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Lucy Heartfilia: May 31, 2012

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.

Brutal.

That was a fun read.

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Squidster: Oct 7, 2008; ✋😢Life's just better with Ominous Gloves🤗🧤

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

# ? Feb 21, 2015 18:50

Cacator: Aug 6, 2005; You're quite good at turning me on.

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.

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.

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.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 19:25

FizFashizzle: Mar 30, 2005

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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axeil: Feb 14, 2006

i miss the brutalist thread

it was very brutal

# ? Feb 21, 2015 19:40

I Greyhound: Apr 22, 2008; MusicKrew Dawn Patrol

I unironically love Brutalist architecture. The scenes of 1970 deserted L.A. in The Omega Man are heaven.

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nomadologique: Mar 9, 2011; DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO

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.

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

# ? Feb 21, 2015 20:08

Kirk Vikernes: Apr 26, 2004; Count Goatnackh

Frosted Flake posted:

One of Canada's best museums was thoroughly ruined.

Before

After

It's hard to find photos that truly convey how awful the ROM is now. Especially the interior, which is huge and ugly and doesn't actually have any exhibits in it.

saw the

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...

# ? Feb 21, 2015 20:27

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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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.

TORONTOTRON

holy poo poo

# ? Feb 21, 2015 20:32

Low Desert Punk: Jul 4, 2012; i have absolutely no fucking money

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.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 21:04

Low Desert Punk: Jul 4, 2012; i have absolutely no fucking money

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.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 21:07

The 5th Foid: Nov 22, 2014; by Ralp

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

# ? Feb 21, 2015 21:42

Bro Chi Minh: Dec 2, 2009; by exmarx

High-school in my city. You can really tell it was designed in the 80s. Looks like it's made of plastic.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 22:11

Twinty Zuleps: May 10, 2008; by R. Guyovich; Lipstick Apathy

I'm Crap posted:

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# ? Feb 21, 2015 23:08

TapTheForwardAssist: Apr 9, 2007; Pretty Little Lyres

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.

During the worst years of Cabrini�Green's problems, vandalism increased substantially. Gang members and miscreants covered interior walls with graffiti and damaged doors, windows, and elevators. Rat and cockroach infestations were commonplace, rotting garbage stacked up in clogged trash chutes (it once piled up to the 15th floor), and basic utilities (water, electricity, etc.) often malfunctioned and were left unrepaired. On the exterior, boarded-up windows, burned-out areas of the facade, and pavement instead of green space�all in the name of economizing on maintenance�created an atmosphere of decay and government neglect. The balconies were fenced in to prevent residents from emptying garbage cans into the yard, and from falling or being thrown to their deaths. This created the appearance of a large prison tier, or of animal cages, which further enraged community leaders of the residents.[6]

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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Germstore: Oct 17, 2012; A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

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.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 23:25

Nckdictator: Sep 8, 2006; Just..someone

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

While we're covering dystopian public housing hell-holes:

Cabrini Green, Chicago. Basically synonymous with "terrible public housing ideas".

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.

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.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 23:26

nomadologique: Mar 9, 2011; DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO

sounds a lot like pruitt-igoe.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 23:44

ZeusCannon: Nov 5, 2009; BLAAAAAARGH PLEASE KILL ME BLAAAAAAAARGH; Grimey Drawer

the talent deficit posted:

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!

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.

# ? Feb 21, 2015 23:52

Dmitri-9: Nov 30, 2004; There's something really sexy about Scrooge McDuck. I love Uncle Scrooge.

nomadologique posted:

sounds a lot like pruitt-igoe.

someone said the secret word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq_SpRBXRmE

# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:23

thathonkey: Jul 17, 2012

Frosted Flake posted:

One of Canada's best museums was thoroughly ruined.

Before

After

sorry this is from a few pages ago but :lol:

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

# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:45

Shark Sandwich: Sep 6, 2010; by R. Guyovich

Dmitri-9 posted:

someone said the secret word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq_SpRBXRmE

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.

# ? Feb 22, 2015 01:48

pretty good aggro deck: Dec 31, 2007; Extinct!

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

# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:14

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

Almost forgot. No Rocinha?

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

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Dyna Soar: Nov 30, 2006

favelas weren't so much as they just grew and spread

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Ambrose Burnside: Aug 30, 2007; pensive

unplanned organic shanty sprawl isnt laughable like One RIch Idiot's Hideous Vision

# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:27

Ambrose Burnside: Aug 30, 2007; pensive

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

# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:31

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

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

# ? Feb 22, 2015 02:42

nomadologique: Mar 9, 2011; DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO

Dmitri-9 posted:

someone said the secret word

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq_SpRBXRmE

blaaaaaargh

# ? Feb 22, 2015 03:08

nomadologique: Mar 9, 2011; DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO

Nostalgia4Dicks posted:

Almost forgot. No Rocinha?

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

just tryna spice the place up a bit bro

# ? Feb 22, 2015 03:09

Fornax Disaster: Apr 11, 2005; If you need me I'll be in Holodeck Four.

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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