What is your favourite building in the UK and why? 🏠🏢🕍💒🕌

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Specialist_Emu7274@reddit

It’s actually not particularly interesting but I like the Shard. This is purely because I watched it being built from the train when I was going into London for eye hospital appointments every other month as a child. It always made me think of Lego when it was being built.

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flummuxedsloth@reddit

St Pancras for me. Gorgeous old exterior, modern functional interior. National and international transport hub.

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richboyadler@reddit

the OG core office in derby that a small team of 6 people made the original tomb raider games ! I haven’t personally been myself but i love how they used this place as inspiration for her manor in game. also this is an office and its got such a nice exterior!

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RelationshipLife6739@reddit

“The Cathedral on the Hill” period.

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tallbutshy@reddit

Blackpool Tower.

Yes, I know Blackpool is a bit shit and it was probably a bit shit back when I was a kid too, but I loved the arcades, the Pleasure Beach, the illuminated trams, and especially The Sandcastle.

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history_roadtrips@reddit

Castell Coch in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Because of this beautiful ceiling!

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JLaws23@reddit

LOVE a colourful church like this!

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history_roadtrips@reddit

It's a castle, but yes :)

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DangerousRave@reddit

Interior - Liverpool cathedral. It's breathtaking

Exterior - not as clear cut but probably Edinburgh Castle, that setting is, I think, unmatched

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FlatTyres@reddit

The Palm House in Kew Gardens - I love it in the cooler and colder months. I love all the big greenhouses in Kew Gardens but the Palm House is absolutely my favourite - the humidity and the smell just bring a level of nostalgia (went there many weekends as a kid in the late 90s and early 2000s) and botanical exoticness. I love how it functions so well despite the age of the structure.

Next year it will close down for a multi-year renovation so I hope I can get some visits in during the late Autumn and the beginning of winter this year.

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imck1911@reddit

The MAC arts centre, Belfast.

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RevolutionaryCow994@reddit

Lichfield cathedral sa place I go to when I need peace.

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rngwilson@reddit

When you posted this, I was stood looking at it!

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banwe11@reddit

The Coventry cathedral complex - I find the old cathedral very moving and a great place for personal reflection, and the new cathedral is very impressive and the brutalist architecture makes me think about the optimism of the post-war era that we sadly seem to lack today.

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hornsmasher177@reddit

Leeds Town Hall

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Specialist_Heron4446@reddit

Natural History Museum in London.

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Shadow-sight@reddit

Came in to say the same!! NHM London is one of my favourite places!!

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Timely_Egg_6827@reddit

That is stunning. Went recently and have as many pictures of the carvings on the internal stonework as the dinosaurs.

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Specialist_Heron4446@reddit

It is a breathtaking building, but it is just too big to photograph completely. The carvings on the exterior are amazing, and that main hall with the staircase just blew my mind. I just wish I could have spent many hours there but it was closed when I had time to see it and crowded when I finally did.

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insertitherenow@reddit

The Corn Exchange in Leeds is pretty beautiful.

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EUskeptik@reddit

If I am allowed three buildings close together, they would be Liverpool’s ‘Three Graces’ - the Liver Building, the Cunard Building and the Mersey Docks & Harbour Company building.

If I am only allowed one, it would be the Liver Building.

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LowAioli3870@reddit

I once worked in the Cunard building. It was very grand and beautiful inside. Visitors are free to enter the ground floor of the Port of Liverpool building.

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EUskeptik@reddit

Thanks, I lived in Liverpool until I was 21 but these buildings were closed to the public in those days. I’d like to see the interiors, maybe next time I visit.

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LowAioli3870@reddit

Westminster Abbey.

I can poo there in peace.

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Public_Growth_6002@reddit

Lincoln Cathedral - just stunning.

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Wedonthavetobedicks@reddit

Whilst this would also be my choice for personal sentimental reasons, I would like to complain about how I can't ever take a photo that seems to accurately portray how it dominates the skyline to my naked eye.

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JLaws23@reddit

I went to Lincoln’s inn for the Easter Mass and it was just spectacular. Completely hidden gem.

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Natural_Trick4934@reddit

Obligatory ‘Used to be the tallest building in the world’ fact.

