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    Posted: 23-Oct-2006 at 11:55
Just another opportunity to learn about & compliment each other's country's architecture.
Postmodern, modern, old...  Religious, civil, military, etc...
 
Regards.
 
 


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Interior of an office building in Montreal:
 
Colonial buildings in Old Montreal:
 
 
Residential complex in Montreal (built 1967):
 
Subway stations in Montreal:
 
 
A musuem of natural history (PAC) in Montreal:
 
Biosphere; an ecological research center in Montreal:
 
Facade in Montreal:
 
Residential-Commercial building in Montreal:
 


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Wow! Awesome! That apartment complex in Montreal (the one built in 1967) is one of the coolest looking exteriors for a residential space I've ever seen, in my opinion.
 
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These are some of the building in my country:

Adobe church in Northern Chile

Atacama Churches

San Francisco Church, the oldest building in Santiago, Chile
 
 
 
Sanhattan. The business core in Santiago.
 
 
Easter Island Moais
 
 
Santiago's subway
 
 
Vina del Mar
 
 
 
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Beautiful pics, pinguin, I really like the artwork in the subway.

 
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Originally posted by pinguin

 
 
Nice subway station!
 


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Thanks!
 
The painting is called "Visual Memory of a Nation" (Memoria visual de una nacion) by Mario Toral, and is the history of Chile, its glory and tragedy, related in a mural that covers 1200 square meters of surface. It is located in the University of Chile station.
 
This is another perspective.
 
 
 
And this is a panel of the mural, dedicated to the Chile aboriguines
 
 
Between other symbols, in there shows the sacred tree, the foye (or canelo in Spanish) and the foundational myth of the serpents of land and the sea, Cai Cai and Tren Tren. All the work is like a hierogryph to descipher. It is very amazing and beautiful.
 
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Once again, outstanding pics Pinguin. Simply beautiful, historically profound, wonderful abstract art, and the best damn subway station I've ever seen! Lol.
 
Everyone's so familiar already with the monuments in my country. Oh well, here's one, the Sears Tower of Chicago, Illinois.
 
 
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Originally posted by pinguin

 
 
Pinguin, that subway looks pneumatic, like ours.  Is it?
 
 
Pneumatic is expensive but the ride is much smoother & quieter than rail.  There are not many pneumatic train systems in the world.
 


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Originally posted by Preobrazhenskoe

 
 
It dwarfs anything near it.
 


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Originally posted by pinguin

 
 
Very nice.
 


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Here are some more examples of Canadian architecture:
 
An office tower in Montreal (the 2 small domes at the base look nice inside):
 
Figures of immigrants in front of an office tower in Montreal:
 
An office tower in Montreal:
 
A museum in Montreal:
 
A museum in Montreal:
 
An office tower designed to compliment a cathedral in Montreal:
 
A low-income residential complex Montreal:
 
 
I might post some more, but it would be nice to see some architecture from other countries.
 


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Originally posted by Hellios

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Pinguin, that subway looks pneumatic, like ours.  Is it?
 
...
 
Pneumatic is expensive but the ride is much smoother & quieter than rail.  There are not many pneumatic train systems in the world.
 
 
Yes. It is pneumatic. And is one of the longest subways networks, at least in South America. Our city has only six million people, but is unbelievable widespread, so the subway helps a lot.
 
Another icon of the city, the Virgin on top of a hill, downtown.
 
 
Yuppi district,
 
 
 
 
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Pinguin,
 
I found some Chilean architecture...
 
Building by Chilean architect Enrique Browne in Santiago:
 
 
El Golf buildings in Chile:
 
A bank in Chile:
 
This week, Toronto fabricators Soheil Mosun Ltd. started building the massive structure that will support the curved walls of a Baha'i temple, soon to be built near Santiago, Chile:
 
A home made of earth by Chilean architect Marcelo Cortes:
 
Santiago Chile Power & Utilities building (designed to look like a cell phone):
 
 
Interesting villas in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile:
 
 
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This is one of our oldest towns in Chile. The Pukara of Lasana (12th Century), located at the North of Chile.

 
And this is the traditional wood house of the Mapuches (Central-South Chile).
 
 
And the Chilean-Hispanic traditional countryside house (Winery Santa Rita)
Vina Santa Rita Winery
 
And our urban highways with electronic charge.
 
 
 
 
Regards,
 
Pinguin
 
 
 


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Originally posted by pinguin

 
 
Thanks Pinguin, that's impressive architecture! LOL Wink
 


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Originally posted by pinguin

 
 
Thanks Pinguin, that's impressive architecture! LOL Wink
 
 
 
Do you like it? Well, I can expain to you the relation between the architecture of the "ruca" (house) and the cosmos, if you wish.
 
Those are the wooden houses of the Mapuche Natives, and they were as solid as the houses of Northern Europe, indeed. Nothing as impressive like Machu Picchu, Tiahuanaco or Sacsayhuaman, but interesting for people that enjoy culture, anyways LOL
 
Here you got another "ruka" more:
 
 
 
Or you preffer I show you our malls? lol. Anyone has malls. Jesus!
 
Look at the "junk" architecture that is destroying Chile. This is from a small town in Northern Chile called La Serena:
 
 
 
 
 
Ugg!!! That's ugly. Isn't?
 
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Pinguin,
 
New technology is only helping architecture.  The McDonalds & ugly shopping mall you posted are just examples of people not wanting to spend more money to make something nice.  Modern architecture can do anything old architecture can, plus a lot more.
 
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Pinguin, I found some more Chilean architecture...
 
The ESO Hotel at Cerro Paranal, Chile:
 
 
 
A pre-fab home in Chile by Arquitectos Minga:
 


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I agree!

But how I can compare traditional Chilean architecture like this

And this

 
With the international style, without roots, that today exist in these chilean buildings:
 
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