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[effzee]

the human civilization sure is marvelous to sit back and be in awe of in terms of architecture and design.

 

[StoOgE]

You want to see a dorm that looks like a prison, check out Texas State in Sam Marcos.. the guy who designed its daughter evidently killed herself jumping out a window in collge, so the windows are little slits set DEEP in the wall, maybe a foot by a foot.

 

[Kon Tiki]

 

[Boogie9IGN]

San Jose, CA

Winchester Mystery Mansion (House of the Winchester Rifle inventor)

Convention Center

Tech Museum Of Innovation (That purple globe is the IMAX theater)

Santana Row (Shopping center [Stores like Gucci and such] with nice restaurants and apartments)

Buddhist Temple in Japantown

 

[Lathentar]

Lots of Austinites here... or at least Longhorns.

 

[moist]

Anchorage, AK

 

[BugCatcher]

Fairbanks, AK

 

[Paradox]

You dont want to see where I live, trust me. (Norfolk, VA sucks)

 

[Dante]

I live in San Francisco California.

 

[Che]

Wow some of you guys live in extremely beautiful cities.

Thessaloniki, Greece:

 

[TheQueen'sOwn]

After moving away from Vancouver, I'm beginning to miss it... a lot.

The pictures don't show all the gritty aspects though

Ottawa rocks eh?
...
...

 

[Freestyler]

Auckland, New Zealand

 

[lochnesssnowman]

Fort William, in the Highlands in Scotland

It's not a big place. The mountain prominent in the pictures is Ben Nevis, the UKs highest.

Ben Nevis in Winter

Ben Nevis from Caol

Eliean Donan Castle (from Monty Python and the Holy Grail for any fans)

Glenfinnan Viaduct (from Harry Potter 2+3)

Loch Linnhe Sunset

Highland Games (Caber Toss)

Jacobite Steam Train (from Fort William to Mallaig)

Fort William from across Loch Linnhe

Fort William and Ben Nevis from Treslaig

That's about that. Nice wee place. Stunning scenery.

 

[dog$]

Thank you for this thread... I've been arching urban photos for a while and have been hoping to find general good sites to get new source material from. Here's a few places I've saved which I thought had good sets:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/urban_photos/
http://www.abandoned.ru
http://detroityes.com/Default.htm
http://cityscan.ru
http://www.livejournal.com/users/crispo/
http://www.livejournal.com/community/photopanorama

If anyone knows any good architecture photo sites, I'd love to hear them. I'll also get around and supply some photos of my own city here in the future, when time permits...

 

[way more]

It's very quaint

But Jack Demsy once killed a man in a bar fight

We let him go and he became heavyweight champion of the world.

 

[rc213]

Los Angeles, CA

Downtown L.A

Westlake Theater (Lived 17yrs just to the right of this picture in an Apartment Building)

MacArthur Park (Cespool of Drugs & Violence located directly infront of above pic.)

Cant show off L.A without a pic of the Homies!

 

[Shinobi]

This is one of the coolest threads I've ever seen...always get a kick out of seeing pics of beautiful city and rural landscapes and skylines.

Time for me to step up...here are some shots of Toronto, Ontario Canada.

Skydome and the CN Tower.

Nathan Phillips Square, with Queens Park in the background (the water is frozen during the winter for skating).

Downtown.

Downtown at night.

Queen's Park...home to our provincial government (bunch of lying swine...ahem).

Eaton Centre (downtown mall).

Historic Fort York.

Air Canada Centre.

Casa Loma

Flat Iron Building

Ontario Place

Toronto City Hall, with Nathan Phillips Square in the foreground (this is the wierdly shaped building that was blown up in Resident Evil 2).

Old City Hall.

Bluffs Park.

The Toronto Islands, with downtown Toronto in the background.

 

[Diablos]

Fort William, in the Highlands in Scotland

It's not a big place. The mountain prominent in the pictures is Ben Nevis, the UKs highest.

Ben Nevis in Winter

Ben Nevis from Caol

Eliean Donan Castle (from Monty Python and the Holy Grail for any fans)

Glenfinnan Viaduct (from Harry Potter 2+3)

Loch Linnhe Sunset

Highland Games (Caber Toss)

Jacobite Steam Train (from Fort William to Mallaig)

Fort William from across Loch Linnhe

Fort William and Ben Nevis from Treslaig

That's about that. Nice wee place. Stunning scenery.

Oh my god. Heaven on Earth isn't good enough to describe those pictures.

I wanna move.

Amazing.

