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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I have many but I really love the Natural History Museum. The staircase looks so improbable and the facade always reveals something I hadn't spotted before.

What's yours?

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By *livia_KWoman
over a year ago

South London

In London I love the Royal Courts of Justice. Beautiful building.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have lots ...

St Pauls being one and Westminster Abbey

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In Liverpool I love the Liver Building and the tower which is now the home of Radio City.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

All lovely buildings. I wonder if any modern ones will make the list?

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By *taffsfella1Man
over a year ago

Newcastle-under-Lyme

I think The Shard is amazing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Empire Stare Building.

I can't explain why. I remember being so excited when I went up there for the first time.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Imperial War Museum in Lambeth.

Here oop north, I do like some of the dark, satanic mills. The North Mill at Belper is gorgeous

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"The Imperial War Museum in Lambeth.

Here oop north, I do like some of the dark, satanic mills. The North Mill at Belper is gorgeous"

I've been there. It is interesting and gives that Industrial Revolution feel.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

In Britain......Durham Cathedral...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All the ones I've designed and built

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I think The Shard is amazing"

Have you been to the top yet? I haven't (mainly because it's £25 and I know if I wait someone will have an event up there that will have my name on the guest list).

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"All the ones I've designed and built

Do you love them because they are your babies or because they are superb architectural gems?

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By *taffs_hotwifeCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Lichfield Cathedral, Notre Dame & New York's Flat Iron Building.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Imperial War Museum in Lambeth.

Here oop north, I do like some of the dark, satanic mills. The North Mill at Belper is gorgeous

I've been there. It is interesting and gives that Industrial Revolution feel."

Really Lickety? I imagined you to be one of those Londoners who gets a nosebleed anywhere north of Watford

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The old Wembley Stadium was truly iconic

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By *xxwiganMan
over a year ago

LEIGH

The Chrysler Building, New York.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"The Imperial War Museum in Lambeth.

Here oop north, I do like some of the dark, satanic mills. The North Mill at Belper is gorgeous

I've been there. It is interesting and gives that Industrial Revolution feel.

Really Lickety? I imagined you to be one of those Londoners who gets a nosebleed anywhere north of Watford

I must be at deaths door when I go up to Cumbria then. I love this country. I haven't found anywhere that I can't find something interesting to see.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Angkor Wat

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is one of Antoni Gaudí's most impressive works. This enormous church, as yet unfinished, is a summary of everything that Gaudí designed before. The structural difficulties he faced and errors he committed in other projects are revisited and resolved in Sagrada Familia.

Have been 3 times

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lincoln cathedral

Used in many films including DaVinci Code. It's a sight to behold.

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Angkor Wat

I'm going to have to look up some of yours as I haven't heard of this one.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

For my sins, I've no idea what the building is, but as you come out of Embankment tube station and head up Villers street, there's a magnificient building up to the righthand side. The architecture is wonderful.

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

Rochdale town hall

ST Pancras station

st josephs seminary upholland

the old manchester fire station

the old county asylum denbigh

shame the last three are derelict the last particulaly

what a waste

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lincoln cathedral

Used in many films including DaVinci Code. It's a sight to behold. "

Yeah that is a lovely place, especially at night :o) Steep hill is a killer though lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Long Room Old Library Trinity College Dublin....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

After a bit of googling, the building I was referring to might be the rear of the Savoy hotel. Not certain though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The National Library of Austria is a place I've always wanted to visit.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"In London I love the Royal Courts of Justice. Beautiful building."

I totally agree the interior is amazing

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

York Minster.

Milan Cathedral.

Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. (I've performed there!)

Rocamadour Village in France - truly magnificent.

The main church (cathedral perhaps?) in Victoria, capital town on Gozo.

The main church in Mdina, the Silent City in Malta. Inspiring!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

amphitheatre as opposed to a building, but the Minack theatre in cornwall

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By *inglecuckoldMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

natural history museum in Norway....was lovely

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But without doubt my very favourite building would have to be the (Paris) Disney Castle,,,,,,

I fail to see how any building in the whole world could match it’s evocative image, which is able to inspire the imagination of young and old with such magic and wonder......

