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!
#1 The Russian Ministry Of Agriculture, In Kazan
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#2 The Art Nouveau ‘Gran Hotel Ciudad De México’, 1899, By French Architect, Jacques Grüber
Image credits: imaLilT-pot
#3 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
Image credits: KantKay11
#4 This Apartment Building In Tel Aviv, Israel
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#5 Restaurant On The River Ill Flowing Through The Historic Petite France Quarter Of Strasbourg, France
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#6 Wisteria Blossoms Surrounding The Entrance Of A Victorian Townhouse In San Francisco
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#7 19th Century Double-Gallery House In New Orleans, Louisiana
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#8 A Spiral Staircase Designed By Leonardo Da Vinci In The Year 1516
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#9 Budapest Hungary
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#10 Neo-Gothic House In Budapest Circa 1894
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#11 Warsaw University Of Technology Main Building (1899)
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#12 Art Nouveau Doorway
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#13 "Azure Blue Pool" At Hearst Castel, San Simeon, California. It Was Built By Architect Julia Morgan Between 1919 And 1947
Image credits: KantKay11
#14 Winter Has Come In Iceland. Hallgrímskirkja In Reykjavík. Photo By Gunnar Freyr
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#15 Semi-Destroyed In 1979 By The Earthquake In Albania. Rebuilt Two Years Ago
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#16 Les Espaces D'abraxas, Noisy-Le-Grand, France
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#17 The Entrance To A Nightclub In Seoul, South Korea Designed By Mdrdv
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#18 Shades Of Blue Highlight This San Francisco Victorian Home
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#19 Well Court, Designed As Model Housing For Local Workers And Finished In 1886 In Dean Village, Edinburgh, Scotland
Image credits: ManiaforBeatles
#20 Very Narrow Corner House, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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#21 The Bublik Apartments In Moscow, Russia
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#22 Unusual Architecture
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#23 Setenil De Las Bodegas In Cadiz, Spain
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#24 The American Radiator Building In New York City
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#25 Mr Thomas’s Chop House. Manchester. Mills And Murgatroyd. 1901
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#26 Temple Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus In Barcelona, Spain
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#27 This Apartment Building In Singapore
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#28 Natural History Museum, London
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#29 House In Art Nouveau Style, Brussels, Belgium
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#30 Windows Inside Dos Bosco Chapel- Brasilia, Brazil
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#31 Museum Of Coastal Geomorphology In Vancouver
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#32 Bucktown, Chicago / USA
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#33 19th Century Italianate Orangery Of The Castle Ashby House, Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England
Image credits: ManiaforBeatles
#34 Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral In France - Built Entirely Of Black Lava Stone
Image credits: ParaMike46
#35 Early 1900's Craftsman Home In Seattle
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#36 Duomo Di Milano, Italy
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#37 Thorncrown Chapel, Arkansas, By E. Fay Jones
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#38 Grand Staircase With Intricate Woodwork And Wall Panelling In A Restored 1893 Queen Anne Victorian Mansion, Plainfield, Union County, New Jersey
Image credits: ManiaforBeatles
#39 Hotel In The City Of Quebec, Canada
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#40 The Ceiling Of The Shah Mosque In Isfahan, Iran
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#41 The Kansas City Public Library
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#42 Vietnam's Golden Bridge
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#43 Fallingwater Under Snow, Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright In 1935
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#44 The Hill Of The Buddha By Tadao Ando
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#45 Hohenzollern Castle, Germany
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#46 This Stone Cottage In England
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#47 The Stunning Shah-I-Zinda Necropolis In Samarkand, Uzbekistan
Image credits: Speech500
#48 The National Shrine Basilica Of Our Lady Of Las Lajas In Nariño, Columbia
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#49 Marienplatz Station In Munich, Germany
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#50 This Kitchen In The Burrage Mansion Built Was Built Directly Into A Conservatory Designed By The House’s Namesake, Albert C. Burrage - Boston, Massachusetts
Image credits: imaLilT-pot
#51 The Tomb Of Ramesses Vi, The Valley Of Kings, Egypt
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#52 Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria, Germany
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#53 The Beautiful Pub In London Kensington
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#54 The Gros Horloge, A 14th Century Astronomical Clock Installed In A Renaissance Arch Crossing A Street In Rouen, Normandy, France
Image credits: ManiaforBeatles
#55 This Spiral Staircase Carved From A Single Tree In 1851 - Located In Lednice Castle, Czech Republic
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#56 Jaganatha Hindu Temple In Puri, India
