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Squidster posted:How has no one posted OCAD yet? This is one of Ontario's most prestigious art colleges, and it is a blistering eyesore. That was a fun read.
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Last I heard, those two guys were working on an longer series in that world - and I happen to know that Oxley, the artist is working on a pretty kickin' architecture comic coming out in May. TORONTOTRON
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NihilismNow posted: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. I went in one of the cube houses which was open to the public. As you can imagine, it's got a terrible and cramped layout. The Markthal on the other hand is one of my favourite buildings I've ever been in, I didn't even know what it was when I saw it but spent a good hour just wandering through the crowds (it was a week after it opened). You can even live there! Squidster posted:How has no one posted OCAD yet? This is one of Ontario's most prestigious art colleges, and it is a blistering eyesore. Top of page two.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 19:25 |
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one of the best articles ever posted in LF was this thing that was about the history of modernism told through the lens of the construction of city hall in albany, NY. It was just loving cool as poo poo to read and basically was all about how hideous the architectural movement was, how it was a complete failure, how they destroyed downtown albany to do it, how hitler had kicked all the modernists out of germany, etc. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 19:34 |
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i miss the brutalist thread it was very brutal
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 19:40 |
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I unironically love Brutalist architecture. The scenes of 1970 deserted L.A. in The Omega Man are heaven.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 20:02 |
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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. sick dude, that is a spacecraft disguised as a building, probably part of the roswell project when they were running out of hangars at area 51
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 20:08 |
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Frosted Flake posted:One of Canada's best museums was thoroughly ruined. Oh wow... I'm pretty sure I was there in 2002 and saw the Vatican collection that was going around at the time. That is horrible...
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 20:27 |
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Squidster posted:Last I heard, those two guys were working on an longer series in that world - and I happen to know that Oxley, the artist is working on a pretty kickin' architecture comic coming out in May. holy poo poo
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 20:32 |
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This is one of my universities science buildings. they don't post pictures of the inside, so I'll have to try and explain what an eraserhead-esque nightmare it is. it has basically no stairs, the ones it has are on the very outside perimeter and are scary as hell. it theoretically has elevators, but I've never seen them. It's about 6 or 7 stories, and since it was built from the shell of a parking garage in 1946, it connects floors with ramps instead of steps. as you go up, there's more abandoned technical equipment and pops and hisses from all the labs and cooling facilities everywhere, and the blood red floor has long been stained to oblivion by spills of noxious chemicals. it also has several cadaver labs and I think there's a fallout shelter in there. we all love it, but it's an ugly son of a bitch.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 21:04 |
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Nckdictator posted:This, on the other hand is Atlanta's ugliest building. haha, I didn't see this until just now. I live down the street from this, i always refer to it as "that big ugly loving jail" when giving directions. it has always worked.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 21:07 |
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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: I like this
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 21:42 |
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High-school in my city. You can really tell it was designed in the 80s. Looks like it's made of plastic.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 22:11 |
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 23:08 |
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While we're covering dystopian public housing hell-holes: Cabrini Green, Chicago. Basically synonymous with "terrible public housing ideas". quote:Unlike many of the city's other public housing projects such as Rockwell Gardens or Robert Taylor Homes, Cabrini–Green was situated in an affluent part of the city. The poverty-stricken projects were actually constructed at the meeting point of Chicago's two wealthiest neighborhoods, Lincoln Park and the Gold Coast. Less than a mile to the east sat Michigan Avenue with its high-end shopping and expensive housing. Specific gangs "controlled" individual buildings, and residents felt pressure to ally with those gangs in order to protect themselves from escalating violence. I can't be arsed to find it now, but some articles I've read show the old concept art for how great a place it was going to be, and you can pretty much go down the whole checklist of its innovative features and see how each one just became nightmarish. For context, the horror film Candyman was shot in CG, which probably offered a huge savings in having to do almost nothing to make scary sets.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 23:09 |
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The Georgia Mental Health Institute building didn't gently caress around with letting you know its function. It's next to the run down Candler mansion for maximum likelihood of ending up in a horror movie.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:While we're covering dystopian public housing hell-holes: Our very own Tokaii (before he was banned) wrote about his time around CG in the 1960's quote:I've been shot at from Cabrini Green and I have shot at Cabrini Green. It was when Dr. King was murdered and the city went nuts. We were assembling within sight of the Green and shots came at us from somewhere in or near the place so of course we all fired back. The range was absurd for our .38's and .357's and I doubt if any of us had any idea what we were shooting at. That's why I kind of smile when I see that recent tape of the unarmed guy in the car out west where the cops fired hundreds of rounds at him and he lived. Once there are a few shots fired nobody wants to seem like a pussy so they all start shooting. As I recall the Green incident, nobody on either side was even hit.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 23:26 |
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sounds a lot like pruitt-igoe.
