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GenericOverusedName: Nov 24, 2009; KUVA TEAM EPIC

What is with dumb architects and marble paneling, seriously.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 14:15

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 10:04

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

GenericOverusedName posted:

What is with dumb architects and marble paneling, seriously.

They want imperial grandeur on a lumpenprole budget.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 14:27

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

GenericOverusedName posted:

What is with dumb architects and marble paneling, seriously.

Even the ancient aliens couldn't make cladding stick to the pyramids, what hope do we even have now?

# ? Mar 5, 2015 14:30

A SWEATY FATBEARD: Oct 6, 2012; GAY 4 ORGANS

GenericOverusedName posted:

What is with dumb architects and marble paneling, seriously.

You can't make 70s commie chic without a profound lack of common sense, it seems.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 14:35

Honj Steak: May 31, 2013; Hi there.

A SWEATY FATBEARD posted:

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.

A few years ago, during the height of the real estate bubble in Spain, architects in the city of Benidorm had the glorious idea to expand the original blueprints of a new scyscraper from 20 to 47 stories. Except they forgot to include an elevator for the additional 27 stories. :spain:

# ? Mar 5, 2015 14:53

Communist Bear: Oct 7, 2008

Say Nothing posted:

We're referencing Use of Weapons again?

# ? Mar 5, 2015 14:57

Applewhite: Aug 16, 2014; by vyelkin; Nap Ghost

Honj Steak posted:

A few years ago, during the height of the real estate bubble in Spain, architects in the city of Benidorm had the glorious idea to expand the original blueprints of a new scyscraper from 20 to 47 stories. Except they forgot to include an elevator for the additional 27 stories.

Looks like a building that should feature on a Sesame Street episode sponsored by the number 11.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 14:58

sleepy gary: Jan 11, 2006

Honj Steak posted:

A few years ago, during the height of the real estate bubble in Spain, architects in the city of Benidorm had the glorious idea to expand the original blueprints of a new scyscraper from 20 to 47 stories. Except they forgot to include an elevator for the additional 27 stories.

While the project was plagued with problems and bad timing, the story of the forgotten elevators is fake.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 15:05

Honj Steak: May 31, 2013; Hi there.

DNova posted:

While the project was plagued with problems and bad timing, the story of the forgotten elevators is fake.

Ah, I'm sorry, I even checked a source for the numbers but they didn't bother with a correction.

Let's have Europe's ugliest hospital instead. It's in Aachen, Germany:

# ? Mar 5, 2015 15:21

lollontee: Nov 4, 2014; Can't post for 10 years!

Honj Steak posted:

Ah, I'm sorry, I even checked a source for the numbers but they didn't bother with a correction.

Let's have Europe's ugliest hospital instead. It's in Aachen, Germany:

Hospital or oil refinery? Why not both!

# ? Mar 5, 2015 15:29

Captain Candiru: Nov 9, 2006; These hips don't lye

Fancy bowling alley.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 15:48

blugu64: Jul 17, 2006; Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

Honj Steak posted:

owns

# ? Mar 5, 2015 16:28

czg: Dec 17, 2005; hi

Honj Steak posted:

Ah, I'm sorry, I even checked a source for the numbers but they didn't bother with a correction.

Let's have Europe's ugliest hospital instead. It's in Aachen, Germany:

Ok I had to go look this up on google earth and it is actually gorgeous!
http://imgur.com/a/O8ZqD

50�46'32.77" N 6�02'37.43" E

# ? Mar 5, 2015 17:00

Libelous Slander: May 1, 2009; ... you're just creepy ...

Honj Steak posted:

my cloning tool got stuck

# ? Mar 5, 2015 17:03

Bluemillion: Aug 18, 2008; I got your dispensers
right here

czg posted:

Ok I had to go look this up on google earth and it is actually gorgeous!
http://imgur.com/a/O8ZqD

50�46'32.77" N 6�02'37.43" E

This looks like something out of the live action Dr. Seuss movies.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 17:05

Sneeing Emu: Dec 5, 2003; Brother, my eyes

Noggin Monkey 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.

