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Speleothing posted:AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! My thoughts exactly, and I've spent my share of time on narrow badly secured mountain roads.
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Good thing all cars are computer-driven in the Gernsback continuum!
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Applewhite posted:Thread needs more Bruce McCall Yes to all of these please.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 19:29 |
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Macedonia needs to get building if they want to one up that.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 19:31 |
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Applewhite posted:Thread needs more Bruce McCall When will zeppelins make a comeback? More from Toronto: The Aga Khan museum looks like it's been turned upside down.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 19:35 |
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Wanna get a beer and a Hooties Grand Slamwich up in one of those golf clubs.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 19:39 |
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The Atlanta Central Library, built 1980. It's ugly. The hours are strange and variable (it's dying, like all libraries) and there's only overpriced paid parking nearby. I can only assume it's more of a public toilet for Atlanta's many bums than an actual library these days.
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Ahaha, at least Kengo Kuma got ostracised in Tokyo for ten years following that. quote:The other day I was driving through Setagaya Ward when I came across your M2 building. Even today it retains its air of audacity. Am I right in thinking that was your first major job?
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Lets look at Vegas, where good taste goes to die. http://www.vegastodayandtomorrow.com/dreams2.htm#.VPdRVOE9Vyi quote:In 1993, the Desert Inn was purchased by ITT/Sheraton. The Desert Inn had a large surface parking lot to the south of the resort (which now holds Wynn Las Vegas). Their first plans were a Balinese Resort called Desert Kingdom. quote:ITT/Sheraton's second plan for the Desert Inn land (now under the Wynn complex) struck a deal with the dudes from Planet Hollywood and came up with some crazy plans for a Planet Hollywood resort on the property. quote:There have been two locations for the London Resort and Casino, and both of them have had a giant observation wheel (from the Giant Wheel Co.) The resort was to include a Harrod's department store, Big Ben, the Tower Bridge, a Piccadilly Square shopping area and many other London themed attractions. quote:The Titanic resort, 400 feet long and containing 1,200 rooms, would have been one of the most heavily themed fantasy resorts in Las Vegas. The concept was rejected by the Las Vegas City Council. This was proposed for the big lot across the strip from the Sahara. quote:The original rendering for the MGM Grand was a real OZtravaganza. Rainbows, OZ-esque architecture, dancing fountains, monorails, and an MGM bat-signal http://www.thegoddardgroup.com/blog/index.php/now-it-can-be-told-the-star-trek-attraction-that-almost-came-to-life-in-1992/ quote:...We learned everything we could about the Starship – its actually size and dimensions, how it would exist in “dry dock” on the planet if indeed such a situation had been possible. We imagined what it could be, and how we might achieve it. We got Ken Ball (former head of engineering at Disney’s MAPO) involved to figure out how to engineer and support it. (Ultimately we realized we would need to add some supports on the outer edge of the “disc” section due to the extremely high wind conditions in Vegas. For this we created a high tech “scaffolding structure” that gave the ship more of the appearance of being in an open-air dry dock. I have not yet located that sketch, but I’ll try to find it.)
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Literally tears in my eyes imaging how awesome this would have been.
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Nckdictator posted:http://www.thegoddardgroup.com/blog/index.php/now-it-can-be-told-the-star-trek-attraction-that-almost-came-to-life-in-1992/ legit wish they had built this one
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Also holy poo poo the Enterprise is huge.
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with the state of culture we'll probably get some tardis bullshit
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on the first day of class one of my professors said she was a "whovian" so i left and changed to a different professor
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Tochiazuma posted:I don't know what the gently caress the OP is on about and most of this thread is full of architechtural goodness as far as my untutored eye goes, but I think many will agree that this is an eyesore: This is pretty proper for Mississauga. Missisauga is where souls go to die. Well, maybe not die, exactly. More like slowly dissolved.
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Bullshit. You're making GBS threads me, right? You're really not making GBS threads me? Okay.
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Nckdictator posted:Lets look at Vegas, where good taste goes to die. All of this is rad as gently caress and perfect for Las Vegas.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 20:38 |
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Galaxy class has much nicer amenities though.
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 20:50 |
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I remember going to the Star Trek thing in Vegas and it was pretty rad. They had actors dressed up as Klingons wandering around the gift-shop mall thing. I think it closed down, though. Giant Enterprise owns.
