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Your favourite buildings
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On Friday, we asked you to send your pictures of your favourite buildings, famous or not. Here are some of the best.
Crazy House, Vietnam
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By one of Vietnam's leading architects, the Crazy House is an utter folly but deliciously entertaining, says Rob Cross, UK
Le Port
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My retreat, a total idyll, says Paul Munton. Like Jung's favourite tower it looks out on sparkling water. It is in France
Midland Hotel, Morecambe
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The Midland Hotel, Morecambe: "The kind of magical palace only the richest people could afford to stay," recalls Nick Harber
Taj Mahal
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"We stood on the steps and watched the sun rise and suffuse the sky with a pink glow," recalls Mike Connell, of the Taj Mahal
Whitrope Tunnel
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"My favourite building is not a property but a (disused) railway tunnel," says MG Stoddon of the Whitrope Tunnel in the Borders
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The Triangular Lodge in Rushton, sent by Emma Bretherick. "It is the only three sided building I have ever seen and I love the way the triangular theme runs through the whole building including number of floors, windows, spires etc."
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Edward Swindon nominates these offices on Oxford Road, Manchester. "It is completely transformed when the lights come on from a drab office block into something special."
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Awais Rashid picks Florence's Duomo, saying it's "a gem", while Mike Brown nominates All Soul's in Langham Place, London: "Classical beauty."
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Andrew Crichton says the Hotel Cosmos in Moscow is "big, bold, uniform 1980s concrete, it's got a great curve and it's very Russian".
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Imran Ahmed chooses this government building from Riyadh:"The shape, almost UFO-style, with the lighting at night, make this a work of art."
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Curves work: Kim Lawrence Palmer pics the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai; Jon Tomlins picks Chesterfield's "crooked spire", which is in fact twisted.
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Mark Reed says Battersea Power Station makes him reflect on "a building so large, so useful, and so ambitious becoming so abandoned, so derelict, and so ghostly".
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Signe Grude of Norway says: "This is my favourite building: the house that my husband and I built together."




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