 

[Raxel]

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[XS+]

Simple and serene Tokyo Japan:

 

[6.8]

Parliament Buildings

Parliament Buildings

Museum of Civilization

The Canadian War Museum (UC)

http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~jorchard/aerial/ottawa.jpg
An aerial shot of Ottawa

Woah, there are much more Ottawa GAFers than I intially thought.

 

[Shinobi]

Eh, I can't resist...here's a couple more shots.

 

[Shinobi]

 

[pestul]

St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada

http://www.cs.mun.ca/~jj/pics/misc/StJohns_Harbour_at_night_1.jpg

 

[Brofist]

Osaka (pictures taken with my cell phone btw)

from my apt window

Osaka station

Umeda Sky Building

 

[Draff]

Osaka rocks. Here are some of my pics from my summer over there.
Which part of Osaka are you living at?

The best fast food restaurant in the world:

Rush hour commute on the Osaka JR Loop line:

The Joe Hisaishi concert I attended :

 

[aparisi2274]

More of NYC:

 

[Vitten]

Aalst , Belgium.
Old laid-back city in Belgium of about 80,000 souls, famous for its carnaval and medieval town square. Place has a lot of character...

alderman house

town square overview

St-Martinus church

The river 'Dender' which runs through it.

Some Carnaval action ( which includes the 'Voil Jeanetten' , guys running in around in drag wearing grandmas clothes and huge fake boobs ... nope, won't see this in Rio )

Postcard

 

[XS+]

Kpop: What kind of phone and how many MP?

 

[Boogie]

Shinobi, just for nitpicking's sake, it isn't Queen's Park that's in the background of the Nathon Phillip's Square pic

 

[Rei_Toei]

Some things come to mind when wondering what stands out in my town (Groningen, The Netherlands).

University:

Some random street:

 

[Shinobi]

Shinobi, just for nitpicking's sake, it isn't Queen's Park that's in the background of the Nathon Phillip's Square pic

Oh right...that's Old City Hall isn't it? I always get those two buildings mixed up.

 

[djtiesto]

You want to see a dorm that looks like a prison, check out Texas State in Sam Marcos.. the guy who designed its daughter evidently killed herself jumping out a window in collge, so the windows are little slits set DEEP in the wall, maybe a foot by a foot.

My dorms at my former college (University at Buffalo) were actually based off the plans to a Chinese prison... they were built in the 60's during the whole college riots, so they made it like a prison to prevent large groups from congregating.

 

[clipunderground]

Bled, Slovenia
First time mentioned in 1004, so it's 1000 years old this year.
Well known tourist destination (famous all over the world)

Aerial shot

Church on the island, castle and mountain Stol (2234 m, not the highest mountain around here)

Castle

I live in a small village (around 700 souls) 1,5 km from lake.

Hot Damn that looks awesome! I'm jealous!

 

[The Bookerman]

Montreal, PQ, CAN

YES People do live in those.

 

[suikodan]

I currently live in Montreal, Canada but I am moving back to my hometown.

It's nothing compared to the magnificient shots seen in this thread but anyways, it's my place

(Old pics)

Small place with 30K people but it's a nice place 20 mins from Mtl.

 

[Cool]

These pictures are truly breathtaking (to me), I live in rural Pennsylvania and it's really boring and bland. Another conclusion I have come to is that the cities of Canada are absolutely beautiful. I really liked this thread and it has reminded me even more so that I want to move to a metropolitian area after high school.

 

[EdLuva]

I'm originally from Erie, PA.

I now live in Huntsville, AL,

and make commutes to/from Birmingham, AL

 

[Overseer]

Cool and I go to the same school so I know exactly how he feel. It makes me feel depressed when I look at these beautiful pictures. We don't have anything remotely close to any of those.
I would give anything to live somewhere like that.

 

[KingGondo]

Not really my hometown, but the OSU campus is way prettier than Stillwater itself.

An aerial view of campus

The Student Union-largest in the nation

My residence hall, Bennett--I live on the west (left) side

A better picture of the Union.

 

[dem]

Vancouver looks great from above...
You dont even see the bums and crackheads!

 

[Dekajelly]

Birth place Derbyshire, England

Chatsworth House

The house of Royalty that you can walk round.

Derwent Valley

Currently residing in Sheffield, England

 

[Mama Smurf]

Vancouver looks great from above...
You dont even see the bums and crackheads!

Yeah, but every town/city/village has them, you just got to see which places look best apart from that.

 

[Brian Fellows]

Only two pics I could find on the net of Virginia, Illinois. All 1800 of us.