Apparently the US right wing media is trying to stir up irrational fear of New Zealand as a way of inspiring people to vote for Donald Trump — I guess on the grounds that he is very much the antithesis of Jacinda Ardern (who is articulate, popular and competent). The prospect of Trump supporters actively avoiding New Zealand (not that they can travel there anyway currently) is not a major worry for the Kiwis and they may regarded it as an active benefit. So is it worth pointing out that the NZ parliament building has a distinct resemblance to a Dalek and surely that tells you a lot about that nation? Very scary and maybe Trump supporters might want to avoid the whole southern hemisphere?
But what other buildings look like Daleks and how might a blogger fill out a lazy post just with pictures of buildings that vaguely look like Daleks? After meticulous research typing in “buildinggs that lok like Daleks”(sic) into Google in the hope of finding somebody else’s list to plagiarise, I present to you this listicle entitled “Five other buildings that look a bit like Daleks”. Also I get to test the Wordpess-Makes-Twitter-Thread Feature…
The Gherkin
Pisa Baptistrey
The Nott Memorial, Union College
Selfridges Building, Birmingham
Mövenpick Hotel Hamburg
I’ve only seen three of those in person. If you’ve seen all six you get six Davros-points. Suggestions welcome.
Camestros Felapton 
31 responses to “Some buildings that look like Daleks”
Depending on whether the foreground is part of the same building the Beehive (sans foreground) looks to be streets ahead in resemblance.
But the idea that came to my mind is depicting Daleks wearing MAGA caps.
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I think the Selfridges may not have that overall shape right but otherwise it rocks a Dalek aesthetic.
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EXPLICATE!!
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Daleks are not very good with stairs.
Trump is not very good with stairs.
Hmm…
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Of course, you know that, now you’ve exposed the Dalek infiltrators in our midst, you will be exterminated?
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I get three points (Birmingham Selfridges, the Gherkin and Hotel Mövenpick), though the Birmingham Selfridges is the only one I’ve been inside.
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I haven’t been to Birmingham for decades — I had no idea that building existed. The Movenpick hotel was new to me as well.
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The Mövenpick hotel chain is owned by a fascist BTW, so it’s only appropriate that one of their hotels looks like a Dalek.
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Clearly the Selfridges is Guild Navigator’s transportation housing, not a Dalek.
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I get no points, but while Selfridge’s has a Dalek aesthetic, it does not, in fact, look like a Dalek itself. Perhaps their HQ.
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[…] (2) EXPLICATE! Camestros Felapton created a photo gallery of “Some buildings that look like Daleks”. […]
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Here are some local buildings which look either like Daleks or as if Daleks designed them.
This trio of Dalek-like buildings in Bremerhaven are the Mediterraneo mall, the Sail City Hotel and the Climate museum: http://corabuhlert.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/IMG_7565.jpg
And here we have Bremen’s Universum science center, which looks not so much like a Dalek, but a crashed spaceship or the head of a sandworm: https://universum-bremen.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Universum-Bremen_Dauerausstellungsgeb%C3%A4ude_Bildquelle_Universum-Bremen.jpg
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Daleks usually fly saucer ships — so still Dalek related
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The last reminds me of a blue whale.
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I was coming here to say that.
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The building is actually called “The Whale” locally.
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The Catedral Metropolitana i Brasilia:
The nearby Congresso National have two saucers on the roof:
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Bridgewater Place, Leeds, affectionately known as “The Dalek” (and the tallest building in Yorkshire, to boot).
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I get a point for that one.
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I think it has more of a Star Wars aesthetic
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How about the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radcliffe_Camera
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I’ve seen that building a lot on TV, whenever something is set in Oxford. It shows up in Lewis a lot as well as in His Dark Materials. But until now, I didn’t know what it was. I always assumed it was a church.
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Yes, very much so. Baroque dalek
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The top of the Camera Obscura in Edinburgh looks a bit like a dalek, but don’t ask me how it got up there.
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obscurely
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Only one point for me, and only a maybe at that (pretty sure I caught a glimpse of the Beehive while on a very brief stopover in Wellington). I have been to London and Birmingham but not since before those giant daleks were built. There are not very many round buildings in Adelaide. I am guessing our very rectangular street layout tends to discourage it. However, the National Wine Centre is shaped like a boat (why a boat and not eg a wine barrel is anyone’s guess).
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I’ve forgotten about this one in my home town, currently used as “Media City Bergen”:
https://www.uib.no/infomedia/133994/media-city-bergen-skal-forskes-p%C3%A5
Arguably, the towers looked more like daleks before a recent renovation – the hexagonal towers where more free-standing then. Some pics here:
https://blogg.infodesign.no/2016/03/media-city-bergen-skuffende-bygg.html
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There’s the ever-popular water tower in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Some have suggested that it resembles something else, not a dalek, but those people have dirty minds.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ypsilanti_Water_Tower
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Dalek sex symbol
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It kind of looks like a microphone.
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I can’t help but think that you’re burying the lede: WHICH right wing media are stoking irrational fear of New Zealand?
I can sort of see why: the Flying Nun catalog is not for the faint of heart, but surely that’s true across the political spectrum.
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