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The B_36 posted: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. A bridge that breaks on a slightly windy day does indeed facilitate travel, in addition to looking fun!
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steinrokkan posted:A bridge that breaks on a slightly windy day does indeed facilitate travel, in addition to looking fun! Still better than the loving Garden Bridge. A private bridge paid for by the government, on which * groups of 8 or more * cyclists * walking between midnight and 6am will not be permitted
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blowfish posted:Still better than the loving Garden Bridge. The garden bridge won't be built though.
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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. Elukka fucked around with this message at 10:50 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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Depends on surface area, sun exposure, wind effects, etc. A dome would probably be more efficient than skyscraper valley. During the cold months you could use it similar to a greenhouse to save power, but open ventilation windows for cool wind during the summer. Technically it's the brutalist goon efficiency dream but with a spheroid instead of a cube, and also glass instead of concrete. Make it "smart" and it would climatize itself and only require maybe some additional cooling in summer. In theory anyway. Conceptually it is not actually particularly novel. Convention buildings/movie sets all do the same "pure structural building within controlled larger outer building" thing, but even changing those relatively simple things around generally isn't worth it compared to just moving to another (normal) building that is better suited.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 11:18 |
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I'm just happy that google are literally building a domed city - it's been a futuristic idea forever, so it's about time someone does it (even if this is a much smaller scale than most scifi proposals).
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Elukka posted:This is actually an interesting idea - you build an environmentally-controlled area to to build buildings in - but how much energy does it waste to do heating and all the things you normally do for buildings for the entire giant bubble? Do they have to do much climate control in California anyway? If its going to work anywhere, California is as ideal a climate as any to try it in I suppose. I'd be more concerned with earthquakes destroying a rather flimsy looking dome, but I'm sure they've taken that into account.
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DNova posted:What is a petition to graduate? Do you actually think that university has the interests of students in mind? Sorry, but all university wants is to bilk people out of cash. They spent the 60s sending rats thru mazes to streamline the process of loving over people who will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and wind up with nothing for all that effort.
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This one is the best if only because of its oppressive look. It's like a subtle gently caress you if you look at - the smog looking sky, the oppressive buildings, the industrial hell in the background, the concrete lead into a solitary figure sullenly walking to his death. This entire design is literally calling London out as poo poo. EDIT: Honestly the bridge doesn't even make an appearance really. It's drat near a second thought. quote:
Meanwhile this one looks like the guy was high on LSD. What in the actual gently caress? It doesn't even look architecturally feasible.
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The subsidies over here are structured so the universities get more money if you finish on time, to encourage them to do all they can to keep students from dropping out or meandering. This has its own downsides (streamlining and an incentive to not fail bad students), but everything considered it's not a completely bad idea.
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WMain00 posted:Meanwhile this one looks like the guy was high on LSD. What in the actual gently caress? It doesn't even look architecturally feasible. It looks a lot like a protein model of some complex cell surface structure, and they tend to be color-coded on a similar scale. Not that this makes it a good choice for a bridge.
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ZeusCannon posted:I realize this makes me a bad person with bad opinions but I think I like most of those. I enjoy the repeated shapes vibe going on. No, most people in this thread have poo poo taste, m8.
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Lamebot posted:No, most people in this thread have poo poo taste, m8.
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Those bridges are amazing. Here's an old plan for an airport on top of King's Cross station (right in Central London) from 1931. Designed by architect Charles W. Glover, the new Central Airport for London was launched in an article in the Illustrated London News in 1931, and Glover presented a model at the Institution of Civil Engineers in June. It was to be built over the railway sidings just north of St Pancras. It would have cost some £5million. It was envisonaged that planes would approach down a new ‘Aerial Way’ above the Pentonville Road, landing on one of the half-mile concrete runways (which look like spokes on a cartwheel.) In the 1930s, London had no skyscrapers, so the approach would have been obstacle free. The “Aerial King’s Cross” would see both regular and private flights; businessmen who owned their own small planes would be able to store them in garages under the runways, which would be brought up by lifts when they were going to be flown. Passengers were taken up to the planes in much the same way, via lifts from the buildings below which made up the rest of the urban airfield. Planes would taxi around the rim of the wheel until they got clearance to take off from the runways – which, due to the spoke design, were ingeniously laid out to allow take-offs and landings in eight different directions. There were two problems with the concept, though: firstly, the design meant the runways could not be lengthened at a later date, and secondly, if a plane careered off one of the numerous edges, it would be a catastrophe.
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sweek0 posted:Those bridges are amazing. Here's an old plan for an airport on top of King's Cross station (right in Central London) from 1931. All I can imagine now is how godawful noisy that would have been. Normal City Sounds+Trains+A Airport. Anyways have some another batch of unbuilt stuff, this time from LA, Houston,and Atlanta The Monument to Democracy- Port of Los Angeles Two designs for Bank of The Southwest Tower, Houston TX Spring/Peachtree Street Mega-Project , "Just North of the Bank of America Tower"- Atlanta GA quote:Way back in '91, Swedish architect G. Lars Gullstedt announced plans for two 65-story towers, a new park and other amenities surrounding the Biltmore Hotel. It would've been a multi-BILLION dollar project. Mayor Maynard Jackson headed the press conference; it would BEAT Rockefeller Center. By '93, Swedish debtors were calling on loans. Gullstedt didn't have the dough Santiago Calatrava's design for the Atlanta Symphony Center. 1960's Atlanta Baseball Stadium Proposal Tower Place 400- Atlanta GA quote:Circa 2006, real estate tycoon Wayne Mason — whose supposed Midas Touch with residential investments helped transform the pastures of Gwinnett County — got really inspired by then-nascent Atlantic Station. Working with a group of Korean investors, Mason bought up two ailing shopping centers totaling 42 acres near Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth. He called the vision "Global Station." It promised to reshape the suburban skyline and introduce mixed-use living on a scale never seen in suburban Atlanta. http://atlanta.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/04/whatever-happened-to-the-gigantic-global-station.php
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Have some ancient Le Corbusier brutalist opressive urban madness, Plan Voisin.
