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Max Manus posted:
Oh god that thing. I pass it on the tram every day, and it's just so ... aggressively bland. At least the lighting makes it look kind of dramatic at night.
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netally posted:I only found out this thing existed the other day. ArcelorMittal Orbit, some sort of lovely observation tower built for the 2012 Olympics. i spoke to some people involved in this project in 2011 and they were so proud of it, it was on all of arups marketing things for like a year before they realised everyone thought it was idiotic
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netally posted:I only found out this thing existed the other day. ArcelorMittal Orbit, some sort of lovely observation tower built for the 2012 Olympics. So what happened, did they have a big batch of thick wall tubing that didn't meet spec or something?
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Paddyb posted:I'm on the fence: At least it's next to the already hideous BOK center, so the ugly can stick together. And if it gets hit by a tornado, both buildings can get blown to Oz. I wish Tulsa had rules that new buildings had to fit in with all of our existing awesome Art Deco stuff. All the new, shiny, ultra-modern stuff sticks out so bad. I loathe the BOK center.
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I just learned that Frank Gehry is 86 years old. When are you going to retire Frank, you started late but you've designed enough huge weird buildings for one lifetime
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netally posted:I only found out this thing existed the other day. ArcelorMittal Orbit, some sort of lovely observation tower built for the 2012 Olympics. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...y-10079921.html
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Paddyb posted:I'm on the fence: 
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gender illusionist posted:This thread owns ; that japanese classical column building is one of the funniest things I've seen. Just think how many people had to say
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Corek posted:Every clock tower in this picture is at the same scale. That's Big Ben on the upper right. Sorry to jump way back, but is the clock on the lower left in Milwaukee? If it's what I think it is, I had no idea it was notable, and it's in a really hilarious place for something that seems to only be dwarfed by mecclock.
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FreakerByTheSpeaker posted:Sorry to jump way back, but is the clock on the lower left in Milwaukee? If it's what I think it is, I had no idea it was notable, and it's in a really hilarious place for something that seems to only be dwarfed by mecclock. Yeah, that's the Allen Bradley clock tower. At least, it used to be, until Allen Bradley got bought out by Rockwell Automation.
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I'm noticing the other architectural failure of the trolley tracks over the fountain in the foreground.
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Dr.Smasher posted:Yeah, that's the Allen Bradley clock tower. At least, it used to be, until Allen Bradley got bought out by Rockwell Automation. Apparently it is the world's largest 4 faced clock tower. What's really funny is where it is: nowhere near downtown, just kind of off the highway far enough that you won't notice it that much. It's higher than everything else in the area, but that place is hardly built up, mostly just the clock tower, smokestacks, and church steeples make up anything higher than a residential building or warehouse. I was looking for a picture of it from the highway to show how not impressive what turns out to be a pretty impressive thing looks like, but couldn't find one. Plus, it's not impressive. Maybe that's why no one talks about it.
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Vanagoon posted:Western State in Bolivar TN pretty much just is Arkham Asylum.. Arkham Asylum is based off of Danver's State Hospital  Unfortunately, they somewhat recently tore apart most of the building and replaced it with... condos. it now looks like this 
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Pablo Bluth posted:It's pushing the definition of architecture but on the subject of London I feel the urge to mention the 'Emirates Air Lines' aka the cross-thames cable car that opened around the same time as the ArcelorMittal Orbit (.ie in time for Olympics). Numbers are falling (to 10% of capacity) and it keeps having to be shut due to high winds. At one point a massive four people were using it enough in a week to trigger the commuter discount, now nobody does. The Dangleway, as it's affectionately known, has its own Twitter about how sad and lonely it is So does the Beetham Tower in Manchester, which came up slightly earlier in the thread and still looks to me like it's going to fall onto the platform at Deansgate given a strong enough wind.
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Duckbill posted:So does the Beetham Tower in Manchester, which came up slightly earlier in the thread and still looks to me like it's going to fall onto the platform at Deansgate given a strong enough wind. The bar in that place sucks too. The view is great at night but the cocktails aren't worth the price.
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Mar 8, 2015 22:05
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:The bar in that place sucks too. The view is great at night but the cocktails aren't worth the price. they never are
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Wedemeyer posted: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! It's called the golden gate because it spans the "Golden Gate".
