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If you think this was an easy one, I'd hate to see your tough ones.  

This is one of the stone corner umbrella structures of the Taj Mahal complex, very different from the white monument that we would immediately recognize. 

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If you think this was an easy one, I'd hate to see your tough ones.  

This is one of the stone corner umbrella structures of the Taj Mahal complex, very different from the white monument that we would immediately recognize. 

 

You're dead right. I'm saving the tricky ones for later.

 

And you are of course correct that it is part of the Taj Mahal complex, which I understand is the most photographed building/anything in the world. Hence the difficulty getting an interesting image and one that cannot be found on Google. I did this one, I don't know if it is good or terrible.

 

19638480051_ffcd63099e_b.jpgL1000008.jpg by Steven S, on Flickr

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Ok, here's a new one.....

 

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Sorry, cropping necessary as it's name is all over it.

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Here is another view.

 

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Those lines have the smell of Zaha Hadid, based here in good old London. There's an American traffic light, so a quick search of her site pointed to an art gallery in Michigan - Mr and Mrs Broad - who obviously have a lot of money. Without intending to insult anyone, it does look like something she knocked out on a Tuesday afternoon.

 

If correct, have another go. 

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I thought it would take a little longer. I missed the traffic signal. Yes, the Broads have tons of it and I don't think it took ZH all of Tuesday afternoon either.

 

Not fair, you have to post or someone else out there has to come up with something.

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It reminded me of a truly ugly building we had in London (opposite the Regents Park Mosque) called the baked bean tin, because it was circular and corrugated on the outside. It was torn down and replaced by an apartment block and now I sort of miss it. Corrugated iron (galvanised) is a very practical material and cheap for insulating - most of the houses in Reykavik are clad in it, in part due to the lack of wood. But this ZH effort is just not nice. I like her watery stuff. I had a client that fabricated her "Mesa table" - now that is truly beautiful.

   

Can't post till tomorrow.

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Yes !!!!

 

Steven

 

Name the building please.

 

Curiously, the architect, Mario Botta, specialises in ugly and occasionally very ugly, but this one was really good. Since I last went they've redeveloped it, when less than 20 years old. Obviously others thought it was ugly.

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Indeed, their concept is certainly less reminiscent of a high security prison.

 

Rather than talk about the building, would someone like to name it? Even the initials will do. And we can then move on.

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