Thread 213517306

Who did it best?

>>213517306 (OP)
Why is Korea's so... tiny?

This

china > japan > vietnam > sk

>>213517306 (OP)
Japs looks most impressive, Viets most soulfull.
However>>213517364
is correct.

>>213517349
that is their national mysterie

>>213517306 (OP)
China but BLACKED

Yes

>>213517306 (OP)
JP > CN > KR > VT

>>213517306 (OP)
Thailand

>>213517306 (OP)
insane japanese mog

>>213517306 (OP)
China

>>213517306 (OP)
China obviously

>>213521063
Based knower.

>>213517306 (OP)
Arr rook same

>>213517364
VGH...

>>213517349
WAIT WHAT?????? The Geunjeongjeon Hall of Gyeongbokgung Palace in the photo is the largest purely wooden structure in East Asia (excluding pagodas), if we exclude wooden buildings that have been modernized with steel and concrete.

>>213524001
What counts as being part of the structure here? The small buildigns next to it aswell or just the large central building?

>>213524026
he did say excluding the pagodas

>>213524073
Maybe i just dont understand what a pagoda is but he msut mean the central building is the pagoda then?

>>213524092
a pagoda is some kind of pagan worship tower or something

>>213524026
It's a large central building in the center.

It's a landmark in Korea, but unfortunately, it's not well-known.

The large building visible over the wall in the back left is Gyeonghoeru Pavilion, where the king used to hold banquets with his officials.
The large central building is Geunjeongjeon Hall, which was used for the king’s wedding, receptions for foreign envoys, and morning assemblies etcs.
Everything else in the photo consists of the walls surrounding the area.

>>213524122
Oh it looked connected from the building but it being walled makes more sense

>>213524092
The pagoda visible in the back right is a modern structure it’s part of the Gyeongbokgung Palace Museum.
That area originally housed palace buildings belonging to Gyeongbokgung, but they were all destroyed by the Japanese during the colonial period. Today, reconstruction is difficult because there are no surviving pictures and paintings of what those buildings looked like. As a result, a small royal palace museum was built there instead

The issue is that Gyeongbokgung was the royal palace of the Joseon Dynasty, a kingdom that upheld Neo-Confucian ideals. Yet a Buddhist-style pagoda has been erected within the palace grounds. This has led to continued criticism, but since it functions as a museum, the government currently has no plans to remove it.

>>213517306 (OP) I had a nightmare where i was a soldier held captive by a chinese emperor in his palace where he injects me with estrogen every day and make me wear concubine clothes

>>213517306 (OP)
the Chinese one looks the most functional, ie most space and room to do what it needs to, which maybe Vietnam's is too, but China's looks better, so it wins

visually, South Korea wins

>>213523159
stave church-tier roof

>>213517306 (OP)
Include mongolia and vietnam

Although those comparisons are unfair, i compared the INNER palace of Japan in the 10th century and its as big as my medieval city center

If you include the outer palace it's much more than its size in than my city in the 20th century, disregarding the surrounding Kyoto buildings (my city is the 8th largest in France)

And then everything burned down

The fact that everything burnt down regularly makes comparisons stupid because each civlisation had to cope with downsizing when they faced war

>>213524750
Based

Funfact) Gyeongbokgung Palace is currently the most visited tourist attraction in Korea by foreign tourists and in 2024, it surpassed India’s Taj Mahal in visitor numbers 6.4 million compared to 6.1 million.

(The photo is a list of Korea's most visited tourist destinations by foreigners. However, I won't translate it separately since you probably won't be very curious)

Retarded comparison

The Vietnamese palace doesn't exist anymore (bulldozed by French)

The Japanese one is a temple (Higashi Honganji) not palace

>>213524925
Taj Mahal is an actual shithole, like the surrounding region. Its understandable that it has few tourists

>>213525864
WHAT THE HELL?????? 6 million is definitely not a small number, it's actually world-class...

Giza's Great Pyramid: 14 million
Eiffel Tower: 7 million
Colosseum: 7 million
Acropolis: 5 million
Sagrada Familia: 5 million
Hagia Sophia: 4 million
Stonehenge: 1.8 million
Himeji Castle: 1.5 million

etc.

>>213526045
It's small.

>>213524214
cute #^^#

>>213525819
S-srry..

>>213524964
>The Vietnamese palace doesn't exist anymore
No it does exist

>>213517306 (OP)
Koreans have such a small roof, tee hee!

>>213517364
>tfw this is the highest achievement of your architecture in thousands of years of history

>>213527350
how about now?

>>213527313
It doesn't.
Only thing that remains is the gate area.
皇城昇龍

>>213517306 (OP)
Based on this picture alone I would say Vietnam's looks the best

>>213517306 (OP)
China built the palace first! China is BEST!

>>213528645
Err, that was incorrect.

>>213528264
I told you it does exist. Kinh Thanh Hue palace

>>213528840
The current Gyeongbokgung Palace was rebuilt by Heungseon Daewongun in 1864 and roof of Geunjeongjeon in early Joseon Gyeongbokgung Palace was covered with blue tiles (cheonggiwa)

The two photos show the following: the bottom photo is the unearthed roof tile remains at Gyeongbokgung, and the top photo shows Geunjeongjeon digitally recolored in Photoshop to match the colors of the broken tiles.

>>213529202
Right, but it was originally built in 1395 and also repaired after the war.

>>213517364
Home...

>>213532040
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med gods are like no other when it comes to architecture

>>213517349
An americuck saying this is so funny.

>>213517306 (OP)
Japan. At the end of the day the best when it comes to East Asia and often even beyond is always Japan, unironically.

It genuinely all looks the same.
>but what about the minute differences in the architectural intention and shieeet
nah.

>>213527624
Wow, so huge!

>>213534259
In western christian Europe everything is the same gothic