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What building inspires you?

This is insanely simple...just post pics of buildings that inspire you...in Chicago, in the U.S., in the world, fictional, real...whatever you fancy. If you'd like to contribute to this board drop us a note at @chiarchitecture on Twitter. If you were somehow deleted from this board please let me know thru Twitter & I'll re-add you.

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Ali Qapu, Music room, Isfahan, Iran

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Tataouine, Tunisia

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Kinkaku-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan

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OK....not actually a building, but SO beautiful...I'm inspired.

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Gotta love Cloudgate. This photo just taken today... #architecture #Chicago #design #art

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This morning in #Chicago. Showing Alexander Calder's Flamingo sculpture with the Willis (aka Sears) Tower peeking out from the fog in the background. #architecture #design www.architecture.org

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House before House by Sou Fujimoto

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The Bauhaus School at Dessau | Architect: Walter Gropius | Photographer: Photographer: Thomas Lewandovski

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FLW Falling Water

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debs stanley Such a practical man F.L.W.

Vitra Design Museum and Factory by Frank Gehry

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A most beautiful door.

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My take on the Mies and Modernism tour from the Around Chicago in 85 Tours Challenge. www.85tours.com #architecture #design #Mies #85tours www.architecture.org

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Santiago Calatrava

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Leo Zeus impressive

most amazing architecture in the world (yes, I'm biased!)

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The Hill House, Helensburgh Charles Rennie MacKintosh

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Arquitecto Safdie e Arquitectura Moderna

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Nice find from Chicago designer Nathaniel Ross.

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Andalucia’s Museum of Memory by Alberto Campo Baeza

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Mensa by J. Mayer H.

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Reflections at Keppel Bay by Daniel Libeskind Studio

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Villa Tugendhat (Brno) – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Villa Tugendhat in Brno - Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

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millbeckstudio read the glassroom

The new Apple Store in Amsterdam. Glass staircase and cool contemporary inside a gorgeous old building.

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segrada familia, barcelona, spain

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Melissa Borghorst I agree with this one! It was amazing

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Yorkshire Sculpture Park Is it finished yet?

Fallingwater

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Rendell Peh Serene place to live in

Barcelona

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Melissa Borghorst Agree with this too! Gaudi is amazing

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Sarah Lee I adore this building!

Xiangshan Campus by Wang Shu, 2012 Pritzker Prize Laureate

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Two Prudential Plaza

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333 W. Wacker - glorious, clean design

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Chicago Architecture Foundation One of my favorites!

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Dannete Lyden Love Chicago!!

Clock tower penthouse in Brooklyn, New York: classy!

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Natalie de La Baume What a dream.

Musac, Mansilla y Tuñón

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Casa Battlo by Gaudi in Barcelona. No straight lines.

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Notre Dame de Haut, Le Corbusier

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Jesse Wolfe Ah Ronchamp!- such a magical place

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millbeckstudio I was only 15 when I went and remember it vividly, seeing it from a distance on top of the hill as we approached. I long to go back 45 years on!

Live in a billboard? This Polish house makes great use of hard-to-find urban space! via @constructionknowledgeblog

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"Ice cube" house...

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Natalie de La Baume This is the perfect house!

a representation of Kublai's summer palace at Shangdu (Xanadu) has been built inside the Genghis Khan exhibition

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Millennium Park's Crown Fountain. Makes me want it to be summer in Chicago right now! #architecture #design #Chicago www.85tours.com www.architecture.org

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Jeweler's Building in #Chicago. From Al Capone speakeasy to firm of one of the world's most famous architects. If only these walls could talk. #architecture #design www.85tours.com www.architecture.org

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Frank Gehry’s Schnabel House

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The Turning Torso | Santiago Calatrava

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The National Building museum in Washington D.C.

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