Thread 213728087

Who did it best?

Probably Thais

China

>Muh Chinese culture
Rebuilt 40 years ago probably

>>213728152
>>213728152
Thai did it best

>>213728162
Every castle in Japan was torn down in the Meiji era. Some were rebuilt for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

>>213728087 (OP)
Vietnam, then China and Japan tied, then Korea last.
>>213728152
Ultimately this. SEA has much better architecture. Probably because they didn't have all their shit blown up to the same degree. Kind of.

>>213728087 (OP)
ours is actually the smallest.
the others have disproportionately big roofs but they are huge irl

>>213728087 (OP)
Maybe I'm biased, but I think Japanese architecture looks the best. While Chinese get points for being the original, their stuff looks quite gaudy, and generally isn't maintained as well as the Japanese architecture.
>>213728162
It's exactly the same in Japan (and everywhere else in the world for that matter) anon. Do you think buildings made of wood and paper can stand in perfect condition for millenia?
All buildings need conservation, even concrete or brick ones. The point is to recreate them in the same style to preserve their historical value.

>>213728087 (OP)
On this pic it is like this to me:
Japan > China> Nam/Korea

>>213728162
>>213728185
>this meme again
Same applies to historical buildings everywhere. That's literally what restoration work is, historylets. Read a book

>>213728087 (OP)
I like the vietnamese the most, he has that kind of 80s b-movie villain lair vibe

>>213728992
*it

>>213728921
I don't believe anything squids have to say about their country before Japan showed up.

>>213728921
This was just the style of imperial capitals. Forbidden City was pretty late, yeah, but there were many other cities before it build in the same way. In fact Japanese Nara was famously built from scratch as a capital in that style, and that was back in the early VIII century.
That being said, that pavilon on top of a pond looks cool, I really ought to go to Korea one day.