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Coop Shot's Tower in Melbourne CBD, Australia

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Coop Shot's Tower in Melbourne CBD, Australia

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Coop Shot's Tower is a tall brick tower that was originally built in 1889 for the production of shot pellets. The tower was saved from demolition in 1973 because of its historical significance (it was at one point Melbourne CBD's tallest building at nine stories high!). It is now preserved forever underneath a conical glass dome and incorporated into Melbourne Central Shopping Centre, one of the busiest shopping centres in Melbourne. It is occupied by retail tenants but people can find a museum called the Shot Tower Museum inside the tower at the back.

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The maosoleum is a famous tourism in Nanking because of the great reputation of its owner-sun yat-sen and the great design of yan zhi lv.I uesd to go climbing in the zijing moutain and visit the maosoleum ,where you can see tje whole city and enjoy the beautiful landscape.

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This Art Deco style cinema that first opened in 1933 is a very iconic building in Dorchester as it has always been independently run and supported by the community due to it's very low ticket prices. Despite the new Odeon cinema opening in 2012, the local support for this establishment has only grown, with the amount of screens increasing from 2 to 4 in recent years.

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Jan Utzon

This photo was taken from a boat earlier in the year during the Vivid Festival - a wonderful winter event of lighting installations and musical performances that attracts a phenomenal crowd as it continues to grow every year. Projections on the iconic opera house serve to highlight the beauty of the harbour and the good fortune Sydney has somehow managing to realise the Utzon vision.

I was at a Glen Hansard concert in the Concert Hall with my son on Saturday night and as we sahred a pre-gig beer in the upstairs bar, I was once again reminded of the power of this building to delight, inspire and provide a focus for the arts in Sydney. IT took me back to the feeling of awe experienced as a child when my mother took me to play in a piano eisteddfod in this building. It was my first close encounter with iconic architecture - one that has remained with me since. Despite having many other favourite buildings in Sydney, The Utzon Opera House remains an indelible visual synonym for Syney icon.

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The Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, built in 1748 to house the Science collection Oxford University, it's a beautiful building which offers a little patch of calm in the centre of a busy city and contains books relating to science, a great passion of mine.

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This building is located in the district of La Victoria in my city, Lima in Peru. Designed by the austriac architect Hans Hollein and constructed in 2000, is the headquarters of the Interbank, american and peruvian capitals bank. The building is located in the intersection of two important highways and a very sismic area, reason why the building was designed with a small inclination. The complex has two buildings, a tower of 88metres aproximately and a smaller building that contains an auditorium for 300 people. The shape of the building is interestingly positioned and takes consideration of its context looks like a billboard instead of a building per se.
http://www.hollein.com/eng/Architecture/Nations/Peru/Torre-Interbank
Is in spanish but could be translated
https://es.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Interbank

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This tower, built in 1832 on the orders of Sir William
Hillary (the founder of the RNLI), sits on a small island in Douglas Bay. I love it as it looks like a little castle and was built so that sailors who became stranded on the rocks following a shipwreck would have somewhere to shelter until help arrived. Castles have always been associated with refuge and defence and I think this is a fitting design for a building intended to defend people from the sea. The architect was a local man named John Welch.

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The Tower of Refuge, Douglas Bay (C) David Dixon

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SC3875 :: The Tower of Refuge, Douglas Bay, near to Douglas, Isle of Man, Great Britain by David Dixon

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Het Westland, Nederland

brug Fiets via de A20 en de provinciale weg.
Overdag Een gewone fiets brug. S nachts, Het Licht Van het belichtingsstelsel wijzigingen aangebracht aan de bovenzijde van Het hekwerk.

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fietsbrug de snelbinder naaldwijk - Google Search

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Address. Naaldwijk ... Fietsbrug De Snelbinder, Naaldwijk. Bridge. ... Ellen Grimbergen-Ton is at Fietsbrug De Snelbinder. May 8 · Instagram ·. Ik doe mee aan ...

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Het Westland, Nederland

brug Fiets via de A20 en de provinciale weg.
Overdag Een gewone fiets brug. S nachts, Het Licht Van het belichtingsstelsel wijzigingen aangebracht aan de bovenzijde van Het hekwerk.

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The construction of the Brighton Pavilion began in1878 as a royal residence for King George IV. Since then the building has changed many uses, including hospital during the WWI. It's distinctive architecture that reminds an Indian Palace has made it the most iconic landmark of Brighton for over 2 centuries. For more info on this peculiar building check http://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/history/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Pavilion

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Bridge landmark in my city, Zaragoza (Spain). Work of the architect Zaha Hadid for Expo 2008 water. It is a pavilion for exhibitions but not very good result as it is not currently in use.

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This is MARCO museum in Monterrey, and its iconic because not only has the most interesting exposition inside, but it has an exterior that "gives" an open space to the pedestrian. The dove you can see en the photo is in a square that it is usually use as a reference point where people meet.

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Not really a modern architectural work piece but the place I live in is an old village so most of the buildings are historic. I suppose this is like the heart of Whalley, along with the church.

