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 Athens
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#3 My Favorite Castle In Germany
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#4 Sun And Moon Pagodas In Guilin, China
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#5 Osaka Castle, Osaka, Japan
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#6 The Shambles In York, England
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#7 Inner Walls Of Ta Prohm Monastery. Cambodia, Khmer Empire, 12th-13th Century
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#8 Ruyi Bridge, China
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#9 Hungarian Parliament Building, Budapest
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#10 80 Metre Climbing Wall Built On The Side Of A Power Plant In Copenhagen, Denmark
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#11 Chefchaouen, Morocco
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#12 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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#13 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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#14 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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#15 Tolbooth Tavern, Edinburgh / Sir Lewis Bellenden
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#16 Cathedral Of Saint Mary Of The Flower, Florence
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#17 Kyoto, Japan
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#18 Wooden Houses In Bergen, Norway
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#19 Evening Scene In Bremen, Germany
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#20 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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#21 Las Lajas Shrine – Built 1916 -1949 Designed By J. Gualberto Perez & Lucindo Espinosa – Nariño, Colombia
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#22 Tree House, Singapore
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#23 Mont Saint-Michel, France
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#24 The 24 Year Old ‘Wisteria’ Cottage. This Beautiful Cottage Is Located In Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
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#25 Cairo, Egypt
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#26 Grand Central Terminal, NYC, The Sun Can’t Shine Through Like That Now Due To The Surrounding Tall Buildings. 1929
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#27 Jewel Changi Airport, Singapore
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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 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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#32 Old Bridge Over A Modern Road. Dublin, Ireland
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#33 The Neuschwanstein Castle In Germany Looks Even More Stunning In Snow
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#34 Top Of Tribune Tower, Chicago Illinois
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#35 Guangzhou Opera House
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#36 San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane, Lugano, Switzerland
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#37 Pool In The Courtyard Of Pink House, A Private Residence In Long Xuyen, Vietnam
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#38 Gardens By The Bay, Singapore
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#39 Quaint Black And White House, Washington, Dc
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#40 Front Steps To A Home In Charleston, Sc
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#41 Seoul, South Korea
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#42 Overcliff Castel Built In 1892 In Yonkers, New York
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#43 Stone House In The Small Village Of Tissington, Derbyshire, England
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#44 Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai, China
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#45 The Baroque Beauty Of Ottobeuren Abbey In Bavaria, Germany
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#46 A Water Mill From The 12th (The Bridge) And The 16th (The Mill) Century In France
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#47 Building In Riga, Latvia
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#48 Traditional Old Wooden Houses In Trakai, Lithuania
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#49 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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#50 St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City. Built In 1878
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#51 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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#52 The Bellevue Hotel In Philly
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#53 The Rock Of Cashel From Above, Tipperary, Ireland
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#54 Townhouse With A Double Staircase Entrance On Howe Street, Lincoln Park, Chicago
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#55 The Grand Mosque – Abu Dhabi
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#56 This 50-Foot Tall Statue Of A Native American Woman In South Dakota Titled “Dignity”
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#57 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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#58 Glass House In Maryland
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#59 Kapaleeswarar Hindu Temple In India
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#60 Nurse Dormitory Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital – Plan Architects (2021) Aic
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#61 Sainte-Chapelle At Paris, France
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#62 Casa Batlo, Barcelona, Spain
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#63 Henderson Cifi Tiandi By Ateliers Jean Nouvelm, Shanghai
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#64 Windows Of Paris
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#65 Catedral De Santiago Galicia, Spain
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#66 Snowy Evening, Oxford University
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#67 Pont Del Bisbe, Barcelona
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#68 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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#69 This Is One Of My Favorite Museum’s Stairs (Paris)
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#70 Still Under Construction Project Valley, Zuidas Amsterdam
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#71 Eye Of Zhuhai, China (Architectural Design Of The Sales Department Of A Real Estate In Zhuhai)
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#72 The Frog House In Bielsko-Biała, Poland
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#73 Tashkent Metro
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#74 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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#75 A Bell Tower In Barcelona, Spain
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#76 Gaitor Cenotaphs Of The Maharajas Of Jaipur, India
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#77 Old Sugar Mill Converted To A Hotel, Guilin
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#78 Cinéma La Salamandre, France
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#79 Chatsworth Apartments And Annex
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#80 Fallingwater, Pa By Frank Lloyd Wright
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#81 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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#82 Leeds Arcade, UK
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#83 The Emporia: One Of The Biggest Shopping Malls In Scandinavia, Sweden!!
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#84 Pula Arena – Built Between 27 Bc And Ad 68 By Roman Empire – Pula, Croatia
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#85 Bahá’í House Of Worship, Wilmette, Illinois, USA. Designed By Louis Bourgeois
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#86 1000 Year Old Shamlaji Temple, Gujarat, India
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#87 University Of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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#88 The Overgrown Ruins Of The 19th Century Gwrych Castle Located In Conwy County Borough, Wales, UK
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#89 Bruxelles Pub, Harry Street, Dublin
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#90 Ghost Sculpture In The Castle Of Vezio, Italy
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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 British Museum, 2017
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#93 Circular Courtyard At Casa Uc, Mexico
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#94 An Organised Chaos Of Steel. The Eiffel Tower
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#95 Palais Longchamp, Marseille, France
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#96 Leuven Town Hall, Belgium
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#97 House Nestled In The Trees, Costa Rica
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#98 Concrete Bench, Part Of The Santuario Dell’amore Misericordioso Complex, Todi, Italy (By Architect Julio Lafuente, 1953-1974)
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#99 Kanwar Nagar, Jaipur, India
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#100 Sheats-Goldstein Residence: Los Angeles. Construction 1963. Architect: John Lautner
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#101 Habitat 67, Montreal
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#102 Arkadia Apartments, Designed In A Collaboration Between Dko Architecture And Breathe Architecture
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#103 34 Gramercy Park East, Gramercy, Manhattan
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#104 Prague, A Photographer’s Dream
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#105 A House In The Centre Of Varna, Bulgaria
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#106 Šibenik Cathedral, Croatia
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#107 The First Of The Two Round Houses Constructed In Moscow 9-Storied, 936 Flats, Built In Late 1970s
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#108 Biosphere 2, Az
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#109 The Sentinel Building In San Francisco
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#110 Bok Tower, Lake Wales, Fl
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#111 City Hall, Philadelphia
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#112 Home In Des Moines, Iowa
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#113 Beautiful Vancouver Island
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#114 Vejle, Denmark
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#115 Hanselmann House By Michael Graves In Indiana (1967)
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#116 A 736-Meters-Long Building In Moscow (Research Center For Electronic Computing Technology)
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#117 This Brutalist Architecture In Ivry-Sur-Seine, France
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#118 Heard You Like Cubic Windows? Shot This On Monday At The Huntington In La
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#119 Walkway In Chonqing, China
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#120 Bachritterburg Kanzach: A Reconstructed 13th Century Timber Castle
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