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#1 2008-04-15 10:00

Ottens
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Architecture

Thread to share all news and depictions related to architecture of interest to us Neo-Victorians and decodent adventurers!


A few images of this fantastic art deco New York hotel, found at a website called New York City Architecture.

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8004/mid032waldorfastorialv5.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3554/mid032b01ow6.jpg

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/1083/mid032gaa6.jpg

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#2 2008-04-15 13:06

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Re: Architecture

That's what the new World Trade Centre ought to look like, not some bloody glass spike

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#3 2008-04-15 14:06

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Re: Architecture

Indeed!  I'm afraid we're a little late to submit a design of our own, but we might petition for a better version still, perhaps?

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#4 2008-04-20 22:34

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Re: Architecture

A lovely photograph of some building-I-don't-know-where which doesn't quite deserve its own thread but which I wished to share nonetheless!

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/9813/kobenhavnbydilioskr3.jpg

Photograph by a gentleman from Spain who goes by the name of "Dilios".

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#5 2008-04-24 12:30

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Re: Architecture

^ Apparently that's building stands in Copenhagen, capital of Denmark.

Another fine accomplishment of deco architecture:

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/4884/75096539an0.jpg

Somewhere in Huntington Park, California.

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#6 2008-04-24 14:57

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Re: Architecture

http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/5404/ef930e8a0ff10048ug3.jpg

By a Mr "Jerzy G.", a charming depiction of a deco rooftop!

(Renamed this thread "Deco Architecture".)

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#7 2008-05-20 14:25

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Re: Architecture

Another nice image from Lord K's livejournal:

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9510/86443496uh6.jpg

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#8 2008-06-07 14:08

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Re: Architecture

Another pic Lord K posted:

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/3553/0089fqszya1.jpg

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#9 2008-06-09 19:24

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Re: Architecture

Nice photo of the Empire State Building, by a Ms Sampson:

http://tn3-2.deviantart.com/fs25/300W/i/2008/161/f/a/empire_at_night_by_mssampson.jpg

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#10 2008-06-10 19:05

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Re: Architecture

Another lovely photograph posted by Lord K:

http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/6982/34515363ks3.jpg

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