Grab bag of strange buildings

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Here's some other interesting strange, omnious, or brutalist architecture (if some of the pics don't appear, try copying and pasting the source link into your browser):

NYC switching center for AT&T (looks like something from Quake 1):

The creepy and unfinished/abandoned Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang:

The Dallas World Trade Center. I'm pretty sure only about 5% of the people who work in the building have access to a window or any form of outside lumination:

Seattle Public Library:

Time Square Building in Rochester, NY:

Giant parasols (Singapore). They keep rain out of the streets. They also suck in cooler air through the dip in the middle and pump it downwards, cooling the streets below:

The Los Angeles Caltrans building is a fucking Borg cube:

PPG Place in Pittsburgh:

Formally the City of Faith Medical and Research Center - a huge 60 story hospital built by Oral Roberts - the main tower was recently converted to an office building:

Buffalo city hall:

Seattle's Ranier tower:

The AXA building, La Defense, Paris:

House of Soviets in Kaliningrad oblast. The victorious soviets decided to replace koenigsberg castle with something more... modern:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koenigsberg_Castle


Disney Concert Hall (LA):

Wilson Hall at Fermilab:

Modern Art Museum in Austria:

"Das Kunsthaus" in Graz, Austria, it looks like a Vorlon Spaceship:

More pics here: http://www.kunsthausgraz.steiermark.at/cms/ziel/4975814/DE/

Nord LB building in Hannover, Germany. It's a bank:

And of course, Robarts peacock at U of T:

 

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The AT&T switching centre is rather cool-looking up close. Very ominous and powerful in a science-fiction kind of way.


The World Trade Centre in Dallas looks ready for - uh - action.


Cool pics. Thanks for look-see.