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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). This is what my apartment looks like There are about 40 of pretty much this exact same building spread across this godforsaken city.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:40 |
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Deathreaper posted:
I lived in the building on the left for 16 years. Until they renovated, the hallways were carpeted in Chinese red with matching wallpaper. It was like walking through a blood vessel.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:49 |
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:50 |
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Efficient, but problematic.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:54 |
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Drink Cheerwine posted:this thread is illegal and belongs in the architecture and urban design subforum gip?
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 04:55 |
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I always liked the look of the metrodome. It's like a big pillow full of sports. Why the hell don't the build more stadiums like this? Ohhhhh
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:04 |
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Schwarbage posted:
drat shame this didn't happen during a game, specifically with the Cowboys visiting.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:05 |
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nomadologique posted:why is it wildly impractical? in addition to what's already been mentioned it's extremely cold when it gets cold and gets extremely hot when it gets hot. The building is an L-shape so the other part of the L that faces south is all glass-faced as well but it has curtains (a modification on the original design to due someone with some sense about comfort and privacy at the time). The neighbors house to the east sits down about 25 feet in elevation and this was deemed sufficiently invasive that, as a compromise, the original owners bought the neighboring house as well. all the case study houses have aspects that are not very practical and a lot of other elements that are pretty forward-thinking. they used off-the-shelf materials to make otherworldly designs by some of the best designers and architects of the 20th century.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:15 |
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Deathreaper posted:
MOVE ALONG CITIZEN
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:20 |
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5er posted: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. You could just do this all day long. Or maybe have a couple friends over. The bedrooms are much more private, they are only a huge glass wall on one side. Still, anyone in the living room can look across the pool area directly into the bedrooms.You'd need to be a pathologically tidy exhibitionist to live there. Great if you were claustrophobic, or desperately afraid of people sneaking up on you though. You'd never have to worry about spooky haunted house shenanigans, you can see everything. If a ghost wanted to surprise you it would have to wait in the bathroom.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:21 |
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yes those large windowless buildings are telephone switching centers, now probably converted to data centers. machine no need window.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:21 |
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Vernii posted:
Telecom. Considering what's inside it, it's a nice building.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:22 |
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Deathreaper posted:Downtown Core Love these old AT&T buildings and bunkers! Wheres the cool buildings thread so i can post a bunch
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:23 |
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fyodor posted:yes those large windowless buildings are telephone switching centers, now probably converted to data centers. machine no need window. Yea, personally I think they're pretty awesome, but its also amusing that they are giant windowless concrete fortresses in an age where everything else seems to compete to see how much glass can be shoved into onto the facades.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:24 |
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Vernii posted:Yea, personally I think they're pretty awesome, but its also amusing that they are giant windowless concrete fortresses in an age where everything else seems to compete to see how much glass can be shoved into onto the facades. I love them and every semi-minor city seems to have a version.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:26 |
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Vernii posted:Yea, personally I think they're pretty awesome, but its also amusing that they are giant windowless concrete fortresses in an age where everything else seems to compete to see how much glass can be shoved into onto the facades. Are new ones the same? Do they even still build new ones? The ones built with not-mob labor and costs have to last like 500 years
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:30 |
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drat now I know how allthem white buildings felt
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:32 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was always cool World's largest bonfire has plans that are orally passed down and at best written on a napkin and completely run by college students? What could possibly go wrong? whoops Was pretty baller to see when it was around though
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:41 |
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Haha I used to live in the Flat-Iron shaped building behind the building in the OP. I feel sorry for the poor bastards who owned in that building. When I moved out, there were tons of condo towers being built in that area, all around the building, loving up the amazing views that people had for years beforehand. Got to sting when you spend that much money on a mortgage, downtown Toronto property isn't cheap.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 05:57 |
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Vernii posted:
loving rules I love it
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 06:05 |
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I'd like to see the inside of one of those telecom buildings. How much of that space is being used? Are there really zero humans that work there day to day?
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 06:21 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8MEm3eVPNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6JjmSAiwsI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrryg7Ffygk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpLaZtWKOqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcWRGXmSS-k ...or just click here for more meades stuff.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 06:24 |
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MSPain posted:I'd like to see the inside of one of those telecom buildings. How much of that space is being used? Are there really zero humans that work there day to day? Instead of the normal height, each floor is 18 ft high.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 06:27 |
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Sharpe posted:I lived in the building on the left for 16 years. Until they renovated, the hallways were carpeted in Chinese red with matching wallpaper. It was like walking through a blood vessel. lol
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 06:58 |
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fyodor posted:all the case study houses have aspects that are not very practical and a lot of other elements that are pretty forward-thinking. they used off-the-shelf materials to make otherworldly designs by some of the best designers and architects of the 20th century. guess i'm not surprised, it's their job to take risks. some of those end up huge loving mistakes, not for a lack of trying; and some of those end up big innovations.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 07:00 |
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Vernii posted:
holy poo poo this is rad
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 07:00 |
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My loving university. Also consider this is in Canada, so try traversing this windblown hellscape at -40. Edit: the whole drat thing is sinking into the ground at like 30cm/year, thank god.
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Billmac posted:My loving university. Also consider this is in Canada, so try traversing this windblown hellscape at -40. I love all of this completely.
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Billmac posted:My loving university. Also consider this is in Canada, so try traversing this windblown hellscape at -40. I remember this. It's from Final Fantasy VII, right?
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 08:02 |
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That brutalist as gently caress building was called the "AT&T Long Lines Building" nowadays known by its more boring name of 33 Thomas Street. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street It's nuclear war-resistant! The half finished squatter building reminded me of Ponte City, Johannesburg, which I have spent the last two hours looking at pictures of. It's a giant cylindrical building with an open-air center. After apartheid ended, it turned into a violent drug/prostitution highrise where people threw garbage into the center core until it reached the fifth floor. Nowadays it's apparently a decent apartment building, but its terrible reputation precedes it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_City_Apartments GIS some pictures, it's pretty fascinating. This is the Bath Building in Raleigh. I think it was built in the very early 1970s. It houses state health department laboratories and specimens and so on, hence the lack of windows. It's right across the street from the current North Carolina capitol building, if I remember correctly. pants in my pants fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Feb 19, 2015 |
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we also got the cheese building, subverting your expectations of where windows go and how many entrances a building should have (1 is good enough) ty to pet riddick
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 08:05 |
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Worst loving building on campus.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 08:26 |
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Ottawa posting and no Lester B Pearson building?
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 08:26 |
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QUEEN CAUCUS posted:
This looks like it should exist in an 80s music video, not in real life.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 08:27 |
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Filed under "beautiful but moronic" we have Sagrada Familia. What makes it moronic? It broke ground in the 1880s and is estimated to still be at least ten years from completion, despite having been worked on for almost all the entire intervening time except during the Spanish Civil War.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 09:04 |
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Job Truniht posted:
In another context this would look cool. I'm just not at all sure what that context would be.
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 09:06 |
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my quick association of the word condo with the city of toronto came in handy when reading the op of the thread
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# ? Feb 19, 2015 09:07 |
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:In another context this would look cool. I'm just not at all sure what that context would be. re-education centre
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Flagrant Abuse posted:Filed under "beautiful but moronic" we have Sagrada Familia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Saint_John_the_Divine Same basic story. Beautiful building, though.
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ArtIsResistance posted:my quick association of the word condo with the city of toronto came in handy when reading the op of the thread welcome to toronto we have no culture just glass. There doesn't seem to be any pics of the finished trump tower, but rest assured the top floor spells out TRUMP visible from 20km away.
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