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Three Olives posted:This kind of reminds me of Citigroup Center: here's the full story: http://www.archdaily.com/564014/ad-classics-citigroup-center-hugh-stubbins-william-le-messurier/
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Jonad posted:There's a building in my town that the university bought and was planning to turn into dorms. Thing is, people were upset because the (actually very pretty) building was a former women's prison; it still had the wrought iron bars on the windows. The school decided to turn it into an archive instead. oh that's much better
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:anyone else besides me who unironically loves brutalism?
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:anyone else besides me who unironically loves brutalism? From Page 5: concerned mom posted:goons love brutalist architecture news at 11
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:anyone else besides me who unironically loves brutalism? Oh no, a ton of goons have terrible taste too.
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IzzyFnStradlin posted:From Page 5: good boom boom boom posted:Oh no, a ton of goons have terrible taste too. no u
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never trust an elf posted:
Remember that episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where Ray's mother makes a huge sculpture and displays it in Ray's house? That's me right now, looking at this building. I'm Ray and my mother made this sculpture.
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Dr. Gitmo Moneyson posted:Remember that episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where Ray's mother makes a big sculpture and displays it in Ray's house? no can't say that i do
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thathonkey posted:no can't say that i do Spoiler: It looks like a giant vagina.
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ZeusCannon posted:Nice I had to move recently so now I have a balcony that I am learning to garden on. I do miss my back yard a bit, can't grill on a balcony where I am. Right now its filled with boxes for my bonsai to winter in so I look like a hoarder. I went there over the winter break!
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"The Rooms" is a museum and cultural centre looming over St John's, Newfoundland. It's supposed to evoke the old fishing shacks that used to line the coast, but it ends up absurdly dwarfing everything around it, even a cathedral:
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:"The Rooms" is a museum and cultural centre looming over St John's, Newfoundland. It's supposed to evoke the old fishing shacks that used to line the coast, but it ends up absurdly dwarfing everything around it, even a cathedral: ahahaha it looks like a tiny person village for tiny people with one normal sized house
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:"The Rooms" is a museum and cultural centre looming over St John's, Newfoundland. It's supposed to evoke the old fishing shacks that used to line the coast, but it ends up absurdly dwarfing everything around it, even a cathedral: It looks like that town has a giant living in it and everyone politely pretends like he's not 100 feet tall
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:"The Rooms" is a museum and cultural centre looming over St John's, Newfoundland. It's supposed to evoke the old fishing shacks that used to line the coast, but it ends up absurdly dwarfing everything around it, even a cathedral: If the Combine had come from the Maritimes, this is what the Citadel would've looked like.
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:anyone else besides me who unironically loves brutalism? Without a doubt. Flagrant Abuse posted:It's legitimately my favourite architectural style. I don't care what anyone says, I think it's pretty in its own way.
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brutalism is the fedora of architecture
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ArmZ posted:brutalism is the fedora of architecture I assume that everyone who likes brutalism has, at the very least, seriously considered switching to an all-soylent diet
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ArmZ posted:brutalism is the fedora of architecture Nah it's the Che Tshirt
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seriouspost: if you love brutalism, have you actually lived amongst it? i grew up around that poo poo and it is the antithesis of joy and corrosive to the human soul. it's the kind of thing that you would line up your leaders against and have them shot in the back of the head. human bloodstain silhouettes would make a lot of sense on the sides of brutalist buildings.
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# ? Feb 20, 2015 01:37 |
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gently caress a brutalism and suck my dilllz 8====D~~~~~~
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fyodor posted:seriouspost: if you love brutalism, have you actually lived amongst it? i grew up around that poo poo and it is the antithesis of joy and corrosive to the human soul. it's the kind of thing that you would line up your leaders against and have them shot in the back of the head. human bloodstain silhouettes would make a lot of sense on the sides of brutalist buildings. I live in a brutalist building, it has nice huge bay windows in every room but it is vaguely threatening from the outside.
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must be something about that rainy photo, but i'm amazed that was begun only 12 years ago (instead of 40)
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Tawd posted:What will the unemployable nu-hipster architecture students of tomorrow say about our steel-and-glass-and-odd-multicoloured-metal-clad buildings? (probably exactly the same thing) product of post-proliferation confusion, we hadn't yet developed the right kind of attention for all the shiny things available in the world and our scattered and incoherent ideas reflect that
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boom boom boom posted:It looks like that town has a giant living in it and everyone politely pretends like he's not 100 feet tall since it's canada, this is probably what would happen
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Dre2Dee2 posted:BEHOLD... The American DreamTM ! (formerly known as XANADU) One thing this picture fails to convey is that the complex, painted with red and blue rectangles, is surrounded by stacks of red and blue shipping crates for miles in every direction. Someone decided to build a supermall in the middle of a shipping center and then camouflage it as said shipping center.
