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Big ribbed dildo of the Arlington court apartments in Milwaukee's east side: And the prison that is Curtin Hall at UWM. Apparently it won some sort of architectural award for getting the most amount of rooms in the least amount of space. It's crammed between 3 different buildings.
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Nckdictator posted:Oral Roberts University is one of those weird places I can't decide if I hate or love its design. I imagine they're best from a distance, but those are cool. Very stark, but not featureless. If anything, it reminds me of old sci-fi; they wouldn't have looked out of place in the background of one of the original star wars movies. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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Speaking of dildo building above, here's the Florida state capitol building: Not only is it ugly as hell, but the main admin building/chambers buildings is a gigantic cock & balls:
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 00:28 |
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I've scrolled through the whole thread and haven't seen it, but how The Beehive isn't here I have no idea. NZ's Parliament Buildings got kind of derailed by the whole World Wars thing and the original plans were never actually completed. Towards the middle of last century, Parliamentarians needed a new building because they were running out of space and the old one was still not 'complete' in that it needed a tonne of work. Now they could have finished the stately and very fitting period building that had already started; adding the second wing to the entrance and refurbishing what they already had. This is the original building. Very government. Very capital. A suitable building for the seat of power in any country. Instead, they decided to say "As if bro" and opted to whack this loving thing on the end: A committee hearing submissions on the future of Parliament a decade ago or two weighed up refurbishing the Beehive or demolishing it and finishing the original building as intended, with a newer modern debating chamber. A well-known businessman submitted they should throw it into the harbour to create an artificial diving reef. This idea got a bit of traction because he strongly recommended they should do it while the House was in session. So yea, that's our loving stupid ugly parliament building. People like it to be ironic and because it's now a Wellington icon, whereas most rational people see it as blinding evidence that Parliamentarians are incapable of ever choosing the simple and best answer, even when if it means working in something that looks like a giant cow pat.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 00:35 |
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2/3's of that building is really nice at least.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 00:41 |
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Here's some churches which should be terrible, but somehow aren't. Angelus Temple, LA Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, UK That said, sometimes attempts to imitate old churches can go bad, very bad. Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, it's the religious equivalent of those terrible Macedonian buildings.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 00:43 |
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That first church looks like a baseball stadium. Is that intentional?
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 00:59 |
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Captain Candiru posted:House on the Rock deserves to be re-mentioned because no one really talked about whats inside. Like yeah, I guess it's interesting from an architectural stand point but if you bring your kids there it's something they never forget and it feels like it takes a whole day to see everything and is a mixture of strange/creepy and ridiculous. (I'm copy/pasting my own post from another thread) You forgot the impressive part... THE INFINITY ROOM. There used to be a small table and chair out at the end where Alex Jordan would chill and, I don't know, think insane millionaire thoughts.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 01:15 |
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I already told that poster to walk to the end of the infinity room because House on the Rock doesn't belong in this thread.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 01:20 |
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smackfu posted:That first church looks like a baseball stadium. Is that intentional? No idea , but a sports stadium is a perfect comparison seeing as it was one of the first church's to use mass media to reach people. http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/how_americas_first_megachurch_changed_las_echo_park_1.php quote:It was New Year's Day, 1923. Since first light, throngs of Angelenos had been streaming into the once sleepy neighborhood of Echo Park. By noon they were several thousand strong, singing spontaneous hymns as they took over the intersection of Park Avenue and Glendale Boulevard. They spilled into the green expanse of Echo Park Lake. At 2:30, an excited hush fell over the crowd as a woman in white fell to her knees and read the prayer of Solomon. Behind her was a new, massive domed building that looked like a theater but was in fact a temple. Her temple. The temple that would completely change its neighborhood. As the glass doors were flung open to the public for the first time, a reporter managed to ask the woman how she was feeling. She replied, "Today is the happiest day of my entire life. I can hardly believe that this great temple has been built for me!"
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 01:54 |
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Edit: Double Post
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 01:55 |
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Butt Wizard posted:I've scrolled through the whole thread and haven't seen it, but how The Beehive isn't here I have no idea. Still better than the Scottish parliament building.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 01:58 |
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ReidRansom posted:Still better than the Scottish parliament building. Guam has you both beat. After all, do either of those parliaments have a Pepsi machine?
