to be moved to tears by architecture?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

A few years ago I walked into a room that was so utterly beautiful I wept.

I can't be the only one to have experienced this can I?

I felt a bit similar watching the high camera angle shots from Westminter Abbey during the wedding, but put that down to being a sentimental old fool.

Anyone?

Architecture is the highest form of art. IMVHO, that is.

And yes people, look up. Seriously. Ground level is ruined by crappy shop fronts and rubbish street furniture. The beauty is upwards. Especially elegant chimneys.

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What Clough Williams Ellis managed to do at Portmeirion. When I die, I shall haunt there. Nicely. Not in a bad way.

ps eighty I wept at Christmas in a dept store at a school choir singing carols

aha I thought you had an app or something

Lusted building, just love that.

YANBU, have felt the same about certain buildings.

The Liver Buildings and Cunard Building in Liverpool. There's nothing built with that sort of confidence of that era, on this side of the Atlantic. I burst with pride every time I see it. And as said earlier, the Anglican Cathedral. It's always very windy there and yet of course the building is so solid. Love it. I went there with my Grandad. This was a big deal as we're Catholic and it wasn't the Done Thing.

Ah no, nothing so sophisticated, just Wrongipedia.

Carols set me off too

agree about Liverpool waterfront, and the Anglican cathedral.

but Glasgow has many fine 'confident' buildings of the same sort. Massively under-rated city.

Glasgow is lush - the carving is so sharp on the granite.

I am frequently moved to tears by the state of the architecture in the place I live- it is mostly HIDEOUS!

I cried stepping out of the railway station at Venice. It was just so beautiful.

I live in Glasgow. You have to remind yourself to look up every s o often, the buildings are amazing. Most are sandstone though, not granite.

Central Manchester is much the same by way of looking up. Many of the windows are fantastically rennaisance, and the carvings and frames are really intricate and so heavily worked. But few people see them.

BagofHolly - at lusted building. I only live in a 'listed' building because it is definitley 'listing' and falling down at one end. I always look forward to SPAB and SAVE magazines and newsletters too.

Not in any way or sense an architect of anything remotely to do with buildings or building or conservation but I just think it is important to keep our architectural heritage. The ongoing destruction of really good Victorian houses and industrial buildings that are not listed is shameful in our town

Definitley agree with 'looking upwards' past the garish shop fronts to see beautiful architecture.

Sorry, I was posting on my carpphone and thought I had put where I was.

The National History Museum, in particular the room with the dinosaurs made me gasp outloud and then totally well up.

I shall have a great time googling all these palces.

Thanks veryone for making me feel unweirdo-ish.

When I worked in the City of London I used to cross over the bridge and go sit in front of the power station that is now the Tate Modern and just look up and up at the tower. A nice way to spend a lunch hour, very beneficial to morale!

MoreBeta, please tell me about your house! Why is it listed?
This thread has fired off all my geeky needs again! I allowed myself to dream about doing a Masters in Building Conservation, so I can finally do my dream job of being the local conservation officer. However, I also simultaneously remembered I've got three kids aged 2 and under, and live several hours from the college. And on closer inspection it's perhaps not the ideal job as i'd want to nose about people's houses without good reason, and can't be arsed with a lot of paperwork. And the money is pretty crap too. Ah well, another dream shattered...

Its listed because it is a Georgian house in a consevation area. It is in poor repair in some places and our landlord has carried out other repairs that are not compliant with listing rules and you would have a field day if you were our Conservation Officer.

Architecture is not something that would make me weep (thus far) but I totally understand where you're coming from. For me, although it's not a stretch for many people, a piece of music will frequently move me to tears. Actually I'll go one further, a certain melody/harmony/key change will bloody overwhelm me to the point that I barely remember what comes next as I'm so hung up on it! Sondheim (especially the song "Sunday" from Sunday in the Park with George) gets me every time without fail.

Edvard Munchs' The Scream picture also makes me very emotional as I can resonate with the utter helplesness (sp?)

Oh no Beta, I shall lie awake worrying about your house now, feeling helpless, like Edvard Munch's scream! Did you rent it for historical value? (And are you ever tempted to wear Empire Line a lot?!)

Whenever I watch Come Dine With Me, I always think I'd give an extra point if the house is listed. I can't decide if that makes me shallow, or very deep!

Like K999. David. Wept

YANBU. When no-one is looking - I kiss the place I live. And I have dreamt about eating it. In my defence it is a Grade I listed building, and my nickname is building-hugger .

I think it is the permanance that does it to me. The knowledge that everything you do with a wonderful building is hopefully for all time and will outlive all of us. It is an act of optimism to list a building and devote yourself to it. And an act of desecration to disregard the beautiful and the useful simply for being old.

Bag - look at doing a distance learning course with the College of Estate Management. Can heartily recommend.

You are being very unreasonable. Man up.

YANBU obv! Any work of art that reaches your soul is worth the effort to get a little stirred up about.

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