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ScratchyG@reddit

Yes. My favourite too. I don’t think there is another building in Britain as breathtaking.

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idontlikemondays321@reddit

The older part of Leeds General Infirmary

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LilacScentedStoat@reddit

Humber Bridge

Yes I know it's a bridge and bridges are a bit dull, especially ugly 70s/80s bridges made of concrete and steel.

But the engineering behind it, the fact it was basically 3D Printed 40+ years ago, the massive cables and the pillars that are further away at the top because of the curvature of the earth... It's fascinating.

And the fact that you can stand at a point on the bridge and watch it move in real time.

I just really really like it a lot. It's a fantastic walk, a fantastic view and an amazing feat of engineering and hard graft.

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Mr5wift@reddit

Plus it was the longest single span suspension bridge in the world when it opened in 1981. Held that title until 1998.

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clemventure@reddit

Wells cathedral. For me it’s just magical.

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Three_Steaks_Pam@reddit

Deepdale Stadium

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Careful_Garden@reddit

My house

I can poo there in peace

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Tallman_james420@reddit

Beat me to it.

I also poo in peace at your house.

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THE-HOARE@reddit

Send me his address I wanna have a go.

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coopertron5000@reddit

Don't bother, the queues huge.

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EUskeptik@reddit

My poo is huger.

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Cause4concern27@reddit

I also choose this guys house

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GrabbedByTheGhost@reddit

...or so you thought ...

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daniluvsuall@reddit

Barbican!

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Miss_Type@reddit

I love the Barbican. The flats are incredible!

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daniluvsuall@reddit

Such a cool, different space. Proof that brutalism can be beautiful and vibrant.

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thesilenthour@reddit

London Road Fire Station in Manchester

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apple_kicks@reddit

Globe theatre is really cool and one of my fav reconstructions

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lxxmng@reddit

Definitely my house

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MoAsad1@reddit

Gherkin

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Specialist_Heron4446@reddit

I tend to agree with you, it is a handsomely different structure with a cool nickname.

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CwningenFach@reddit

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Shot-Disk5958@reddit

Durham Cathedral for me. It somehow feels absolutely massive and imposing while also weirdly peaceful inside, and the view of it from across the river genuinely looks like something out of a fantasy film.

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MahatmaAndhi@reddit

Peterborough Cathedral.

I love churches, cathedrals and most historic buildings. But I'm biased towards this one. It's objectively a banger of a building to anyone, but I've grown up seeing it. I've walked and cycled around it thousands of times.

It's baffling to think how much history has taken place in and around its walls.

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MDCB_1@reddit

St Bartholomew The Great Church in Smithfield.

High culture=Serene in its greatness. Beautiful in its nature. Home to one of the best choirs in all of Christendom.

((Low culture=As featured in Shakespeare in Love, Avengers, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Robin Hood, Elizabeth, Sherlock Holmes etc etc))

Gratitude

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Maester_Bates@reddit

The ruins of the cathedral in St Andrews. It was the view from my bedroom window for 3 years.

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Firebrand777@reddit

Royal Crescent, Bath.

York Minster

Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff

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double-happiness@reddit

The Bull in Ambridge; great place and does a nice pint of Shires.

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Orchid500@reddit

National History Museum, because it’s beautiful.

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derpyfloofus@reddit

I like being able to tell Americans “your country isn’t even as old as my house..”

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Sea-Still5427@reddit

Me too!

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WinglyBap@reddit

Wells Cathedral for me. Hell of a building.

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Springyardzon@reddit

The Charles Wilson Building at the University of Leicester because it's uncompromisingly Brutalist yet inviting.

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steveakacrush@reddit

Probably the John Rylands Library in Manchester.

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HawkTenRose@reddit

My house because it has my mum and my dad and my brother and my bed.

Also Chester Cathedral because it’s freaking gorgeous.

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bonjajr@reddit

The Asda in Donny

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GoldBrief9838@reddit

Binley Mega Chippy

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BG3restart@reddit

When I lived in a village, it was the village church because when I was driving home from work, the square tower was the first thing I'd see to tell me I was nearly home.

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ShihtzuMum39@reddit (OP)

Ah you’ve unlocked a memory for me there!

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