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Harald posted:what's the story?...never seen these. Let's call it guerrilla urban planning.
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Harald posted:what's the story?...never seen these. bush lied people died
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down n out posted:Kowloon City was definitely an impressive failure though. Nothing like living in an ultra dense mega-slum. Wow are there no stairways in there? Is it even possible to get to your apartment without walking through a bunch of living rooms?
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 01:29 |
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Harald posted:what's the story?...never seen these. google ron paul
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 01:34 |
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Three Olives posted:
So this is where your condo is
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 01:46 |
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I think Ottawa could fill up this entire thread. Most tourist locations in the city such as the Parliament hill, the ByWard market and the large number of museums scattered throughout the city don’t accurately convey the bland soviet era brutalist architecture which makes up a very large part of the city. A quote which sums up the city quite well: Ottawa Citizen architecture critic Rhys Phillips has echoed these concerns, saying that Ottawa "looks like some tired little Prairie town on its last legs.”. Let’s get started with some of my favourite architectural monstrosities (AKA half the city once you go south of Wellington Street past the parliament buildings). University of Ottawa and surrounding areas The University of Ottawa flak tower also serves as a library from time to time. Giant complex of bland apartments south of campus. Lots of students rent apartments in these buildings. Downtown Core Lovely 8 or 9 story windowless block of concrete sitting right in the middle of down town Ottawa. Building takes up about half a block and casts shade all around it. I think it serves as a large mechanical building for a telecom in the region. Your average Government of Canada monstrosity built in the 1970’s. Usually packed with asbestos and featuring poor ventilation – as you can imagine employees are sick half the time. Unfortunately the Government of Canada owns a lot of these awful properties throughout the city which really the area a bad look. “In an era of political discontent over high taxes it was even a priority that the buildings not be cheap, but also look cheap so that visitors from the regions wouldn't feel that the federal government was wasting their money in Ottawa.” Here are some of the awful condos in the downtown core. No this is not the Soviet Union and more shocking is that people actually buy these with their money… Condo fees are insanely high for these types of building which probably reflects upkeep cost due to the age and cheapness of the building Another apartment The police station The library The National Arts Center, another giant slab of concrete View from the Parliament (lol we ran out of money for windows OR planning was so bad the building supposed to be behind was never built) Note that this doesn't even cover a tenth of the terrible crap in Ottawa. Multiply the asbestos filled bland government buildings and Soviet style condo / apartment towers scattered throughout the area and that should give you a pretty good feel for the city. Ottawa is a city where architecture goes to die. Deathreaper fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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Kowloon walled city is incredible and meritits own thread.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 02:10 |
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Deathreaper posted:I think Ottawa could fill up this entire thread. Most tourist locations in the city such as the Parliament hill, the ByWard market and the large number of museums scattered throughout the city don’t accurately convey the bland soviet era brutalist architecture which makes up a very large part of the city. A quote which sums up the city quite well: Ottawa Citizen architecture critic Rhys Phillips has echoed these concerns, saying that Ottawa "looks like some tired little Prairie town on its last legs.”. Let’s get started with some of my favourite architectural monstrosities (AKA half the city once you go south of Wellington Street past the parliament buildings). Looks like Detroit pre-Delta City.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 02:31 |
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That would be the city hall of Dallas, TX. Which probably also warrants a post in this thread.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 02:44 |
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having grown up in dallas, dallas city hall is the city hall dallas deserves
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 02:45 |
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CoffeeBooze posted:That would be the city hall of Dallas, TX. Which probably also warrants a post in this thread. I dunno, I kind of like the design.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 02:53 |
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BigBoss posted:Toronto isn't some summer vacation hotspot people visit for a few weeks. no but people who own top-floor condos usually own residential property in more than one place.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 02:57 |
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Reminds me of the humanities building at UW Madison Personally I like the style
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 03:01 |
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these two are dope, the rest of it is pretty hellish although i do have a perverted fondness for those 60s/70s recessed windows in a concrete matrix, like this one: quote:also the police station is rad, appropriately ominous quote:nomadologique fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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i don't know why architects ever thought it would be a good idea to build largely windowless buildings. like, what's the thought process there? how did that even become a popular school of design?