TLDR: Oh noes, modern buildings!!1!

Fun fact! The engineering firm I work for designed the compressed air system for the art installations on the bridge. It controls the humidity within the displays to keep condensation from forming on the art pieces. And it looks ballin' at night.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 17:17

Ofaloaf: Feb 15, 2013

Nckdictator posted:

Not a real proposal but interesting to look at.

Oh, I've seen another one of that series!

iirc there was a short story connected to it, where a visitor from the English countryside comes to visit the new London, eventually is driven mad by the changes in the city since his last visit and is institutionalized.

e: haha yep

quote:

"Perhaps you're nervous," I said, soothingly. "Somehow people do get nervous these days."

"Do you think they go mad?" he asked, glaring wildly about him.

"It isn't called madness any more. We say nervous prostration. All of our prominent men have it more or less. I suppose it is because we live so much in such a short time."

"What do they do for it?"

"Go to Germany for the baths, generally."

"Waiter," he yelled, striking the table with his fist and making the glasses and dishes ring again, "get me a ticket for Germany, and be quick about it!"

Grasping his shoulders, I tried to hold him in a chair, but with yells and curses he threw me off, and it took the combined efforts of half the waiters to capture him and carry him to the Prostration Shute, whence he was conveyed to my flat, where he collapsed entirely.

At the time of writing I understand he is slowly recovering, but until his mental balance is quite restored I am forbidden to hold any communication with him, as the sight of me might cause a relapse. Still, I did my duty.

Ofaloaf fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Mar 5, 2015

# ? Mar 5, 2015 17:26

Olympic Mathlete: Feb 25, 2011

Applewhite posted:

Yeah, Bruce McCall has a couple of collections. These pictures were from All Meat Looks Like South America.

Ordered for about $7 delivered to my house from the US. So worth it. Thank you!

# ? Mar 5, 2015 18:02

NihilismNow: Aug 31, 2003

Honj Steak posted:

A few years ago, during the height of the real estate bubble in Spain, architects in the city of Benidorm had the glorious idea to expand the original blueprints of a new scyscraper from 20 to 47 stories. Except they forgot to include an elevator for the additional 27 stories.

I read about this but i still don't know how such a thing can happen. Isn't the elevator shaft a fairly important structural part of the building in most buildings? Even if you just copy pasted floor 15 a bunch of times to get to 47 you would think the elevator shaft would still be there.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 21:06

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

NihilismNow posted:

I read about this but i still don't know how such a thing can happen. Isn't the elevator shaft a fairly important structural part of the building in most buildings? Even if you just copy pasted floor 15 a bunch of times to get to 47 you would think the elevator shaft would still be there.

Every university was actually built using the blueprints for a prison.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 21:12

Grim Up North: Dec 12, 2011

NihilismNow posted:

I read about this but i still don't know how such a thing can happen.

lovely, sensationalist reporting read by gullible people.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 21:18

Applewhite: Aug 16, 2014; by vyelkin; Nap Ghost

88h88 posted:

Ordered for about $7 delivered to my house from the US. So worth it. Thank you!

Glad I could help

# ? Mar 5, 2015 21:22

RandomPauI: Nov 24, 2006; Grimey Drawer

Angela Christine posted:

Every university was actually built using the blueprints for a prison.

Not CSUCI! It was built using the blueprints for the Camarillo State Mental Hospital.

It went from this:

to this:

# ? Mar 5, 2015 22:51

anchoress: Dec 24, 2011; by XyloJW

Angela Christine posted:

Every university was actually built using the blueprints for a prison.

yeah it's true

also the architect who did every university library in the country forgot to account for the weight of the books, so now the building is sinking into the earth

# ? Mar 5, 2015 22:59

Clitch: Feb 26, 2002; I lived through
Donald Trump's presidency
and all I got was
this lousy virus

Honj Steak posted:

Ah, I'm sorry, I even checked a source for the numbers but they didn't bother with a correction.

