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That's a photoshop, sadly.
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Feb 21, 2015 00:19
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   You are a East German/ Soviet leader in the 1950's. There's a old Kaiser-era palace damaged from the War. It's possible to repair it but what do you do? First, you fire live artillery at it for a movie about the Battle of Berlin (have to make it realistic) then you have the remains bulldozed and then you decide to build your new parliament building on top of the remains.    Ok.. it's ugly but there's worse. Lets look inside.      In a somewhat poetic twist it was demolished in the 2000's after ti was discovered that East Germany built it full of asbestos.
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Feb 21, 2015 00:36
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we have a live architectural failure going on atm. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31562099
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Feb 21, 2015 00:49
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Lawman 0 posted:we have a live architectural failure going on atm. excellent. slaughter the rich
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Feb 21, 2015 00:52
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Hey lets take a look at the Cliff House of San Francisco! Pretty as gently caress. I bet princesses live in there or some poo poo. It's a seven story victorian chateau, so obviously yes.  And it overlooks the sea! Mermaid princesses!  Uh oh. Aw geez. It burned down.  Well clearly they'll replace it with something just as nice, right?  No. Nope. Just a loving block of a building. Completely uninteresting. Princesses can't live in that poo poo. 
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Feb 21, 2015 01:01
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Lawman 0 posted:we have a live architectural failure going on atm. The Torch is on fire? Who saw that coming?
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Feb 21, 2015 01:02
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South East London's Heygate Estate. An urban utopia, designed to have modern condensed homes circling luscious greenery, with no roads to help keep the area safe and quiet from traffic. A streets in the sky housing project, the way of the future! What really happened was a train wreck of a mostly social housing estate with little access for police vehicles and rising crime away from the sights of normal civilisation.    The last remaining resistant recently moved away and theyre planning to rip the place down. Incase anyone is wondering, the yellow graffiti at the top of the last picture reads "They buy your happiness. Steal it." someone blacked some of it out, though. a dmc delorean fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Feb 21, 2015 01:10
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Feb 21, 2015 01:11
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Nckdictator posted:The South China Mall It's just the McDonalds in there, isn't it? That's the only tenant, right? How soul crushing would it be to work at a McDonalds in a completely empty mall?
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Feb 21, 2015 01:15
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FreakerByTheSpeaker posted:Have any of you ever lived in a place like this? I always wondered how the hell you give people directions to your house, or find it when you're walking home from the bar after one too many. King of the Hill was a documentary I guess
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Feb 21, 2015 01:25
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I'd love to see some pictures of that American city with no zoning laws. Was that Houston or Dallas?
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Feb 21, 2015 01:40
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Frosted Flake posted:I'd love to see some pictures of that American city with no zoning laws. Was that Houston or Dallas? Houston. Their building boom is going crazy right now.
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Feb 21, 2015 01:43
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Hah! I work in the building right next to that, and saw the entire construction of the new central station during lunchbreaks. It really turned out awesome. And this is the building I work in   Built right after WW2 to fill in the bits of Rotterdam that Adolf and his gang turned into a parking lot. It has a road going through it to make deliveries, but is not really used anymore. Inside it's all concrete, orange bricks and steel. I learned to kind of love it though, in an ugly way. Here you can see the road entry on the lower left side of the building:  And an interior shot:  No, there is nothing wrong with the white balance of this photo. Anyway, there's some other hideous buildings in the area, I'll look them up later.
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Feb 21, 2015 01:52
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Frosted Flake posted:One of Canada's best museums was thoroughly ruined. Someone turned on noclip
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Feb 21, 2015 02:02
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International Log posted:And an interior shot: What's up with post-war Euro buildings and hideous white interiors?
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Feb 21, 2015 02:02
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Flagrant Abuse posted:Filed under "beautiful but moronic" we have Sagrada Familia. ive seen this thing up close. its really beautiful from a distance then you get up close and realise theyve put SANCTUS all over it in bright red loving plastic beer logo font letters and its so inhumanly tacky.
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Feb 21, 2015 02:08
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Fojar38 posted:Speaking of the University of Toronto campus has anyone posted Robarts Library aka Brutalist Peacock? still cumming over this
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Feb 21, 2015 02:18
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Fojar38 posted:Speaking of the University of Toronto campus has anyone posted Robarts Library aka Brutalist Peacock? What function does the "head" serve? Is it an elevator shaft or something?
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Feb 21, 2015 02:24
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FirstPersonShitter posted:ive seen this thing up close. its really beautiful from a distance then you get up close and realise theyve put SANCTUS all over it in bright red loving plastic beer logo font letters and its so inhumanly tacky. I've been several times, each a couple of years in between and it's really interesting to see the progress or lack thereof going on. The old sections of it are glorious with a few questionable bits but most of the new stuff is tacky as gently caress. The interior is pretty fantastic though, it looks like a videogame render.  