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nomadologique posted:must be something about that rainy photo, but i'm amazed that was begun only 12 years ago (instead of 40) Tbh it's kinda grown on me over the years in the same way goatse has
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ArmZ posted:brutalism is the fedora of architecture
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Three Olives posted:I have one of those fake dog grass patches on my balcony, I thought about doing fake grass in the whole area but I figured I could keep my dogs confined to the one grass area that they are allowed to pee on so I haven't. I do garden out there though, can't wait for it to warm up a little bit and replant. I mean its real topical and all but still.... Nice place though, wanna hang out on it when your not there
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Frosted Flake posted:It is. I like how in the
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fyodor posted:Case Study House #22 in Los Angeles, aka the Stahl House is wildly impractical but is impressive as all heck much like Falling Water: drat straight, I'd want my porno house to have a tacky bathroom too
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The Olympic Stadium in Montreal is pretty awful. Way over budget, took forever to complete, and it is structurally unsound. It's only saving grace is that I'm pretty sure it's design was alluded to in the art for Pink Floyd's The Wall quote:The Montreal show, 6 July 1977, the final performance of the tour, ended with Pink Floyd performing a blues jam as the roadies dismantled the instruments in front of the insatiable audience who refused to let the band leave the stadium. A small riot at the front of the stage followed the band's eventual exit. Earlier that night, Waters spat in the face of a disruptive fan;[3] The Wall grew out of Waters' thoughts about this incident, particularly his growing awareness that stardom had alienated him from his audience.[4] So it's kinda neat that the location of the incident that triggered The Wall was later used as the setting of The Trial, where the album's protagonist is forced to tear down the eponymous wall and end his isolation. Could also be a big coincidence because the tower wasn't finished construction when Pink Floyd played there. However, the finished design was used in all the promotional material for the stadium.
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http://www.vagabondjourney.com/new-south-china-mall-the-worlds-largest-mall-is-still-99-deserted/ Some developer in China decided to build a mall twice the size of the Mall of America as a giant dickwaving monument to Chinese capitalism. He picks his home city for the site, ignoring that the population is mostly poor factory workers, and then builds it out in an area where barely anyone lives and its a giant pain in the rear end to get to. It opens with 99% vacancy and years later hasn't improved. The government has taken over and is trying to relocate the city center to provide it with a nearby customer base.
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Flagrant Abuse posted:Filed under "beautiful but moronic" we have Sagrada Familia. The plans for this building were destroyed in the 30s, and they kept building it.
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Job Truniht posted:
"where are we going to put the HVAC units? more like where aren't we?" Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Feb 20, 2015 |
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I work in the industry and this thread is very much my poo poo.Three Olives posted:
TBF it's a pretty sexy building. They're also supposed to be renovating the facade soon to help deal with the reflectivity issue, after several years of throwing tantrums at the Nasher. They still continue to sell units, albeit at a very slow pace. CoffeeBooze posted:That would be the city hall of Dallas, TX. Which probably also warrants a post in this thread. This building is such a poo poo show, but the "civic plaza" out front really takes the cake. It's one of the most brutally oppressive public open spaces in Dallas. Rick Rickshaw posted:
It wasn't planned for dismantling, the general contractor used the wrong reinforcing in the columns and the building could only be half as tall as it was supposed to be. Foster took his name off the building, MGM sued the GC and they tore it down. e: It was a real shame too, it would have been a very elegant addition to the architectural freakshow that is CityCenter. Anza Borrego fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Feb 20, 2015 |
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Dre2Dee2 posted:BEHOLD... The American DreamTM ! (formerly known as XANADU) So THAT'S what that loving building was, I passed it on the highway with my dad when we visited New York (we looped around through jersey). Huh. How about that. e: also yeah that one guy who mentioned it - I thought it was shipping containers at first, because it looks identical to the stacks of shipping containers that surround it. Also brutalism loving sucks, hth. Give me art deco or give me death. Nuclear Pogostick fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Feb 20, 2015 |
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Is this part of the ciudad de artes y ciencas in Valencia?
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that is the new World Trade Center transportation hub in nyc
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