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its like a three olives post, ya see..
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I suspect a lot of ugly buildings really just come down to budget- a nice building costs more and you get less square footage, but an ugly building costs much less, and if people aren't generally going to care...
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Mar 2, 2015 00:08
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i care deeply
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Well do you care about our poor, modern architects being held back by timeless, pleasing design aesthetics for the simple reason that they *~*~look good~*~*? Architects are artists expressing themselves with millions of dollars on the line, no one wants to be limited to what *most* people think looks good  Why can't people see that grey rectangles are actually good?
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Mar 2, 2015 00:16
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Get used to it, this one's going to win Gehry reminds me of the parody architecture firm SVEN from HIMYM
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Mar 2, 2015 00:18
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that one's ironic right, it looks like a married to the sea comic
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Mar 2, 2015 00:20
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FreakerByTheSpeaker posted:Have any of you ever lived in a place like this? I always wondered how the hell you give people directions to your house, or find it when you're walking home from the bar after one too many. You don't walk anywhere in an exurb like that. They're not made for it, and there aren't any commercial businesses in walking distance anyway except maybe a gas station. You drive. Everywhere.
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Mar 2, 2015 00:35
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What in God's name E: Oh, it's obviously a joke and I'm dumb. EmperorFritoBandito fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Mar 2, 2015 |
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Mar 2, 2015 01:14
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Phlegmish posted:that one's ironic right, it looks like a married to the sea comic I love how the peak doesn't even meet correctly at the top.
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Mar 2, 2015 01:22
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That has to be taking the piss.quote:31 Rooms, extends the network using the architectural technologies that construct Helsinki’s interior citizenry: i.e. walls, doors, windows, and the machinery that defines atmospheric conditions. quote:Interior Citizenry - Collection of Atmospheres - Curatorial Hygrometry quote:The rest [of the rooms] offer an alternative notion of flexibility based on a rigid set of spatial conditions rather than temporal partitions. Over time, the rooms' dimensions won't change while the way they are used will, opening to new uses not prescribed in the design. It uses architectural technologies such as walls to partition rooms in space and not time, and the walls... stay the same over time.. whoa.
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Mar 2, 2015 01:48
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I think we should stop building things as they will never have history like someone said earlier. Just stop already.
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Mar 2, 2015 02:39
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 Legoland... the dorm complex at the University of buffalo. Its a wind tunnel, its ugly, it's all concrete. Its designed to be hard to get around so you couldnt assemble riots easily.
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Mar 2, 2015 02:50
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Professor Shark posted:I suspect a lot of ugly buildings really just come down to budget- a nice building costs more and you get less square footage, but an ugly building costs much less, and if people aren't generally going to care... This doesn't explain the insanely expensive ugly new buildings that have popped up in the thread, though.
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Mar 2, 2015 03:07
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Professor Shark posted:lol none of those things are true about modern architecture. Ugly is subjective. Efficiency in materials and energy performance is pretty cut and dry. Take a look at Lake|Flato, Thomas Phifer and Kieran Timberlake if you want to see (IMO) some of the brightest minds in the industry today.
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Mar 2, 2015 03:08
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tater_salad posted:
loving ugliest campus I have EVER seen. By a long shot. Just look at this poo poo: Even aerially it's a nightmare:  Main admin building at North Campus (maybe? I don't even loving know). It's perhaps the least bad of these photos, but in person it takes a poo poo all over humanity's collective face:  Random bullshit:  gently caress this hellhole:  Like a brick factory vomited after chugging Victory Gin:  The Center for the Arts is the ugliest building of them all, naturally:  gently caress UB North. Teketeketeketeke fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Mar 2, 2015 |
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Mar 2, 2015 04:02
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i like this make the world looks like this everywhere
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I do sorta love Legoland, though...
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Mar 2, 2015 04:06
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why was there never a construx centerpiece? < >
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But you cant kill yourself off of it because they designed it that way. At least there are those architectural columns that they took from the m&t building... those added some character to at least one building right?  E:Is imgur broken here now? Oh I see, did it fall or did they really mean to do that? Oh on purpose, hmm thats tragic. I think this thread can be called the poat college campus and government building thread. Not only is it ugly orange/ tanish, try moving around it with 3 levels of entrances and hallways to nowhere etc so you cant amass large groups in the hall. Is that buildings entrance on the raised terrace, or is it to on the ground level, or is it in the hillside? Maybe if I go in this building and up a flight of stairs then across the connecting bridge then down 2 flights we can meet at the entrance. tater_salad fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Mar 2, 2015 |
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Mar 2, 2015 04:14
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What I've learned from reading this thread is modern architects seem to despise symmetry.