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The City Hall of Leuven, Belgium, is a landmark building on that city's Grote Markt (Main Market) square, across from the monumental St. Peter's Church. Built in a Brabantine Late Gothic style between 1448 and 1469, it is famous for its ornate architecture, crafted in lace-like detail.

Statues in canopied niches are distributed all over the building. Those of the first floor represent personages of importance in the local history of the city; those of the second, patron saints and symbolic figures; those of the third, the Counts of Leuven and Dukes of Brabant from various ages.

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The Newcastle Courthouse was opened in February of this year. The building is the first courthouse to open in the city in 124 years and represents a significant coming of age of Newcastle CBD. The building itself if big, it dominates the Civic precinct but links well with the heritage of the area. It is a showy building, showcasing a variety of finishes, angles and elements. It was designed by Cox Richardson, who are a major firm in Australia and are commonly involved in large developments. I love the design, i think it is a bold statement for a city which is coming out of a prolonged period of economic depression.

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Newcastle court house: timelapse of construction

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Timelapse courtesy of NSW Justice. NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton discusses the new $90 million courthouse at its February 15 2016 opening as well as parking and where proceeds from the former courthouse site could be spent.

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The Glasshouse is a lovely relatively new performing arts and entertainment building in the heart of Port Macquarie's CBD. The design was a radical and welcome departure from the existing design of buildings in our CBD and which has really contributed to our town centre.

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The cathedral located at the centre of Ely was built just over 900 years ago, yet still holds its place as one of the most imposing buildings I've experienced to date.
Its high flying buttresses and harsh Gothic ornaments combined with its sheer size create such an elegant yet gigantic feel about the building. It can be seen from tens of kilometres in all directions, and so it has been called the ship of the fens. As you approach it, it sails across the horizon into view, with its huge mast like towers and beautiful long shape.
This cathedral is the iconic sign of Ely.

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The trip home was the easiest I can remember. Rob went off to work at 7.30. Sheri took Daisy and Harper off to school and we got on the road at 9am, hoping that the rush hour would be over. For once, it was. The drive up to Helen was a dream, so we were able to stay for an hour. Then it was back on the road, in separate cars.

The sun shone, the cruise control took over for all but the last ten miles and we both made good time. We unpacked (Pauline did) and she then went round to see Rita. I just looked forlornly at the e-mails that had waited for my return.

The fenlands of Cambridgeshire are quite low and flat and that makes Ely Cathedral stand out even more than the architecture demands. This is one of Britain's most striking cathedrals, and there are many.

Tamworth has St Ethelfleda. Ely had St Ethelreda, who founded an abbey church at Ely in 672. That lasted a good 400 years but then the present cathedral began to take shape in 1083, less than 20 years after the Norman Conquest. Whereas most cathedrals built in that period were directed by the Normans, Ely was an exception, which is why it is more individual than many.

It took more than 100 years to complete the original building, due to too much interference, and over the next 100 years or so various reconstructions took place and parts of the original were deconstructed. In 1322 there was a catastrophe as the Norman central crossing tower collapsed, probably due to inconsiderate groundwork in the area. Because the ground on which the cathedral had been built was deemed suspect, the replacement of the tower was enlarged and made octagonal. This was to take the weight bearing walls further out from the originals.

In 1539 the backlash of the Reformation put the cathedral's future in doubt, but it survives - not entirely unscathed, and gradually it was reshaped, rebuilt and now serves to draw the eye wherever you are within seeing distance of Ely.

So the Equalities Commission pays its women less than the men. If only that was a joke.

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The trip home was the easiest I can remember. Rob went off to work at 7.30. Sheri took Daisy and Harper off to school and we got on the road at 9am, hoping that the rush hour would be over. For once, it was.

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Ibrahim Archaeological Palace is one of the prominent historical palaces and the most important effects of Al-Ahsa in the Eastern Province in Saudi Arabia and is known by many names, including (Palace of the dome or Walcott Palace).
Between the flanks and includes many military installations Assistance and large bath addition that Abraham saw Palace proof of the nobility of the date of abandonment
the building have been build by
Ali bin Ahmed Al-Buraiki, he was the ottoman ruler, The start of construction in 1571.
Ibrahim Palace covers an area of ​​16,500 square meters, and combines Islamic and military construction. Giving it a huge built, and the influence of the upper outskirts Alnmozjah.oualemsadjad castles of great beauty, calm, and the view from the ramparts wonderful.
The palace consists of architectural model of the two models are:

- Religious style: there are almost round arches and domes Islamic prominent in the palace and the niche of the mosque, which prevails use in Turkey. For the minaret it is in the form of the obelisk in the Turkish mainstream formats with being one of the wood.

- Military-style: This is the huge towers that surround the palace as well as barracks housing soldiers representing the East Palace and horse stables.

The overall palace shape is square or relatively rectangular shape with a long wall of towers in the corners, and sometimes in the middle points, while the towers are round in shape generally stuck with the structure of the railings, fences by barricades with high barriers to protect and ceilings towers also with high barriers to a round like fence barriers with openings for the shooting, and there are diverse groups of openings for surveillance purposes, and is the lobby of distinctive design, which is a hole covered with a prominent part of the building, including the soldiers can look down the fence

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I'd like to introduce the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town South Africa.  Built between 1666 and 1679 by the Dutch East India Company it is the oldest Colonial Building in South Africa.  The Castle marks the original shoreline before land reclamation changed the Table Bay shoreline.
To protect the new settlement in the Cape, the Castle of Good Hope was built according to 17th century European Principles of fortification.

