50 Times Architects Put In The Effort To Make Something Extra Special And Succeeded (New Pics)

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It's good this is not in Florida--books are banned, or at least very suspicious.

Maybe, but I can't read Portuguese.

Lefty, let me know when you are going and I'll come with...

I’ll not stop clicking pictures there. Will have to be thrown out for that. And I am a researcher.

Me too. Don't think there is anything as grand as that in Reading!

What I find so fascinating is that this is Nr 3 (or 4?). this version is not that old, mid 19th century, and the king made the decision to go 'ok, let's tear down most of the old caslte and build a new on on top'. Mindboggeling. Also for the architekt. Ok, he was a genius, but still: 'Please go and do an adequate replacement of our main seat that we've been using for 700 years'

It's surreal.... stunning.

Not very defensible.....

That was my first thought! 🙂

Are you conflating it with Neuschwanstein, the fairy castle which inspired Disney? It WAS massively rebuilt in the mid 1800s, but it most definitely is a fortress, even if it wasn't rebuilt with military strategy in mind.

Upvote for puzzle 😊

Da Nang me, Da Nang me, they aught ta take a rope and hang me!

Medieval churches in England were incredibly brightly coloured inside-we're so used to seeing them with plain stone, marble, whitewashed walls and bare wood, but that wasn't how they were built. When churches have been renovated, there's evidence that very bright paint colours were used, along with golf leaf and other embellishments, and the statues were all painted to look colourful. It was a way of making sure all the peasants and serfs were overawed at the magnificence of the church. These days, we'd probably think it was gaudy or tasteless, we're so used to seeing them all colourless.

These are Dravidian style temples. Most of the colorful ones are Dravidian style temples. The other major style is the Nagara style which is also very beautiful but not this colorful.

Are you sure it wasn't Buddhist? Thailand is the most Buddhist nation in the world, by %. Many of their shrines also feature some Hindu images, since Buddhism grew out of Hinduism, but there are very few truly Hindu temples in Thailand.

Greek temples were also painted bright colors. We just think that they were all white unadorned marble, because the paint has worn off.

And now they can’t even build an apartment complex up to code. It shows the impact greed has on architecture.

My guess it that it was carved into the side of the cliff.

Lots of rope and bamboo scaffolding ;D

.....Very Carefully.....

Yeah.....who took the first stones up to start this? And what holds the whole place to the cliff?

Right there with you.

Or how they get provisions there.

And, more appropriately, WHY!?! was there no space below that behemoth?

…and why take on this challenge?!?

You meant FEAT. Look it up. Thanks, Mr Picky

That's what I thought too!

Rivendell.

I'm an Alsatian here !!! lol emoji-6404...f409e6.png