Who has the Best Official Residence?

by **saxitoxin** on Sat May 21, 2011 10:09 pm

PART 2 IN A SERIES OF 3 ARCHITECTURAL SHOWDOWNS!

There'll be a first-past-the-post vote in each of six regions with four candidates each.

Then there'll be a first-past-the-post vote in each hemisphere with three candidates each.

Finally, two candidates will go head to head: one from the Eastern and one from the Western Hemisphere! YAY!

The selection of candidates was made only for diversity of architectural style, no other factors were considered, so don't bitch.

by **saxitoxin** on Sat May 21, 2011 10:09 pm

ROUND 1: USA

La Fortaleza (San Juan)

Current Tenant: Luis Fortuño, Governor of Puerto Rico
Built: 1533
Attacked: 8 times (Natives x 2, Pirates x 2, Rebels x 1, Netherlands x 1, United Kingdom x 1, United States x 1)

Drumthwacket (Princeton)

Current Tenant: Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey
Built: 1835
Attacked: 0 times

White House (Washington)

Current Tenant: Barack Obama, President of the United States
Built: 1792
Attacked: 1 times (United Kingdom x1)

Iolani Palace (Honolulu)

Current Tenant: vacant (formerly King of Hawaii)
Built: 1885
Attacked: 1 times (Rebels x1)

by **PLAYER57832** on Sun May 22, 2011 7:58 am

Saudi Arabia beats them all... Used to have a picture, but no longer.

by **InkL0sed** on Tue May 24, 2011 8:33 pm

Come on guys, Iolani Palace kicks so much ass. How can you vote anything else?

by **rdsrds2120** on Tue May 24, 2011 8:36 pm

InkL0sed wrote:Come on guys, Iolani Palace kicks so much ass. How can you vote anything else?

Because they're unfamiliar with it, I guess. A shame :cry:

-rd

by **saxitoxin** on Tue May 24, 2011 8:42 pm

WTF - La Fortaleza has been ATTACKED BY PIRATES. TWICE. And yet it's still safe enough to park a late '90's Ford Taurus at.

And it's almost 500 years old. There's only going to be 1 other place in this contest that's older than 500 years. (Unknown if the toilets are 500 years old, too.)

by **InkL0sed** on Tue May 24, 2011 8:42 pm

Unless they were space pirates, I don't care.

by **saxitoxin** on Tue May 24, 2011 8:46 pm

InkL0sed wrote:Unless they were butt pirates, I don't care.

by **saxitoxin** on Wed May 25, 2011 5:31 pm

ROUND 2: CA-ZAM

Rideau Hall (Ottawa)

Current Tenant: David Lloyd Johnston, Governor-General of Canada & Elizabeth Windsor, Queen of Canada (roommates)
Built: 1838
Attacked: 0 times

La Citadelle (Quebec City)

Current Tenant: David Lloyd Johnston, Governor-General of Canada & Elizabeth Windsor, Queen of Canada (roommates)
Built: 1673
Attacked: 0 times

Government House (Halifax)

Current Tenant: Mayann Francis, Lt. Governor of Nova Scotia and Elizabeth Windsor, Queen of Canada (roommates)
Built: 1803
Attacked: 0 times

24 Sussex Drive (Ottawa)

Current Tenant: Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
Built: 1866
Attacked: 0 times

by **Baron Von PWN** on Thu May 26, 2011 10:12 am

Man our official places of residence are ugly.

by **shieldgenerator7** on Thu May 26, 2011 10:16 am

I like the name of the Citadel. And Sussex drive has lots of pretty trees.

by **Juan_Bottom** on Thu May 26, 2011 2:48 pm

La Citadelle is clearly the most defensible during a zombie outbreak. That's gonna win every time.

by **saxitoxin** on Sun May 29, 2011 9:56 pm

ROUND 3: LATIN AMERICA

Bosch Palace (Buenos Aires)

Current Tenant: Vilma Socorro Martínez, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States in Argentina
Built: 1910
Attacked: 0 times

Casa Rosada (Buenos Aires)

Current Tenant: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina
Built: 1882
Attacked: 0 times

Palácio da Alvorada (Brasilia)

Current Tenant: Dilma Vana Rousseff, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
Built: 1957
Attacked: 0 times

Palácio das Laranjeiras (Rio de Janeiro)

Current Tenant: Sérgio Cabral Filho, Governor of the State of Rio de Janeiro
Built: 1909
Attacked: 0 times

by **shieldgenerator7** on Sun May 29, 2011 10:29 pm

sad I can't see the pictures.... will vote ofr Casa Rosada (Buneos Aires) because it's the oldest

by **SirSebstar** on Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:17 am

you cannot beat a palace as residence

by **Dukasaur** on Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:01 pm

Baron Von PWN wrote:Man our official places of residence are ugly.

Chorley Park was apparantly quite beautiful. But they decided it was too expensive to maintain and tore it down...

by **saxitoxin** on Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:48 pm

by **saxitoxin** on Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:50 pm

ROUND 4: EUROPE

Buckingham Palace (London)

Current Tenant: Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Her Other Realms and Territories
Built: 1705
Attacked: 1 times (Germany x1)

Schloss Bellevue (Berlin)

Current Tenant: Christian Wulff, President of the Federal Republic of Germany
Built: 1786
Attacked: 1 times (United States x1)

Pontalba House (Paris)

Current Tenant: Charles Rivkin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States in France and Executive-Producer of Disney Channel's "Higgleytown Heroes!"
Built: 1855
Attacked: 0 times

Prague Castle (Prague)

Current Tenant: Václav Klaus, [i]President of the Czech Lands
Built: 1485
Attacked: 4 times (Sweden x1, Rebels x1, Hussites x1, Holy Roman Empire x1)