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.

steinrokkan posted:

A bridge that breaks on a slightly windy day does indeed facilitate travel, in addition to looking fun!

blowfish posted:

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

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 also like the concept because it's genuinely different otoh literal tech bubble

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?

DNova posted:

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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Eh, not bad. Like Picasso attempted to draw the mcdonald's logo.

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What the gently caress is this

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.

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.

Lamebot posted:

No, most people in this thread have poo poo taste, m8.

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.


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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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

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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.

Mason's answer to Atlantic Station was set to include as many as 10 towers, to be built over several years. Early concepts showed the $700 million retail, condo and commercial village with a huge central entertainment area, replete with an amphitheater and exotic architecture. In 2006, Mason projected that construction could start the following year.

Instead, the Recession happened.

The whole shebang went kaput in 2008, when Mason declared that his South Korean counterparts just couldn't line up the financing. And the long, slow decline of Gwinnett Place Mall continued.

Nckdictator posted:

Sparq posted:

Have some ancient Le Corbusier brutalist opressive urban madness, Plan Voisin.

Nckdictator posted:

Two designs for Bank of The Southwest Tower, Houston TX

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.

Sparq posted:

Have some ancient Le Corbusier brutalist opressive urban madness, Plan Voisin.

DNova posted:

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?

Phlegmish posted:

i've never been able to find it i'm in my 24th consecutive semester now

KoRMaK posted:

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

West SAAB Story posted:

> spline

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Weird I'm reviewing splines at this very moment, no seriously

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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.

In 1994 a schematic design was developed to better define the architectural components of the master plan. These components included a monumental screen covering the existing plaza, new plaza structures adding restaurant and retail space and providing new access to the concourse level below, new street-level retail space along the Center’s perimeter and a new public park surrounding the complex.

A major feature of the redevelopment project, the plaza screen was designed to accomplish the following tasks: (1) visually define and unify a three-dimensional multi-purpose outdoor space; (2) mediate the strong cross winds created by the twin towers; (3) serve as a staging element for temporary plaza events. Hung with support cables from the adjacent towers, the plaza screen would require no additional vertical supports on the plaza or concourse levels. Visible from well outside the immediate vicinity, the support cables would serve as a symbol of the New World Trade Center.

Another principle feature of the Center’s redevelopment is the crescent shape North Plaza Building. The 60-foot tall, fully glazed structure would contain dining and interior circulation space along the northern edge of the open plaza. The design successfully creates an appropriately scaled focal point for the Plaza as it provides a single, unified identity to the various tenants and functions of the building.

The schematic design also included a refinement of the master plan’s new concourse level shopping complex. This work included the enhancement of circulation patterns and user orientation, the development of the architectural aesthetics and the integration of structural, mechanical and lighting systems throughout the retail complex.

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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.


What’s so special about the TOVP? Well, it was back in the 1970s that ISKCON’s founder Srila Prabhupada first expressed his desire to build a Vedic Planetarium at his society’s headquarters in Mayapur, India. “Within the planetarium we will construct a huge, detailed model of the universe as described in the text of the fifth canto of Srimad Bhagavatam,” he said.
Of course, as with everything he did, Srila Prabhupada was acting in fulfillment of the desires of previous spiritual teachers. A grand temple for Mayapur was predicted by none other than Lord Nityananda, the most intimate associate of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, some five hundred years ago. Speaking to Srila Jiva Goswami, the Lord said:
“When our Lord Chaitanya disappears, by His desire, the Ganges will swell. The Ganges water will almost cover Mayapur for a hundred years, and then the water will again recede. For some time only the place will remain, devoid of houses. Then again, by the Lord’s desire, this place will again be manifest, and the devotees will build temples of the Lord. One exceedingly wonderful temple (adbhuta-mandira) will appear from which Gauranga’s eternal service will be preached everywhere.”
Srila Prabhupada wanted this great temple to have a specific look. In July 1976, during a visit to Washington D.C., he instructed Yadubara Dasa and Visakha Dasi to take photographs of the domed Capitol building there, as a basis for the TOVP. And in the early days of ISKCON in London, he gave further detailed instructions on what different parts of the temple should look like, directing many senior devotees make drawings and models of the building.



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.



In the center of the middle dome, hanging from the ceiling, will be a huge rotating model of the universe as described in sacred texts such as the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Described by Srila Prabhupada in his letters, the model will be in the form of a chandelier, two hundred feet across, and will feature displays explaining how Vedic cosmology corresponds to the visible universe of our experience.
A smaller dome on the TOVP’s right hand side will serve as a separate temple for Krishna’s half-man half lion form, Lord Nrsimhadeva. And on the left hand side of the main temple, another dome will offer an enlivening tour of the various regions of the cosmic creation. Beginning from the lower planets, pilgrims will be able to travel up through the earthly realm and then on to the higher planetary systems, before passing beyond the boundary of the material universe. Within the spiritual realm, visitors will view the various spiritual planets, before finally arriving at the topmost spiritual abode of the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna.

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.



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?

Paddyb posted:

Russians used to be great at them:

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.

Son of Rodney posted: