Official Building Draft Choice Thread

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This is the draft order:

1. Bluto11
2. Claymore
3. Iceblink
4. Toon²
5. Danks81
6. Caesar
7. babytiger2001
8. DoctorJones24
9. MtP07
10. Excape Goat
11. Crew14
12. yellowbismark
13. dmar
14. Wingtips1
15. MikeLastort2
16. bopper78
17. YankHibee
18. Metroweenie
19. Folha

Ok... here are the rules:

10 rounds.
All draft choices must be accompanied by at least one picture
You must give a brief description of the structure, location, and the reason you chose it.
Fictional/mythological/structures that were thought to have existed, but there is doubt... these can not be chosen. There's enough out there for us to avoid these. Examples include Emerald City, the Temple of Atlantis, even the Tower of Babel.
Bridges and stadiums ok. Other non-building structures... might want to run it by the judges first. I hope we'll have a couple judges.
A maximum of 12 hours between picks. I think that's fine for weekends too.
If you miss your turn, you can make up your pick later, but we're moving on.

PLEASE alert the next drafter via PM when you've made your choice!

Other rules may emerge later.


Let's hit it. I'll alert drafter #1.

[Metroweenie]

If someone drops out, or if you can fit another, I'd like to join.

EDIT: Oops, maybe I should have put this in the other thread.

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If someone drops out, or if you can fit another, I'd like to join.

EDIT: Oops, maybe I should have put this in the other thread.

S'ok. You're in.

[Bluto11]

well, i'm #1.

with my first pick I take the Pantheon in Rome.

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/p/images/pantheon_photo1.lg.jpg

http://www.dolceroma.it/images/common/dove/pantheon.jpg

http://kevino.net/images/kevino.net/fullsize/p-rome-pantheon--2.jpg


i just love this building. the dome the columns, everything. I saw it in person about 10 years ago and took the best picture I've ever taken in my life. It is a picture of the sun spot caused by the hole in the roof on the inside on the dome (much like the one i found on google, which is pic #3). You can see all the colors and everything. If I can find I scanner I will scan it and post it. so there you go, the Pantheon is my pick. It is a great feat of Roman engineering and a beautiful structure.

[Claymore]

The Blue Mosque in Istanbul:

http://www.friendlyplanet.com/images/blue-mosque-istanbul.jpg
http://www.ellermedia.net/Istanbul_photos/The%20Blue%20Mosque.jpg
http://www.wildland.com/photogallery/turkey/images/blue_mosque_interior_i.jpg

Simply put, this is an amazing piece of both architecture and engineering. The entire complex was built in only seven years (1609-1616). The interior of the dome is the most astounding piece of intricate tile artwork in the world.

[DoctorJones24]

http://www.ellermedia.net/Istanbul_photos/The%20Blue%20Mosque.jpg



Wow. Hell of a pic. It almost looks photoshopped.

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Nice picks so far. I am absolutely flabbergasted that this is far more difficult than I ever thought.

For my first pick, I choose a building that blew me away when I went there. It's so incredibly different-looking with all those colors.

It's St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ec/St_Basils_Cathedral-500px.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/St_Basils_Cathedral_closeup.jpg

http://www.mccullagh.org/db9/d30-24/st-basils-interior-1.jpg

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By the way... regarding Yankhibee's question in the other thread. I thought of a serious exception to the ok for complexes of buildings. If it's generally considered one structure, that's ok... like if it includes guest houses.... or some other part...

but there's something I saw in my research for my first pick (the one I didn't take) that wouldn't work. Of course, I can't say what it is specifically... but... let's say there's a place that has a dozen buildings in it... and, even though they could mostly be photographed together and called by one collective name... five of the buildings are incredible landmarks and/or famous buildings in and of themselves... you'd have to pick one, because they're so different... and each one has its own charm or famous thing about it.

Know what I mean?

Basically... I chose st. basil's.... not Red Square. Other buildings in Red Square are free to be chosen.

[dmar]

By the way... regarding Yankhibee's question in the other thread. I thought of a serious exception to the ok for complexes of buildings. If it's generally considered one structure, that's ok... like if it includes guest houses.... or some other part...

but there's something I saw in my research for my first pick (the one I didn't take) that wouldn't work. Of course, I can't say what it is specifically... but... let's say there's a place that has a dozen buildings in it... and, even though they could mostly be photographed together and called by one collective name... five of the buildings are incredible landmarks and/or famous buildings in and of themselves... you'd have to pick one, because they're so different... and each one has its own charm or famous thing about it.

I think I know which one you're talking about... a similar case to another ancient compound of famous buildings, that are even more different in nature.

But I'm thinking of yet a third place that consists in several different pieces built at the same time, with the same purpose and an uniform style, and I'd consider that one a single building.

BTW, is this going to be the thread for discussion of the picks or whould we reserve it for the building profiles?

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BTW, is this going to be the thread for discussion of the picks or whould we reserve it for the building profiles?

I think this is ok for picks and discussion. I have a bigboard thread where people can review the actual picks.

[MtP07]

So we should make our picks in this thread and then you will copy the selections onto the Big Board? Is that how you want it to work?

[Toon³]

For my first pick I've gone for....30 St Mary Axe, otherwise known as Swiss Re Tower

http://www.firespray.eu.com/graphics/pictures/SWISS%20RE.jpg

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/4770/69kh.jpg

http://linux.fjfi.cvut.cz/~pinus/bristol/london0301/city/photos/P1090600%20%20-%20SwissRe%20building.JPG

This, in my humble opinion is the best building in the world. In an industry that is always progressing this is leading the pack. The design of the building is bold and unsual, yet it still fits perfectly within the London skyline.

But it's not only because of the design that I've chosen this. It is also a huge leap forward in building sustainablity which is hugely important. Some of the inovations used for the first time on a large scale here are not found in any other building in the world. It has 1/2 the floor space of the new Trump World Tower but yet it uses only 1/8th of the energy.

The benchmark for buildings.

[jmarquez1976]

I like this thread :)

[The Double]

Did London get jealous of our Capital city's penis-looking building and just had to have one themselves?



Kidding, a very nice building.

[dmar]

Did London get jealous of our Capital city's penis-looking building and just had to have one themselves?



Kidding, a very nice building.

There's another huge penis by Jean Nouvel being built in Barcelona...

[DoctorJones24]

Interesting, never heard of the Swiss Re Tower. Must be new since my last trip to London.

[jmarquez1976]

There's another huge penis by Jean Nouvel being built in Barcelona...


Interesting. My first thought was Rocket Shape...or the fancy "Egg" sculptures / keepsakes designed by the French guy living in the late 1800s / early 1900s (can't remember his name..but I think its something like Fabregat or so).

If anything...the buildings proportion between length & girth would not suggest a particularly big penis...no?

:D

[Claymore]

hmmm...Danks hasn't been on since last night. this could end up going very slowly.

[Wingtips1]

hmmm...Danks hasn't been on since last night. this could end up going very slowly.

he has no internet at work.

[jayro75]

Interesting. My first thought was Rocket Shape...or the fancy "Egg" sculptures / keepsakes designed by the French guy living in the late 1800s / early 1900s (can't remember his name..but I think its something like Fabregat or so).

If anything...the buildings proportion between length & girth would not suggest a particularly big penis...no?

:D


The guys name was Faberge...:)