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Tarragona Cathedral

La Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona

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By *xpresMan
over a year ago

Elland

My fave is an old wool n rug market in Halifax called Piece hall

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I like 'Falling Water' in the USA.

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By *U1966Man
over a year ago

Devon

Britannia Royal Naval College Dartmouth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Second The Empire State!

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By *andymanleeds43Man
over a year ago

Leeds

naval college greenwich and the walkie talkie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"All the ones I've designed and built

Do you love them because they are your babies or because they are superb architectural gems?"

My babies

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"But without doubt my very favourite building would have to be the (Paris) Disney Castle,,,,,,

I fail to see how any building in the whole world could match it’s evocative image, which is able to inspire the imagination of young and old with such magic and wonder......

Try the castle at Carcassonne in France- the castle Disney reputedly based their design on

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have been fortunate to have visited a number of my lost of places to see in the world... And I have to say that time and time again I have found natural landmarks to be way more dramatic than man made ones.. Thus the Sydney opera house paled in comparison to Niagara falls.. And likewise the golden gate bridge to the grand canyon. I say this because I still love architecture esp modern and would love to visit Dubai and Shanghai.. but without doubt the one building that completely disproves this theory is the Sagrada Familia.. the gaudi cathedral in Barcelona.. It is stunning and it isn't even finished yet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"York Minster.

Milan Cathedral.

Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. (I've performed there!)

Rocamadour Village in France - truly magnificent.

The main church (cathedral perhaps?) in Victoria, capital town on Gozo.

The main church in Mdina, the Silent City in Malta. Inspiring!"

Performed sexually ??

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

"The old Wembley Stadium was truly iconic

Think the twin white towers were iconic but inside it was showing its age and not that grand

Still remember watching my first England game as a kid though as if it was yesterday

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is one of Antoni Gaudí's most impressive works. This enormous church, as yet unfinished, is a summary of everything that Gaudí designed before. The structural difficulties he faced and errors he committed in other projects are revisited and resolved in Sagrada Familia.

Have been 3 times

http://architecture.about.com/od/greatbuildings/ig/Antoni-Gaud-/Sagrada-Familia-.htm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have many but I really love the Natural History Museum. The staircase looks so improbable and the facade always reveals something I hadn't spotted before.

What's yours?"

Got a lovely pic of it on my phone it's stunning x

Love the painted hall

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By *xodussxMan
over a year ago

sheffield

Have to be the Sheraton Dameisha in China. Not sure if it was due to the non stop shag of for the free week staying there thanks to billionaire father of an ex...

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By *ampWithABrainWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

So many, I've been luck enough to travel in and live in various parts of Europe,

The art galleries in Glasgow and I loved the old transport museum. My family are weegies n granpa used to work there. Got pics of my Sis n I in the exhibits in the transport museum.

Lincoln, Milan, Dusseldorf and St. Paul's cathedrals all amazing, plus first visited St. Paul's in June 1981 right before the wedding.

The tiny chapel my friend near Milan got wed in was stunning

The small church where I grew up in sandwich Kent is beautiful too. Plus many other places there as sandwich doesn't really change

Sorry bit long

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

House of parliament. Outstanding building inside and out. I could walk around it all day every day and never get bored.. Its just brilliant.

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By *xodussxMan
over a year ago

sheffield

"House of parliament. Outstanding building inside and out. I could walk around it all day every day and never get bored.. Its just brilliant. "

Have you tried the bar inside? Apparently they serve the best beer in the kingdom there

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Worcester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey..

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"House of parliament. Outstanding building inside and out. I could walk around it all day every day and never get bored.. Its just brilliant. "

Some of it is wonderful but all the committee rooms look the same so it doesn't quite make my top ten. But do scrutinise my avatar if you need a Palace of Westminster fix. The sun looked good on the stone today.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sacre Couer Chartres Or Windsor Park

Make of this what you will!!