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Mar 2, 2015 04:37
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I lived in this my freshman year. The elevators were terrifying. 
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Mar 2, 2015 04:45
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Architecture is superflous spectacle. Put the drafters in charge.
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Mar 2, 2015 04:46
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boom boom boom posted:Yeah, he probably at least went over the whole thing with Nuln Oil It's a little known fact but the guy to the right of Jesus was executed for 'Not Thinning His Paints' 
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A lot of people here posting some pretty cool if weird and ugly university architecture from big schools. It was always interesting when visiting big schools to see the buildings built pre- and post-60s. I went to a mid-sized private school in the Midwest. Most of the academic buildings were Neo Gothic (I think) built around the turn of the century, all have been extensively renovated but they seemed to try to keep true to the aesthetic of the original buildings. post expansion:  The LAS building:   The dorms were some pretty terrible buildings, though. In particular the freshmen dorm, which is the cube seen here:  It was built in the early 70s with mindless energy efficiency in mind. The floors were all arranged in a big square around the core of the building, which consisted of elevator shafts, stairways, and useless common rooms. Also, the windows were arranged in a way that totally ignored how the rooms inside were arranged. It seemed like half of the windows were obscured by the bunked beds in the individual rooms. Also, there were "corner suite" rooms with four people. A dark, depressing building for freshmen to live in. There was also the industrial sciences building:  The widows were pretty much 4" wide and went up the side of the building along the columns.
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glad to see a lot of Toronto representation in this thread, we also have a building that looks like this it's pretty ominous when you're right underneath it
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Phlegmish posted:brutalism is just really boring, if you're going to project power and dominance you might as well do something interesting like neo-gothic
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Zeno-25 posted:The LAS building: Wasn't this in Grosse Point Blank?
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Zeno-25 posted:A lot of people here posting some pretty cool if weird and ugly university architecture from big schools. It was always interesting when visiting big schools to see the buildings built pre- and post-60s. Is that Bradley?
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Hey de Blasio tear down Madison Square Garden and build this to reimburse us for the loss of penn station TIA. Also, the new WTC Transportation center owns, it exists mainly to impale people riding the Path, nothing of value will be lost.
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Haven't seen anyone post the Batman building in Nashville. Why, AT&T?  Can't see any other reason why It'd have the big silly spires at the top  .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Building_%28Nashville%29
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SirPhoebos posted:It's a little known fact but the guy to the right of Jesus was executed for 'Not Thinning His Paints' Repaint, thinner!
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Panzeh posted:Architecture is superflous spectacle. Put the drafters in charge. They're usually the ones that figure out how to actually make those hosed up shapes work in the first place... so yeah this gets my vote.
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A Winner is Jew posted:They're usually the ones that figure out how to actually make those hosed up shapes work in the first place... so yeah this gets my vote. Yeah those people you are talking about are also architects HTH.
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http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/mar/01/vienna-plans-worlds-tallest-wooden-skyscraper An 84m wood building seems suitable for this thread
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Jose posted:http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/mar/01/vienna-plans-worlds-tallest-wooden-skyscraper The Ottomans would have loved it.
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Vanagoon posted:Haven't seen anyone post the Batman building in Nashville. fun fact, one of the spires is actually a crane also, the nashville skyline gets used a lot in movies for "generic metropolitan" stuff in the background
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Jose posted:http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/mar/01/vienna-plans-worlds-tallest-wooden-skyscraper Uhh.. It'll be interesting to see how that burns when someone leaves the handle on their Chinese take-out and warms it up in the microwave for 5 min.
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Welcome to Medway, in Kent, UK. I present the Pentagon shopping centre, with large office 'skyscraper' on top With ominous, dank dark bus depot [but now defunct. Replaced with an outside, futuristic bus depot]    lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpBSyKY4JCU
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tater_salad posted:Its designed to be hard to get around so you couldnt assemble riots easily. They say that its for riot proofing but the reality is that universities are more interested in bilking people out of money and those maze buildings are usually where the office to petition to graduate is. Think cheese in the maze for rats to never find. gently caress every university on the planet.
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