rgray222
16th November 2025, 18:15
We don't often think about it, but architecture is a silent force that shapes our lives and experiences every day. Although it's rarely seen as a cause of happiness or misery, we are surrounded by it constantly, and it has a deep impact on our psyche. It can evoke national pride or national shame. It can be confusing or a source of understanding and joy. Architecture can preserve culture or even create culture; some architecture is meant to tear down culture. It has also been a way to dehumanise and subjugate certain segments of society. Architecture can be wonderful and it ultimately shapes and is shaped by the culture of society.
I am hoping this thread allows us to discuss all types of architecture, not just city skylines, but classical, landscape, furniture, residential, religious, and futurist, to name just a few. If you decide to drop a photo in this thread, please tell say something about it and tell us where and what we are looking at.
I am not sure how the mods want to handle AI subject matter. I believe the prevailing guidelines are that if any subject matter is AI-generated, it must be identified as AI.
Furniture, (mass-produced or one-off handmade furniture, whatever brings out some emotion)
Frank Lloyd Wright Furniture
https://imgs.search.brave.com/30lawYqNvDle-F9oUroTepocd1js-4B7vnlTVsQpGrQ/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBp/bmltZy5jb20vb3Jp/Z2luYWxzL2RhL2Vi/L2M1L2RhZWJjNWRh/YTAzOGNmMTBlYzMz/ZmZjMzZhY2NkNjIz/LmpwZw
Skyscrapers
Marina Bay Sands - Singapore
It is the definition of an urban lifestyle. It has everything one could ever need all under one roof: a museum, a shopping mall, a hotel, restaurants, a casino, a resort; you name it. It can hold as many as 450,00 people at a time and has a world-famous infinity pool, from where you can see the most amazing panoramic view while taking a swim.
https://ntbrand-wp.s3.amazonaws.com/mystart/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/12154621/OGL_Skyscrapers_60181b90513ed5311f9ebd4d-740x493.jpeg
Shanghai Skyline - ChinaDiscovery.com (https://www.chinadiscovery.com/shanghai/skyline.html)
https://imgs.search.brave.com/TLFnuevCSRVsvGmvjht_W7y7gexof_2KO1aMIMisS8s/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cu/Y2hpbmFkaXNjb3Zl/cnkuY29tL2Fzc2V0/cy9pbWFnZXMvc2hh/bmdoYWkvc2t5bGlu/ZS9zaGFuZ2hhaS1z/a3lsaW5lLTE5MjAu/anBn
The Courtscraper Manhattan (Getty Images)
https://imgs.search.brave.com/O80clnJ7b39jKV2yqppx5R5Zz3l40XSjT7YPfP6Ilnc/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cu/ZG9tdXN3ZWIuaXQv/Y29udGVudC9kYW0v/ZG9tdXN3ZWIvZW4v/YXJjaGl0ZWN0dXJl/LzIwMTYvMDkvMDkv/YmlnX3RoZV9jb3Vy/dHNjcmVhcGVyL2Rv/bXVzLTAwLWJpZy5q/cGcuZm90by5ybWVk/aXVtLmpwZw
Architeture disasters
Huge apartment complex outside of Moscow
https://i.redd.it/nqys3j6whan21.jpg
The Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex in St Louis, shortly after its completion in 1956. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/4/16/1429181621765/aa2e2ea2-b567-4442-8ed1-1ce529c33614-2060x1236.jpeg?width=1900&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none
Landscape
Japanese Gardens - Kyoto, Japan
https://www.japan-guide.com/thumb/interest_garden_1680.jpg
Japanese Garden - Tokyo, Japan
https://blog.sakura.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/sakuraco_japanese-harden-history.png
I am hoping this thread allows us to discuss all types of architecture, not just city skylines, but classical, landscape, furniture, residential, religious, and futurist, to name just a few. If you decide to drop a photo in this thread, please tell say something about it and tell us where and what we are looking at.
I am not sure how the mods want to handle AI subject matter. I believe the prevailing guidelines are that if any subject matter is AI-generated, it must be identified as AI.
Furniture, (mass-produced or one-off handmade furniture, whatever brings out some emotion)
Frank Lloyd Wright Furniture
https://imgs.search.brave.com/30lawYqNvDle-F9oUroTepocd1js-4B7vnlTVsQpGrQ/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBp/bmltZy5jb20vb3Jp/Z2luYWxzL2RhL2Vi/L2M1L2RhZWJjNWRh/YTAzOGNmMTBlYzMz/ZmZjMzZhY2NkNjIz/LmpwZw
Skyscrapers
Marina Bay Sands - Singapore
It is the definition of an urban lifestyle. It has everything one could ever need all under one roof: a museum, a shopping mall, a hotel, restaurants, a casino, a resort; you name it. It can hold as many as 450,00 people at a time and has a world-famous infinity pool, from where you can see the most amazing panoramic view while taking a swim.
https://ntbrand-wp.s3.amazonaws.com/mystart/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/12154621/OGL_Skyscrapers_60181b90513ed5311f9ebd4d-740x493.jpeg
Shanghai Skyline - ChinaDiscovery.com (https://www.chinadiscovery.com/shanghai/skyline.html)
https://imgs.search.brave.com/TLFnuevCSRVsvGmvjht_W7y7gexof_2KO1aMIMisS8s/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cu/Y2hpbmFkaXNjb3Zl/cnkuY29tL2Fzc2V0/cy9pbWFnZXMvc2hh/bmdoYWkvc2t5bGlu/ZS9zaGFuZ2hhaS1z/a3lsaW5lLTE5MjAu/anBn
The Courtscraper Manhattan (Getty Images)
https://imgs.search.brave.com/O80clnJ7b39jKV2yqppx5R5Zz3l40XSjT7YPfP6Ilnc/rs:fit:860:0:0:0/g:ce/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cu/ZG9tdXN3ZWIuaXQv/Y29udGVudC9kYW0v/ZG9tdXN3ZWIvZW4v/YXJjaGl0ZWN0dXJl/LzIwMTYvMDkvMDkv/YmlnX3RoZV9jb3Vy/dHNjcmVhcGVyL2Rv/bXVzLTAwLWJpZy5q/cGcuZm90by5ybWVk/aXVtLmpwZw
Architeture disasters
Huge apartment complex outside of Moscow
https://i.redd.it/nqys3j6whan21.jpg
The Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex in St Louis, shortly after its completion in 1956. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/4/16/1429181621765/aa2e2ea2-b567-4442-8ed1-1ce529c33614-2060x1236.jpeg?width=1900&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none
Landscape
Japanese Gardens - Kyoto, Japan
https://www.japan-guide.com/thumb/interest_garden_1680.jpg
Japanese Garden - Tokyo, Japan
https://blog.sakura.co/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/sakuraco_japanese-harden-history.png