I chose this Castle of Good Hope as my iconic building since it had such a significant impact in the Cape.

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The Oscar Niemeyer Museum is located in the city of Curitiba, in the state of Paraná, in Brazil .

The complex of two buildings, installed in an area of 35 thousand square meters, it is for most of the Brazilians: a true example of architecture allied with art. The distinctive annex to the Oscar Niemeyer Museum is reminiscent of a human eye and fundamentally gave the museum a new identity.  The idiosyncratic structure sits above a pool of water and is connected to the main museum building by a futuristic underground walkway.

It was inaugurated in 2002, when the Brazilian starchitect , who completed this project at 95 years of age, died at the age of 104.
Niemeyer's signature elements: modern and postmodern architecture, bold geometric forms, sculptural curved (almost sensual) volumes placed prominently to contrast with rectangular volumes, sinuous ramps for pedestrians and vivid murals or paintings.

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The Petronas Twin Tower, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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The Petronas Twin Tower, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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The tallest superstructure towers dominated in Kuala Lumpur’s Centre Business District. The towers comprise of 88 storey (that is 451.9m height) had made Malaysia crowned for the tallest building in the world from 1998-2004. In terms of architectural design, the inspiration is largely derived from Islamic arts. One that I know is the floor plate of the towers is based on a shape of eight-pointed stars. This superstructure towers have become an internationally landmark ever since it was built in 1996. Thus, all these credits are from Cesar Pelli, a starchitect who is known for the tallest building design and also has been won several urban landmark’s projects  like the San Bernardino City Hall in Bernardino, California; the Pacific Design Center in LA, California, and the United States Embassy in Tokyo, Japan.

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Surry Hills Library and Community Centre

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Surry Hills Library and Community Centre

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Surry Hills library was designed by FJMT (in 2005), for the City of Sydney. It's a four-storey building with a significant place in the local community. In addition to reinvigorating the 21st century library - it has set a local benchmark for the Sustainability initiatives for the City of Sydney.
The sustainability initiatives included;
- PV Solar cells,
- Natural Relief Air
- Low VOC finishes
- Rainwater storage
- Geothermal Heat Exchange
- Bio-Filter
- Green roof.
City of Sydney have since developed their sustainability criteria, to include Tri-gen, and Solar PV Panles on public buildings.

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Canada Place was built in 1986 for Expo '86. The Canada Pavilion at Canada Place has been acknowledged as one of the best-ever host nation pavilions at a world exposition. Wholly funded by the Government of Canada, the Canada Pavilion was converted into the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre in 1987 and was then officially turned over to the Province of British Columbia as a lasting legacy for the Canadian people.
This world famous waterfront landmark is built on a 1597 foot pier spanning over the shoreline waters of Burrard Inlet and sports five 363 foot high white teflon sails reminiscent of the Sydney Opera House. At the south end of the pier is the
Pan Pacific hotel proudly rising 23 stories high, one of Vancouver’s 5 star hotels.

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The Melbourne Town Hall is a building located in the CBD of Melbourne and is definitely the most iconic buildings in the city.

It was designed by a famous architect - Joseph Reed who has also designed several other buildings in Melbourne including the State Library of Victoria and the Royal Exhibition Building.

I think it is such a beautiful building and I love the fact that it wraps around, like it was purposely designed like that. The interior is currently used by the City of Melbourne municipality government.
Definitely my favourite building.

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A building csreated in a brand new city (or town) in 198( by the Building Design Partnerships also know as BDP. The company are known for their work with Covent gardens Royal Opera, Scottish Widows building Edinburgh and Liverpool o e, Merseyside. This building was creat d to be one of the first multi pled cinemas. The building was designed to represent a pyramid with mirrored crystal zig art exterior framed by red steel beams out T night. Currently there are plans to revamp the building bringing it into the 21st century but data inning its original frame and design.

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Azadi tower or inEnglish "Freedom Tower" is a memorial build/tower which wasdesigned by Hosein Amanat an Iranian Architect whom we can call one the Starchitacture of Iran , he tried to combine most used element of Iranian Architecture since 7.000 years ago , the "Arc"s .
This Tower is an Iconic building for Tehran but after many years it came to be Sign of Iran . (I should notify that this photo is not mine )

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The KICC building was completed in 1974, has 30 floors and is based right in the heart of the capital city Nairobi. It proudly hosts numerous international conferences to date including United Nations international conferences. Unfortunately it was designed by a Norweigan- Karl Henrik Nostovik. I say unfortunately because it wasn't designed by a Kenyan. This exercise actually got me asking questions regarding starchitects in Kenya. There are none. Several buildings are done by foreigners who are not well known, or local architectural firms. I believe that if brilliant architect Zaha Hadid was alive, she would have designed a couple of buildings in Nairobi. Word on the street is there were pending projects she had drawn for Africa but were never began.
Kicc is often used as a landmark in the CBD.

