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Tsaedje posted:How could you do Manchester without mentioning Urbis or the Beetham Tower? Urbis is a nice building and I really like the whole cathedral gardens area. It's going to be a lot nicer round there if they ever do anything with "NOMA", their plans look good but seeing as the Co-Op are behind it I'm not super confident.
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Tommy Calamari posted:The Dutch stations remind me of Euston station in London, where they tore down this...  That's a terrible waste of a nice design. Wtf happened in architecture where rectangles, concrete, and "what the future could look like" designs became a thing?
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The Euston arch was nice but it isn't very practical because it present a really obvious bottleneck to getting in and out of a very busy station. I think the issue is that after the war aesthetics and ideology became sort of frowned upon (for obvious reasons) and so the pendulum swung too hard in the direction of practicality above all other things. Neo-classicism was the architecture of an imperial ideology and for a society that wanted to break away from that and build something more peaceful and egalitarian tearing down arches and colonnades is an obvious way of achieving it.
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Ferroque posted:
A friend of mine stopped paying for housing and squatted the unfinished floors of that building for two years.
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Nckdictator posted:Also, here have some unbuilt American buildings. These are all loving amazing, I love Bioshock Infinite American Exceptionalism design
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Professor Shark posted:These are all loving amazing, I love Bioshock Infinite American Exceptionalism design can you imagine if they had actually built that insane obelisk tower in chicago? that'd have been fuckin awesome and we'd probably have a proper emperor instead of obummer.
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hahaha that's in england? good lord the british have 0 taste even when they are appropriating the gently caress out of other peoples' ideas.
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it's literally the worst pile of crap posted in this thread, although that macedonian poo poo runs it close edit: haha it's loving enormous as well. jesus christ, what a monstrosity 
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Feb 22, 2015 19:16
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Nckdictator posted:The second is part of the "Skopje 2014" project. they're just doing it to piss off the greeks
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thathonkey posted:can you imagine if they had actually built that insane obelisk tower in chicago? It's the best unintentional depiction of the Golden Throne I've ever seen. I bet somewhere in the design it calls for 25' doors.
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Birmingham UK has some wicked mad architecture. Behold old Library, which is going to get knocked down this year. It failed to get listed and saved.   This is the view from the roof, you can see how there is still traditional stuff there...  This is the Bullring, a bonkers looking shopping centre, it looks like a massive, dopey space slug.  This is the NEW library, which looks like a kind of ugly modern wedding cake.  Behold the new (still being built) station at New Street, which looks like a bulging eye of Sauron  This thing is called the Cube, and it makes me want to play Tetris.  I like the crazy mix that goes on there. 
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Feb 22, 2015 19:50
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For scale, that's supposed to be the Brandenburg Gate nestled INSIDE the triumphant archway in the street.
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Feb 22, 2015 20:03
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The acoustics inside the nazi uberdome would have been brain pan-shattering with Hitler shrieking away in there. Would've brought the house down.
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Backweb posted:For scale, that's supposed to be the Brandenburg Gate nestled INSIDE the triumphant archway in the street. Holy gently caress.
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Say Nothing posted:Expected that to end on a 'Your Mom' joke. I'm really puzzled by you calling this art deco.
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I'm Crap posted:it's literally the worst pile of crap posted in this thread, although that macedonian poo poo runs it close I'll take gaudy Greek to Rectangles, Windows, and Concrete ereythng
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Victoria has mostly ignorable architecture, but for some reason there's this gaudy concrete post visible everywhere in the harbour region: It's become my mental image of every concrete stairway that's been half-heartedly spruced up with some "jaunty" angles or perhaps round stones in part of the fill. It's perfunctory creativeness embodied in a 62-foot tower. And this thing's a gift too, so we can't just burn it down, we have to pretend we like it. "Oh jeeze, and it's really loud too... boy... thanks."
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This is the old royal exchange building in London, next to the back of England and surrounded by lovely old classical style buildings So opposite it they decided to build this boat.. thing.  I'm surprised there isn't more modern London architecture in this thread, all the new towers going up seem to be giant dick waving contests between design firms.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:seem to be giant dick waving contests between design firms. Literal dick waving. 
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Feb 22, 2015 21:59
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It's a gay Ikea store wearing a fishnet shirt out to the club.
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Rondette posted:
Oh come on. 
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Sparq posted:Literal dick waving. uncircumcised and covered in poo poo just like the populous
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Professor Shark posted:I'll take gaudy Greek to Rectangles, Windows, and Concrete ereythng lol you're a loving idiot
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Beetham Tower manchester, sometimes called the playstation tower (for sort of obvious reasons). It sticks out like a sore thumb, you can see it from miles away and when it's windy it makes a weird moaning whistle that you can hear right across the city centre. 
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Another London thing, the Tate Modern art museum in the former Bankside Power Station, a great bit of industrial art Deco design: So of course the new extension they're building on it is entirely sympathetic, ROM style. 
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Rondette posted:Birmingham UK has some wicked mad architecture. Behold old Library, which is going to get knocked down this year. It failed to get listed and saved. making brutalism look good by comparison is difficult to do, congrats birmingham
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Rondette posted:Birmingham UK has some wicked mad architecture. Behold old Library, which is going to get knocked down this year. It failed to get listed and saved. Don't forget the soon-to-be-updated brutalist triumph that is the Paradise Forum, good goon!
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Professor Shark posted:I had a friend who got super drunk one night and tried to walk home. He became disoriented and went to the wrong house, which happened to not have locked doors because In the US he would have been shot by some nut with a shotgun.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:lol you're a loving idiot Nah
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Don't forget that New York City tore down this: To build this: 
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The whole tearing down Penn Station thing was such a disaster that Grand Central got saved. Of course it doesn't make up for how terrible Penn is. Also, it's not architecture but some of Robert Moses's plans for expressways in Manhattan and building a Brooklyn-Battery bridge instead of a tunnel are pretty hilarious in how they would have messed up the city even more than stuff like the BQE and Cross Bronx Expressway did
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Don't forget that New York City tore down this: It makes me feel sick every time I think about it edit: the lease for MSG is up im pretty sure we're trying again
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Slaughterhouse-Ive posted:The whole tearing down Penn Station thing was such a disaster that Grand Central got saved. Of course it doesn't make up for how terrible Penn is. Also, it's not architecture but some of Robert Moses's plans for expressways in Manhattan and building a Brooklyn-Battery bridge instead of a tunnel are pretty hilarious in how they would have messed up the city even more than stuff like the BQE and Cross Bronx Expressway did   The first one is actually pretty nice, the problem is knocking down Grand Central to put it somewhere. I "love" how the second makes a half-hearted effort to preserve the station.
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slinkimalinki posted:I'm really puzzled by you calling this art deco. That's the style they are often labelled as, although it's really more of a bland, generic 1960s style. Real art deco.  1960s blah, often mistakenly labelled as art deco. 
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The back two thirds of the James Street Baptist Church in Hamilton, Ontario has been demolished so that a gross condo tower can be grafted on to it.  The style of the newer tower does not work with the church at all. This is the architectural equivalent of one of those custom cars that combines the front end of a '49 ford with a 90s Thunderbird. Maybe if it was all glass so that it reflected the existing church it would have worked better.  The main front stained glass window was being stored on site when a winter storm blew it over and wrecked it. 
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rocket_350 posted:The back two thirds of the James Street Baptist Church in Hamilton, Ontario has been demolished so that a gross condo tower can be grafted on to it. This is the best example of how terrible the world is in one easy picture.
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