Building Spirits

[druidevo]

This is a question mostly for you people who work/live/study/etc in and around big buildings, even if you aren't Pagan. Is there any large building that you regularly encounter that you feel has a gender? As an example I'll describe my feelings of the University of Kansas engineering complex

Comments

[nissedragon]

I am so glad someone else feels that there's something there when looking at/being in buildings.

I think some part of the feeling may be the general human tendency to make non human things seem human, but then, that doesn't (at least for me) explain the building-ness. They don't have any gender, to me. Nor a third gender, they just are.
But there's something there, for sure. Similarly to the way some places have their own presence.
Some suburban homes have it, but I get it more with the larger more complex buildings.
Also with vehicles. It's pretty intoxicating for me to be near a train engine or especially a big jet liner. They are workhorses, they know it, and they want to do what they were built to. Airplanes fairly scream with joy when they take off

[indifferenthues]

don't know these buildings, never thought about it before, but what an interesting post!

[polarbear1986]

I know what you mean. I've worked in both the Music building and the University Center here at the University of Tennessee. Out Music building definitely has a masculine feel and the University Center is most definitely feminine. The Art & Architecture building has a feminine feeling most of the time, but every now and then I get a masculine vibe. Most of the other buildings have a somewhat ambiguous feeling, largely I think, because I haven't spent enough time in them to really feel it out. And Ayres (the one you see in all the photos of campus and whose architectural details we get the checkerboard pattern from) is also VERY masculine. I don't know about the other buildings, but I wonder if the energy in the UC is from the presence of several female spirits that seem to like the building. It's kinda funny, but that place has turned people who SWORE there were no such things as ghosts into firm believers.

[blue_estro]

I spend quite a bit of time around big buildings, including big older buildings, and they do have... presence