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Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth, New Zealand
by Patterson Associates - what makes this iconic is the material and form of the building, with an undulating reflective exterior (it is also amazing on the inside!).  It represents the use of the building, which is to house the art of Len Lye.
I do not believe that Andrew Patterson is a starchitect, though maybe so in New Zealand!  (we have a saying "world famous... in New Zealand"), and according to his profile:
"In May of 2012, Andrew was named by the world’s most searched architectural journal, London based World Architectural News, as one of five Architects “whose directional ideas are helping to shape the future of world Architecture”. This achievement is unprecedented in New Zealand’s creative community."

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Norwich Castle was built in the 1067 for William the Conqueror who wanted to have a castle built in an important city, this was constructed after the Norman conquest of England invasion. There is no architect mentioned.

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Standing tall in its own space, buffered by George Street to the west, its distinctive shape and buttressed concrete superstructure make Australia Square an iconic symbol of the Sydney CBD.  Designed by Harry Seidler & Associates, it fits in Sydney's stable of 'starchitect' structures. Opened in 1967, Australia Square was one of the first tall commercial buildings in Australia to incorporate large areas of integrated public space.  Public art (sculpture and tapestry - visible through the glass walls of the ground floor - enhance its civic amenity. Australia Square was considered ground breaking at the time of its construction, especially from its use of concrete and its innovative tapered design.

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I'm afraid I have left this a bit late. As I move between Sydney and the south coast of NSW I thought I would add something from the south.

There is a link with my choice to the Central Park site, the Mortuary Station - which can be seen through various vistas on the site – is attributed to the same architect, James Barnet. Barnet was the Colonial Architect and designed many significant buildings around Sydney including Customs House and the GPO.

The light house was completed in 1881 and constructed with granite cut from the island - similar to the stone on the Sydney Harbour Bridge – quarried near Moruya on the south coast. This is significant as the building appears to grow from the Island's weathered granite.

As a lighthouse should be, it is very visible from the sea and the land. The lighthouse and the Island have become a symbol for the local area, highlighting the significance of the Island throughout geological, natural and human history.

The island is significant for ceremony and hunting for the Yuin people, European maritime history and now for it's biodiversity values.
This is not my photo, it is from eurobodalla.com.au, the photographer isn't credited.

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Tranzit House building was originally made as a synagogue for the Jewish orthodox community of Cluj.

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The building known as Q1 ,Surfers Paradise Qld Australia

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The building known as Q1 ,Surfers Paradise Qld Australia

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An amzing site fromthe distant at night and during the day. Built in 2006 the Q1 was not only the tallest building in Surfers  Paradise at 80 stories, (322.5 m) it was said to be the world's tallest residential tower then. The architects where the Buchan group in association with Sunland group.The Q1 Spire is one of the world's longest at 97.7m. It commences at level 75, is made up of 12 sections and weighs 87.2 tonnes. The oval shaped spire starts at level 76/225m high and extends 47m above the glass fin. Powerful arc lights illuminate the spire which can be seen from 200kms away. The tower footprint is less than 10% of the site.Q1 is said to have  drawn its inspiration from the upswept curves of the Sydney 2000 Olympics torch – which itself is reminiscent of the overlapping curves of the Sydney Opera House.

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Designed with Sunland Design, the award-winning building was conceived in the Sydney Olympic year 2000. It drew inspiration from the Olympic torch and the Sydney Opera House. The objective was to produce a sculptural form reminiscent of these Australian icons, and a glass skin facilitates this expression.

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Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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The Petronas Twins Towers in KL are a sight not to be missed, an iconic structure in the KL skyline. Designed by Argentine American architect Cesar Pelli, the towers were, until 2004 regarded the tallest building in the world.

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The Concourse at Chatswood is a cultural centre in the North Shore suburb of Sydney, which is a 20-minute journey from the Central Business District. In 2007 the City of Willoughby commissioned new designs to replace the old Chatswood Civic Centre at a cost of $115 million. By 2012 the total project cost had reportedly blown out to $300 million. However, the actual construction cost was approximately $162 million to $171 million.

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The National Theatre is the primary centre for the performing arts in Nigeria. It was completed in the year 1976 in preparation for the Festival of Art and Culture held in 1977 in a period when the country was under the sway of military government. The external shape of the building symbolizes a military hat.

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From my understanding, the building was originally developed as the Bankside Power Station, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in the late 1940’s, and was subsequently decommissioned between 1981-2000. The building was then opened to competition by 1995 of which Swiss Architects Herzog & De Meuron provided an entry to revitalise the building as a museum of modern art.

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Unlike the traditional mosques in Indonesia, Istiqlal, which means 'liberation' in Arabic to commemorate Islamic liberation in Indonesia, has a more minimalist approach with cubical masses and brute materials. The architect is Frederich Silaban, a non-Muslim, who won the design competition for this mosque in 1955.

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Iconic Architecture - Exeter University Forum

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Iconic Architecture - Exeter University Forum

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This is an example of iconic architecture in a city which is very familiar to me.

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I live in a small town with nothing interesting in, so I'll write about Newcastle instead.

Newcastle is a costal and river city which is well known for its bridges which connect one side of the city to the other. One of these bridges is the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, designed by Wilkinson Eyre.

