Many things can shape a city—its culture, history, social life, or food scene. But perhaps nothing is more visually pleasing than its architecture. Some buildings can completely fascinate you with their astonishing design and pure aesthetics. Through careful urban planning and understanding of the cultural background, the structure of a city can carry you through time while still leaving you in a very particular place.
Need convincing? Let me introduce you to this subreddit page, an online community with more than 923K members. It is dedicated to sharing interesting architecture and some of the most eye-pleasing images of buildings you could find. If you wish to immerse yourself in other cultures, traditions and the everyday life of the locals, this is the place to be.
Continue scrolling and upvote your favorite pictures! And if you're still in the mood for some more, make sure to check out Part 1 of this post.
#1 Two 17th Century Half-Timbered Houses At Hohe Straße 18 And 19 In Quedlinburg, One Of The Best-Preserved Medieval And Renaissance Towns In Europe That Escaped Major Damage During World War II. Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
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#2 My Favorite Castle In Germany
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#3 Athens
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#4 Architectural Juxtaposition In Clinton Hill Historic District, Which Consists Of 1,063 Largely Residential Buildings Built Between The 1840s And 1930 In Contemporary And Revival Styles Popular At The Time, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York City
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#5 Ruyi Bridge, China
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#6 80 Metre Climbing Wall Built On The Side Of A Power Plant In Copenhagen, Denmark
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#7 Sun And Moon Pagodas In Guilin, China
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#8 The Architecture In Some Older Power Plants Were So Unique And Ornate, This One Built In 1925 Was A Neoclassical Design Inspired By Roman Bath Houses. Although It Has Seen Better Days It's Still Beautiful And Dripping In History
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#9 Osaka Castle, Osaka, Japan
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#10 Chefchaouen, Morocco
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#11 Cathedral Of Saint Mary Of The Flower, Florence
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#12 Hungarian Parliament Building, Budapest
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#13 Inner Walls Of Ta Prohm Monastery. Cambodia, Khmer Empire, 12th-13th Century
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#14 The Shambles In York, England
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#15 Tree House, Singapore
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#16 Wooden Houses In Bergen, Norway
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#17 La Casa Pàdua, An Example Of Catalan Modernism Architecture Originally Built As A Single-Family Residence In 1903, Sarrià-Sant Gervasi District Of Barcelona, Spain
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#18 Guangzhou Opera House
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#19 Tolbooth Tavern, Edinburgh / Sir Lewis Bellenden
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#20 Las Lajas Shrine - Built 1916 -1949 Designed By J. Gualberto Perez & Lucindo Espinosa - Nariño, Colombia
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#21 The 24 Year Old 'Wisteria' Cottage. This Beautiful Cottage Is Located In Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
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#22 Cairo, Egypt
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#23 San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane, Lugano, Switzerland
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#24 The Baroque Beauty Of Ottobeuren Abbey In Bavaria, Germany
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#25 Front Steps To A Home In Charleston, Sc
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#26 A Water Mill From The 12th (The Bridge) And The 16th (The Mill) Century In France
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#27 Seoul, South Korea
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#28 Old Gatehouse In Northern Ireland
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#29 Imam Reza Shrine, Mashhad, Iran
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#30 Ornate Carvings And Solomonic Columns On The Stone Steps Leading To The Water In Varenna, A Town On The Scenic Shores Of Lake Como, Northern Italy
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#31 Traditional Old Wooden Houses In Trakai, Lithuania
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#32 Glass House In Maryland
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#33 English Country Garden Surrounding Asthall Manor, A Gabled Jacobean Cotswold Manor House Originally Built In The 1620s And Later Altered And Enlarged In The 1910s. Asthall, Oxfordshire, England
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#34 Top Of Tribune Tower, Chicago Illinois
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#35 Overcliff Castel Built In 1892 In Yonkers, New York
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#36 Nurse Dormitory Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital - Plan Architects (2021) Aic
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#37 Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai, China
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#38 Pool In The Courtyard Of Pink House, A Private Residence In Long Xuyen, Vietnam
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#39 Kyoto, Japan
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#40 Mont Saint-Michel, France
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#41 Evening Scene In Bremen, Germany
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#42 Old Bridge Over A Modern Road. Dublin, Ireland
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#43 Grand Central Terminal, NYC, The Sun Can't Shine Through Like That Now Due To The Surrounding Tall Buildings. 1929
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#44 The Bellevue Hotel In Philly
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#45 Gardens By The Bay, Singapore
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#46 Eye Of Zhuhai, China (Architectural Design Of The Sales Department Of A Real Estate In Zhuhai)
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#47 Henderson Cifi Tiandi By Ateliers Jean Nouvelm, Shanghai
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#48 This 50-Foot Tall Statue Of A Native American Woman In South Dakota Titled “Dignity”
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#49 Building In Riga, Latvia
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#50 Walzin Castle On A Cliff Overlooking The River Lesse, A Castle That Started Construction In The 13th Century And Was Restored Several Times Since, Namur, Wallonia, Belgium
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#51 Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore
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#52 Concrete Turret Of The Félix Potin Building, A 1904 Art Nouveau Department Store With An Exterior Of Moulded Concrete Casts On Rue De Rennes, 6th Arrondissement Of Paris, France
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#53 Kapaleeswarar Hindu Temple In India
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#54 St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City. Built In 1878
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#55 The Emporia: One Of The Biggest Shopping Malls In Scandinavia, Sweden!!
