined with Oaks not willows man
>>51955600
Thanks lad :3
>>51955650
lol probably, I'm not a tree expert. They looked like trees I hadn't seen before.
>>51955498
I wish we had better public transport. The streetcar is literally the least reliable thing in the world.
>>51953630
>>51955749
Yeah definitely I agree. The city should buy modern trams and do a better build out. I hear they are expanding it east about an extra 1.6 miles. Congress approved a new surface transportation bill so they should apply for new starts federal grants. BTW I'm also a /n/ fag so if someone wants to turn this into /urban/ and talk public transit I would love to.
>belgium
>european
Pic related is some random church in Liège I somehow like because different
>>51955600
It's sadly one of the few threads where people don't constantly jizz their autism everywhere, and those who try just get ignored. If you look at the catalog right now the autism is exploding again, with threads about cat noises and Squidward memes.
I miss 2012 /int/, it was much more comfier despite bantz and memes
panama railroad station 1922
Comfy Malmedy
>>51956057
Reminds me of the cathedral in GTA 3. It somehow already looked weirdly comfy like the original.
>>51956057
Damn for a moment I thought that flag was ISIS one
>>51956314
>>51956314
>>51956339
Also unrelated but there's this statue somewhere in Versailles
Post more from this century. I love the contemporary styles.
>>51955545
>>51955258
>>51954913
Fucking beautiful.
>>51956387
Is this for fucking real?
>>51956480
the new Liège railway station is pretty nice compared to most modern stations
>>51956480
RARE
A
R
E
ARGENTINES ON SUICIDE WATCH
>>51956529
forgot pic
>>51956582
also it doesn't have a real entrance or facade, it's kinda open on every side
>>51956494
Yes, but it's not in the castle or nearby don't worry
>>51956582
We're getting some ridiculous new rail station/transit hub here.
>>51956744
Subway station in Paris
>>51956858
That's some Bioshock shit right there.
>>51956887
Pretty cool uh
Less impressive but there's one with aquariums in Lille it's cozy
>>51956635
This is awesome.
Come on guys only 13 pics left let's end this thread
>>51955847
I want to move out. I feel like I've seen the good bits and it was fun while it lasted but I think I want to move to a bigger city where the stuff I need isn't in fucking elmwood or metrarie and I have public transport to get me places.
>>51956858
Funny thing : the guy who designed it is actually a comic artist (Francois Schuiten). I love his work
There's this thing built by a French mailman last century
>>51957371
>>51956582
>>51956635
Station looks great. Nimby's were against it, and I'm glad they did not have their way.
>>51957342
>>51956339
wow looks like paradise on earth t bh
>>51957425
French colonial style
>>51957443
Stop being an autistic fuck.
>>51957486
what?
>>51956858
I think a hallmark of a good city is how nice their public transport system looks. I don't have any pics but when I visited Chicago I found it nice how all of the L train booths and tracks were made of nice wood and seemed like the took the effort not only to make it functional but actually make it look good. It seems like nowadays local governments cheap out on their public projects. Like if the L train stations were rebuilt today, they would have those shitty foam ceiling panels and plastic tile floors...yuck
>>51957551
If this thread didn't hit the image limit I could post some
>>51957338
Chicago has some really cool old-looking skyscrapers. Can't post anymore but I'm jelly of things like these : http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/Cities/imgb/imgb3/163d.jpg
>>51957551
That's right but don't be fooled some stations in Paris are nice like the one I posted but most of it is dirty and and can stink
At least it's efficient and goes pretty much everywhere
>>51957630
I actually have pictures of that from the Observation lounge at the Trump tower
>>51956858
steampunk as fuck
>>51956480
>>51956575
oops. faroe not falklands...
>>51957696
Apparently it was inspired by the Nautilus submarine of Jules Verne