The bridge is a tilting bridge, and due to its low standing nature, when something needs to come down the river, it tilts to 45 degrees, allowing the boat to pass underneath. The bridge is such an icon that it has been featured on stamps, one pound coins, and is one of the structures that Newcastle University uses in adverts to define where they are.

Pic 1: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Gateshead_millennium_bridge_open.jpg

Pic 2: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Gateshead_Millennium_Bridge.jpg/800px-Gateshead_Millennium_Bridge.jpg

The bridge on a one pound coin:. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/2007%C2%A31.jpg

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The Library of Birmingham is one of the cities major cultural destinations.

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Classic Iconic Skyscrapers (Pic1) Vs Recent Creative Architectural Pieces (Pic2-5) Vs Mega HK-ZH-MO bridge structures with widest coverage connecting 3 cities(Pic6), Hong Kong 

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Classic Iconic Skyscrapers (Pic1) Vs Recent Creative Architectural Pieces (Pic2-5) Vs Mega HK-ZH-MO bridge structures with widest coverage connecting 3 cities(Pic6), Hong Kong 

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Pic.1: One of the Hong Kong’s most classical views is of Victoria Harbour crisscrossed by boats, with our classic iconic skyscapers wonders(e.g. IFC, HSBC Building, Bank of China Tower….etc.) lined up in the background lighted up by the creative stunning façade landscape.

A few of the other recent less known iconic buildings by foreigners, they are not lined up along HK’s harbor-front, but with their specific design and creative education purpose to be cultivated in the city, they are designed with an extraordinary exceptional external aesthetic outlook, they are filtered below for your handy reference:

Pic.2: Innovation Tower (by Zaha Hadid)

Pic.3: Hong Kong Institute of Design New Campus (By Coldefy & Associate)

Pic.4: M+, the museum for Visual Culture (by Herzog & de Meuron + TFP Farrells)

Pic.5: PMQ Creative Industries

http://www.pmq.org.hk/the-site/our-concept/

Pic. 6: Architecture can also be regarded as any structure, below indicate a Mega project with significant strategic and economic meaning to the city, Hong Kong - Zhuhai - Macao Bridge (to be completed soon)

The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, with proposed length of 50km, is an ongoing construction project which consists of a series of bridges and tunnels crossing the Lingdingyang channel that will connect Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai, three major cities on the Pearl River Delta in China.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEpmOL2jKKE

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Docklands Library Melbourne 2014

http://www.victoriaharbour.com.au/news-and-events/news-and-events/news-docklands-library-to-be-melbournes-most-sustainable-civic-landmark

The Library at the Dock is Melbourne’s most sustainable civic landmark and one of Australia’s most sustainable public buildings, for its sustainability and social sustainability and heritage features

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The architects involved in the build were a Consortium of  Lab Architecture Studio directed by Donald Bates and Peter Davidson from London, Karres en Brands Landscape Architects directed by Sylvia Karres and Bart Brands and local architects Bates Smart.
The design was very controversial at the time but the building does have a place in Melbourne, it is well recognized now as a great piece of architecture.

While bluestone is used for the majority of the paving in the Atrium and St. Paul's Court, matching footpaths elsewhere in central Melbourne, the main square is paved in 470,000 ochre-coloured sandstone blocks from Western Australia[8] and invokes images of the Outback.

The building interacts with the river front and the laneways. The atrium is used for pr-eplanned events as well as spontaneous events by the public.

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Architect: Rogelio Salmona

A great place to stay for long time you may lost in the halls roofs open space or some or the rooms this construction has this place invite you to stay forever reading chilling or perhaps been in the yards with family and kidz is  enchanting  due to is surround by plants, trees and  parks near t o downtown, this proyect is very interesting cuz of natural lights big windows and water pools is one of my favorite places to study and take pics.

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Perhaps today the measure of a building's popularity is how often it is instagrammed. The beach pools at the Bondi Icebergs at Sydney's Bondi beach are a favourite spot for visitors to photograph and post online and has become an icon synonymous with Sydney.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_O2
The O2 is an iconic building. It is a construction which is integrated to this area. You meet this place, even if you travel from North to South or from West to East. It is famous not only for its unique architecture. It is well known for The O2 Arena which hosts popular artists and matches. Apart from that, there are many restaurants, bars and cinema. Last but not least, The O2 visitors can have an incredible experience as they have the chance to climb on the top of the roof (https://youtu.be/jg1-O90PTBA).

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La Mole Antonelliana is the most famous monument in Turin. It is located in the center of the city and it is the icon of the city as well as of Italy.

It takes its name from Alessandro Antonelli, the Architect who designed all 167,5 meters of it.
It was built in the middle of the XIX century and it withstood some important renovations with reinforced concrete and stell beams during the XX century.

Located inside is the National Cinema Museum, which is one of the most visited museums in the world.

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Architect: Harry Seidler
Completed: 1968

The Sydney Opera House is clearly the most iconic building in my city of Sydney. I would like to add however another iconic building, Australia Square built around the same time as the Sydney Opera House and with as much timeless iconic beauty.
As a circular office tower on a square site surrounded by streets on three sides and open space on the fourth, it demands ones attention and a respect of its elegant geometry and attention to detail.

