It’s peak summer, which usually means — vacation time! But while some people choose to sip delicious cocktails by the pool, others want to see everything a foreign city can offer. Seeing gorgeous architecture is one of the best things you can do while on a city break, and that’s exactly why iconic spots like the Colosseum, Machu Picchu, or the Taj Mahal draw in millions of people every year.
But for every piece of stunning architecture that you won’t have time to visit in person this year, Pandas, we give you this list. Compiled from the iconic “Architecture” subreddit, this list of gorgeous buildings and genius architectural decisions is a feast for the eyes and the soul. Scroll through them and marvel at the wonders human minds and brains are able to build!
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#51 Grand Egyptian Museum By Heneghan Peng Architects In Giza, Egypt. The Largest Museum In The World For A Single Civilization
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#52 Thoughts On These Apartment Designs By Architects Sahar Kamaleddin And Nima Safdari? Some Of These Projects Are Currently Under Construction
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#53 That's Sad. Tehran’s Unesco-Listed Golestan Palace Reportedly Damaged By Us-Israeli Strikes
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#55 Superb Wooden House In The Hills Of Brazil In Cunha, By Mariana Caires & Co (2024)
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#57 The Atrium In The British Museum: One Of My Favorite Indoor Spaces
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#58 Yanjin, The Narrowest City In The World. At Its Widest, The City Spans No More Than 300 Meters (1,000 Feet), With Some Sections Narrowing To Just 30 Meters (100 Feet). The Population Is About 500,000
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#60 Why Has The Sagrada Familia Taken So Long To Build?
Paro-Clomas:
The client is not in a hurry. To clarify. This is something Gaudi himself said when asked about why it was taking so long. The mentality for which this was built was closer to that of the cathedrals built in the middle ages, which routinely took centuries to build. It's not the modern bourgeois paradigm of a client who hires a professional for a very clearly delimited service that will used specifically for him. Gaudi did build for this paradigm also, most notoriusly for Eusebi Guell but who also acted in a very similar manner to renaisance patreons, sponsoring his artistic talent.
Productive practices that go beyond the indivudal always existed and are present today. Most forms of human organizations tend to have vast and abstract plans that go well beyond the interest of a single person, or a mere extrapolation and amalgamation of individual interests. The same happens with countries, cities, religious organizations, even corporations.
The problem is the ever intensifying bout of hyper individualism makes this kind of thinking harder and harder to understand, even tough its a basic and probably unavoidable part of every civilization and culture that ever existed.
The client is not in a hurry. To clarify. This is something Gaudi himself said when asked about why it was taking so long. The mentality for which this was built was closer to that of the cathedrals built in the middle ages, which routinely took centuries to build. It's not the modern bourgeois paradigm of a client who hires a professional for a very clearly delimited service that will used specifically for him. Gaudi did build for this paradigm also, most notoriusly for Eusebi Guell but who also acted in a very similar manner to renaisance patreons, sponsoring his artistic talent.
Productive practices that go beyond the indivudal always existed and are present today. Most forms of human organizations tend to have vast and abstract plans that go well beyond the interest of a single person, or a mere extrapolation and amalgamation of individual interests. The same happens with countries, cities, religious organizations, even corporations.
The problem is the ever intensifying bout of hyper individualism makes this kind of thinking harder and harder to understand, even tough its a basic and probably unavoidable part of every civilization and culture that ever existed.
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