Let's have Europe's ugliest hospital instead. It's in Aachen, Germany:

I had to concentrate to make my brain accept that carpet wasn't just rendered into the image.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 23:04

Blistex: Oct 30, 2003; Macho Business
Donkey Wrestler

anchoress posted:

yeah it's true

also the architect who did every university library in the country forgot to account for the weight of the books, so now the building is sinking into the earth

I don't know how this rumour still persists with the existence of the internet.

# ? Mar 5, 2015 23:38

jazzyhattrick: Jul 1, 2010; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Clitch posted:

I had to concentrate to make my brain accept that carpet wasn't just rendered into the image.

Somebody should take that carpet pattern to bolivia and make themselves a fortune

# ? Mar 5, 2015 23:48

Grim Up North: Dec 12, 2011

Clitch posted:

I had to concentrate to make my brain accept that carpet wasn't just rendered into the image.

"Please stop walking when reaching a wall."

# ? Mar 6, 2015 00:16

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

I'm kind of surprised this lopsided pile of substandard concrete is still standing.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 00:26

joat mon: Oct 15, 2009; I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

Take this:

Tear it down and put up this instead:

# ? Mar 6, 2015 00:32

Facebook Aunt: Oct 4, 2008; wiggle wiggle

joat mon posted:

Take this:

Tear it down and put up this instead:

Okay, the first one is pretty as hell, but I bet it was unpleasant to navigate and expensive to maintain.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 00:41

EmperorFritoBandito: Aug 7, 2010; by exmarx

joat mon posted:

Take this:

Tear it down and put up this instead:

Building on top looks like a place where you'd go to learn the exciting new science of trepanning.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 00:51

midnightclimax: Dec 3, 2011; by XyloJW

joat mon posted:

Take this:

Tear it down and put up this instead:

First one looks like some lovely Walt Disney-castle, second one looks ok.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 00:52

Computer viking: May 30, 2011; Now with less breakage.

EmperorFritoBandito posted:

Building on top looks like a place where you'd go to learn the exciting new science of trepanning.

Lower one looks like they're researching ways to make monkey-borne viruses more airborne, so I'm not sure what we've gained or lost there.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 00:54

steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

joat mon posted:

Take this:

Tear it down and put up this instead:

The top one looks like a Bavarian peasant's fever dream.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 01:02

joat mon: Oct 15, 2009; I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

Angela Christine posted:

Okay, the first one is pretty as hell, but I bet it was unpleasant to navigate and expensive to maintain.

Apparently one of the turrets fell off a year or two before it was demolished (but still in use).
It was one of the red-headed stepchildren of the school's architectural plan from the late 30s to when it was demolished in 1969, so there was probably several decades of deferred maintenance.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 01:04

joat mon: Oct 15, 2009; I am the master of my lamp;
I am the captain of my tub.

steinrokkan posted:

The top one looks like a Bavarian peasant's fever dream.

It was pretty much all there was out on the prairie, so it was pretty striking.

(The one on the left is still there)

# ? Mar 6, 2015 01:13

praxis: Aug 1, 2003

Moosechees posted:

Because Colombo keeps coming over and arresting you for murder.

I thought that place looked familiar!

# ? Mar 6, 2015 01:18

suck my woke dick: Oct 10, 2012; I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

Total Meatlove posted:

The garden bridge won't be built though.

did it finally loose too many lawsuits?

# ? Mar 6, 2015 01:25

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BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

Not an architectural failure, but I'm a big fan of the Caldwell County Courthouse which is near me outside Austin:

It's a small town known for barbecue. But it's a Second Empire style building (i.e. Napoleon III). It's a glorious mashup of Baroque and Gothic and who knows what else.

# ? Mar 6, 2015 01:32

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