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Alan Smithee posted:Has anyone posted the Dubai torch tower? Cuz I wanna post the torch tower That looked like a huge fire but nobody was killed. I think that just shows the excellent work of all the slaves that died building it. 
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Flagrant Abuse posted:Filed under "beautiful but moronic" we have Sagrada Familia. The construction of Cologne Cathedral took 632 years and it wasn't completed until 1880, but that's the only architectural failure about it. In fact it's so well built, that much of it even survived massive firebombing in World War II. Also it is quite pretty.  In the southern tower there is the largest swinging bell in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3L8z1z03bc Honj Steak fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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Honj Steak posted:The construction of Cologne Cathedral took 632 years and it wasn't completed until 1880, but that's the only architectural failure about it. In fact it's so well built, that much of it even survived massive firebombing in World War II. Also it is quite pretty. I went to an organ concert once when I was a kid. it was powerful and moving.
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Honj Steak posted:The construction of Cologne Cathedral took 632 years and it wasn't completed until 1880, but that's the only architectural failure about it. In fact it's so well built, that much of it even survived massive firebombing in World War II. Also it is quite pretty. How long would it take us to knock one of those up these days?
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I've learned from this thread that every building in some overly ornamented revival style from the late 19th-early 20th century should be preserved unto the end of ages. After a point I can start to see the perspective of everyone in the 1950s and 1960s wondering how many loving beaux arts railroad stations does the world need anyhow?
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1337JiveTurkey posted:I've learned from this thread that every building in some overly ornamented revival style from the late 19th-early 20th century should be preserved unto the end of ages. After a point I can start to see the perspective of everyone in the 1950s and 1960s wondering how many loving beaux arts railroad stations does the world need anyhow? This is a troll free zone, friend.
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Butt Wizard posted:How long would it take us to knock one of those up these days? Pretty fast but think of it like a sort of job program that builders poke away at whenever things are slow on other stuff.
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1337JiveTurkey posted:I've learned from this thread that every building in some overly ornamented revival style from the late 19th-early 20th century should be preserved unto the end of ages. After a point I can start to see the perspective of everyone in the 1950s and 1960s wondering how many loving beaux arts railroad stations does the world need anyhow?
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I love Chicago and I love Chicago architecture. This one's for my fellow Brutalism fans: The 17th Church of Christ, Scientist in Downtown Chicago. Inside, it's a quiet oasis with natural lighting coming in from above. Outside, it's surrounded on all sides by skyscrapers, and threatened by increasing demand for downtown property. The building is kept around thanks to donations from its largely affluent congregation, but as Christian Science continues to decrease in membership, the building gets closer and closer to being torn down and replaced with another Trump Tower-style monstrosity. Hopefully it sticks around for a while, cuz I think it looks awesome.
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Bunker church owns. Brutalism is one of the best styles ever devised.
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0haiThere posted:Maybe old Greek/Roman buildings were originally painted, but their colors faded over the years. Like how they used to paint their statues.  and yeah the akropolis was painted gold and blue around the top iirc
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Jmcrofts posted:I love Chicago and I love Chicago architecture. This one's for my fellow Brutalism fans: No it's not. It's facing the river. It is empty on, like, 60% of its sides. I mean, I dig the look, but it's not like some hidden gem.
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My old campus used to have some really well-recognised Brutalist architecture but one of the buildings was torn down to make way for modern glass canopy stuff instead.
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Evil_Greven posted:Brutalism is one of the best styles ever devised.
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Professor Shark posted:Builds super *liberal* lego building hmm this this here thing of modern art hmm seems liike my five year old could do it haha lol
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22 pages and no Seattle Central Library? Concentrate all firepower on that super star destroyer!
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Segmentation Fox posted:Concentrate all firepower on that super star destroyer! It looks like they already did.
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There's a good article on my local newspaper today about how much the lack of smog has changed the way our city looks over the last 50 years. Also might help explain why people were a lot more cavalier about demolishing buildings which look a lot nicer nowadays. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/manchesters-dark-history-archive-pictures-8722223
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It seems every university campus in England has to be weird and semi-brutalist. Here's the University of Sussex where I lived and had a love/hate relationship with the architecture.    Weird church/meeting room which was my favourite building:  Here it is inside, the bricks were glowy and cool:  I think this landmark is sadly gone, the cheap dorms called East Slope. I'm sure they were a temporary solution in the 70s, yet still housed poor students in what felt like cardboard boxes. Best parties though: 
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Jonad posted:There's a building in my town that the university bought and was planning to turn into dorms. Thing is, people were upset because the (actually very pretty) building was a former women's prison; it still had the wrought iron bars on the windows. The school decided to turn it into an archive instead. I'm being triggered from page 6. I swear Kingston never ever gets brought up on these forums except when there's a 'local abomination' thread and it's always the Princess Towers.
