r/architecture 3d ago

What Style Is This? / What Is This Thing? MEGATHREAD

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Welcome to the What Style Is This? / What Is This Thing ? megathread, an opportunity to ask about the history and design of individual buildings and their elements, including details and materials.

Top-level posts to this thread should include at least one image and the following information if known: name of designer(s), date(s) of construction, building location, and building function (e.g., residential, commercial, industrial, religious).

In this thread, less is NOT more. Providing the requested information will give you a better chance of receiving a complete and accurate response.

Further discussion of architectural styles is permitted as a response to top-level posts.


r/architecture 3d ago

Tech (AI, Hardware & Software Questions) MEGATHREAD

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Please use this stickied megathread to post all your questions related to architecture-specific tech, AI, and computer hardware and software. This includes asking about products and system requirements (e.g., what laptop should I buy for architecture school?) as well as issues related to drafting, modeling, and rendering software (e.g., how do I do this in Revit?)


r/architecture 3h ago

Building Zaha Hadid’s (ZHA) 520 West 28th Street Apartments. New York City, USA. Opened 2017 [OC]

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I know this project is probably posted here a few times a year, but I just wanted to share the detail photos I took!


r/architecture 10h ago

Ask /r/Architecture What's your take on world war II bunker conversions? (picture: the former Hamburg Flak Tower IV)

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This former Nazi anti-aircraft bunker in Hamburg was converted into a hip hotel with a rooftop garden. The brutalist wartime fortress, which was deemed too massive to demolish, is now called the Reverb by Hard Rock Hamburg, a hotel with restaurants and a public rooftop park built above its 3.5-meter-thick concrete walls. The renovation, plus adding the extra five floors and the garden, cost €100 million. Before/after photos.


r/architecture 3h ago

Building 1980s Iraq's Neo-Traditional Architecture

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156 Upvotes

r/architecture 5h ago

Building Helsinki Central Station, Finland built 1919 late Art Nouveau and early Art Deco. Voted top ten most beautiful train stations in BBC poll. Designed by Eliel Saarinen

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98 Upvotes

r/architecture 20h ago

Building Thomas Heatherwick, Little Island. New York City, USA. Opened 2021 [OC]

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I’m sure this is one of those projects that gets posted a ton, but hey. Here we are.


r/architecture 1h ago

Building Interior of St. Paul the Apostle Church, NYC. 2026.

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This is St. Paul the Apostle Church, located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, NYC and right next door to Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus. A choir I sing in got invited to Carnegie Hall but we rehearsed in Pope Auditorium at Fordham University Lincoln Center. This church was next door and later in the day after rehearsal I went here to see the interior.

Taken with Google Pixel and edited in Lightroom.


r/architecture 9h ago

Building በድሉ ህንፃ - Bedlu Building, by Henry Chomette Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (early to mid-1960s)

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I don't know what style it's categorized under but in my opinion it is Modernist/Brutalist


r/architecture 4h ago

Building [oc] Tour Espace 2000, Paris

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Full details in original post.

📸 - https://www.instagram.com/murray_tiptop


r/architecture 14h ago

Building Parliament Building, Budapest.

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45 Upvotes

r/architecture 6h ago

Building Lai Tak Tsuen Estate - Hong Kong

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r/architecture 2h ago

Building Porta Soprana, Genova

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r/architecture 9h ago

News 10 of Japan's most cleverly designed homes

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r/architecture 3h ago

Ask /r/Architecture Has a building ever made you genuinely unsettled... not because it was dangerous, but because of its design?

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I was thinking about how architecture shapes our emotions in subtle ways.

Have you ever walked into (or even looked at) a building that left you feeling unsettled because of its proportions, lighting, symmetry, scale, materials, or atmosphere?

I'd love to hear what building it was and what you think created that feeling. I'm fascinated by how architecture can communicate emotion without saying a word.

Clarification:
With this question I'm thinking less about the architect's intent and more about the visitor's experience. Have you ever walked into a place that just felt... off... even if you couldn't point to a specific design flaw?


r/architecture 1d ago

Building SIS building housing MI6, London, UK built 1994 designed by Terry Farrell based on loosely on Art Deco

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576 Upvotes

r/architecture 23h ago

Building Kolumba Museum - Cologne, Germany. Designed by Peter Zumthor and completed in 2007. Its contemporary walls incorporate Roman and medieval ruins, the remains of a Romanesque church, and a chapel built in 1950.

