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Aberystwyth University Arts Centre looks like this In front of it stands a giant monument to stanley knives and some stairs to nowhere  And the library looks like this  Ugh
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Battle Hall  was the best place to study on campus. The University of Texas has some history with bad architectural campus decisions. Instead of hiring world-renowned architectural firm Herzog and de Meuron to design a building for the Blanton Museum of Art, they instead chose to adhere to the "campus master plan", which is basically "every building must be tan brick with a stupid spanish tile roof". So instead of getting this incredible design that a ton of thought and integrated design went into, we got another tan brick building with a stupid spanish tile roof. The Dean of Architecture at the time actually resigned in part because of that decision.
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Feb 20, 2015 22:20
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this building, the macnamera alumni center, is actually really weird, because it gives off every impression of being like that Canadian museum monstrosity where they added that giant polygon decades later, but nope it was all designed to be like that. really hosed up imo
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Some bad opinions on architecture ITT. Some of this is right on but a lot of these buildings are totally unremarkable.Applewhite posted:The Tang makes Brutalism look like Art Deco. That looks like a completely normal contemporary museum space. I don't think you really get architecture. Boston City Hall has a terrible interior with few windows in the interior space, lots of concrete and hardly any natural light. This is a bad interior.  cubicle gangster posted:zaha hadid is a pretty household name. she recently got really bad though and her new buildings are either poo poo or look like bad copies of stuff u.n. studio did 10 years ago. Most of those guys are well past midcareer, with the exception of Bjarke, who is the current Golden Child. He gets the big idea and knows how to sell. His buildings are a bit wonky but whatever. Piano is a pretty great craftsman. The Nasher is an amazing museum; the Chicago Museum of Art is pretty amazing and the photos of the new expansion of the Harvard museum is pretty dope. He hates landscape though, so he loses a bit of luster for me. Rem is a visionary thinker but his work is not constructed very well. Jonathan Prince Ramus is carrying his torch fairly well, the Wyly is cool although the site work is poo poo. Thom Mayne @ Morphosis is growing up and starting to do real buildings. Michael Rotondi, who split from Mayne, continues to do interesting work. Brad Cloepfil @ Allied Works is doing good stuff. Steven Holl makes cool buildings but is a poo poo urban designer. John Pickard @ PCA is killing the skyscraper game right now. Pelli Clarke Pelli continues to make interesting commercial buildings. Tom Phifer is a Meier protege who is also killing it right now. MAD is also doing cool stuff, mostly in China. Zaha can loving rot, her recent spate of buildings are so bad. The arena in Japan is so totally devoid of context it's embarassing. I didn't like Liebeskind's work until I visited the Denver Musuem of Art. It's not efficient at all (and sometimes makes people experience vertigo) but they really get the craft and execute incredibly well. Applewhite posted:Googled the "architect" who "designed" the Tang so I could send him a strongly worded letter. Predock did an amazing job with the Petco Park, it's really amazing for a baseball stadium. Not a Children posted:I don't understand how you can build something that big, ostensibly for public display of collected materials, and then have loving NOTHING INSIDE Liebeskind, like many famous architects including Gehry and Calatrava, can often breathe new life into institutions through their work. They generate interest, spark conversation and often invigorate fundraising and philanthropy. The buildings are often regarded as sculptural objects in and of themselves. The "Bilbao Effect" is very real.
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I find that I like everything in this thread on the principle that at least people are trying to do something interesting.
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Noggin Monkey posted:Some bad opinions on architecture ITT. Some of this is right on but a lot of these buildings are totally unremarkable.  Jesus dude. A museum should not be full of oddly angled, poorly laid out empty spaces. If you want a sculpture, make a sculpture. Don't ruin public spaces in the name of pretentiousness.
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On the other hand it definitely got the ROM noticed when before it largely blended in to the Medieval Gothic University of Toronto campus.
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Frosted Flake posted:
Yep, because buildings totally don't symbolize the aspirations of a city, community or institution and are only machines for displaying art.  You also don't seem to recognize that many of this buildings are funded by private investors and philanthropists who clearly have an agenda in mind. I get it, Liebeskind's buildings are wonky, but just because you think efficiency is king doesn't mean that they arent meritorious pieces of architecture. The Denver museum is also inefficient but still serves as a great framework for the art it holds. I'm sure the docents get frustrated but the last time I was there it was absolutely overrun with people whereas the original wing of the museum was empty.
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Speaking of the University of Toronto campus has anyone posted Robarts Library aka Brutalist Peacock?
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holy poo poo it's glorious.
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Feb 20, 2015 22:55
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that is the brutalist turkey I have ever seen
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This looks like a season 1 or 2 matte painting of a planet the Star Trek TNG crew beams down to. All the open, useless space reminds me of that old thread of pictures taken from one of Mike Tyson's abandoned mansions. bartlebyshop posted:This second picture looks exactly like Davis Centre at UWaterloo, to the point where I am 99% it was taken there. The ATAC building in Thunder bay is a kit building, there are 2 or three more of them in Ontario at other universities. They are pretty much carbon copies right down to the crayola colour palette.
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Blistex posted:The ATAC building in Thunder bay is a kit building, there are 2 or three more of them in Ontario at other universities. And here I thought UW had uniquely ugly STEM buildings!
