I see St George's Church


I see Daniel Libeskind's London Metropolitan University Graduate School


I see The Brunswick Centre by Patrick Hodgkinson in 1967-72


The Cullinan House is an occasional detour down the cobbled glory of Camden mews


Wallis Gilbert's Daimler Garage, now home to advertising agency McCann Erickson


And from the office I overlook the gate between Lincoln's Inn Fields and New Square

i pass by one of the neater multifam housing projects on my walk to work. that's the only redeeming thing.

user - i really dog the Timorplein project. it was sampled in a project i did a few years ago.

dig, not dog...

Tschumi's Blue condo on Norfolk Ave.
<img src="http://www.nyc-architecture.com/TEN/BLUE-TSHUMI_small.jpg">

Sometimes I see Confucius Plaza and the Manhattan Bridge
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I'm actually unemployed. The other day I drank a coffee in front of this
<img src="http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/SCC19-woolworth_pc.jpg" width=144>

Does infrastructure count?
<img src= "http://www.nybits.com/images/photo/manhattan_bridge_2.jpg" width= 144>

I generally spend time in the Lower East Side and Buswhick (where I live). There is not a ton of Architecture in these places, just a lot of buildings. On Bushwick Ave you can find the mansions built by the owners of breweries (now dead).
<img src="http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/bushwick/bushwick2.jpg" width=144>

Some guy named Scott Vautrin designed this, Ladder Company 277 in Bushwick, on the way to my friends house. It is kind of weird. There are vitrines attached on either side of the main doors containing fireaxes in a milky substance, like some Matthew Barney or something.
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They light up at night and the over all effect is slightly gross.

Most of my commute is underground, but it parallels the entire length of Central Park:



Once I get off the subway, I pass these buildings on the way to my office:

Sorry folks, I am about to enroll in an Internet class now. Here they are in order.

this is the weird fire station near my friends house, architect Scott Vautrian

Well, I wake up in my own house, which is a pretty good start.



Otherwise, since I work from home and don't have a typical route to an office every day, I don't see much of note.

I do spend time in some very, very nice neighborhoods - lovely housing stock, 1920s-40s mostly - every day, but no individual buildings. I also occasionally go past Edward Larrabee Barnes' Christian Theological Seminary, the student housing is one of my favorite projects ever, but there are not pictures online.

As far as "decent" architecture is concerned, would most great (modern) buildings have been considered decent in their time? If you want decent I suggest you get a beaux-arts architecture book and sleep with it under your pillow.


As a child I grew up in spoiled surroundings as far as architecture was concerned. I biked here frequently to catch butterflies.


I drove by this when I went to the movies.


When I was working in Beijing I would drive by this old friend on the way back from Foreigner Induction Classes

I would say each of these buildings is totally and undeniably indecent.

well, i wake up in my apartment building which i like quite a lot...

(erdy mchenry)

from my window i can see these...

(i.m. pei)

[img]http://phillyskyline.com/bldgs/cira/cira_uc071.jpg width=350[/url]
(pelli)


(stern)

i can see the top of this as i walk from the subway...

(williams + tsien)

and i spend most of my days in this...

(frank furness)

My route is generally filled with post WWII sears and roebuck model homes.

My eyes hurt just thinking about it.

well, I live in this:


and have studio in this:


which used to be this:


down the road from this:

(colonnade apts, LMVDR)

I like the price goes to Liberty Bell, shortest journey coupled with great space, light and details.

My own journey is fairly non-descript - starts here, then here, goes here to here

How many decent examples? Hundreds. Maybe thousands.

Of course, it is several miles to work.

all this stuff is all around me and i pay a lot of attention to these kinds of things when i am walking. it is a bit much (+,- 100 photos) i took all of them. i have hundreds more. digital cameras are great. don't leave home without it.
i usually have three of these things in my pockets.
5 mp digital camera
voice recorder
a ruled small notebook
pen or pencil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87051047@N00/sets/72157601457825938/show/
a lot of ordinary things i like to look at and analyze.

10, i have been in gropius house and met mrs. gropius (one of the highligts of my student years.) stone throw away is breuer house.

my ferry goes past this every day, i never get tired of the details



also

Seidler

No commute; its nice living and working in the same space I tells ya..