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# ? Feb 21, 2015 23:44 |
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the talent deficit posted:here, have some motherfucking arthur erickson I realize this makes me a bad person with bad opinions but I think I like most of those. I enjoy the repeated shapes vibe going on.
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nomadologique posted:sounds a lot like pruitt-igoe. someone said the secret word https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq_SpRBXRmE
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:23 |
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Frosted Flake posted:One of Canada's best museums was thoroughly ruined. sorry this is from a few pages ago but omg that is the poorest taste ever to taste. it does look like a piece of alien origami crashed into the side of the building. maybe that's what they were going for? if so i guess it's a smashing success
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Dmitri-9 posted:someone said the secret word Koyaanisqatsi owns. What's with Canada and brutalism? Too many architects buying Rush albums in the 70s? I went to RIT which is a brutalist brick hellhole in the middle of nowhere but it's not any more offensive than anything else posted here. We had the whole "it was designed as a prison" urban legend too.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:48 |
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ZeusCannon posted:I realize this makes me a bad person with bad opinions but I think I like most of those. I enjoy the repeated shapes vibe going on. it doesn't, they own
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:14 |
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Almost forgot. No Rocinha? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocinha
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:24 |
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favelas weren't so much as they just grew and spread
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:26 |
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unplanned organic shanty sprawl isnt laughable like One RIch Idiot's Hideous Vision
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:27 |
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the ROM's giant crystal is extremely stupid and impractical but its grown on me b/c 1) it unduly upsets people and 2) as far as deliberately-jarring melding of classical and modern architecture goes it's balls-out full-throttle full commitment, which is cool
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:31 |
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Ambrose Burnside posted:the ROM's giant crystal is extremely stupid and impractical but its grown on me b/c 1) it unduly upsets people and 2) as far as deliberately-jarring melding of classical and modern architecture goes it's balls-out full-throttle full commitment, which is cool It's full of wasted space though
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:42 |
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Dmitri-9 posted:someone said the secret word blaaaaaargh
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 03:08 |
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Nostalgia4Dicks posted:Almost forgot. No Rocinha? just tryna spice the place up a bit bro
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 03:09 |
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Ambrose Burnside posted:the ROM's giant crystal is extremely stupid and impractical but its grown on me b/c 1) it unduly upsets people and 2) as far as deliberately-jarring melding of classical and modern architecture goes it's balls-out full-throttle full commitment, which is cool Last time I was there it was starting to look shabby on the inside with scuff marks and dust on the walls. I think the weird angles and corners must be making it hard to keep clean. Meanwhile the huge old gold mosaic rotunda that used to be the museum's focal point still looks glorious.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 03:23 |
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Los Angeles PBS host Hewell Howser lived in this 70's throwback before he passed away. .... But it's on the top of an extinct volcano!
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 03:28 |
All Googie is trash
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 03:37 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:It's full of wasted space though oh yeah for sure, its a bizarre n wasteful addition, its just managed to grow on me despite me really hating it when it first went up
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 03:45 |
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Lets get some more terrible government buildings (okay,I actually like that one) Also, unbuilt Nazi buildings that would have collapsed if they tried to build.
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 04:41 |
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woah unrealized dreams
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 04:44 |
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Nckdictator posted:
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 04:48 |
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that's cool as poo poo and supremely evil I wish the nazis had been able to build their doom fortress
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# ? Feb 22, 2015 04:50 |
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They showed what that might actually look like in Wolfenstein: The New Order in one level, and it was very neo-Rome.
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I literally love every building in this thread. How can there be such hate?
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