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Architects: Romberg & Boyd, Wilson & Suters
Completed: 1977

Built to relieve staff overcrowding in the neighbouring City Hall, this Brutalist building replaced a host of sheds and warehouses for the Fred Ash Company. You can see scaffolding where there used to be a raised glass walkway between this building and the office/warehouse behind. At the time, this building was a marvel for its use of grouting to combat mining subsidence, as well the unusual round shape. It has a prominent position in the city centre, abutting the main civic plaza.

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Mudejar Tower (Torre Mudéjar) is one of the oldest and most recognized buildings of Cali. It’s located in front of San Francisco Square in the financial center and it’s part of the religious complex with the same name.

The tower is 23 meters high and was built in the late 18th Century by a Muslim architect who arrived slipping away from Spain. His name is unknown.

The building is a masonry construction made with bricks of different shapes and settled following typical Islamic patterns. It’s the best preserved tower of Mudejar architecture in Colombia and one of the few buildings of this style in the American Continent.

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State Public Library "Juan José Arreola"

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State Public Library "Juan José Arreola"

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Built 2005, by mexican Architects, in Guadalajara, México.

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My iconic building is Grand Central Station NewYork.

This building has a real sense of history but has been reimagined. This image is the station in 1934 and shows how the design enabled the light to flooded through. Originally the station was for steam trains. On January 8, 1902, a commuter train crashed into another train waiting in the station’s entrance tunnel, killing 15 passengers. When an inquiry revealed that the noxious clouds emanating from the station area had blinded its driver, reformers and politicians acted swiftly, announcing plans to prohibit steam engines from entering the station, as a result, the Vanderbilt family announced plans to construct a new, state-of-the-art station that would utilize electricity, not steam. Grand Central’s design also transformed Manhattan real estate’s practices. When the new station went completely underground, it opened up valuable air rights on the streets above, and the resulting business boom created the area that still exists now. The station is now a meeting place and a shopping venue with people meeting there for dinner or drinks. The light is amazing and floods y places. Despite the grand staircases-one of which was added during renovations as the plans included it but it wasn't built - it is the first stairless station. It was thought that people with large trunks would not manage the stairs. The station was designed by John B. Snook and financed by Cornelius Vanderbilt.

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http://www.acropolisofathens.gr/aoa/the-acropolis/monument/
The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on an extremely rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.

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The tallest Obelisk in Yaounde at the heart of the city. It is on this spot in 1960 that the Independence of Cameroon was signed.

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The tallest tower in Manchester stands alone adjacent to Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop. It was designed by SimpsonHaugh and Partners. It is one of the most recognisable buildings in Manchester and on windy days it whistles.

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Balluta Buildings'  was designed by architect Giuseppe Psaila in 1928 and is a residential building. The building was commissioned by Marquis John Scicluna and is in the Art Nouveau style. Giuseppe Psaila is not a global star architect but was a popular architect in Malta at the time designing many Art Nouveau style buildings Balluta Buildings being the largest and likely most famous of his designs.

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The Q1 Building in Surfers Paradise is a residential tower and observation deck located on Clifford Street and the GC Hwy.
It was designed by Artelier SDG and Buchanan Group and is the tallest building on the Gold Coast Skyline and was inspired by the Sydney 2000 Olympic Torch and opera house.
It is 80 storeys and 337m high and the spire is 97.7m tall.
The Q1 is an iconic building for the gold coast with a sleek and modern building with a swirling canopy located on the ground level covering the retail and resort entrance.

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Banco de Londres, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Banco de Londres, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Clorindo Testa in brutalist architecture counterpoints the surrounding historical buildings and embraces the significance of that building in that specific environment.

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Melbourne Terrace, Melbourne Australia by Nonda Katsalidis

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Melbourne Terrace, Melbourne Australia by Nonda Katsalidis

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Mainly for the effect it had on the notion of living in the CBD of Melbourne

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Euphemia Uwandu

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Civic center Victoria island
Lagos, Nigeria

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Dr.Chau Chak Wing Building (Business School UTS), Ultimo, Sydney

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Dr.Chau Chak Wing Building (Business School UTS), Ultimo, Sydney

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The Dr. Chau Chak Building was designed by the renowned architect, Frank Gehry, for the Business School over at University of Technology. Located with the development of the Goods Line, the iconic Gehry-style building gives variety in the Sydney architecture landscape. The presence of this architecture reveals how much Sydney has grown as a global city, allowing international architects to make their mark within the city.

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Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, Arizona, United States

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Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, Arizona, United States

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A Frank Lloyd Wright building that was originally designed to be an opera house in Bagdad but never built. The design was scaled down to

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Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, Arizona, United States

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Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, Arizona, United States

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Built in 1937 as Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and school. It's built from local rock and is designed to make use of natural light. It shares a strong affinity with the surrounding desert and (in Wright's words) is a reflection of, "Arizona’s long, low, sweeping lines, uptilting planes."