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 03:05 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauvais_Cathedral
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 03:08 |
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Arian_Samurai posted:Reminds me of the humanities building at UW Madison If prison is your style.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 03:09 |
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Volcott posted:I dunno, I kind of like the design.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 03:09 |
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IzzyFnStradlin posted:i don't know why architects ever thought it would be a good idea to build largely windowless buildings. like, what's the thought process there? how did that even become a popular school of design? Wikiped says: "brutalism became favored for many government projects, high-rise housing, and shopping centers to create an architectural image that communicated strength, functionality, and frank expression of materiality."
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 03:10 |
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Under repairs for almost 750 years
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 03:13 |
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Volcott posted:Wikiped says: "brutalism became favored for many government projects, high-rise housing, and shopping centers to create an architectural image that communicated strength, functionality, and frank expression of materiality."
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 03:19 |
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Strudel Man posted:It's good stuff. No bullshit. Also god bless you for never changing your custom title.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 03:23 |
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Popular Thug Drink posted:i'd love to live in a plate glass house with no curtains up on a great big hill where everyone can see it in a town with the most intrusive photographers per capita in the world That house is for people that want to get photographed for being rich fucks up on a great big hill where everyone can see them.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 03:24 |
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Ivor Biggun posted:Goons would design for maximum efficiency
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 03:48 |
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this thread is illegal and belongs in the architecture and urban design subforum
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 03:48 |
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"Nah, it'll hold"
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:02 |
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Say Nothing posted:"Nah, it'll hold" What's the story behind this? Earthquake + ground liquefaction? Or lovely engineering which resulted in horrible foundation settling?
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:16 |
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If I recall I don't think the building had any foundation what so ever.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:20 |
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Volcott posted:I dunno, I kind of like the design. The real problem with Dallas City hall is it was specifically designed to be really unfriendly. I mean not in the brutalist "It is what it is" statement, it was an implicate "If we make it looks really imposing and unfriendly people won't want to protest here" . Designing a city hall to be intentionally vaguely threatening and unpleasant to it's citizens is problematic.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:21 |
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Three Olives posted:
yeah during the immigrants rights rallies circa 2006 having tens of thousands of ppl outside the most aggressive building design ever was super weird
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:23 |
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I think some dorm on campus is built in the brutalist style or something.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:25 |
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it does exactly what it was designed to do. that's not really how the word "problematic" is used. troubling? perhaps. revealing? definitely. problematic? not really. systems of oppression have all sorts of problematic aspects deserving of inquiry, investigation, and critique, but that they are systems of oppression is not really one of those aspects (unless you are trying to decide what is and isn't a system of oppression).
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:26 |
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Honestly, tumblr has ruined the word problematic for me.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:30 |
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Volcott posted:Honestly, tumblr has ruined the word problematic for me. Please tag your posts. This is very triggering.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:31 |
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Deathreaper posted:I think Ottawa could fill up this entire thread. Most tourist locations in the city such as the Parliament hill, the ByWard market and the large number of museums scattered throughout the city don’t accurately convey the bland soviet era brutalist architecture which makes up a very large part of the city. A quote which sums up the city quite well: Ottawa Citizen architecture critic Rhys Phillips has echoed these concerns, saying that Ottawa "looks like some tired little Prairie town on its last legs.”. Let’s get started with some of my favourite architectural monstrosities (AKA half the city once you go south of Wellington Street past the parliament buildings). The Canadian Children's Museum is angry! But agreed. You have that featureless urban core surrounded by joyless urban sprawl in every direction (Carlington being the worst) At least it has the parks and the canal to beautify the place. On the whole, I'd say Gatineau is a lot nicer.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:33 |
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Nefarious posted: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 hel yeah that'd be rad as poo poo slate grey too
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:35 |
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down n out posted:Kowloon City was definitely an impressive failure though. Nothing like living in an ultra dense mega-slum. If it hadn't been torn down it would have stood for eternity. No room for anything to fall.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:37 |
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i wanna live ina loving concrete tomb
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:38 |
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All of Ottawa was constructed in the 1970's, apparently.
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Sestze posted:Brutalism is the ideal video game architecture style, as it provides the correct ambiance of oppression and totalitarianism while being constructed out of mostly primitive shapes.
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