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Feb 21, 2015 02:26
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Angela Christine posted:What function does the "head" serve? Is it an elevator shaft or something? That is the university's rare book library, and all of that section is in the base below the head. I've been in there a few times and don't remember anything up there so I suspect it's literally just decoration. You can't see it from that angle but the building is two structures linked by a two story mezzanine. The head and shoulders is the rare book library and the main stacks are in the 15 story structure behind it. Here it is from another angle: 
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Feb 21, 2015 02:34
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FirstPersonShitter posted:ive seen this thing up close. its really beautiful from a distance then you get up close and realise theyve put SANCTUS all over it in bright red loving plastic beer logo font letters and its so inhumanly tacky. if i lived in barcelona id starting going to chruch again
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Feb 21, 2015 02:37
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How charming! Wait a minute, I know what this city needs...  
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Feb 21, 2015 02:52
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Is it acceptable to like most brutalism just for it being the only sort of retro-futurism that actually became a real thing? "Yeah I didn't get my flying car but I'm ok with this megatower that has ramps all over it plus this Sid Mead looking lobby." Kinda sums it up for me.
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Feb 21, 2015 03:18
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If brutalism is your thing, might as well go for broke and post the German Flak towers from WWII  The concrete was so thick that soviet artillery was completely ineffective, and American bombers gave them a wide berth when doing daylight raids due to the number of guns mounted on them. Apparently they could depress the 128mm guns enough to engage soviet tanks miles out. After the war they realized that trying to demolish these things would have been an undertaking almost as expensive as the invasion of Europe and left them.
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Feb 21, 2015 03:26
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Flak towers unironically own.
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Feb 21, 2015 03:30
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Blistex posted:If brutalism is your thing, might as well go for broke and post the German Flak towers from WWII Those look like they are in good condition. What do they use them for now? Office space?
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Feb 21, 2015 03:33
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Angela Christine posted:Those look like they are in good condition. What do they use them for now? Office space? Wiki says they use at least one as a nightclub. 
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Feb 21, 2015 03:34
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Fojar38 posted:That is the university's rare book library, and all of that section is in the base below the head. I've been in there a few times and don't remember anything up there so I suspect it's literally just decoration. You can't see it from that angle but the building is two structures linked by a two story mezzanine. The head and shoulders is the rare book library and the main stacks are in the 15 story structure behind it. Here it is from another angle: This actually looks kinda neat but it's probably because I'm only seeing it in isolation.
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Feb 21, 2015 03:34
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i love it. the interior is horrible though. part of my high school had that same kind of yellowing poo poo, from the 60s or 70s, hadn't yet been re-renovated. this seems like the way this building is meant to look.
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Feb 21, 2015 03:43
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Let's take a peek inside.  museums! 
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Feb 21, 2015 03:46
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Dr. Stab posted:Let's take a peek inside. That is a shitload of wasted space.
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Feb 21, 2015 03:49
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This one will look great in the post-apocalyptic nuclear winter.
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Feb 21, 2015 03:54
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:That is a shitload of wasted space. this is canada.txt
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Feb 21, 2015 04:28
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I noticed Canada seems overrepresented in this thread.
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Feb 21, 2015 04:31
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Knowlton Hall, home of Ohio State's school of architecture:  I mean, i guess it's an upgrade because when it was built, the school of architecture was in the shittiest, most run-down building on campus (I think it was Brown Hall and have a distinct memory of multiple windows always being boarded up), but drat. I was there once for a Spanish final after it was completed, and it's like a loving aircraft hangar in there, all bare concrete and steel.
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Feb 21, 2015 05:07
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Delivery McGee posted:Surprised the Ryugyong Hotel hasn't been mentioned. Glorious monument to the glory of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, tallest hotel in the world, shining beacon of Dear Leader's badassery ... well, that was the plan anyway. Construction stopped in 1992, three years past the planned opening day, on the building, with little more than a crumbling skeleton to show for it (big surprise, the concrete was subpar and it started falling apart before they could finish it.) And so it sat, a more accurate monument of NK than they'd like, for 16 years: Ahh haaaa. When I went to North Korea in 2007 the Ryugyong was one of the things we were told by the tour company not to ask our North Korean guides about. Like the hot topic list was "Don't talk about Kim Jong Il or Kim Il Sung", "Don't bring up who actually started the Korean War", "Don't talk about South Korea", and a few other political/historical issues and then "Don't ask about the Ryugyong Hotel" We were kept well away from it. Cat Hassler fucked around with this message at 05:28 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Feb 21, 2015 05:25
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Richard Meier designed the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. He won the Pritzker in 1984 for it. I dunno, I don't really think it has aged well.  It's also remarkable for never having an exhibit worth a poo poo, but if you're a BoA member you can go for free so there's that. Also they film Red Band Society there now.
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Dr. Stab posted:Let's take a peek inside. Well we got the giant gently caress-off front building space, what do we do with it? I dunno, stairs and beams I guess
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