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10 Buildings I haven never gotten out of my head.
1. All Saints, Margaret Street. Westminster, London. William Butterfield, 1859. Hearty on the outside and inside, a level of sophistication with color, pattern, shadow, form, harmony, and clashing that feels rare in western architecture. https://www.allsaintsmargaretstreet.org.uk/history/virtualtour
2. Florence Hollis Hand Chapel. Washington, DC. Hartman-Cox, 1970. Aalto-like chapel nestled in a valley. You enter from the top, and walk down a staircase full of nooks and surprise views. ADA disaster, but... https://hartmancox.com/mt-vernon-college-chapel
Sidenote: IIRC, this was part of a restructuring of women's junior college that into a 4-year in the 60s. Check out the cool megastructural master plan they did. Chapel is at top. Only a quarter was completed, all of which is demolished except the chapel.
3. Jantar Mantar. Jaipur, India. Before 1738. A field of building-sized astronomical instruments commissioned by the founder of Jaipur, Jai Singh II. Just in awe of the beauty and precision of the space.
don't sleep on the flag of Jaipur State, either
4. You knew this was coming: Nicholas Hawksmoor's Six London Churches. 1712-1730. An alt-history reimagining of early Christian architecture by a lower-class guy who never left England.
Here's a photo of me in Christ Church, Spitalfields at James Stirling's cenotaph. The events leading up to this photograph are a pretty wild story that involves my ex's feelings for Florence Welch, Peter Eisenman, and a central asian regime. I hope to tell that story someday.
