architecture

Of the architectural variety. Anyone like to hazard a guess at what style this building is? Staines Police Station - 3 by SteveAitch, on Flickr Nor really Modernist, not weird enough. And not Brutalist. Definitely 20th century - the police moved in in 1998, from their old Victorian Bland style...

I wasn't sure where to put this so I figure I'll put it here as it kind of relates to "technology". MIT researchers dug into one of Da Vinci's previous bridge designs to see if it would work. Apparently, it would have! Anyway, I don't want to quote the whole article. It's rather lengthy but...

Might work good for bunkers and other imposing structures but i sure as hell wouldn't want see THAT when i went outside...

I see Yahoo had a travellers piece on ugly buildings and our own Parliament (Scotland) came 7th in the list. I was mildly surprised to be honest. The building is strange certainly but ugly? This is the list http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081114/lf_nm_life/us_travel_picks_ugly pics of the...

Architecture is one of the arts, no? If not I apologize and ask the mods to move this where it belongs. The Turning Torso skyscraper just opened. You can catch the official website (including an English translation) here. Is this not the coolest residential building ever? I want to rent an...