Architecture is meant to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements, and thus it serves both utilitarian and aesthetic purposes. When you look at a structure, you can distinguish these two ends but they cannot be separated, and the relative weight each of them carry can vary widely. Plus, every society has its own, unique relationship to the natural world and its architecture usually reflects that as well, allowing people from other places to learn about their environment, as well as history, ceremonies, artistic sensibility, and many aspects of daily life.
However, architecture is better seen, not described. So, let me introduce you to “the beautiful impossibilities that we want to live in“, a subreddit dedicated to high-quality images of some of the most impressive (concept) buildings out there. This online community already has over 617K members, and the pictures they share are absolutely gorgeous. Continue scrolling and take a look!
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#1 Semi-Destroyed In 1979 By The Earthquake In Albania. Rebuilt Two Years Ago
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#2 The Russian Ministry Of Agriculture, In Kazan
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#3 The Art Nouveau ‘Gran Hotel Ciudad De México’, 1899, By French Architect, Jacques Grüber
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#4 This Spiral Staircase Carved From A Single Tree In 1851 – Located In Lednice Castle, Czech Republic
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#5 Pavillion Of The Enlightened, Bangkok
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#6 Wisteria Blossoms Surrounding The Entrance Of A Victorian Townhouse In San Francisco
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#7 Zhongshuge Bookstore In Chengdu, China
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#8 A Spiral Staircase Designed By Leonardo Da Vinci In The Year 1516
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#9 The Kansas City Public Library
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#10 Natural History Museum, London
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#11 Vietnam’s Golden Bridge
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#12 Budapest Hungary
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#13 Early 1900’s Craftsman Home In Seattle
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#14 This Apartment Building In Tel Aviv, Israel
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#15 House In Art Nouveau Style, Brussels, Belgium
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#16 This Stone Cottage In England
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#17 Winter Has Come In Iceland. Hallgrímskirkja In Reykjavík. Photo By Gunnar Freyr
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#18 “Azure Blue Pool” At Hearst Castel, San Simeon, California. It Was Built By Architect Julia Morgan Between 1919 And 1947
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#19 Restaurant On The River Ill Flowing Through The Historic Petite France Quarter Of Strasbourg, France
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#20 Thorncrown Chapel, Arkansas, By E. Fay Jones
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#21 Duomo Di Milano, Italy
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#22 Shades Of Blue Highlight This San Francisco Victorian Home
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#23 Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral In France – Built Entirely Of Black Lava Stone
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#24 Grundtvig’s Church In Copenhagen, Denmark. Was Completed In 1940 And Its Design Is A Combination Between A Cathedral And The Style Of Old Danish Country Houses
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#25 Park Royal Hotel Singapore
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#26 Hohenzollern Castle, Germany
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#27 Windows Inside Dos Bosco Chapel- Brasilia, Brazil
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#28 The Tomb Of Ramesses Vi, The Valley Of Kings, Egypt
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#29 Very Narrow Corner House, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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#30 Fallingwater Under Snow, Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright In 1935
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#31 19th Century Italianate Orangery Of The Castle Ashby House, Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England
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#32 The Stunning Shah-I-Zinda Necropolis In Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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#33 The Entrance To A Nightclub In Seoul, South Korea Designed By Mdrdv
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#34 Neo-Gothic House In Budapest Circa 1894
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#35 Mr Thomas’s Chop House. Manchester. Mills And Murgatroyd. 1901
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#36 Bucktown, Chicago / USA
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#37 Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany
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#38 Setenil De Las Bodegas In Cadiz, Spain
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#39 Trinity College, Dublin. Geology Building Designed By Thomas Deane And Benjamin Woodward
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#40 The National Shrine Basilica Of Our Lady Of Las Lajas In Nariño, Colombia
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#41 Hotel In The City Of Quebec, Canada
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#42 19th Century Double-Gallery House In New Orleans, Louisiana
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#43 Les Espaces D’abraxas, Noisy-Le-Grand, France
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#44 Art Nouveau Doorway
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#45 Museum Of Coastal Geomorphology In Vancouver
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#46 This Apartment Building In Singapore
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#47 Wedekindhaus, A Half-Timbered Renaissance Style House With Carved Oak Facade Originally Built In 1598 By The Merchant Hans Storre, Then Later Completely Destroyed During A Wwii Air Raid Before Being Rebuilt In The 1980s. Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany
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#48 Well Court, Designed As Model Housing For Local Workers And Finished In 1886 In Dean Village, Edinburgh, Scotland
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#49 Warsaw University Of Technology Main Building (1899)
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