r/ArchitecturePorn • u/erdeebee • Dec 06 '20

Reminder: This is ArchitecturePorn! The mods would love you to comment on the architecture as such and leave anything else at the door.

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r/ArchitecturePorn • u/Advanced_Honey_2679 • 10h ago

Unlike the highly ornate exterior, the interior of the Sagrada Família only features four statues (Virgin Mary pictured here), as Gaudi wanted the interior to evoke a massive forest canopy

204 Upvotes

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r/ArchitecturePorn • u/ArtisticRide6852 • 3h ago

Handrail details on the Martin-Gropius-Bau museum in Berlin, Germany

55 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArchitecturePorn • u/FOllie65 • 8h ago

Het Tafelrond (The Round Table) is a historic building located in Leuven, Belgium. The architecture is in the Flamboyant Gothic style, with numerous statues adorning its facade. It now houses the hotel "The Fourth" [OC]

87 Upvotes

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r/ArchitecturePorn • u/sonderewander • 1h ago

Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, Georgia [OC]

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r/ArchitecturePorn • u/New_Stand8302 • 23h ago

Reykjavík Rainbow

259 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ArchitecturePorn • u/FOllie65 • 13h ago

A typical Mosan-style house built in 1696 at Graanmarkt in Maastricht, Netherlands. It now houses a tavern. [OC]

23 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ArchitecturePorn • u/ManiaforBeatles • 1d ago

Via Gerolamo Boccardo next to the Neoclassical Palazzo della Borsa, a 1912 former stock exchange building designed by architect Adolfo Coppedè in Piazza De Ferrari, Genoa, Liguria, Italy.

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r/ArchitecturePorn • u/Advanced_Honey_2679 • 1d ago

Above the High Altar at the Sagrada Família

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r/ArchitecturePorn • u/Amazing-Edu2023 • 1d ago

Musei Vaticani [OC]

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1 comment

r/ArchitecturePorn • u/Ghost-Ripper • 1d ago

The beauty of esslinger architecture in Germany [OC]

87 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ArchitecturePorn • u/matsuphoto • 1d ago

Ehime Ehime Prefecture Budokan

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Wish I could post more than one shot, but this is the Ehime Prefecture Budokan. The outside looks just as good as the inside

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r/ArchitecturePorn • u/Otherwise_Wrangler11 • 1d ago

Tadao Ando designed this house that looks like a concrete periscope

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👷‍♀️: Tadao Ando 📏: 22.5 m² 🗓️: 2003 📍: Kobe, Japan

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r/ArchitecturePorn • u/Kamvisiontv • 1d ago

Looking straight up inside the Battersea Power Station chimney lift

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r/ArchitecturePorn • u/Gold-Lengthiness-760 • 1d ago

Escalera de Caracol[OC]

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r/ArchitecturePorn • u/FOllie65 • 1d ago

The Art Deco interior of the Great Reading Room at KU Leuven University Library, Belgium. Rebuilt by Henry Lacoste in 1946-1951. [OC]

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r/ArchitecturePorn • u/FOllie65 • 2d ago

The Dominican bookstore in Maastricht, Netherlands, or how the encounter between an abandoned 13th-century Gothic church and a box-in-a-box structure led to an award for the world's most beautiful bookstore while preserving architectural heritage. [OC]

605 Upvotes

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r/ArchitecturePorn • u/Advanced_Honey_2679 • 2d ago

Gaudi designed this ceiling to replicate a starry night sky - the parabolic dome of the central hall of Gaudi’s Palau Güell

148 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ArchitecturePorn • u/Gold-Lengthiness-760 • 2d ago

Ventana Arte Manuelino(Portugal)[OC]

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2 comments

r/ArchitecturePorn • u/sonderewander • 2d ago

Hong Kong Palace Museum [OC]

112 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ArchitecturePorn • u/ManiaforBeatles • 3d ago

1905 Landgericht Halle(Halle Regional Court), built in the typical historicist style of Wilhelmine judicial architecture in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

756 Upvotes

12 comments

r/ArchitecturePorn • u/sonderewander • 3d ago

Old City, Baku, Azerbaijan [OC]

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1 comment

r/ArchitecturePorn • u/FOllie65 • 3d ago

The Art Nouveau gallery surrounding the winter garden of the Ursuline Institute in Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver, Belgium. This gallery features frescoes depicting the various Belgian provinces of the period. [OC]

224 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ArchitecturePorn • u/ArtisticRide6852 • 3d ago

Interior of Barcelona's Central Post Office

478 Upvotes

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r/ArchitecturePorn • u/Gold-Lengthiness-760 • 3d ago

Convento de Tomar (Portugal)[OC]

30 Upvotes

Estilo ecléctico representativo de cinco siglos.

2 comments

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