/r/ArchitecturalRevival
This sub is dedicated to the appreciation of traditional architecture, with a view to increasing the appetite for architectural revival. Posts should be of old and new buildings in a traditionalist style. Please read the rules before posting.
r/ArchitecturalRevival Rules
Be civil and please keep discussion based around architecture.
Please include the location (including the country) in any post.
We would like to keep this as an architecture-only sub, so all memes must be based in architecture.
Posts should include traditional architecture or architectural revival.
Please include an image (photo or meme or drawing) with any post.
Revivalist Quotes "Put usefulness first, and you lose it; put beauty first, and what you do will be useful forever" - Roger Scruton
"Architecture has its political Use; public Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth.... Architecture aims at Eternity" - Christopher Wren
"Beauty matters. It's not just a subjective thing, but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert." - - Roger Scruton
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler
"Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent." - Roger Scruton
Why Beauty Matters Brilliant documentary by the late, great Sir Roger Scruton called Why Beauty Matters. Highly recommended viewing for anyone interested in architectural revival.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5tuGjzXJ9k
Architectural Styles Post This great post from when the sub first formed details the different architectural styles:
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Uncovering of the historic fassade from a former department store in the German City Offenbach
The Kaufhof department store in Offenbach (near Frankfurt am Main) had a beautiful old facade...
...which was then partially demolished or altered to make way for a modern and sleek facade (as it was common back in the 70s). No one knows exactly how much has survived or how much was actually damaged.
When the department store closed a few years ago, the city was thinking of what to do with the now vacant building.Ideas were flung around.
Now the city finally made an effort to check on what´s what.....and guess what....something survived:
It´s just a sliver, but hey, it´s a start. Probably the right half of the facade is most likely gone, but the left half might still be there...under all that awful cladding.
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Chapel within Fort São Filipe in Setúbal, Portugal.
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Grudziądz, Poland.
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Chapel at St Paul's Cathedral, London, England
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Timisoara, Romania
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Romanesque revival in the heart of Downtown Pittsburgh. Pic is OC
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City Walls of Namysłow, Poland
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This church was a hidden gem until un earthquake revealed its true beauty. Numerous earthquakes caused by the nearby Taal Volcano damaged the Our Lady of Caysasay Church in Taal, Philippines and was restored in 2024.
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Chełmno, Poland.
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Another Art Deco building in NYC recently ruined!
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19th century staircase renovated by volunteers in the old town of Tbilisi, Georgia
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Iraqi architecture, Al-Askari Shrine. Samarra
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Restoration of the interlocking tower of Wrocław-Leśnica Train Station, Poland.
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The beautiful "Kien Trung Palace" in Hue, Vietnam was destroyed in the 1940s. Reconstruction started in 2019 and finished in 2023
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