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90 Upvotes

r/architecture 1d ago

Building Milan Cathedral, Italy. 600 years of constant work, largest Cathedral in Italy and fourth largest in the world. (Paper one is by me btw)

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255 Upvotes

r/architecture 45m ago

Miscellaneous I'm an artist in NYC, sometimes I make the architecture my subject

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These are all oil paintings of NYC architecture I've done over a couple years, one of my favorite subjects to explore in my art.

The corner I was standing on for each piece's perspective:

  1. Madison & East 30th

  2. Broadway & Rector

  3. Willoughby & St. Nicholas Print

  4. Suydam & Wyckoff

  5. Kent & North 7th Print


r/architecture 23h ago

Building MVRDV wins competition for shift embassy in Rotterdam

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r/architecture 15h ago

Practice What are my options?

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i have an architecture degree that I got 10 years back and never used. I am sahm and an artist who sell art occasionally but nothing that makes me good enough side income. I want to be employable but I don’t feel confident about going back to architecture as I feel like I have forgotten a lot. What are my options? Should I go back to school and get a masters in architecture? or something less intensive like urban planning? I am open to pursuing any creative field but just don’t know where to begin and have been feeling lost. I came here to see if there is someone like me who got back after a long career gap and what and how did you do it?


r/architecture 2h ago

Building Hotel Landa, Burgos, Spain

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Gothic pool inside a historic hotel first inaugurated in 1964.


r/architecture 5h ago

School / Academia Are there high-quality hands-on online architectural design workshops ?

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As stated by the title and it doesn´t need to be free but if it´s free, I see no problem. I´m in despair and looking for something that will teach me practical profession knowledge. Maybe an integrated studio workshop as it applies theory to practice?

It can be also about urbanism


r/architecture 1d ago

Practice Gothic castle in progress ,rate out of 10

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I’ve been a fan of architecture for the past few years, but I don’t have any formal knowledge or training in it. I’ve always loved drawing measured houses with scales and rulers because I enjoy precision and perfectly straight lines.

Recently, I started working on my first-ever Gothic castle architectural sketch. It’s still a work in progress, with a lot left to do, and I’m drawing it by looking at a reference picture rather than from imagination.

I’m a CS major, so I’ve never studied architecture or learned its basics—I just genuinely enjoy doing this. So, keeping all that in mind, how do you think I’m doing so far? How would you rate my work out of 10?


r/architecture 6h ago

Ask /r/Architecture Double Degree in Engineering-Architecture: Which First Job Should I Choose?

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​Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advice, testimonials and experience on career path as architect engineer located in Europe, french speeking country.

​I just earned a double degree (Bac+7): Engineering-Architecture from the University of Liège (Belgium) and Civil Engineering from Polytech Lille (France). I am currently looking for my first job and wondering about the best career path.

​What drives me in an architectural project is the design process and problem-solving to bring the project to life. For my master's thesis, I simulated a design phase for a project using Grasshopper to evaluate multiple variants: structure, carbon footprint, thermal performance, and global cost. I loved this approach and would like a job where I can integrate these criteria and weigh them against each other to guide the design.

​Here are my thoughts and doubts:

​I am afraid of losing my dual background if I start in pure architecture or a pure structural engineering consultancy (BET). How can I maintain this dual skill set from my very first job?

​Hybrid agencies: Do mixed design/technical positions exist within multidisciplinary architecture firms?

​Facade engineering: Is this a good gateway to link pure technical design with architectural expression?

​Long-term goals: I would like to become a project manager in a hybrid structure offering varied missions and an integrated project tracking process between engineering and architecture.

​Mobility & Salary: I am mobile (France, Belgium, international) and want to leverage my Bac+7 degree to avoid the low junior salary grids typical of traditional architecture firms.

​My questions:

​What type of structure should I target (integrated firm, large engineering consultancy, off-site start-up)?

​How should I negotiate to highlight my double degree and maintain this versatility?

​Are there other jobs or positions better suited to my background that I might not know about?

​I am looking for testimonials from people who have been in my situation, as well as advice, experiences, and good ideas.

If you were in my situation what would you do ahah ?

​Thanks in advance for your advice!

​Have a great day everyone