Bring Your Wrecking Balls

[Traianvs]

Oh right... they're gone already

[Whaleboy]

Funny but sick

So

[Bosh]

Bricks are better- they don't get stained by rusty ironwork or corroded steel fittings, they don't change colour from grey to dark grey when it's raining

I agree with you until I saw Korean churches. Especially this one neo-gothic monstrosity in Suwon make out of these strangely-colored dark bricks with all kinds of strange crenallations and a big-ass ramp going up to the front door (the parking garage was on ground level as part of the church I believe). I can never thing of brick in the same way after seeing that

[Bosh]

Korean church architecture has to be seen to be believed, so here goes....

The Yoido Full Gospel Church, the church with the biggest seating capacity in the world IIRC:



inside:



A very interesting Church:



Skycraper, for JESUS!!!


Kind of funky, but strange


One of the better ones:


The EVIL churhc of SATAN


Stalin goes Churchy...


And some pretty run of the mill ones:

[Bosh]

Hmmm two didn't come out. I think the EVIL Church of SATAN doesn't like me linking to them, so here's the image:

[Bosh]

Oh one more thing I forgot about the churches, they're all lit up at night with HUGE amounts of neon in the most disgusting manner possible.

The only thing funkier than Korean church architecture is Korean Motel Architecture (huuuuge big business when just about everyone lives with their parents until marriage). I couldn't find any pics of the more garish ones like the one with the giant onion domes or the one with the fake battlements but there's some interesting ones here:

That's some subtle use of neon:


Hmmmmm


Are the palm trees really necessary?


Now this one's kind of cool:


Lets do TUBES


Yet more subtle use of neon


WTF?


I think I've stayed at this one, Its near Vomit Street in northern Seoul. Those lighted thingies go all the way up to the top.


That's subtle


Yay! More tubes


What's with the gnome hats?


Hmmm, think I've stayed here too

[Bosh]

AAAAAARGH NEON!!!


And the one that didn't come out because the URL was in korean:

[:) Smiley]

Around 2,500 in existence in the U.S. alone...all of them need to go.

[Bosh]

Well you could have this instead

Hyundai Department Store:

[Bosh]

All that effort sorting through google image and nobody comments

[Agathon]

I can beat all of those.

U of T's Robarts Research Library:

[Urban Ranger]

Neon

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
I can't believe how many of you have nominated marvellous béton brut structures from the 60s, surely some of the most exciting and dynamic architecture of the century. Brutalism may well be my favourite movement of the century and I've found the majority of the buildings chosen so far to be marvellous.

My university campus is done in that style. It rawks.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Agathon
I can beat all of those.

U of T's Robarts Research Library:

Don't be a hater.

[mrmitchell]

Where do people find such ugly Wal-Marts? I mean, Camden's isn't a peice of art, but it's very bearable.