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Omi-Polari posted:I remember going to the Star Trek thing in Vegas and it was pretty rad. They had actors dressed up as Klingons wandering around the gift-shop mall thing. I think it closed down, though. Giant Enterprise owns. The Star Trek Experience loving owned and I'm so pissed that they closed it down the year before the reboot could've breathed life back into it. Also I want that Enterprise hotel to have been built more than anything in the world.
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goddamn that yellow car.
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Tommy Calamari posted:
Every clock tower in this picture is at the same scale. That's Big Ben on the upper right.
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Mordja posted:When will zeppelins make a comeback? I loved the building they tore down to build that thing.
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Ogive posted:This is pretty proper for Mississauga. Missisauga is where souls go to die. Well, maybe not die, exactly. More like slowly dissolved. I like to imagine that it gives people in Mississauga something to do. Like, stand there and examine the layers of ugly. Because I'm sure there's gently caress all else to do there. edit: for some content, I really like the rest of the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario but I don't like the Stephen Hawking Center addition on the front of it: Tochiazuma fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Mar 4, 2015 |
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Some more Bruce McCall for you guys:
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# ? Mar 4, 2015 22:44 |
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oh i get it now. at first i thought the car one was supposed to be a legit design
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Applewhite posted:Some more Bruce McCall for you guys: That's really awesome art. Is there a book of it?
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Tochiazuma posted:I like to imagine that it gives people in Mississauga something to do. Like, stand there and examine the layers of ugly. Because I'm sure there's gently caress all else to do there. Yup
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http://ghostsofdc.org/2013/06/20/the-unbuilt-ulysses-grant-memorial-bridge/quote:Here is an article from the Baltimore Sun, published on February 12th, 1887. Lincoln Memorial Design I guess we got the Chunnel instead. Not a real proposal but interesting to look at. London Underground ad 1926 Library of Congress Proposal quote:Rendering of the Proposal for the Washington Monument grounds, by the Senate Park Commission, 1901-02.The wide steps, the circular pool, and the terraced gardens were all intended to provide a more dignified base for the monument, while resolving the awkward geometry resulting from its placement off the axis from the White House. Monument to Columbus in Madrid MONUMENT TO THE GLORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1886 Conversion of Tower Bridge in London (1943) 91m tall pyramid for London's Trafalgar Square (1815)
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Nckdictator posted:That's really awesome art. Is there a book of it? Yeah, Bruce McCall has a couple of collections. These pictures were from All Meat Looks Like South America.
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# ? Mar 5, 2015 00:21 |
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Flood all the cities so we can float around in gondolas erryday.
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Mordja posted:When will zeppelins make a comeback? Aside from a shortage of good, humane plaza this is pretty awesome.
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This is how ants live. They're just tiny humans.
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Angela Christine posted:Imagine being the pizza man. It's a real life level of Fez, just rotate clockwise.
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art
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Speleothing posted:AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
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# ? Mar 5, 2015 03:23 |
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The Museum of Glass in Tacoma A new apartment building in the Seahawks' stadium's parking lot. It looks like someone jammed three different buildings together and said "welp. good enough."
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Rianeva posted:
The Tacoma museum is pretty cool because not only does it hold glass art, parts of it ARE glass art. It's also lit really well at night. That building by ZGF is also pretty cool, is highly efficient and has a number of sustainable features. TLDR: Oh noes, modern buildings!!1!
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I see that goons be postin' ugly buildings instead of actual architectural failures. Came here to fix this. Zagrepčanka tower in Zagreb, Croatia: It was completed in 1976 and frankly, it doesn't look bad. The tower is clad in white marble tiles which give it a nice touch. Oh, except this: Turns out the architect chose a lazy solution and instead of doing something sensible, like anchoring the stone panels, he simply decided to use tile glue and a lot of wishful thinking to hold them up. Each of those panels is something like an inch thick and easily weighs over 200 pounds. After roughly a decade, heavy stone panels started separating from the highrise, threatening to clobber whoever was unfortunate enough to be standing outside. The repair was deemed to be mega-expensive because they pretty much had to retile the whole highrise, and for the time being, the management erected a tunnel made out of scaffolding and thick wooden planks that leads you from a safe distance outside, right into the front lobby. As of TYOOL 2015, only the western side of the building is "repaired". You are well advised not to go anywhere near that thing if the wind blows or at any time, for that matter.
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