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Offices of Europe
- Thread starter Saya
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Holy Shit!
We admired the building when we were in Budapest, but seeing it from the inside I admire it even more!
Truly beautiful building and that craftsmanship that went into it. Ma gad.
AO off, bad lighting source, first textures you've found not even checking the res.
It looks really weird.
AnkhWeasel
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Australia is part of Eurovision now, and is therefore (or so is my understanding) part of Europe.
The Irish one looks so frugal by comparision
Actually, the other side looks a bit more interesting:
The President's [more of a tradition than power holding role] one (I did a tour of it last year) was very nice. Filled with books, paintings, poetry collections, pictures of visitors etc:
That's a beautiful portrait of Michael Collins. Thanks for sharing this.
Explain Ireland.
Well this is dumb.
Weber has somewhat of a point. There does seem to be a connection between Protestantism, especially Calvinism, and avoiding ornateness. There is also undeniably a connection between Protestantism and conceptions of power structures that would exacerbate the trend to avoid ostentation with political buildings, at least historically.
The connection here is probably between the Catholic monarchies (and Northern Italian city states), which trended towards extreme opulence, and everyone else.
There are probably two reasons for this connection. One is the Weberian idea of a protestant world-view. The other is that Protestantism, by its nature, downplays episcopacy, which is probably the root of an awful lot of this ostentation. Compare 17th century Scotland and the United Provinces to England and all three to France.
How About No
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Sweet JeebersI love Romania's, not so much for the office itself as the building it's housed in:
The Palace of the Parliament: the THICCest building in the world.
You missed out, it's well worth the tour. The Holy Crown of Hungary is on display, as is the hand of Stephen I, first King of Hungary (1000-1038).
You Are Viewtiful
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The German and Swedish ones are so stereotypical, it hurts.
Gurgelhals
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Switzerland is still missing here and because we don't have a single head of state and/or government and executive power is vested in a directorate of seven individually elected ministers, I'll just post the room where the hold their weekly meetings:
Yep, it actually looks like the parlor of a mountain chalet, lol.
Yep, it actually looks like the parlor of a mountain chalet, lol.
His coffee machine...
Protestantism began spreading during the 1500s. By that point France, Spain and Italy had produced far more interesting works compared to northern Europe already for a thousand years. Hell, Rome was the center of a empire that predates Christ. Not that Protestantism did not influence the outcome but to say "Oh, we could have done that but Luther told us not to" is wrong as well.
I have the same one! It's a Nescafe Dolce Gusto Circolo capsule machine. Makes decent coffee. Rarely use it these days because it gives me environmental guilt. Heh, I figured the PM of the UK could get better coffee than that, preferably served by those guys wearing bears on their heads. Guess that's just in the movies.
That's the Queen. She gets all the cool stuff.
Why even bother with the democracy schtick then? It's clearly not working out. Bet the Queen has a much nicer office, too.
EDIT: knew it
Okay so I'm not proud of this, but the windows are wrong for that to be the Swedish PM's office in Rosenbad (pls don't ask me why I know this). It's also not the Social Democratic Party HQ, yet again wrong type of window (... in my defence it is right across the street from what is/was one of the better cinemas in Stockholm). I honestly have no idea where it's from.
That led me down a rabbit hole, and this is the Swedish PM's office:
And I think these three photos are the only ones in circulation. Reinfeldt (our previous PM) didn't let anyone photograph his office.
That led me down a rabbit hole, and this is the Swedish PM's office:
And I think these three photos are the only ones in circulation. Reinfeldt (our previous PM) didn't let anyone photograph his office.
Shake Appeal
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I love the ones that are just desks in relatively bland settings. You're supposed to be a public servant.
Prime ministers, sure.
Presidents\Kings should show the fuck off. They're just symbols anyway.
France ambassador to Italy is more Italy showing off to France than anything else. And you can be goddamn sure we'd take it as a slight if, after giving that office to the French, they wouldn't use it.