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Maroc Telecom headquarters - Hay Riad Rabat

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Maroc Telecom headquarters - Hay Riad Rabat

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Designed by JEAN-PAUL VIGUIER AND ASSOCIATES, the new headquarters of the leading “Maroc Telecom” is located in Hay-Riad, Rabat and is the tallest building of the capital city.

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The building called "Amoeba" is part of the Christan-Albrechts-Univerity in Kiel (built in 2012, Henn Architects). It is a welcome enrichment for the campus buildings that are - in this part of the universita area - mainly simply designed functional buildings (like in the background).

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Federation style housing

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Colon Tower Barcelona is a building of 110 meters and 28 floors. It stands on the Avenue of the Atarazanas, near the harbor and the Columbus statue, which takes its name. It was built in 1970, the first building of this city that exceeded 100 meters. The Columbus building is one of the architectural icons of Barcelona by technical innovations that assumed at the time. For example, the body of the building is continuously twisted so that each floor is oriented at a small angle with respect to the previous.

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The Zuellig Building is LEED certified at Platinum level and first recipient of Platinum certification in the Philippines. Its facade is all made of glass so it blends in the color of its surrounding. This is really mesmerizing to look at.

credits to http://walkandeat.blogspot.com/ for the picture

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Located to North of Sydney is an Iconic suburb with 15 Iconic houses designed by Walter Burly Griffin and his wife after 1925.  The roads are windy  and follow the contours and the houses are subordinate to the landscape.

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A cluster of modernist architectural gems hidden in Sydney's lower north shore will be open to the public on Saturday for the first time in almost two decades.

Architectural buffs along with property snoops have the rare opportunity to walk through three iconic residences and gardens designed by famous architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin at the The Griffin Houses Open Day guided by members of the Walter Burley Griffin Society.

Burley Griffin was the American mastermind who won an international architecture competition to design Australia's federal capital Canberra in 1912. He and Mahony Griffin then stayed on in Australia, moving to Sydney where they set about designing "the ideal suburb" in the 1920s and 1930s on a bushland peninsula of Middle Harbour - Castlecrag. Their signature residential style of small, sandstone houses with flat roofs that sit quietly within the natural landscape, are highly-prized today.

Adrienne Kabos, a founding member of the Australian chapter of the society, is expecting between 300 and 500 people to troop through her home, Moon House. "It's been 18 years since the houses were last open," she says. "We'll get a cross-section of people with an interest in the Griffins' work, the gardens, residential architecture and the suburb itself."

Griffin had this wonderful plan of preserving the landscape.Adrienne Kabos, owner of a Walter Burley Griffin house in Castlecrag

Kabos, a designer at the National Maritime Museum in Pyrmont, admits she knew little of the Griffins' legacy when she fell in love with and bought Moon House in 1976.

Designed in 1921 by the Griffins for Melbourne businessman Chin Wah Moon, the residence is not only a fine representation of the Griffins' work but has the added interest of a second-storey addition by the Griffin's Melbourne-based partner, Eric Nicholls.

Another house to be opened is the 1922 Johnson House. Its current owners have fastidiously restored Griffin details to the interior.

Kabos credits the Griffins' uncompromising ideals in the creation of the now highly sought-after suburb which carries a median house price of $2.77 million, about $1.7 million above Sydney's median.

"Griffin had this wonderful plan of preserving the landscape," says Kabos noting the winding streetscape of Castlecrag.

The pair, who had worked with American master Frank Lloyd Wright, brought their Prairie School design style to the suburb. Together they mapped out the winding roads that contour the rocky bush terrain and designed 15 low-slung homes built of local sandstone and later using a crushed sandstone finish patented as "knitlock".

Saturday's open day will celebrate the Griffins' community outlook as much as the residences. "They had a very strong sense of community," says Kabos referring to the many bush reserves dotted through the suburb, the public tennis courts, winding bush tracks and lack of fencing.

"The whole of the Griffin estate is a network of walkways and reserves." Kabos' allotment is bordered by The Fairy Reserve, one of the many bush enclaves favoured by local children and a nod to Marion Mahony Griffin's delight in telling fairy stories to Castlecrag's youngest residents.

The open day will conclude with Griffin Talks in the Marion Mahony Griffin Hall by American art historian and author, Peggy Bang, owner of a Griffin residence, Melson House in Iowa and Glenda Korporaal, author of Making Magic: The Marion Mahony Griffin Story.
Griffin Houses Open Day
10am until 3pm

140 Edinburgh Road, Castlecrag

Adult $60; Student/Concession $45; Family of four $150

Bookings essential

Tickets: www.trybooking.com/212476

Griffin Talks - Peggy Bang and Glenda Korporaal

Marion Mahony Griffin Hall, Glenaeon Infants School

121 Edinburgh Road, Castlecrag

Adult $15; Student/Concession $10; Family of four $40

Enquiries: info@griffinsociety.org

Presented by the Walter Burley Griffin Society Inc. and supported by Willoughby City Council

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Sydney homes designed by famous architect Walter Burley Griffin open to the public for the first time in 18 years

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A cluster of modernist architectural gems hidden in Sydney's lower north shore will be open to the public on Saturday for the first time in almost two decades.

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Sirius Building, The Rocks, Sydney Australia.

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Sirius Building, The Rocks, Sydney Australia.

