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This thread is for posting buildings that are ugly but functional, beautiful but moronic, poorly built, poorly placed, or will kill you for some reason. We were just talking about this thing in a LAN thread. It's 200 stories high and a condo. Towards the top you've got about a 30 degree slope. Besides the obvious danger of imminent death to passersby, there's the fact that the wealthiest condo buyers in the building, on the highest floors, get windowless apartments for half of the year. This was actually built in tyool 2014.
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:26 |
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 06:30 |
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Do they smash out the windows on a holiday and have a 6 month waiting list to get new ones? This doesn't add up, OP
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:29 |
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:30 |
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lmao
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:32 |
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can we not talk about groverhaus for once
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:41 |
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SHOTGUN REGULAR posted:This thread is for posting buildings that are ugly but functional, beautiful but moronic, poorly built, poorly placed, or will kill you for some reason. Why doesn't that building work properly? IE, why do the windows fall off? IDGI.
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:43 |
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My house is made of poop and sticks
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:43 |
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amityville anus posted:Do they smash out the windows on a holiday and have a 6 month waiting list to get new ones? This doesn't add up, OP hrm? no the issue is that it's a building where the top 50 stories are at a thirty degree angle, in a country that has quite a bit of snow and ice accumulation. agreed leave out groverhaus c'mon folks post your ugly brutalist university libraries or whatever. the more oppressive the better!
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:43 |
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IzzyFnStradlin posted:Why doesn't that building work properly? IE, why do the windows fall off? IDGI.
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:44 |
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IzzyFnStradlin posted:Why doesn't that building work properly? IE, why do the windows fall off? IDGI. imaGINE literal tons of ice falling at the speed of gravity to anybody below lol
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:44 |
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l-tower is cool and nice and a definite upgrade from whatever basement you crawled out of OP
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:45 |
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IzzyFnStradlin posted:Why doesn't that building work properly? IE, why do the windows fall off? IDGI. I just explained it. Funnily enough, however, we do have a separate recently constructed skyscraper that *does* have an issue with the windows popping off and hurrying down to ruin someone's nice white blouse. "“In total, there have been five failures at this building,” Angelucci told the Star, nothing that two may have been caused by impacts, while the cause of others is unknown. Thursday’s failure was the third time in 10 months that police were called to close a street beside the new hotel-condo building, including when a 53-year-old man was struck and injured by falling glass last September. No one was hurt Thursday when a panel broke and fell from a private patio on the 51st floor of the condo tower, throwing thick glass shards all over University Ave. and onto the sidewalk."
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:45 |
Robo Reagan posted:can we not talk about groverhaus for once no
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:45 |
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Yeah the L Tower isn't 200 loving stories high, dude. Sure is ugly, but like, when you look at it in context of the rest of the glass abortions that they've poo poo all over Toronto in the past 5 years it doesn't really stand out that much.
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:47 |
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Here's some light reading on times where it did not hold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_wedding_hall_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampoong_Department_Store_collapse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:47 |
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I found that Toronto had some of the coolest architecture anywhere. Pushing the envelope can be hazzardous I guess though.
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:48 |
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olylifter posted:Yeah the L Tower isn't 200 loving stories high, dude. Sorry 200 metres. I actually think it's pretty, it's just dangerous and poorly thought out.
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:49 |
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Now here is a real gently caress up, it's called The Tower of David; basically half way through construction poo poo hit the fan economically in Venezuela and all of the financiers pulled out. Now it's an haven for drug dealers and prostitutes and kind of a like a modern Kowloon Walled City
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:56 |
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Volcott posted:Here's some light reading on times where it did not hold. Which all culminates with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Savar_building_collapse
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:58 |
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more like Frank L. WRONG.
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:58 |
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Rare Collectable posted:
lol @ when it finally sinks
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 21:59 |
Rare Collectable posted:
we must never meet, the gamma ray burst would kill everyone we are opposite you see
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:01 |
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Dave Concepcion posted:we must never meet, the gamma ray burst would kill everyone That thing is held together by steel cables and volunteers who have to shovel snow off every time it snows. If everyone who works there took the same week off for vacation they'd come back to find a pile of rubble
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:04 |
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Rare Collectable posted:
i went here. all the door frames are designed for someone shorter than like 5'7" because FLW was a wee man and hated "tall" people im not kidding.
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:04 |
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:05 |
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love your home posted:lol @ when it finally sinks they renovate it every now and then when his ill-advised design begins to crumble.
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:05 |
boom boom boom posted:That thing is held together by steel cables and volunteers who have to shovel snow off every time it snows. If everyone who works there took the same week off for vacation they'd come back to find a pile of rubble it's beautiful though
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:05 |
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lol
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:06 |
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Sorry about all the deaths and wars and poo poo, but those things were ugly and I'm glad they're gone.
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:07 |
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quote:Dr. Joseph Waeckerle, former chief of Kansas City's emergency medical system, directed the rescue effort [2] establishing a makeshift morgue in a ground floor exhibition area,[10] using the hotel's taxicab driveway as a triage area and helping to organize the wounded by greatest need for medical care.[11] Those people who could walk were instructed to leave the hotel to simplify the rescue effort; those mortally injured were told they were going to die and given morphine.[7][dead link][12] Often, rescuers had to dismember bodies in order to reach survivors among the wreckage.[7] One victim's right leg was trapped under an I-beam and had to be amputated by a surgeon, a task which was completed with a chain saw.[13] holy gently caress
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:24 |
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fyodor posted:i went here. all the door frames are designed for someone shorter than like 5'7" because FLW was a wee man and hated "tall" people im not kidding. manlets are world champions at being passive-aggressive, it is known
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:27 |
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Inevitable posted:Sorry about all the deaths and wars and poo poo, but those things were ugly and I'm glad they're gone. the more time passes since 2001 the more out of place and weird the two huge rectangles smack in the middle of the skyline seem to me.
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:30 |
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muslims have an incredibly good sense of feng shui, apparently
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:31 |
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For my next design I shall use the interplay of concave and convex surfaces Oh no, the concave side seems to act as a lense and has melted a car.
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:34 |
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love your home posted:
please get a raid/dredd movie set here tank you
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:34 |
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Green greasy greasels
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:39 |
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nomadologique posted:please get a raid/dredd movie set here tank you it was a location in homeland, but they filmed in puerto rico instead of commieland
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:47 |
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SHOTGUN REGULAR posted:I just explained it. Funnily enough, however, we do have a separate recently constructed skyscraper that *does* have an issue with the windows popping off and hurrying down to ruin someone's nice white blouse. whoa, this is minneapolis?
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:53 |
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lol at people getting mad over the frank lloyd wright house. if goons designed houses they'd be windowless pyramids. can't get any more efficient than that
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# ? Feb 18, 2015 22:57 |
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You could probably repost half of China.jpg in here.
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