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hungry for crepes n shit: Aug 17, 2005

ZeusCannon posted:

^ That poo poo makes me think of Deus Ex HR for some reason.

If we are talking funny looking museums I put forth the Hirshhorn Art Museum in DC. It's ... odd I don't hate it but that's probably because sometimes it has very interesting art in it.

While finding this I saw plans for projecting images along the outside which seems like a cool idea in theory.

This looks like you would go inside to watch people on motorcycles go round and round, possibly with a lion in a sidecar

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hungry for crepes n shit: Aug 17, 2005

Say Nothing posted:

Not enough concrete

# ? Feb 21, 2015 05:49

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

FizFashizzle posted:

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.

'Eh, the High isn't that bad. It has a pretty nice meorial to the 1962 plane crash.

This, on the other hand is Atlanta's ugliest building.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 05:51

Frostwerks: Sep 24, 2007; by Lowtax

does it got a cool name like a lot of city jails

# ? Feb 21, 2015 05:53

FizFashizzle: Mar 30, 2005

Nckdictator posted:

This, on the other hand is Atlanta's ugliest building.

Yeah that's a prison though.

Atlanta is now building a football stadium inspired by goatse so we got that going for us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dKvoL4qbE

# ? Feb 21, 2015 05:56

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

FizFashizzle posted:

Yeah that's a prison though.

Atlanta is now building a football stadium inspired by goatse so we got that going for us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dKvoL4qbE

Holy poo poo, I've never seen the concept. That's great.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 05:57

Frostwerks: Sep 24, 2007; by Lowtax

FizFashizzle posted:

Yeah that's a prison though.

Atlanta is now building a football stadium inspired by goatse so we got that going for us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10dKvoL4qbE

lets build a stadium that looks like a rafflesia

# ? Feb 21, 2015 06:01

Slugnoid: Jun 23, 2006; Nap Ghost

welcome to the newest trend in Home Building. building on almost every square meter of land in your allotment. Hope your neighbour 12 doors down doesn't set his house on fire.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 06:15

Fojar38: Sep 2, 2011; Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia

also here's a stupid take
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Slugnoid posted:

welcome to the newest trend in Home Building. building on almost every square meter of land in your allotment. Hope your neighbour 12 doors down doesn't set his house on fire.

got some nonconformity in unit 94

better inform civil protection

# ? Feb 21, 2015 06:33

Anza Borrego: Feb 11, 2005; Ovis canadensis nelsoni

FizFashizzle posted:

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.

Meier's buildings can be pretty great when studied alone (both exteriors and interiors) but fall flat when considered in context because he leaves them naked on a plinth surrounded by nothing but concrete. One of the things that is so great about the Getty Center is the relationship it has with Laurie Olin's garden and Robert Erwin's installation.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 06:50

the talent deficit: Dec 20, 2003; self-deprecation is a very british trait, and problems can arise when the british attempt to do so with a foreign culture

redshirt posted:

I judge architecture on whether it would look cool in a sci fi film or tv show.

Fojar38 posted:

I noticed Canada seems overrepresented in this thread.

here, have some motherfucking arthur erickson

eppich house and graham house, featured in innumerable bad television series shot in vancouver

the grossest building in downtown vancouver and also in whatever the city in caprica was called

ubc's museum of anthropology and also the ugliest building in any show it's appeared on

the law courts in vancouver and probably in xmen or fantastic four or something. this is the INSIDE

this is the outside

this was the fbi headquarters in early seasons of the x-files

starbuck lived here!

the talent deficit fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Feb 21, 2015

# ? Feb 21, 2015 07:08

icantfindaname: Jul 1, 2008

love your home posted:

Now here is a real gently caress up, it's called The Tower of David; basically half way through construction poo poo hit the fan economically in Venezuela and all of the financiers pulled out. Now it's an haven for drug dealers and prostitutes and kind of a like a modern Kowloon Walled City

when i become an eccentric billionaire supervillain i'm going to purposefully create kowloon walled cities and fill them with homeless people like ants in one of those glass ant farms

# ? Feb 21, 2015 07:27

anchoress: Dec 24, 2011; by XyloJW

Cthulu Carl posted:

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.

this is a good building

FizFashizzle posted:

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.

this is also a good building. loving philistines

# ? Feb 21, 2015 08:19

Anza Borrego: Feb 11, 2005; Ovis canadensis nelsoni

anchoress posted:

this is also a good building. loving philistines

Needs more site work to anchor the building.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 08:26

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; "From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.; Buglord

Fojar38 posted:

I noticed Canada seems overrepresented in this thread.

The Queen decreed that we had to build lovely buildings.

_{I think they're cool in a Cyberpunk way}

# ? Feb 21, 2015 08:31

Lord Ludikrous: Jun 7, 2008; Enjoy your tea...

This hideous thing is Arlington House in Margate, south east England. Its a testament to the horrors of 1960s high rise towers and the decay of the surrounding area.