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Did those architects dig up Le Corbusier's plans to turn Atlanta into la ville radieuse? E: beaten
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Sparq posted:Have some ancient Le Corbusier brutalist opressive urban madness, Plan Voisin. I want to live in this, and listen to Front 242 all day
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Nckdictator posted:
This ended up being built in Philadelphia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Place#One_Liberty_Place They had a hell of a time with the heating and cooling because the windows were designed with a Texas climate in mind. But speaking of buildings that never got built: The American Commerce Center in Philadelphia, PA. This would have stood where they are building the Comcast II tower, but they didn't finalize anything before the economy took a gigantic poo poo, so it was scrapped. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Mar 3, 2015 |
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The B_36 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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Sparq posted:Have some ancient Le Corbusier brutalist opressive urban madness, Plan Voisin. I've seen this. China I think? I can't find good aerial pictures. http://listelist.com/cin-hayalet-sehirleri/ Found this along the way http://gizmodo.com/china-accidentally-built-an-apartment-complex-in-the-mi-1442963266
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DNova posted:What is a petition to graduate? i've never been able to find it i'm in my 24th consecutive semester now
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Phlegmish posted:i've never been able to find it i'm in my 24th consecutive semester now The requirement to go to some unknown office really existed for graduate students at my university. The office was located on the second floor of the abandoned former book store. If you did not personally deliver your intent to graduate form something like two months ahead of time you had to wait until next semester. In addition, you could only file the form if you were currently enrolled in classes. I made the deadline by about 2 hours.
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# ? Mar 3, 2015 21:51 |
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just wanted to pop in and say this is a great thread
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KoRMaK posted:I've seen this. China I think? I can't find good aerial pictures. http://listelist.com/cin-hayalet-sehirleri/ In the comments underneath in that article...
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might be noisy at night but good for that morning commute
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Iirc they caved in and moved out
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West SAAB Story posted:> spline Murder anyone that still uses this command.
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Weird I'm reviewing splines at this very moment, no seriously
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Weird I'm reviewing splines at this very moment, no seriously Nerdy autocad time... how many users know that there is an OOPS command? Not undo but oops, and be honest.
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Looks stable. gently caress, earthquake!
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Lets build a mall at the foot of the WTC, what could go wrong?quote:In 1992 the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, owner of the World Trade Center, commissioned Davis Brody & Associates to develop a master plan for the redevelopment of the Center’s public spaces. The public spaces of the World Trade Center complex included the large open-air plaza plus 500,000 square feet of interior retail and circulation space on four different levels. ISKCON Temple-Planetarium Theater of the Vedic Science and Cosmology (Surprisingly under construction) quote:The Temple of the Vedic Planetarium will be a stunning spritiual monument, dwarfing the already huge Srila Prabhupada Samadhi Mandir and featuring three giant gold domes. The middle, and largest, dome will house three different altars: one for the Gaudiya Vaishnava line of teachers and disciples, ranging from the Six Goswamis of the 15th century all the way to Srila Prabhupada; one for the Pancha-tattva of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and his associates; and one for Sri-Sri Radha-Madhava and their eight principal gopi servants. Center of India Tower (can't find any English language info) Birmingham Civic Center Part of it was built and still stands today. The Albert Tower, London No idea. The Newton Cenotaph Self Explanatory.
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I can't believe nobody has mentioned the Bucharest Palace of Congress, aka supposedly the largest building in the world. It's also one of the few architectonical failures that arguably got their author killed as it was a symbol of Ceausescu's arrogance, and the stage of his capture prior to his execution. It's one of those buildings that look better in photos. It's situated in the middle of a giant zone dominated by a monumental avenue that fails to impress because the huge open space makes it obvious just how poor the city is. It's a huge drain on resources, and it's very obvious, when you visit in person, that the Bucharest council can barely afford to pay for cutting grass in all the outlying areas. Also the whole complex is poorly thought out from pedestrian's point of view, as it's basically a never ending desert that's somehow located in the middle of an urban area. Oh, did I mention that tens of thousands of people were displaced in obtaining land for building this monstrosity?
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steinrokkan posted:I can't believe nobody has mentioned the Bucharest Palace of Congress, aka supposedly the largest building in the world. It's also one of the few architectonical failures that arguably got their author killed as it was a symbol of Ceausescu's arrogance, and the stage of his capture prior to his execution. We are the Borg. You will be assimilated.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 00:34 |
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I love goofy unbuilt towers. Adolf Loos' tribune tower design Museum Tower Louisville OMA
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Russians used to be great at them:
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So while I don't get the whole brutalist love, since I think it's a neat concept but living or working near a brutalist building is kinda opressing, I wanted to show you guys a neat brutalist building which is right next to my appartment in Berlin, Germany: This the institute for experimental medicine from the charite berlin, it looks like a battleship or something. Like I said I think this thing is ugly as gently caress, but the concept is neat. I also pass this thing frequently, the "Bierpinsel" It's brutalist as well, but they painted it in really bright colors and I love this thing. I found the first picture on some blog, which has a couple more pictures of Berlins brutalist architekture, not a lot though. http://www.findingberlin.com/berlins-brutalist-architecture/
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Paddyb posted:Russians used to be great at them:
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WMain00 posted:
Eh. The bridge itself looks totally normal. It's just got a crazy birdnest of multicolored tubes tacked onto it.
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