http://www.g-cans.jp/intro/07photo/index.html

Meep meep 

http://flickr.com/photos/stillburning/sets/638142/
There is some good stuff there if you can manage to filter out all the "OMG EVERYTHING FOR FREE NOW, HITLER!" crap 

castles rock. 

castles rock. 

that national geographic magazine can be a great source of inspiration. especially for asian cities. 

http://www.uib.no/bot/qeprg/pictures/places/Bhutan/pages/Taktsang%20Monastery%20(photo%20Jane%20Jopling).htm

http://www.barbara-and-stu.com/Taksang%20Monastery%202.jpg

Built into the side of a sheer cliff. Wow. 

print that out and hang it on my wall. Wow is right. 

bet you'd like to see a map based on that. just wait, a while... 

http://www.digital-eel.com/scans/buildings.htm 

Fingers must have an awesome brain to be able to just churn out stuff like that. It would take me a day to come up with one of those i think. 

Scrawled on small post-it notes at work, over a period of a few weeks.

I use to do that all the time.

I esp like Ikka's Black Mariah on the sword page 

I would just like to point out that those color WWI photos are the most impressive stuff I have seen all summer.

I mean. Holy fuck they look good to me. 

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/208/4205/640/Wuhan-Yellow-Crane.jpg 

 

http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Tourism/Wuhan-Yellow-Crane.jpg 

but the access denied page has a helpful link to the same image which works becuase the referer is local :P

I guess they want to enable <a> but not <img>. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao 

Build that in Doom 3. 

I have seen more elegant design come from a dogs ass. 

it's better than the hideous EMP in Seattle. 

I believe the Guggenheim was once described along the lines of 'a dynamic eruption of plastic form'. I prefer 'a tragic abortion of spastic foil' myself.

There's a museum in Japan, whose name mercifully escapes me, which is essentially a few geometric primitives stuck in a field. It has been featured in several books which go on about how great it is. What utter bollocks. It's the architectural equivalent of a newbie boxmap.

Some modern architecture is cool, a lot really makes me wonder how on Earth ANYONE could approve these designs before they are built. 

I think you are godless heathens 

Spent some time in the south of France again this summer, have a little album with photos on my site, might be some inspiring stonework stuff in some if any of you care to take a look around:
http://bal.spawnpoint.org/gallery/summer2005


Guggenheim museum looks ok to me, the curves and stuff are pretty funky, and it must have been tricky to build. But yeah, it probably is quite over-rated. 

I've been to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, was cool, it looks very nice. Had a very hard time finding a bathroom though :/ 

Pwnage:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=redsands%20fort&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi

http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=red+sands+fort&btnG=Search

^^^ takes a little clicking to find the best pics, although for Brits there are some sweet ones in the Sunday Times magazine last weekend.

Can't believe I hadn't heard of this place before.

P.S. Edinburgh rocks, most impressive architectural city I've been too, some of it is straight evile.