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"amphitheatre as opposed to a building, but the Minack theatre in cornwall

Been there a couple of times, blanket and a bottle of red......happy days....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

1: The Taj Mahal

2: Angkor Wat & other temples of Angkor

3: Durbar Square, Kathmandu (peace man!)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh so many I could mention, but here are the edited highlights:

1. Minor Canons Row, in Rochester, Kent

2. The Flavian Amphitheatre in Rome (which you all know as..... The Colosseum!)

3. CN Tower, Toronto. If you're afraid of heights I wouldn't recommend going all the way to the top....

4. The Chapel inside St Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt.

and...

5. The Queen's Banqueting House, Whitehall, London. If you can, lay on the floor and take in the ceiling.... Sistine Chapel? Pah!

ted.

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By *bbandflowCouple
over a year ago

South Devon

Guggenheim Museum..Bilbao

Amazing!

Clifton Suspension Bridge

Still a marvel!

Blackpool Tower.

Late Victorian anachronism..an Eiffel Tower set in a Northern industrial seaside resort..oh the optimism!.

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By *ndykayMan
over a year ago

Falkirk

I don't really have a favourite building but was once given a fantastic piece of advice when I lived in London,

Look up!!! Every once in a while, stop and look up

We all hurry around in our busy lives so to take 30 seconds to stop and look up at what we pass every day was and is still fascinating.

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By *nfieldishCouple
over a year ago

Enfield

St pancreas... /..kings cross.....all those bricks.. Boggles my brain

Dave the brickie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The rotunda in Birmingham it's as much an icon as selfridges and has a history like no other building in Birmingham

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love the Tate Modern and Battersea Power Station is an amazing structure, I hope they finally do something with it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't really have a favourite building but was once given a fantastic piece of advice when I lived in London,

Look up!!! Every once in a while, stop and look up

We all hurry around in our busy lives so to take 30 seconds to stop and look up at what we pass every day was and is still fascinating.

Very, very true....

ted.

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By *taffsfella1Man
over a year ago

Newcastle-under-Lyme

The swimming pool for London 2012 is an amazing building.

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By *obbygggMan
over a year ago

Birmingham

Sagrada Familia Barcelona.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Chrysler Building, New York."

that's stunning and my fave

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By *andymanleeds43Man
over a year ago

Leeds

cig kiosk when you run out

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Some wonderful buildings listed. Thank you.

I'm very fond of London's County Hall too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"But without doubt my very favourite building would have to be the (Paris) Disney Castle,,,,,,

I fail to see how any building in the whole world could match it’s evocative image, which is able to inspire the imagination of young and old with such magic and wonder......

Try the castle at Carcassonne in France- the castle Disney reputedly based their design on

I just googled Carcassonne and I can see a resemblance,,, but Disney got it right !!!

Anyway while we're in France, I may aswell give a shout to the palace of Versailles too...

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

Coventry Cathedral...... the devil has a right nice cock on him.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We like visiting 'folly's'. Many around.

Susan

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By *ogistical NightmaresCouple
over a year ago

Manchester Area

Mont St Michel

Neuschwanstein Castle

York Minster

The Treasury at Petra

The Temple at Abu Simbel

Technically I don't think the last two are buildings in that the were carved from the rock face, but you can enter them, so I have included

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Coventry Cathedral...... the devil has a right nice cock on him. "

I sort of imagine the devil with a decent cock.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Chrysler Building, New York.

that's stunning and my fave

+1. Love it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like St Pauls. My favourite is in New York and its the Flatiron building

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

La Sagrada Familia is the most amazing building ever followed closely by the Anglican cathedral in Liverpool.

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By *irtydanMan
over a year ago

Blackpool

i like Blackpool tower

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By *icketysplits OP Woman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Imagine is a feast of images tonight looking at Richard Rogers and his inspirations.

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