I"m going to have to opt for a community of buildings...
and say Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy.
But if you pin me down to one building, it has to be the building in Constantinople housing the Eastern Orthodox Catholic church. Its been discussed on the list before. I haven't been in it. I'm not even postitive it still exists. Regardless, I just think it is the most magnificient building I've ever seen an image of. And it anticipates the modern world, IMHO, far more than does any other ancient building in Eurasian civilization.
Not world famous but...
some friends of mine have a large house in the country with some grounds, these were cultivated in the victorian era and since then have become overgrown and virtually neglected, right at the bottom of the garden is a victorian folly,a sort of minature pavillion,it is more or less a ruin now and not used for anything.I sit in its crumbly shell when i visit there and it makes me feel really safe and childlike somehow.Thats my favourite building.
Dulles airport
I can think of lots of beautiful buildings but one that really hit me recently was the terminal at Dulles (Eero Saarinen).
I'd been there a bunch of times in the past but always just picking up on the lower level and always very rushed and harried what with the sucky traffic and parking.
But the last time I was there was to drop someone off on a balmy spring evening at dusk. The lights were on and we were on the upper level outside at one end. I looked down the length of the building and finally got to see what all the fuss was about.
I coulda stood there for a long time admiring it but security kinda discourages that sort of thing these days.
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