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as if those fruity millennials would ever riot maybe if someone used the wrong pronoun
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Spaceman Future! posted:Hey de Blasio tear down Madison Square Garden and build this to reimburse us for the loss of penn station TIA. Madison Square Garden is built over a cemetery. The restless ghosts there have cursed it so only lovely buildings can be built on it.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 18:53 |
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simosimo posted:Welcome to Medway, in Kent, UK. I present the Pentagon shopping centre, with large office 'skyscraper' on top What is it about absolutely horrible bus stations attached to Malls? The Yorkdale Mall bus station in Toronto has spend 80% of the last 20 years under construction, and it is still a grimy (straight out of the 70's) style station. Bathrooms, benches, ticket booth, lockers, maybe a few bullitin boards and a flatscreen or two on the walls, naturally some vending machines with hilariously overpriced wares. . . and if you're feeling creative have a sandwich/coffee shop with some free wifi as well.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 19:11 |
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Blistex posted:What is it about absolutely horrible bus stations attached to Malls? The Yorkdale Mall bus station in Toronto has spend 80% of the last 20 years under construction, and it is still a grimy (straight out of the 70's) style station. Bathrooms, benches, ticket booth, lockers, maybe a few bullitin boards and a flatscreen or two on the walls, naturally some vending machines with hilariously overpriced wares. . . and if you're feeling creative have a sandwich/coffee shop with some free wifi as well. The worst kind of public transportation attached to the worst kind of retail building in existence. Doesn't exactly attract the best clientele.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 19:32 |
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Say Nothing posted:Repaint, thinner! What about the Superdome? Did they tear that down? That was a horror, huh...
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 20:15 |
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Nckdictator posted:Madison Square Garden is built over a cemetery. The restless ghosts there have cursed it so only lovely buildings can be built on it. Also, the Knicks.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 20:16 |
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EoRaptor posted:Future architectural failure: So they're going to build a big circus tent and put buildings under it? Awesome. I bet that wont be noisy as gently caress when it rains. Also why was that guy on about the buildings being like Lego, was he suggesting the buildings could be moved? He never really explained that. The greenery and such looked lovely though, I'm all for incorporating outside inside.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 20:35 |
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Byker wall was built to provide housing for poor people and to provide shelter from motorway noise for a motorway that never got built. I drive past it whenever I go into Newcastle The area is so lovely that when companies go to install broadband or whatever the vans go in pairs so one of them can watch while the other does the installation since people would steal whatever they could
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Jose posted:Byker wall was built to provide housing for poor people and to provide shelter from motorway noise for a motorway that never got built. All over the world they make big weird walled-off spaces for undesirables. Welcome to people, right?
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 20:50 |
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After travelling a bit around Europe, I maintain that the UK has managed to produce the most soul-crushingly ugly post-war architecture. There is just something... off about everything: the colours, the proportions, the way buildings exist in relation to their surroundings... Pre-war, UK looked awesome, post-war, well, uhh, whatever it is, chances are it manages to look uglier than a block of Soviet-era flats in the outskirts of Tallinn.
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Naxuz posted:After travelling a bit around Europe, I maintain that the UK has managed to produce the most soul-crushingly ugly post-war architecture. There is just something... off about everything: the colours, the proportions, the way buildings exist in relation to their surroundings... Pre-war, UK looked awesome, post-war, well, uhh, whatever it is, chances are it manages to look uglier than a block of Soviet-era flats in the outskirts of Tallinn. agreed, a lot of their revival architecture form the 19th century looks awesome but after WWII it all turned to poo poo
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 21:28 |
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88h88 posted:So they're going to build a big circus tent and put buildings under it? Awesome. I bet that wont be noisy as gently caress when it rains. Also why was that guy on about the buildings being like Lego, was he suggesting the buildings could be moved? He never really explained that. I also like the concept because it's genuinely different otoh literal tech bubble
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 21:31 |
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Captain Cool posted:You could rebuild the inside structures more cheaply than you could rebuild a normal building since you don't have to worry about redoing windows, ventilation, and uh a roof I guess. Not that it's ever going to happen. I never considered this, it actually seems to make sense then. Thank you.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 21:53 |
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88h88 posted:So they're going to build a big circus tent and put buildings under it? Awesome. I bet that wont be noisy as gently caress when it rains. Also why was that guy on about the buildings being like Lego, was he suggesting the buildings could be moved? He never really explained that. The buildings are supposed to be modular stacks of whatever shape is needed, like giant piles of end tables. Like most of their peers, things like plumbing, heating, cooling, lighting, security, access or functionality are for others to draw in, and are below the consideration of true architects. The tent seems big enough and high enough that rain noise probably won't be a big deal, but watering the plants is going to suck.
