For those of an architectural bent ....

[Gravity Aided]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Burley_Griffin
http://www.pbs.org/wbgriffin/stinson.htm
http://www.shawneeheartland.com/inserts/stinsonlib.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinson_Memorial_Library
I saw this library in Anna, Illinois, on a bicycle ride from Carbondale, and nearly fell off my bike. Very FLW, but a student of his and a fellow who worked in his office, Walter Burley Griffin, built it. He later planned the city of Canberra, in Australia. Oak Park, Illinois, has many FLW houses, as well as Ernest Hemingway's childhood home. Walter Burley Griffin was married to Marilyn Mahony Griffin, an early female architect. I'll see if I cannot find some of my own pictures of the library at some point, and add them to the thread. I had taken a lot of detail shots for someone planning a similar project, and wanted some pictures of the building to see how some of the problems were solved.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Ring Tailed Lemur?

That's the one

There's also some at the Tropical House, in Leeds




Plus, of course, there's that famous Lemur...............

 

[slowmotion]

Thank you @Gravity Aided for the Griffin links. I never knew about him. BTW, FLW's ego knew no bounds. He over-ruled his structural engineers and decided that he was better at re-bar placement and design for the reinforced concrete of Falling Water. It started crumbling away pretty quickly
Here's the Lego version..
http://architecture.lego.com/en-gb/products/architect/fallingwater

 

[Fnaar]

My two most favouritest buildings:

 

[slowmotion]

Lego Architecture is quite fun. The more obscure the building, the higher the prices. Only those with leather-patched corduroy jackets and yellow-rimmed spectacles would be bonkers enough to go for the Villa Savoye. The Tower of Pisa has a certain charm though.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=l...ture-series-turns-to-le-corbusier%2F;1000;683

 

[Gravity Aided]

A local home, Gray Ledges, by John S Van Bergen, who worked with Walter Burley Griffin and Frank Lloyd Wright. Not my picture, as current owners do not like pictures of the house being taken, and I have to respect that. It has tall hedges around it, just for that reason. It is in the same neighborhood as our parish Church of St. Matthew, seen often in these pages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Van_Bergen
http://www.mcnees.org/architecture/flw_architecture_jacksonville.htm

 

[CopperBrompton]

One of my favourite cities in the world is Shanghai, mostly because of the completely bonkers architecture. As far as I can see, there are no planning laws there: if you can dream it, you can build it.

Every time I go, a notable building that was there last time has gone and a new one has appeared. At the time I took this photo, the Shanghai World Financial Centre was the tallest building; it's since been dwarfed by the Shanghai Tower.

And this is one of the most beautiful man-made sights in the world:

 

[Berties]

http://www.themodernhouse.net/sales-list/mancett-house/history/
This is a interesting property ,it's on the Clarendon way heading east from our village ,looks like a load of porta cabins joined together in its construction,
It has just been modernised by its new owners ,and has been on going by contractors for over a year,
It's only a holiday home now

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

My two most favouritest buildings:

Can't help but agree with you!!!

I've never seen the Hoover Building (as I try to avoid London, at all costs, I've been twice in my 49 years, & absolutely it both times)

Saw the Chrysler Building, when we visited New York, whilst on honeymoon, in 1998. Beautiful, when the sun catches it

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The CN Tower impressed me, when we visited Toronto (honeymoon again, as a multi-stop tour)
I enjoyed the glass fronted lifts, & the glass floor at 113 floors!!
http://www.cntower.ca/en-ca/home.html

Sadly, the 'Skywalk' wasn't even conceived when we were there


Burgh island, again
http://www.burghisland.com/about_us_1.html

Built, roughly as seen nowadays, for a third of the GKN company (Archie Nettlefold), in the 1930's - replacing an earlier structure

Possibly best known, for its use in the TV adaptation of Agatha Christies book 'Evil Under The Sun', with David Suchet as Poirot

 

[CopperBrompton]

The CN Tower impressed me, when we visited Toronto (honeymoon again, as a multi-stop tour)
Sadly, the 'Skywalk' wasn't even conceived when we were there

Yeah, I visited when I was 14 - with my gran, who was 77 and scared of heights but still came up to the Space Deck with me. :-)

The Edge Walk looks ace – will have to visit again sometime!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

My two most favouritest buildings:

That's five miles out of London on the Western Avenue, must've been a wonder when it was brand new.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Mrs GA wouldn't go in the CN Tower when we went to Toronto on honeymoon, although I would have liked to go. Can't get her to go in the Willis Tower in Chicago either. So I have to stick with the Prairie Style Architecture, low to the ground.

Johnson Wax Headquarters, Racine, Wisconsin, also Frank Lloyd Wright.(1939) Pictures from a variety of sources.

 

[CopperBrompton]

Point missus at shop, go up towers – simple, no? Ok, possibly expensive ...

 

[Archie_tect]

Mrs GA wouldn't go in the CN Tower when we went to Toronto on honeymoon, although I would have liked to go. Can't get her to go in the Willis Tower in Chicago either. So I have to stick with the Prairie Style Architecture, low to the ground.

Johnson Wax Headquarters, Racine, Wisconsin, also Frank Lloyd Wright.(1939) Pictures from a variety of sources.

+!1
The Guggenheim Museum in New York is a beautiful building, and a great idea: lift to top and slowly walk down the descending spiral ramp [wider at the top to allow as much light through the open gallery as possible]. Simple but elegant, only downside is glare on the exhibits and hanging pictures on a curved spiral and the constant urge to keep moving!

Only building I dislike is Taliesin West, which, because it reminds me of so much that was ugly in the 70s, like the awful Florey Building in Oxford that James Sterling designed. In fact the more you look at Sterling's early work the more you see how he adapted FLW's ideas. [his Leicester Uni Engineering building is a poor imitation of FLW's Johnson Waxworks.]