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#57 Tianjin Binhai Library In Tianjin, China
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#58 La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
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#59 An Art Nouveau Building Facade In Paris [4032x3024]
Image credits: loulan
#60 Hotel Inntel In Zaandam, Netherlands
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#61 Beirut Terraces, Beirut, Lebanon (Herzog & De Meuron, 2017)
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#62 The Original Neue Elbbrücke Bridge From 1887-1959 In Hamburg
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#63 The Neo-Gothic Architecture Of New College, University Of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
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#64 Pavillion Of The Enlightened, Bangkok
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#65 Row Of Victorian Townhouses Lining A Street In Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts
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#66 The Medieval Skyline Of San Gimignano, A Walled Hill Town With Towers Dating Back To The 13th Century In Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Image credits: ManiaforBeatles
#67 Trinity College, Dublin. Geology Building Designed By Thomas Deane And Benjamin Woodward
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#68 Restaurant In Strasbourg France
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#69 Zhongshuge Bookstore In Chengdu, China
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#70 Jing'an Temple (Shanghai, China)
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#71 Zaha Hadid's Beijing Tower (World's Largest Atrium)
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#72 Sarcostyle Tower Proposal By Hayri Atak, New York City
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#73 The Eclectic Villa Monastero On The Shores Of Lake Como, Varenna, Lombardy, Italy
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#74 Château De Chenonceau, France
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#75 Low-Income Housing In Mexico
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#76 Glass Brick Facade Hermes Store In Amsterdam By Mvdr
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#77 A Bench Built Into A Wall
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#78 These Victorian Townhouses In Boston, Massachusetts
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#79 Drugstore In Riga, Latvia
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#80 Pinon Ranch By Field Architecture Portola Valley, California
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#81 An Ebony Stained Modern House In Carlifornia
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#82 Colorful Architecture In Istanbul, Turkey
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#83 Ye Olde Cock Tavern, A Historic Pub Originally Built Before The 17th Century And Then Rebuilt, Stuck Between Other Architectural Styles Of Fleet Street, The City Of London, UK
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#84 The Ohaka House In New Zealand
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#85 The Hallway Of The Justice Building In Brussels
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#86 The Aqua Tower In Chicago, Il
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#87 The Songjiang Hotel, Shanghai
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#88 Converted Church Into Modern Open Plan Home England
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#89 Some More Of Metro Station In Stockholm Sweden
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#90 Yipianwachan Copper Temple, Taimu Mountain, Fujian, China
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#91 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
Image credits: ManiaforBeatles
#92 The National Museum In Wroclaw, Poland
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#93 Park Royal Hotel Singapore
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#94 Nanyang Primary School & Kindergarten In Singapore [1969x1312]
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#95 Hotel Morpheus In Macau, China
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#96 Marienplatz Station In Munich, Germany
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#97 Guinsa Temple, A Buddhist Temple Complex In The Snow Covered Mountains Of Danyang County, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea
Image credits: ManiaforBeatles
#98 This House Covered With Wisteria Vines In London, England
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#99 The Giants Of Pudong District Seen From The Streets Of Shanghai, China
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#100 Mid-Century Modern Catton House Designed By Arthur Erickson And Geoffrey Massey In 1967, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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#101 Eclectic Reception Area Under A Glass Dome In Párisi Udvar(Paris Court), A Former Bank Building Built In The 1910s Which Was Recently Restored And Renovated Into A Luxury Hotel In Downtown Budapest, Hungary
Image credits: ManiaforBeatles
#102 Brick Facade For A Bookstore In Korea
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#103 The Treehouse, Reimagined. (Germany, 2017, Matthias Arndt)
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#104 L'opéra Garnier, Paris
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#105 Kadokawa Culture Museum, Japan.
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#106 Solo House -Makoto Takei, Rural Spain [1079 X 1373]
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#107 Tao Zhu Yin Yuan Tower, Located In Taipei, Is An Eco-Designed, Energy-Conserving And Carbon-Absorbing Green Building
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#108 Norwegian House
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#109 Winning Design For Shenzhen's Natural History Museum
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#110 Tokyo Skytree In Tokyo, Japan
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#111 City Of Arts And Sciences | Valencia, Spain
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