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bartlebyshop posted:And here I thought UW had uniquely ugly STEM buildings! I was about to post that that picture looked exactly like the Davis Centre. Instead, I learned something today! I suppose it only makes sense they'd copy/paste a building like that around a few areas.
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This isn't a failure at all. It's primary goal was to enrage Frank Lloyd Wright and it succeeded wonderfully at that, to the point that he tried to get zoning boards and such to prevent it from being built.
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Feb 20, 2015 23:13
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FizFashizzle posted:not checking to see if it was posted but behold, smack dab in the middle of paris I like it, just needs a little Eye of Sauron.
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Feb 20, 2015 23:21
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REMEMBER THE BRUTALISM THREAD
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I've heard numerous, numerous people say they like it but god this thing is a turd:
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Three Olives posted:I've heard numerous, numerous people say they like it but god this thing is a turd: Looks like someone left a Zumwalt laying around to rust.
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Malf posted:Aberystwyth University Arts Centre looks like this To be fair to both, they're 60's as gently caress and the additions to the art centre have softened it a little. If you're sat in it then all you've got is the view across the bay anyway.
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Drink Cheerwine posted:REMEMBER THE BRUTALISM THREAD There were so many soul crushing designs intended to break the will of the humans occupying them in that thread
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Ogive posted:I was about to post that that picture looked exactly like the Davis Centre. Instead, I learned something today! I think Ottawa U has an identical building as well.
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Noggin Monkey posted:
Holy drat that's depressing to just look at, imagine being stuck in there for loving hours
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My basement is a better place to host a city council meeting.
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Feb 20, 2015 23:51
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I judge architecture on whether it would look cool in a sci fi film or tv show.
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Fojar38 posted:Speaking of the University of Toronto campus has anyone posted Robarts Library aka Brutalist Peacock? "Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice!"
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QUEEN CAUCUS posted:Holy drat that's depressing to just look at, imagine being stuck in there for loving hours on the other hand i just visited the new DMV (RMV here) and it was lovely as far as that goes, lots of natural light, uncrowded, super efficient queueing system
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Feb 20, 2015 23:54
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Can we just make this thread redirect to http://fuckyeahbrutalism.tumblr.com/
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MotoMind posted:Can we just make this thread redirect to http://fuckyeahbrutalism.tumblr.com/ brutalism really feels more authentic when photographed in B&W
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The South China Mallquote:New South China Mall (Chinese: 新华南MALL; pinyin: Xinhuánán MALL) in Dongguan, China is the largest mall in the world based on gross leasable area, and ranked second in total area to the Dubai Mall.[2] However, it is largely vacant. Unlike other "dead malls", which have been characterized by the departure of tenants, the New South China Mall has been 99% vacant since its 2005 opening as very few merchants have ever signed up.  Also, it's hideous      
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Blistex posted:"Meanwhile, at the Hall of Justice!" That's in Cincinnati (and is not a failure) 
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Paul.Power posted:Saying all that, if you do want some actual crazy architecture, here's Cambridge University's Churchill College. Built in the 1960s and 70s (as a national tribute to Guess Who), with all the architectural decisions you might expect from such an era. Churchill College is one of the only examples of brutalist-type architecture done well. Of course it helps that it's well-maintained and not in the midst of other buildings from better styles. At least from the outside (I've only ever been there on visits to the Churchill Archive Center).
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QUEEN CAUCUS posted:Holy drat that's depressing to just look at, imagine being stuck in there for loving hours You won't be stuck ther for hours, there is no way there isn't a firing squad or lethal gas release in that room.
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Drink Cheerwine posted:REMEMBER THE BRUTALISM THREAD YES IT WAS GLORIOUS AND UPLIFTING
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Three Olives posted:I've heard numerous, numerous people say they like it but god this thing is a turd: I would buy droids from this place.
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Nckdictator posted:The South China Mall i've had nightmares about giant half cave half malls before
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Howard Beale posted:That's in Cincinnati (and is not a failure) I was thinking of the Stallone Dredd one. (Or was that the hall of Judges?)
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Fun fact about the ROM 'crystal': it was supposed to be all glass, and they'd started building the thing before someone said "hey, wait, its a museum, if there's light on the poo poo it's going to fade it and eventually destroy it, thus negating the purpose of a museum". So we got aluminum siding and the odd patch of glass. The inside is such a loving nightmare too. All the angles from the outside don't translate well into a workable space, so its just a nightmare trying to get around or for them to place objects. Typical of Toronto. Example: our loving moronic City Hall:  Looks idiotic, plus the inside is hilariously bad: its divided into a front and back on every floor. Front has the windows, back doesn't. The temperature in the joint is all out of wack, so by the windows its crazy hot in the summer from the sun, and they crank up the A/C so the people next to it don't die: the people in the back freeze. In the winter its reversed. The windows get so much sun that a City employee once famously grew a loving pineapple on his desk: http://www.thestar.com/life/homes/outdoor_living/2010/07/29/day_a_taste_of_the_tropics_from_the_comfort_of_home.html - I was working at the city when this happened, and I remember hearing that he'd been visited by the head of his division and the pineapple plantation was shut shortly after. We could have had this instead:  - This was up in the design contest, it lost, and became the Imperial Oil building, which I think is unbelievably gorgeous and is now becoming condos. Also, when they built City Hall, look at the beauty we lost: the old Land Registry Office:  So to sum up, Toronto is loving lame as gently caress.
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