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 02:04 |
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loving roundabouts
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 02:05 |
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Orlando had an historic theater venue: But they wanted a new lobby so they just built it onto the front: The result: Oh yes... wonderful. Now they just opened a new venue downtown:
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Nckdictator posted:Guam has you both beat. After all, do either of those parliaments have a Pepsi machine? We've got sweet hydraulics yo http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/Earthquakes/Sci-Media/Video/Strengthening-Parliament-House (it's actually a really cool feat of engineering and was of the first buildings to use base isolators. there's been some decent shakes in Wellington since but Parliament has been fine)
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I worked in north Orlando for a few years, and my daily commute took me past the Majesty Building. Or, as it's better known around town, the Eyesore on I4. As you can see, the bottom three floors are unfinished (and from all that I've heard, the interior is just an empty shell). I should probably point out that it's been under construction for fifteen years. It's owned by a local Christian broadcasting station and construction was started with $13 million in the bank and something like $30 million in pledges that dried up after it became known that the station's president has "invested" over a million dollars in property. As for how the building got its nickname, well. Location, location, location. The building, as its name suggests, sits right next to I4, the major north-south interstate running through Orlando. As you may have noticed, the exterior is almost 100% very reflective glass. And Orlando is very sunny. If you happen to be driving past the building early in the morning or late in the afternoon, say, if you're heading to or leaving work, you get a face-full of incredibly bright reflected sunlight. Beyond being ugly the building is a legitimate driving hazard in the area and I have no idea what the architects were thinking. And despite all that, the owners said in November of last year that construction is still ongoing. At this rate the first tenants will be settling in right about when the state is being swallowed by the rising ocean tides. Polaron fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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Computer viking posted:
Tulsa has a bunch of interesting architecture, both good and bad. ORU has both extremes. Some of the buildings are gorgeous, and some are tacky 70s crap. But there's a lot more than just ORU in Tulsa. Like Art Deco! So many of these awesome buildings in and around the city. Art Deco is one of my favorite styles, and Tulsa has it in spades. But wtf is this thing? It's hideous. (Apartments, apparently) And the BOK center is just...awful. Like a huge, metal pancake had sex with a crushed beer can. This place is the worst when you are driving near it on one of the nearby elevated highways at the wrong time of day. It's like a lens, focusing every last photon in your retinas.
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ReidRansom posted:Still better than the Scottish parliament building. always think those thingies they stuck all over it look like taser guns
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 05:27 |
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ReidRansom posted:Still better than the Scottish parliament building. It looks like the architect wanted it to be difficult for you to gauge its range and heading.
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Nckdictator posted:Guam has you both beat. After all, do either of those parliaments have a Pepsi machine? Our current governor runs the main beverage distribution business here, and is nicknamed 'Pepsi'. Also, that's our stand-in legislature building, the main one is a shell of a concrete structure wiped out by a typhoon almost 20 years ago, which has been surrounded by fencing in the center of the downtown area and is occupied largely by rats or boonie dogs. Who would probably be better legislators than our current bunch.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 06:19 |
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This drat well better be where the local Illuminati chapter meets.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 06:25 |
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smackfu posted:Yes, there is a current style called New Classical. this is some gutless conservative bullshit
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 06:27 |
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Wall Balls posted:this is some gutless conservative bullshit idk it looks like you can see the lady's bare boobs
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 06:50 |
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ReidRansom posted:Still better than the Scottish parliament building. Scotland doesn't deserve independence if they build poo poo like this tbqh
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Nckdictator posted:Here's some churches which should be terrible, but somehow aren't. Let's send Christians to the Colosseum!
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 07:57 |
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re the Scottish Parliament : Eh, the foreground semi-underground thing is nice enough; I like buildings that give the public some usable space. The thing in the background isn't all that, though.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 08:19 |
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Has anyone posted the Dubai torch tower? Cuz I wanna post the torch tower
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 09:20 |
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Alan Smithee posted:Has anyone posted the Dubai torch tower? Cuz I wanna post the torch tower why dont you because nobody reads threads anyway
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 10:30 |
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Wall Balls posted:this is some gutless conservative bullshit Builds super *liberal* lego building
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 10:48 |
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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. The Broad museum is cool and good. If you want ugly as sin buildings at MSU you want the Admin Building or anything south of Shaw.
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Abugadu posted:Our current governor runs the main beverage distribution business here, and is nicknamed 'Pepsi'. Can't say I knew that,thanks!
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Scotland doesn't deserve independence if they build poo poo like this tbqh
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ReidRansom posted:Still better than the Scottish parliament building. I genuinely cannot tell where the building is or what is going on there. Is that building with 6 different shades of grey made out of assorted shapes the parliament?
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Professor Shark posted:I genuinely cannot tell where the building is or what is going on there. They want their government functions to appear unobtrusive, so they adopted dazzle camouflage as their architectural theme.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 17:33 |
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I loving love this room. I just want to nap in it forever. I want to see a brutalist spire done up in dazzle camo. That would be crazy. This thread has made me realize i need to read up on architectural styles so that I know what I like and can express that.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 17:50 |
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This room isn't complete until there are ashtrays with thin plumes of smoke rising up from them and a Cray computer off to the side.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 18:38 |
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Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro looks like Liberace was given a shot at redesigning Stonehenge.
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# ? Feb 26, 2015 18:59 |
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ConfusedUs posted:And the BOK center is just...awful. Like a huge, metal pancake had sex with a crushed beer can. This place is the worst when you are driving near it on one of the nearby elevated highways at the wrong time of day. It's like a lens, focusing every last photon in your retinas. This kind of looks like a giant robot is throwing up in the bog. (Head and arms on the left, natch)
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