To make matters worse, its one of the tallest buildings (if not the tallest) in that area, to the point where nothing else comes close. So you can see it miles away, like a huge foreboding monument of poo poo.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 09:15

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Improbable Lobster posted:

_{I think they're cool in a Cyberpunk way}

This is cool, in an MC Escher way.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 09:18

Aves Maria!: Jul 26, 2008; Maybe I'll drown

Job Truniht posted:

Worst loving building on campus.

Agreed, the E Center and everyone in it sucks.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 09:39

Dave Concepcion: Mar 19, 2012

the talent deficit posted:

this is beautiful, hardly belongs in this thread

# ? Feb 21, 2015 10:15

Tytan: Sep 17, 2011; u wot m8?

Tawd posted:

May I present the University of Kent's (UK) library?

A 60's-70's redbrick new university that a) was evidently designed to survive the thrid war b) rumored to be earmarked as a prison, if the whole educational thing didn't work out.

This is the nexus-throne where the god-emperor dwells

Ah my old uni... yeah there was always a rumour that Eliot and Rutherford colleges were actually designed by a prison architect, no idea if it was true or not though.

Anyway, behold the wonders of modern Cambodian architecture:

Here is the country's main government office and most inappropriately named building ever, the "Peace Palace" :

# ? Feb 21, 2015 10:27

Nostalgia4Dogges: Jun 18, 2004; Only emojis can express my pure, simple stupidity.

Is that a Babylonian temple is suburbia?

http://patch.com/california/lagunaniguel-danapoint/the-ziggurat-revealed

quote:

1. Its nickname is derived from the structure's resemblance to a ziggurat, a Babylonian tower having the appearance of a terraced pyramid.

2. The 1,300-acre site was originally selected as a location for five or six buildings to employ 7,500 people.

3. It was commissioned by North American Rockwell Corp. Plans began as early as 1966 to build an additional facility for the Autonetics Divisions Data and Information Systems.

4. Construction of the main building was completed in 1970 at a cost of $23 million.

5. What would have been the world's largest electronics-producing plant was never used because the number of defense contracts shrank as the United States decreased its military involvement in Vietnam.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Holifield_Federal_Building

# ? Feb 21, 2015 10:39

Ralph Crammed In: May 11, 2007; Let's get clean and smart

Rotterdam is just full of weird stuff. They had to basically rebuild entirely after the war so that's kinda jarring, architecturally speaking. I am no expert on architecture, but there's a lot of ugly stuff in Rotterdam.

This one is a library.

They're all in the same neighborhood actually. I don't live in Rotterdam so I haven't got the best mental catalogue of ugly for there, but I have been to the above neighborhood a few times. I live in a region relatively untouched during the war, but there's still eyesores like this scattered around.

Most things are just nice brick, but anything built between 1950 and 1990 is just a behemoth of concrete and bright colors. It's not crushingly depressing like stuff in the UK or imposingly threatening like the North American examples, but wow is it ugly.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 11:21

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009

kith_groupie posted:

Rotterdam is just full of weird stuff. They had to basically rebuild entirely after the war so that's kinda jarring, architecturally speaking. I am no expert on architecture, but there's a lot of ugly stuff in Rotterdam.

What the poo poo is this? Did the EU Parliament mandate that a certain amount of each member's building contracts be given to their most stoned architects?

# ? Feb 21, 2015 11:28

Sparq: Feb 10, 2014; If you're using an AC/20, you only need to hit the target once. If the target's still standing, you oughta be somewhere else anyway.

This one is my favorite recent building in my city, Valladolid. It's the regional government(Cortes) building of Castille & Leon, and is placed alongside one of the main arteries of the city. I think it generates a nice landmark in the city and, although a bit brutalist in its use of a giant fuckoff wall of white concrete, it does look gentle and isn't really taller than the nearby building, so it doesn't come off as opressive.

Goon Opinion? Y/N?

And then there is this unfinished piece of poo poo in the most privileged lot in the city. It's where people go drug themselves to hell and back, and it's been like this since the 90s.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 12:07

TheMostFrench: Jul 12, 2009; Stop for me, it's the claw!

kith_groupie posted:

Rotterdam is just full of weird stuff. They had to basically rebuild entirely after the war so that's kinda jarring, architecturally speaking. I am no expert on architecture, but there's a lot of ugly stuff in Rotterdam.

This is the first image of a building to make me physically uncomfortable for some time.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 12:44

Ralph Crammed In: May 11, 2007; Let's get clean and smart

They are more distractionary than anything else. I was sitting in that ugly rear end library trying to study, but it over looks the houses and I just keep staring at them and wondering "how does it look like inside? Is the weird shape a selling point or not?" I suppose it's good 'art' then because it makes you think.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 13:20

NihilismNow: Aug 31, 2003

Kavak posted:

What the poo poo is this? Did the EU Parliament mandate that a certain amount of each member's building contracts be given to their most stoned architects?

Cube houses. Basically cubes set on their sides on concrete stilts on a raised street above one of the main roads through the city center.

