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. 

Nice, wouldn't mind visiting those, must be full of nice rusty metal work. =) 

Nice. I've seen those pictures before, but never knew what the place was called. 

of the Principality of Sealand:
http://images.google.com/images?q=sealand 

there is quite a point in the deconstructivism

another thing, if you like it or not

but actually, I dont think it will make a cool map 

My map, "Slipstream," is in final beta today. You can get release candidate #1 here:

http://www.qwplayers.org/inertia/sliprc1.bsp

And some screens:

http://www.qwplayers.org/inertia/sliprc1_1.jpg
http://www.qwplayers.org/inertia/sliprc1_2.jpg
http://www.qwplayers.org/inertia/sliprc1_3.jpg

I want to finalize it tomorrow, so please test everything you can and let me know if there are any problems! thanks. 

Fantastic, I am sure a lot of mappers will use that as Inspiration and indeed Reference. 

http://lost.biker.ru/gallery/
It's in russian, but I'm sure you'll manage clicking some pictures anyway. 

oops 

Thanks. Those crane (earth mover?) pictures are pure inspiration straight from the distillery of time. 

http://www.statoil.com/STATOILCOM/SVG00990.nsf?opendatabase&lang=en&artid=CACFEF0991487FE4C1256BC2003671D9
Some pics of oil rigs if you need I&R for that, also check out the 'Production facilities' link for some nice industrial sites, and the 'Sn�hvit' page has some good photos too. Skip the 'Corporate executive committee' page unless you want to see terrible old men.

http://www.canadian-wellsite.com/Gallery/gallery.htm
More pics of oil related equipment. 

http://www.arrakeen.ch/thailand/thailandjan03.html

And if for some reason that doesn't inspire you:
http://www.arrakeen.ch/thailand/051%20%20Ann.jpg 

http://users.tkk.fi/~tmaja/kuvia/norja_00/halti2_7_alas.JPG

(at least czg is from that place) 

http://www.hipkiss.org/cgi-bin/maps.pl 

Nice pics ! to your opinion, would it be easy to convert all these ancient maps in a single wad file ? ... I mean a wad file with enough quality for Quake ... ;P 

Why? Easier if someone just extracts the ones they want, and people probably wouldn't want it as original, but preferrably scribbled on more rough pieces of parchment/skin/marble or the like. 

yeah, convert ones u need, but you might loose all the beauty of the high resolution. it's better to use them in moreadvanced engines that supports hi res texes. 

.. was to convert some of these pics in order to use the most interesting one as general HQ strategy maps, like you can find in Wolfenstein, etc... Anyway, I will try by myself to see if it's interesting or not...