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Ypsilanti has what is lovingly known as the Brick Dick.
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netally posted:It seems every university campus in England has to be weird and semi-brutalist. Here's the University of Sussex where I lived and had a love/hate relationship with the architecture. Knowledge is overly oppressive, yet still somehow somewhat standoff'ish power. Just as it should be.
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I am phone posting, but if one of you lovely goons looked up the University of East Anglia, you'd not be disappointed.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:There's a good article on my local newspaper today about how much the lack of smog has changed the way our city looks over the last 50 years. Also might help explain why people were a lot more cavalier about demolishing buildings which look a lot nicer nowadays. Goddamn. I knew the soot was bad, but that's dramatic.
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Fojar38 posted:Speaking of the University of Toronto campus has anyone posted Robarts Library aka Brutalist Peacock? this is the best thing ive ever seen
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Three Olives posted:I've heard numerous, numerous people say they like it but god this thing is a turd: also I live like 20 minutes from this thing the picture doesn't do it justice about how ugly it is
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http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/empty-gestures-starchitectures-swan-song/8679010.article?blocktitle=Must-read&contentID=12701 An article with a whole bunch of contenders for this thread.
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Benagain posted:http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/empty-gestures-starchitectures-swan-song/8679010.article?blocktitle=Must-read&contentID=12701 I unironically like every building pictured  Maybe I'm not good at judging architecture.
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Look at this structure that "flagrantly disregard their settings, reducing architecture to mere superfluous spectacle, over-exaggerated and detached from reality". And after looking at the Eiffel Tower, check out Frank Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton.
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The Twinkie Czar posted:Look at this structure that "flagrantly disregard their settings, reducing architecture to mere superfluous spectacle, over-exaggerated and detached from reality". And after looking at the Eiffel Tower, check out Frank Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton. I mean the tour montparnasse is in that photo which is about 1000 times worse. Though the Gehry building is also super lovely.
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The Twinkie Czar posted:Look at this structure that "flagrantly disregard their settings, reducing architecture to mere superfluous spectacle, over-exaggerated and detached from reality". And after looking at the Eiffel Tower, check out Frank Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton. exactly, the critics ITT and online seem to be overly pretentious movie critics, or YLLS fashionistas.
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 I'd rather there be just one superfluous spectacle with at least some history behind it than several competing to be the center of attention.
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do Parisians still actually bitch about the Eiffel Tower?
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sweetmercifulcrap posted:do Parisians still actually bitch about the Eiffel Tower? The french goverment tried to sell it off for scrap metal years ago, but alas because so many shysters had already tried to do the likewise previous no believed the sale was legitimate, so they ended up just kept it. ...that's my story and none of you can prove otherwise. 
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That thing behind it is way more offensive to the eyes.
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Computer viking posted:Goddamn. I knew the soot was bad, but that's dramatic. Bear in mind this is what the city looked like in 1857, and the chimneys didn't really start coming down for another 100 years 
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Wasn't the Eiffel Tower originally supposed to be a temporary structure for the World's Fair? Also, the more I read about Frank Gehry, the more I hate him. "Hmm, what sorts of structures would best complement the stoic, monolithic epicness of the Battersea power station? I know! A pile of flashy, squiggly, flaccid-looking bullshit buildings with trees sticking out of them!" "The Eisenhower family hates my idiotic design for the Eisenhower Memorial and has withdrawn their support? Well gently caress them." "So I guess in grafting a ROM-like starchitectural cancer onto the front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, I'm also ruining the iconic setting of an iconic movie scene that everyone likes to visit? Lol." That's just The Guardian, too. Gizmodo (I believe) called him the Guy Fieri of architecture and I agree with that assessment. Benagain posted:http://www.architectural-review.com/essays/empty-gestures-starchitectures-swan-song/8679010.article?blocktitle=Must-read&contentID=12701 This is an eloquent, fleshed-out reflection of my exact thoughts on the state of architecture these days, especially the aspects of these sorts of buildings being put up with utter lack of regard or respect for context or working harmoniously with the existing environment.
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"Goons don't like Brutalism: The Thread." Brutalism f*cking owns idiots.
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Authentic You posted:This is an eloquent, fleshed-out reflection of my exact thoughts on the state of architecture these days, especially the aspects of these sorts of buildings being put up with utter lack of regard or respect for context or working harmoniously with the existing environment. I think the Zaha Hadid's Sky Soho, the first image in the article, looks mighty fine, and "works harmoniously with the existing environment" (soulless office buildings).
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This is good but looks like a flood waiting to happen. Also needs a dome or perhaps a menacing edifice.
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