The effect is supposed to be a forrest of houses ( think the name of the raised street they are on is also something-something-forest).

Due to being a cube on its side they have pretty much no straight walls inside and it is really hard to use the space efficiently. They are actually suprisingly cheap to own (€170-200k) for a house right in the middle of the center next to a train station and the library.

As mentioned Rotterdam is full of this stuff. They just let architects do whatever for the past 70 years so it really is a time capsule of architectural styles that were hip/popular once. Honestly i like the effect and recently there have been some fairly pretty buildings built (Red Apple, MarktHal, De Rotterdam).

See this is across from the cube houses, so they really do fit in their environment of random-rear end-architectural-stuff.

NihilismNow fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Feb 21, 2015

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Phlegmish: Jul 2, 2011

i wonder if there is ever going to be a time where we look at these brutalist slabs of concrete as classical architecture worthy of preservation

# ? Feb 21, 2015 13:53

Computer viking: May 30, 2011; Now with less breakage.

Sparq posted:

This one is my favorite recent building in my city, Valladolid. It's the regional government(Cortes) building of Castille & Leon, and is placed alongside one of the main arteries of the city. I think it generates a nice landmark in the city and, although a bit brutalist in its use of a giant fuckoff wall of white concrete, it does look gentle and isn't really taller than the nearby building, so it doesn't come off as opressive.

Goon Opinion? Y/N?

I like it, at least - it has a sort of 50's le Corbusier elegance.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 14:11

Kavak: Aug 23, 2009

"This hideous former library is the only thing with walls thick enough to withstand the Super Mutant's weapons, so we have to keep it in good condition!"

# ? Feb 21, 2015 14:11

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

Phlegmish posted:

i wonder if there is ever going to be a time where we look at these brutalist slabs of concrete as classical architecture worthy of preservation

Would they actually need any? :v:

# ? Feb 21, 2015 14:16

Ralph Crammed In: May 11, 2007; Let's get clean and smart

I sort of like the library. Not all brutalism is bad, to be fair, it's just very, very difficult to execute.

This is the auditorium at the Technical University of Delft. It fits into the environment well I think and isn't overwhelming imposing. I think it works there though cause the campus is just a whole bunch of different styles.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 14:20

Applewhite: Aug 16, 2014; by vyelkin; Nap Ghost

kith_groupie posted:

I sort of like the library. Not all brutalism is bad, to be fair, it's just very, very difficult to execute.

This is the auditorium at the Technical University of Delft. It fits into the environment well I think and isn't overwhelming imposing. I think it works there though cause the campus is just a whole bunch of different styles.

This building is unironically awesome.
Also personally I don't mind when brutalism gets monolithic and "soul crushing" because I guess I don't really see myself on the "oppressed" end of things. It more makes me feel like the building is an expression of my power so being around them makes me feel really big.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 14:35

I'm Crap: Aug 15, 2001

NihilismNow posted:

You can't bring that thing up without showing people the absolutely bananas interior

(owns btw)

# ? Feb 21, 2015 14:59

Phlegmish: Jul 2, 2011

Applewhite posted:

Also personally I don't mind when brutalism gets monolithic and "soul crushing" because I guess I don't really see myself on the "oppressed" end of things. It more makes me feel like the building is an expression of my power so being around them makes me feel really big.

i don't mind imposing or 'oppressive' architecture at all, it's just that most brutalism is boring and drab and gray

now the cologne cathedral, that's the good kind of overpowering

the soot makes it look like something out of mordor

# ? Feb 21, 2015 15:25

Autechresaint: Jan 25, 2012

So apparently the guy who did the Tang Museum did the Austin City Hall. Looks like a stray vertex accidentally got moved during the planning and they kept it.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 16:07

Cthulu Carl: Apr 16, 2006

I'm Crap posted:

You can't bring that thing up without showing people the absolutely bananas interior

(owns btw)

I've never been inclined to do drugs, but holy goddamn.

Wanna pop something and just lay on the floor there while the walls start looking like those early 90s CG acid trip videos.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 16:20

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

Fojar38 posted:

I noticed Canada seems overrepresented in this thread.

A lot of it has to do with our population getting to a point where we needed real administrative buildings instead of whatever office or shack was left over from the late 1800's to the 1950's. It just so happened that brutalism was taking off when we needed all these new city halls, libraries, government buildings and universities.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 17:10

Saltin: Aug 20, 2003; Don't touch

Blistex posted:

A lot of it has to do with our population getting to a point where we needed real administrative buildings instead of whatever office or shack was left over from the late 1800's to the 1950's. It just so happened that brutalism was taking off when we needed all these new city halls, libraries, government buildings and universities.

Also, people from Toronto are whiny as gently caress about our architecture, which to be fair, usually sucks. Most of the poo poo that's been posted here from Toronto is at least interesting. The real travesty is the hundreds of cookie cutter glass clad boxes they've built here in the last 10 years.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 18:25