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Sharpest Crayon posted:This box o' beauty is the finely named Finlandia-house, a congress and event center in Helsinki: Not far from that is this awful thing, the Sanomatalo: Two common questions about this are: aren't they ever going to take the scaffolding off? And: who the gently caress thought this was a good idea?
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It's ... interesting as a contrast to the super-strict classisist parliament building, I guess.
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cyberbug posted:Not far from that is this awful thing, the Sanomatalo: Do they plan on heating the place? If they do, holy crap that will be expensive and I'm amazed that it was allowed in such a cold place.
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Sparq posted:Do they plan on heating the place? If they do, holy crap that will be expensive and I'm amazed that it was allowed in such a cold place. It doesn't have to be that bad - it looks like there's a separation between the open inside and the inside rooms, and if they also use double panes the rooms inside could end up with decent enough insulation.
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 00:02 |
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My absolute favourite thing about this can even be seen in the picture: look through the facade to the roof of the building. See the glass ceiling there? You're looking at the the giant space-wasting hallways that extend from top to bottom to crisscross the building, making sure to divide any usable space into odd angles.
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cyberbug posted:Not far from that is this awful thing, the Sanomatalo:
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KoRMaK posted:I'm not sure the best way to tell you this, but that look like load bearing scaffolding. It's never going away. Read that again. He knows.
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 00:29 |
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Oh hey, there was a Futuro house in a seaside suburb in my city! I think they took it apart and moved it to another city (they were modular). Apparently only 96 of these things were made, so they definitely aren't common. Hmm. Could do with a clean.
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Computer viking posted:Read that again. He knows.
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Say Nothing posted:Oh hey, there was a Futuro house in a seaside suburb in my city! I think they took it apart and moved it to another city (they were modular). does it smell like a mcdonalds ball pit inside
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 00:43 |
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Fojar38 posted:does it smell like a mcdonalds ball pit inside Like piss? The only thing I know is the owners moved it because they got sick of curious tourists and bypassers wandering onto their property to take photographs of the 'UFO house'.
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Say Nothing posted:Like piss? yes but a very specific kind of plasticky piss fragrance
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 01:10 |
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Skutter posted:
I think the architect may have been having some video driver problems
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 02:15 |
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San Antonio has a couple of real eyesores. The ones below are right across the highway from each other. Tower of the Americas which I'm sure was an architectural marvel when it was built -- it WAS the tallest observational tower in the US from 1968 until 1996, but it has since been surpassed. Now it just feels really outdated. Goddamn that is one ugly flying saucer. And The Alamodome, which I guess I'm not architecturally inclined enough to appreciate. dreadspork fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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You forgot one It would be sweet if SA could lure a team there George H.W. Cunt fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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I know, it's a Gawker site, but prepare to have your eyes raped by a trend in Bolivia Even more nightmare fuel from io9
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 03:03 |
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I like it
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 03:16 |
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I've been trying to find a futuro house to buy for years. Apparently somebody has the moulds and is setting up to make new ones, but he wants $200k a pop.
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dreadspork posted:And The Alamodome, which I guess I'm not architecturally inclined enough to appreciate.
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SaltLick posted:You forgot one You, me, flagpole at 3.
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olylifter posted:
I grew up in Toronto, and I think City Hall owns. I don't understand, though, how it could get so hot in the summer, since the glass-window side faces north, and is never in direct sunlight?
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dreadspork posted:San Antonio has a couple of real eyesores. The ones below are right across the highway from each other. Tower of the Americas, and a few other nearby buildings, are left over from the 1968 World's Fair (called the HemisFair). One of the pavilions has been converted into the U.S. Judiciary Training Center (where I've gone for several technical training programs over the years), and the a large round pavilion has been converted into a Federal Courthouse; we affectionately refer to it as the "U.S.S. Courthouse."
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I went to college at Auburn University. They like putting freshman classes especially in a building called the Haley Center. I think it counted as a hazing ritual. Because this is the Haley Center. Ugly loving building, huh? There's something you don't see on an outside view, though. gently caress. THIS. BUILDING. quote:Three weeks before Haley Center opened for academic business in June 1969, The Plainsman printed the layout of the now legendary Auburn labyrinth along with instructions related to zones and quadrants and counterclockwise zeros and towers that reads like a Masonic clue from National Treasure. You will never get used to this building. You will never get used to how each side of the building has a nearly identical entrance, how the windowless, claustrophobic hallways give you no landmarks to deal with whatsoever. You will never go a whole year without walking into the wrong class altogether, even on the wrong quadrant or FLOOR altogether. It's okay though. They understand. They always understand. You just expect your class to be interrupted at random by an exhausted freshman who has got the wrong quadrant or floor or room. Pit of goddamn hell, this building. And it's still not the building I had math in which was sinking measurably into the earth!