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#56 English Garden Of The Coton Manor, A 17th Century Country Manor House That Was Extended In The 1920s, Coton, Northamptonshire, England
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#57 Stone House In The Small Village Of Tissington, Derbyshire, England
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#58 Still Under Construction Project Valley, Zuidas Amsterdam
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#59 Casa Batlo, Barcelona, Spain
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#60 The Rock Of Cashel From Above, Tipperary, Ireland
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#61 The Grand Mosque - Abu Dhabi
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#62 Windows Of Paris
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#63 Tashkent Metro
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#64 Bürgerhus, A 1560 Half-Timbered House Built For The Hollenstedt Family Who Were The Council Members Of Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany. Refurbished Extensively In The 1980s
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#65 The Neuschwanstein Castle In Germany Looks Even More Stunning In Snow
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#66 Gaitor Cenotaphs Of The Maharajas Of Jaipur, India
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#67 Pont Del Bisbe, Barcelona
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#68 This Is One Of My Favorite Museum’s Stairs (Paris)
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#69 Old Sugar Mill Converted To A Hotel, Guilin
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#70 Cinéma La Salamandre, France
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#71 Townhouse With A Double Staircase Entrance On Howe Street, Lincoln Park, Chicago
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#72 Ghost Sculpture In The Castle Of Vezio, Italy
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#73 Manasija Monastery, A Serbian Orthodox Monastery Established In Early 15th Century And Surrounded By Massive Fortifications, Despotovac, Pomoravlje District, Central Serbia
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#74 The Frog House In Bielsko-Biała, Poland
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#75 Sheats-Goldstein Residence: Los Angeles. Construction 1963. Architect: John Lautner
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#76 Catedral De Santiago Galicia, Spain
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#77 Quaint Black And White House, Washington, Dc
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#78 The First Of The Two Round Houses Constructed In Moscow 9-Storied, 936 Flats, Built In Late 1970s
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#79 A Bell Tower In Barcelona, Spain
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#80 Arkadia Apartments, Designed In A Collaboration Between Dko Architecture And Breathe Architecture
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#81 Circular Courtyard At Casa Uc, Mexico
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#82 Bahá’í House Of Worship, Wilmette, Illinois, USA. Designed By Louis Bourgeois
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#83 A House In The Centre Of Varna, Bulgaria
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#84 The Striking Blue And White Entrance Of Smolny Cathedral, A 18th Century Elizabethan Baroque Style Cathedral Built As A Part Of The Smolny Convent Complex In Central Saint Petersburg, Russia
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#85 Concrete Bench, Part Of The Santuario Dell'amore Misericordioso Complex, Todi, Italy (By Architect Julio Lafuente, 1953-1974)
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#86 Sainte-Chapelle At Paris, France
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#87 Chatsworth Apartments And Annex
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#88 Habitat 67, Montreal
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#89 A 736-Meters-Long Building In Moscow (Research Center For Electronic Computing Technology)
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#90 Snowy Evening, Oxford University
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#91 Can You Guess When This Building Was Built? If You Guessed 2005 You Are Correct! (Frauenkirche In Dresden)
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#92 Biosphere 2, Az
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#93 Pula Arena - Built Between 27 Bc And Ad 68 By Roman Empire - Pula, Croatia
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#94 The Sentinel Building In San Francisco
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#95 1000 Year Old Shamlaji Temple, Gujarat, India
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#96 University Of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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#97 Kanwar Nagar, Jaipur, India
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#98 The Overgrown Ruins Of The 19th Century Gwrych Castle Located In Conwy County Borough, Wales, UK
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#99 Bruxelles Pub, Harry Street, Dublin
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#100 Hanselmann House By Michael Graves In Indiana (1967)
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#101 Fallingwater, Pa By Frank Lloyd Wright
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#102 34 Gramercy Park East, Gramercy, Manhattan
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#103 There Are A Lot Of Modern Buildings On This Sub But This Is Just As Impressive To Me. Burg Kriebstein Near Kriebstein, Sachsen, Deutschland
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#104 British Museum, 2017
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#105 Leeds Arcade, UK
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#106 Prague, A Photographer's Dream
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#107 An Organised Chaos Of Steel. The Eiffel Tower
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#108 Vejle, Denmark
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#109 Walkway In Chonqing, China
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#110 Palais Longchamp, Marseille, France
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#111 Bok Tower, Lake Wales, Fl
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#112 Leuven Town Hall, Belgium
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#113 City Hall, Philadelphia
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#114 Bachritterburg Kanzach: A Reconstructed 13th Century Timber Castle
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#115 Šibenik Cathedral, Croatia
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#116 This Brutalist Architecture In Ivry-Sur-Seine, France
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#117 Home In Des Moines, Iowa
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#118 Heard You Like Cubic Windows? Shot This On Monday At The Huntington In La
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#119 Beautiful Vancouver Island
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#120 House Nestled In The Trees, Costa Rica
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