Original question by @Wahots@pawb.social
I think art deco is one of my favorites. It still has a clean, modern look that ages surprisingly well, even a century later.
I’m a deco man myself. The world should look like the futuristic vision of 1920s and 30s sci fi movies.
Ecclesiastical Art Deco. There are surprisingly few examples of this. Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa is probably the best one.
That’s where I had my senior <whatever non-denominational church thing right before you graduate> ! Stunning, inside and out. Much pink!
Google says: Baccalaureate service. ? Sure doesn’t sound right to me.
Ok that’s pretty sick
Madonna Della Strada Chapel at Loyola University, Chicago
Any. Very few modern buildings can be said to have any style at all. They are just functional blocks.
Frutiger Aero. This is what the future should have looked like. It’s a beautiful balance between nature and technology. I love the glossy, transpartent, rounded nature of it all. The colors are bright and fresh but relaxing at the same time.
I’m also a big fan of mid century modern. It does a good job at incorporating a natural look. On the outside, the buildings are usually low profile and blend into the landscape well. On the inside, there’s a lot of nice, quality natural materials like wood and stone that are used throughout.
More Frutiger Aero photos because I can’t stop thinking about how beautiful it is:
One thing about it is that it ain’t the most homely of aesthetics and architectures. It’s almost always in the context of a workplace, airport, shopping center, etc. In an ideal world I’d live in a mid century modern house and work in a frutiger aero workplace.
Edit: just found this really cool website https://frutigeraeroarchive.org/
Those ai generated plants and hallway wall things bother me a bit.
After looking more closely, some of them do look AI generated. I still think the idea of the images is nice but it is annoying to see how it messes up the details.
I wonder how bad those big white renders would look IRL after some use and wear. Great opinion, though.
Yeah, one thing that I’m not a fan of with some of the pictures that I selected is all the white. I like it better when there’s other colors and white is just the accent.
I think Art Deco or Art Nouveau. I love both.
Brutalism always fascinated me, i tried to model some building in 3d modeling tools in this style, churches public squares you name it. These huge, empty and vast monuments to the industrial nature of a building are like monolyths in a city. They claim their existance and you can’t ignore them.
I am 100% with you on Brutalism. It is often vilified but I think it’s beautiful.
i would like more brutalism because my country desperately needs affordable housing…
Brick gothic
And brick factories with high arches windows and rounded roofs
Yes.
This is one of my favourite styles!
There was a very prolific architect in Sweden back in 1890-1915, who designed several iconic buildings of Stockholm:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Boberg
He designed these absolutely gorgeous gasometers:
Just look at the drawings!
Here are drawings of other utility buildings at the same gas works also designed by him:
He also designed the fire station in Gävle, which as far as I can see is still in use:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gävle_brandstation
He designed this water tower in Stockholm:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosebacke_vattentorn
There are plenty of other architects, but I just love that era of Ferdinand’s work…
Victorian homes like this
Art deco for sure, possibly turn-of-the-century industrial as well.
Seriously look at this steam engine. It looks like it belongs in a massive cathedral or something.
Whatever architectural style the Weekend at Bernie’s is:
Looks like brutalism to me. Not sure if there might be some more specific subcategory I’m not familiar with, but generally anything using big geometric slabs of concrete is brutalist.
I advocate for Rococo
I enjoy the Art Deco look. Sleek yet confident.
Not sure what it’s called but I’d like to see buildings looking like this again
This is the Library of Congress in Washington DC
Neoclassical, palladian, renaissance. The majour difference from similar archictectural styles is the geometric perfection of the spaces and the lack of irregular features. Opposite of that, baroque is all about overdecorating things and having irregular features, like a non spherical ‘barrueco’ pearl. Hence the name.
Googie. It harkens to the hopeful celebration of the future during the Space Age.
I admit it’s not my favorite, but I do still love that it’s actually distinctive and has a specific “vibe”. You look at it and you know exactly when it’s from and what it’s about.
I can’t think of any ‘style’ in the last 20 years that has that.
And the Art Deco crowd wins the poll!
Had cousins whose entire home, bar the sun room, was Art Deco. Not just the furniture and paintings, even the magazines and lighters and ash trays. Quite a collection!