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The Sirius building was built as public housing,  containing 79 apartments and completed in 1979.  This building is in the Brutalist style designed by architect Tao Gofers. From what I have read about this architect, is that this was his most famous building.

I have loved this building, I used to drive past it when I was a child. I have grown attached to it and I always wanted to live there.
Unfortunately, the state government is trying to sell off the apartments and they have failed to be heritage listed. There are ongoing protests to save the building, and I really hope they do, as I believe it is an iconic piece of Australian architecture.

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The California Building was part of the 1915 Panama California Exposition in San Diego. 

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The California Building was part of the 1915 Panama California Exposition in San Diego. 

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It was one of the few buildings meant to be a permanent reminder of the event but local citizens fell in love with the Spanish Revival architecture and other structures have been saved or in some cases replicated with a longer term solution.

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Located in Caracas, Venezuela, it is the main campus of the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) and it was designed by the famous Venezuelan architect Carlos Raul Villanueva in 1940's. It is a mixture of great Architecture with a majestic art expression (provided by a prominent group of local and international artists of that time) and nature, all within an exceptional urban plan; being the final output a master piece created to captivate and inspired its users (teachers, students, workers) and visitors.

It was declared World Heritage site by UNESCO in 2000. As a graduate from that University, I feel honored and privileged to have studied my Engineering career there!

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Gurgaon is part of Delhi National Capital Region, India. Until 15 years ago, it was a small town which flourished into a full fledged city as India's one of the biggest business hubs. So much so that the city is known as The Millennium City. Signature towers was one of the first modern buildings by Architect C P Kukreja. The building is designed in a way that the northern facade (which faces the national highway 8) is archy, and made of glass. The rear side of the building is more contemporary in design. The building has two blocks- the glass and contemporary brick design, which are joint by a small block from the 18th floor onward.

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Located in a new greenfield urban development on the northern edge of the City of Playford The Stretton Centre is certainly iconic. Situated behind a local shopping and service precinct (behind the photographer) on a major cross road and in front of a community adventure playground that caters for all ages. The central feature of the feature is the spiral staircase which is visible through the south facing glass wall. The design architects, Hassell won The Jack McConnell Award for Public Architecture in 2015 with this building. Being in a new development it fits sympathetically with the surrounding structures.

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"Sugar Shaker"

[A building both loved and loathed]

The building was originally constructed in 1976 on the site of the former Central Hotel which was demolished in 1973.The hotel has gone by a number of names. It was originally called the "Hotel Townsville". It has also been known as the Townsville Travelodge and Townsville International Hotel, and around 2001 its name was changed from the "Centra" to Holiday Inn.

The building has become well known as a local landmark due to the fact that it looks like a giant sugar shaker. The odd shape of the building has been said to represent the importance of sugar to the Townsville port and area.

In 2008, the hotel was acquired for A$22 million by Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) from Eureka Funds Management, which had owned it since 2005. Prior to Eureka's ownership, the building was part of the portfolio of InterContinental Hotels Group.

A A$7.8 million update of the building was completed in February 2010.  There is a new pedestrian plaza or town square being developed next to the hotel which is expected to draw more attention and activity to the area.

[referenced from Wikipedia as it was the most complete source strangely enough.]

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Way-finding measures at Federation Square, Melbourne contribute to mixed opinions of the site. Around the perimeter, way-finding signage (shown below) is prominent, plentiful and provides utility for visitors to the precinct. However, choice of hard-surfaces including pavers have generated much criticism in the disability community due to poor luminance contrast and optical effects which make it difficult to distinguish accessible travel paths through the site

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One of the only large buildings still left in ruins from the 1975-1990 civil war. Most of the city center has been rebuilt and old buildings re-purposed, except a few buildings. The Holiday Inn is one such building which has come an icon of Beirut's Golden Age (the 60s). A massive building standing, hollow, looming over the glitsy central district.

This bried article outlines its history and future potential: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2014/05/06/Lebanon-to-auction-Beirut-s-famed-Holiday-Inn-hotel.html

Photo credits - Marina Assaad
https://www.instagram.com/mars_obnoxious/

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Q1 at Surfer's Paradise on the Gold Coast

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Q1 at Surfer's Paradise on the Gold Coast

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This year saw the opening of the Switch House extension to Tate Modern by Herzog d Meuron who also designed the original gallery inside Giles Gilbert Scott's 1930s power station.

Says Oliver Wainwright in The Guardian: 'That the building ended up being made of brick is down to the architects’ sudden change of heart halfway through the project, which was originally intended to open in 2012, but was delayed by the financial crisis. An earlier version of the Switch House – which received planning permission in 2007, against the advice of the heritage lobby – resembled a teetering pile of ice cubes. “It would have been a nightmare,” says Herzog, screwing his face up in disgust at the thought of it. “Can you believe it? I am really ashamed that we could have proposed such a monster, a building which was trying to say, ‘I want to be so great.’”

I am not a fan of the extension, but no-one can deny that this is a building much talked about and strongly associated with London.

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Toronto Dominion Centre, Toronto

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EXAMPLE - National Library of Latvia in Riga

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EXAMPLE - National Library of Latvia in Riga

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