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RandomFerret posted:I've been trying to find a futuro house to buy for years. Apparently somebody has the moulds and is setting up to make new ones, but he wants $200k a pop. That's goddamn ridiculous
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Skutter posted:On the topic of ugly art museums and college campus buildings... This is the Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, MI. This place is awesome. Every one of the sharp protrusions has hidden windows so that on the outside it looks like a fortress but on the inside there is tons of light and you can see outside really easily. A+ imo and if you want to make fun of a building you should pick the hamster cage parking garage you can see in the background.
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blugu64 posted:You, me, flagpole at 3. The Alamo is the biggest tourist trap in the state and is hilariously awful. Better off going to Ripleys across the street
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 05:27 |
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Yeah, this is where Langoliers are made.
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SaltLick posted:The Alamo is the biggest tourist trap in the state and is hilariously awful. Better off going to Ripleys across the street It was nicer before they moved it to the center of town.
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Salt Fish posted:This place is awesome. Every one of the sharp protrusions has hidden windows so that on the outside it looks like a fortress but on the inside there is tons of light and you can see outside really easily. A+ imo and if you want to make fun of a building you should pick the hamster cage parking garage you can see in the background. Yeah, Broad's really nice on the inside, and a lot more spacious than you'd think. As was mentioned before, the walls don't allow for a lot of art so they sorta hang pieces above each other which sorta sucks but that's the price you pay for the ribbed metal parallelogram exterior. Also, Yeah that parking garage is fuckin gross.
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Midnight Voyager posted:I went to college at Auburn University. They like putting freshman classes especially in a building called the Haley Center. I think it counted as a hazing ritual. this is some Name of the Rose poo poo
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 05:45 |
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KABUL kabuuuuuuuuuuuul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dylSXKc-XGs
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Dr.Smasher posted:I know, it's a Gawker site, but prepare to have your eyes raped by a trend in Bolivia How do I smuggle tabs of acid into Bolivia?
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 06:16 |
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Ooh yeah, that building is ribbed for her pleasure.
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# ? Feb 25, 2015 06:29 |
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This is the new library in Halifax, Nova Scotia: I can't decide how I feel about it. I like it initially, and in a city with very little modern architecture it certainly is eye-catching. But the more I look at the top piece, the more it looks like a giant glass shipping container was just slapped on there. E: Retarded phone poster, image fixed. Brinny-chan fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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I'm surprised nobody has put Mukesh Ambani's house up yet. Named after a fictional island, it is teh most expensive private residence in the world. 27 storeys tall, worth at least $500 million perhaps double that, it is in South Mumbai, (Bombay), next to some of teh worst slums in the world. But never mind, his house has 3 helipads and rises far above them so he and his family won't be bothered by the poor people whose blood feed his insane millions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilia_(building)
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nomadologique posted:lol the "hip new thing" of mondrian-inspired rectangles of prisma color plastic Someone should tell Vancouver that because every condo going up here is like that except the ratio of glass to brick is reversed. That's going to age really badly in 10-20 years assuming the windows don't start dropping out.
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Jonad posted:
Holy poo poo I was going to bring up princess towers. I visited my friend in Kingston, Ontario, Canada for 2 weeks, he going to Queens at the time and I had the opportunity to embrace that architectural gem. They were so cheap they found a way to get one elevator stop to service two floors... How? Having each floor have a half a floor stairwell going up and down to each apartment. Elevator stops on floor 4, but you technically live on 4.5 and the guy below you lives on floor 3.5. Both of you have a half a floor stairwell to climb so you can get to 4 and use the elevator. Why did they do is and who in the city signed off on those plans? I've been inside of public storage buildings with better interior layout. Process towers completes the package with apartment numbers spray painted onto the hallway walls with a cheap stencil. Stay classy Kingston.
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RandomFerret posted:I've been trying to find a futuro house to buy for years. Apparently somebody has the moulds and is setting up to make new ones, but he wants $200k a pop. Didn't look hard enough bro: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11181473 Anyways: This is the Clarendon Tower, a fairly gross example of the "gut an old building and stick a huge new building behind its filleted facade" trend But beyond that, it didn't hold. It performed really badly in a major earthquake http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/6567773/Clarendon-Tower-a-horror-story quote:He used the Clarendon Tower, a 17-storey central-city building now being demolished, was an example of a ''textbook'' concrete building built after 1980.
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0haiThere posted:I think the architect may have been having some video driver problems wanna see that house
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Dr.Smasher posted:I know, it's a Gawker site, but prepare to have your eyes raped by a trend in Bolivia
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