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# ? Mar 2, 2015 22:47 |
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London needs a new bridge for the river Thames. Let's see the contestants and maybe some Brits can weigh in as well. http://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/25/74-designs-unveiled-bridge-london-river-thames/ A giant spoon to observe the scenery from the rim. I'm not sure what's to look at, but alright. Giant net that usually contains oranges. Does gently caress all for shade and looks like a great place for seagulls to poo poo on passerby below! Eh, not bad. Like Picasso attempted to draw the mcdonald's logo. "Timmy get down from there! That's not the path to cross the river!!" Timmy cannot hear you. Timmy is 500kilometers away on one of the many pathways on Deathbridge. that's a weird looking suicide net. What the gently caress is this M I N I M A L I S T
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 00:08 |
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Isn't the Thames still a shipping lane? How are ships supposed to go under Waterfall Spoon Bridge without getting water all over the deck? I like the rest of the designs, with the possible exception of the Coloured Thread Vomit Bridge.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 00:17 |
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Wedemeyer posted:
a final fantasy xiii bridge
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 00:20 |
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EmperorFritoBandito posted:What in God's name There's a document full of technical plans of the building. For some reason they decided to make stupid collage illustrations that have nothing to do with the proposed project. Also the concept is full of buzzwords and feels like architect's first building (they propose to take a standing terminal and divide it into plain square rooms, mostly on a single level architectonic plan). It's poo poo, but not a joke.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 00:32 |
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Imagine being the poor bastards that would need to paint the thread vomit bridge.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 00:36 |
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Bridges: It doesn't matter if they take you from one riverside to another - it's all about how many times the architects jerked it to his AutoCAD file.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 00:39 |
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steinrokkan posted:Bridges: It doesn't matter if they take you from one riverside to another - it's all about how many times the architects jerked it to his AutoCAD file. > spline
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 00:41 |
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Wedemeyer posted:London needs a new bridge for the river Thames. Let's see the contestants and maybe some Brits can weigh in as well. http://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/25/74-designs-unveiled-bridge-london-river-thames/ All the ones before this were purposefully terrible so whoever's decidng which design to use goes with this immediately, right?
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 00:45 |
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Good bridges don't call attention to themselves.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 00:46 |
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Wedemeyer posted:London needs a new bridge for the river Thames. Let's see the contestants and maybe some Brits can weigh in as well. http://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/25/74-designs-unveiled-bridge-london-river-thames/ All of those are going to look as dated in the future as Googie does to us now. Also isn't the Thames still incredibly polluted? I don't think shooting that poop water up into the air is a great idea.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 01:12 |
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Wedemeyer posted:
*splash, cry* *sighs* "Look's like it's time to fish little Timmy out of the Thames again."