But I do run every other day past:

Neutra Colony - Richard Neutra
Vdl Research House - Richard Neutra
Hansen House - Harwell Hamilton Harris
Droste House - RM Schindler
Walker House - RM Schindler
Silvertop - John Lautner

nothing incredible, but for some reason I pass through Bavaria briefly in the middle of Brookline, Mass:

I guess silverlake is not just your name but you area code as well

there are really only two great buildings in Columbus. I pass one, and spend the day (and sometimes night) in the other.





wexner center for the arts, peter eisenman, 1989






knowlton hall, Mack Scogin & Merrill Elam, 2004

Not directly on my way to work, but a few blocks out of the way.

i see this one
which everyone thinks is ugly... and though it is in some serious disrepair, its still a great landmark...

then later on, once off the train i pass this new one



which, verging on completion, is not terrible... seems an adequate addition to the river front... not beautiful by any means, but seeming a solid building from the street.

then this new lohan tower...


which seems also to be an acceptable fill in to the north side of the river...

finally, i pass what used to be the most beautiful pairing of highrises...



which is now



and then arrive at my office, in this one...

This was a good thread. So I'm bumping it.

I pass by zero!

this is view on way to office from subway.



there is lots of fancy architecture around me, and i like where i live quite a bit, but most of my trip is underground.

Philip Johnson everyday yo (Comerica Building)


Gaurdian building (left) and One Woodward by Yamasaki (pre-WTC)



the highway begins under Cobo Hall


former GM headquarters/fisher building/cadillac place by Albert Kahn


abandoned Bell office


sometimes I see this Frank Lloyd Wright house


if i switch highways, i get to see Mies

Wow, %%%%, I lived in Detroit for two years and never saw that FLW? What's wrong with me?!

Very nice collection.

lb, it is a hidden gem on 9 mile in between Woodward and Livernois. The house is set back 100+ feet from the road so I'll admit to never seeing it up close like the picture!

Nice thread.

LiG... where do you work, exactly? I'm in an office on 57th street, and I pass those buildings as well.

seven mile actually. it's in the d near palmer woods. sat empty for a while, but a couple guys bought it and are bringing it back. labor of love.

are you a udm student, %%%%%?

oh wow, how did i confuse 7/9 mile?! yesiam jafidler

Albert Pissis - James Flood Building (1905) Market Street, San Francisco


Contemporary Jewish Museum - (2008) Daniel Libeskind - 736 Mission Street, San Francisco,


Morphosis (2007) 90 7th Street, San Francisco


Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - Crown Zellebach Building (1959) 1 Bush Street, San Francisco

these days, this view is a part of my daily 10-minute commute.



view of the Tevere from Ponte Sisto, w St Peter's in the distance.

Evan, I'm jealous.

And Jump, I feel there should be more people in your photo.

nah i work in a quiet part of the city, sarah. over-crowding is only in shibuya and ikebukero and such places.

waiting for the bus/walking east to the el: john hancock tower!

if walking i can usually see a bunch of the skyline (trump tower, willis/sears+ a bunch of other stuff.

then i go underground for a while.

then i emerge from underground and wait for the bus across from the carson pirie scott building

depending on where i'm sitting on the bus, i might see the spertus institute

then i pass a lot of condo towers in the south loop which, in general, i do not like. also, soldier field which i suppose is interesting (i don't think i'm so into it, though).

then down to hyde park where i pass the museum of science and industry and jackson park (which i have loved since i was a little kid)

then when i'm off the bus, i walk past the chicago gsb (booth)which i personally like and i think fits rather well with robie house across the street

then i'm at work. whew! long commute. when i bike, i generally am more concerned with not getting killed than paying attention to the architecture that surrounds me.

today, however, i missed the bus so I took the green line down-I passed the mccoricktribune center (though I mostly saw the inside of the tunnel) , crown hall, and this Murphy jahn building And all the old greystones in the neighborhood.

however, on the way home, i ride on the lake shore path and get a great view of everything (and sometimes, amazing sunsets). i suppose i get that on the bus, too. couldn't find a representative image but it's sort of like this (right now, minus wedding people):

view from the point