That is cool. Is it for sale? 
I see on his Wikipedia page that he did the Vancouver Public Library, which I think is absolutely stunning.
Does the saucer section separate?
That is a full fledged eyesore. And also just awesome. The inside is too cool. The outside wouldn’t be so terrible if it wasn’t painted that Home Depot orange.
I like it! Very imposing.
Is it really out in the middle of nowhere, like it seems in the picture? Was there ever a city around it, or did the party leaders like running the country from a concrete spaceship marooned in the middle of a wasteland?
My God, that thing looks like it belongs in a steampunk anime movie. It almost looks out of place without a dirigible in the background.
The Seattle Central Library has often been described as ugly and impractical. I think it looks amazing.
The Ming Wing. The Robert Gordon Menzies School of Humanities at Monash University (Menzies was Aussie PM for about 2 million years, and nicknamed Ming the Merciless, hence the Ming Wing).
Absolutely hideous. But - being built in the mid-60s, Monash Uni was waaaaaay out in the outer SE suburbs of Melbourne - there were still plenty of market gardens around. The Ming Wing was the biggest building for many miles around, and an easy landmark. If the sun was in the right quarter, the reflective capabilities made it look like the Uni was trying to beam messages to Mars.
Inside it was like a cross between a public hospital and a Stalinist beaurocracy with less charm and atmosphere. The two semesters I spent in there are not amongst my educational highlights.
Well, no, the Party did the actual running of the country out of a prosaic building in Sofia. This was more like for special-occasion ceremonies, on account that it was in that rural boondocks where the original Bulgarian socialists first met as an underground movement.
To be fair, it DID get built c. 1880 (for the Departments of State, War and Navy – yes, all three, it was a much smaller government). At the time that was the height of fashion for the capital of an up & coming country. Been there a few times, once you get over the antique floorplans it’s functionally just acceptable.
Pals, which is a fastfood burger restaurant chain of 23 stores located in northwestern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. Pals is unique in several ways but one of the most notable being main menu items in three dimensional form presented as part of the building itself.
From a considerable distance a person can tell what they can expect at Pals.
One of the reasons it’s easy to become an admirer of Pals’ gaudy architecture is customer service that is as great as the burgers and milk shakes. Order accuracy stands at 1 mistake per every 3,360 transactions and this remarkable feat combines with faster service turnover rate than all other restaurants in the category. Their average gross-sales per building unit is 2 million-plus per year.
The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is the weirdest building ever constructed. It was built just before the age of skyscrapers started. It has no steel infrastructure supporting it. (There is a steel infrastructure supporting just the elevator inside of it.) It’s in the shape of an Egyptian obelisk, but it’s ten times as large as any Egyptian obelisk. It was finished in 1885 and was the tallest building in the world for four years until the Eiffel Tower was finished. Nobody since has been silly enough to build anything like it.
I love the OEOB. Great example of Second Empire style.
Speaking of halls of bureaucracy, my nominee is The Pentagon. Short, squat, and a totally boring, unattractive shape. But I love it because it’s one of the most efficient buildings ever designed; despite being the largest office building in the world you can walk from any point to any other in less than ten minutes, guaranteed.
I love it - I’d live there if I could 
My contribution - that Toastrack, Manchester, England.
The Headington Shark House in Oxford, England:
Link to the Flintstones house, for those who’d never heard of it or seen it (like me).
The Barbican Estate is the epitome of British 1960s Brutalist architecture. I lived across the street from the estate for many years and began to love the sheer ugliness of its bulk. I could use the Barbican’s skywalks, well above the city streets, to walk from home to the heart of the City (London’s historic centre) without ever touching the ground, crossing aerial passageways looking over water gardens and flats.
Here’s an aerial view: File:Barbicanestatefromabove.jpg - Wikipedia
2-bedroom flats in the Barbican now run at around £1m+. I keep trying to talk my partner in looking at one, but he thinks it looks too much like a council estate.
37 posts and no one has mentioned the Experience Music Project? Went in once just to see the inside.
Frank Gehry is the world’s worst human.
Holy shit. Remember Lloyd George’s quote that he wanted to build “a land fit for heroes?” That looks like a land fit for sex criminals.