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 01:14 |
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quote:In 1929, the Metropolitan Life Bldg, comprising the 1893 12-story construction, the 1909 campanile-like tower and the 1919 north annex, was becoming too small to house the continual growing activities of the biggest insurance company. A new building was considered for the full block site between E24th and E25th Streets, designed by Corbett and Waid... which missed to be the highest in the world. The proposed 100-story telescoping tower would have reached a climax in the mountain-like style, with fluted walls, rounded façades, like a compromise between the Irving Trust Bldg and the visionary Hugh Ferriss's drawings. But the 1929 crisis exploded and... was erected only what was previously considered as the base. From a rectangular pedestal rise multiple recessed volumes which have the particularity to become 30-degree angled from the 16th floor on each side of the building, resolving at last in an original dumbell-plan shape from the last setback. As the magnificent Ralph Walker's Irving Trust Bldg, the new Metropolitan Life Annex resembles as a complex structure, covered by a limestone-clad drapery, renouncing to the sacrosanct rigid orthogonal geometry. A brilliant success. quote:Proposed in 1925, the Larkin Building would have contained up to 110 stories at 1,208 ft. and was to be located on West 42nd Street (the McGraw Hill Building currently occupies the site) Sounds reasonable! http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2010/02/rootop-airport-east-river-nyc.html quote:First published in Life Magazine 1946: quote:After the victory of America and her “co-belligerents” in the First World War, a temporary victory arch was erected out of wood and plaster to welcome the troops home from Europe. After the arch was dismantled, however, discussions soon arose on how to permanently commemorate the war dead of New York, with a surprising variety of suggestions made. A beautiful water gate for Battery Park was suggested, with a classical arch flanked by Bernini-like curved colonnades, so that a suitable place existed to welcome important dignitaries and visitors to New York. (Little did they know how soon the airlines would replace the ocean lines). Another proposal was for a giant memorial hall located at the site of a shuttered hotel across from Grand Central Terminal, while others suggested a bell tower. Wonder whatever happened to this idea. http://money.cnn.com/1996/08/13/bizbuzz/trump/ quote:Trump plans NYSE tower NYC Federal Reserve Bank Proposal 1969 Grand Central Terminal concept Bonus stupidity.
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I think this plan might have run into opposition from Dutch beach hut owners.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 02:11 |
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Horace posted:
This would have been the most ambitious and expensive engineering project in human history right? That's a huge amount of water to drain, and thousands of miles of massive dykes to be built, any one of which fail and millions of people die.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 02:19 |
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amityville anus posted: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. What is a petition to graduate? Do you actually in real life believe that there's some office that nobody can find, where they have to go in order to get their diploma, or else they are forced to pay for another semester of university?
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 02:25 |
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Save Doggerland.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 02:26 |
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EoRaptor posted:The buildings are supposed to be modular stacks of whatever shape is needed, like giant piles of end tables. Like most of their peers, things like plumbing, heating, cooling, lighting, security, access or functionality are for others to draw in, and are below the consideration of true architects. I would think the PCBs are a bigger problem since, IIRC, that's going to be the google compound that's on a superfund site. It had a big controversy because the poor ventilation was probably slowly killing everyone in the building.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 02:40 |
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The last bridge we built over the Thames belongs in this thread. It had to be closed for two years because it was wobbling. Also, it just looks boring and dated now despite only being 15 years old: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge_(London) I say go for the vomit flower bridge. Whichever one we pick will undoubtedly go over budget and be a great source of controversy. May as well pick the one that will be most amusing.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 02:49 |
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This thread convinced me to dig out and re-read my copy of From Hell so thanks I guess.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 02:49 |
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Nckdictator posted:NYC Federal Reserve Bank Proposal 1969 Let the Beagle Boys try their luck on this!
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netally posted:The last bridge we built over the Thames belongs in this thread. It had to be closed for two years because it was wobbling. Also, it just looks boring and dated now despite only being 15 years old: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge_(London) Why cant they just build a loving bridge
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 03:08 |
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boom boom boom posted:Why cant they just build a loving bridge Why can't people just live in concrete cubes, and while they're at it, just stay on their respective sides of the river? Seriously, there's nothing interesting on the other bank that you don't already have on your side.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 03:13 |
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boom boom boom posted:Why cant they just build a loving bridge London is the arts and culture capital of the world. *farts loudly* *smells fart* *nods*
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 03:41 |
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Nckdictator posted:NYC Federal Reserve Bank Proposal 1969 Alternate reality 9/11, terrorists destroy NYC Federal Reserve Bank by driving a Greyhound bus into it.
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London: here's what you do. Build a real good basic bridge, but paint it international orange and call it golden. Works for San Francisco!
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