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Skutter posted:On the topic of ugly art museums and college campus buildings... This is the Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, MI. I think it's really cool (specially the inside). The only problem is that it has nothing to do with the rest of the buildings on campus  Content: The building for Telefonica (telecommunications corporation) in Chile. And yes, It does look like a phone  The most disgusting looking mall I have ever seen  No comment (It's another mall)  The penis of south america (?) (of course part of it is a mall)  Finally the national library of Argentina 
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FizFashizzle posted:one of the best articles ever posted in LF was this thing that was about the history of modernism told through the lens of the construction of city hall in albany, NY. A dutch princess was visiting in the 1950s for Tulip Fest and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller was embarrassed when drove through a working class neighborhood. Obviously, the best way to fix this would be to use eminent domain to displace a bunch of neighborhoods (9000ish people, 360ish businesses including department stores and the last downtown movie theater). Forcing the eviction of many immigrants (mostly Jewish/Italian) who fled Europe for these very reasons to build cathedrals to authoritarianism...  Goodbye 100 acres  After demolition  The plaza is uncomfortable in the way best described way of 'being non-human sized'.  The tower on the right is the tallest tower in NY outside of NYC. It still singularly dominates the skyline.   Its not much better head on. Kind of like the star wars destroyer or something.  Judge Dredd please report to the Hall of Justice.  Dont confuse that with the museum.  Or the legislative building. They Might Be Giants wrote a song (Albany) about the theater called 'the egg'  tldr; they bulldozed a bunch of walkable neighborhoods of people who fled from facism to build modernist/brutalist plaza
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I loved Flight of the Navigator as a kid.
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netally posted:I only found out this thing existed the other day. ArcelorMittal Orbit, some sort of lovely observation tower built for the 2012 Olympics. It looks like it started off twice as high, but then melted in warm weather.
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Missed opportunity for a rollercoaster
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Tedd_Not_Ed posted:I'm noticing the other architectural failure of the trolley tracks over the fountain in the foreground. Nah, that's sensible enough. It's a roundabout, and the tram drives straight over those. They decided at some point to pretty it up a bit by putting in a water surface and some tiny water jets, probably because it was easy to combine with the tracks. I think the jets turn off when there is a tram crossing, but I can't imagine they'd do any harm either way.
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Here are some of my "favourite" buildings I've encountered in my time on the planet: Deutsche Oper, Berlin (1961)—opera house, nick name: "Sing Sing":  Gran Hotel, Arecife (1965)—a giant eyesore of a hotel, more than three times as tall as the next tallest building in the whole of Lanzarote, it's visible from literally the other end of the island. Refurbished in teal glass after a fire. I'll give'em this though: The view from the excellent restaurant on the top floor is amazing, and does not include the Gran Hotel!    UCL Institute of Education, London (1975) Front:  Back:  Alexa Shopping Mall, Berlin (2007)—a pink blight on the city   
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That Alexa thing is truly loving hideous. otoh I've never seen a shopping mall that made me go "Wow, this is pretty!"
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wayfinder posted:
I like it, but why do shopping centers always seem to have this one entirely featureless face? Like 'Nobody worth considering lives or works on this side of the building, so it doesn't have to look like anything'.
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TheMostFrench posted:I like it, but why do shopping centers always seem to have this one entirely featureless face? Like 'Nobody worth considering lives or works on this side of the building, so it doesn't have to look like anything'. It's probably because they assume someone will build on the plot of land next to it (or they'll expand into it), so there's no point doing anything with a side that will eventually be obscured. So until that time comes, gently caress you, here's a blank featureless void.
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xsuperkidx posted:No, but it sounds interesting. I'm assuming you are referencing the south mall project. I had a professor who really hated it because it was such a great example of modernism/brutalism in the US. the entire plaza looks so out of place, nothing else in albany is anywhere near the size of even the smaller agency buildings let alone corning. the empire state plaza is basically the entirety of what can be considered a 'skyline'. it seems like it was constructed with the idea that albany would become a booming metropolis or something, which it should be obvious that'd never happen. also it's right next to the nys capitol, one of my favorite buildings ever. the plaza clashes with it so much, i can't even imagine what they were thinking. i will admit that the egg is pretty cool from the inside tho.
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Souvlaki ss posted:Finally the national library of Argentina
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 "Nyet comrade, we simply built cheap known to be flawed reactor, it will be fine. vodka for everyone"  "poo poo"
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Souvlaki ss posted:Finally the national library of Argentina It looks like something Corbusier would do with Archigram, like it's going to go walk all around the city on its own, destroying everything and everyone.
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Wedemeyer posted:
Looks like the "artist" was told to draw a bridge design, grabbed a marker and scribbled on some paper "Here's your damned bridge!"
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Cubey posted:also it's right next to the nys capitol, one of my favorite buildings ever. the plaza clashes with it so much, i can't even imagine what they were thinking. i will admit that the egg is pretty cool from the inside tho. The NY capitol is the ugliest building on the mall and a total pig.
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midnightclimax posted:That Alexa thing is truly loving hideous. otoh I've never seen a shopping mall that made me go "Wow, this is pretty!" I found the Zlote Tarasy in Warsaw to be "ok".   There is a shopping center in Paris that is ridiculously nice though, Galleries Lafayette:   EDIT: If you count it, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan is really nice too but it is sort of like an enclosed street. 
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remame this thread the questionable buildings thread
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Phoon posted:remame this thread the questionable buildings thread how about the PHOON SUCK MEGATHREAD
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what was that brutalist highrise estate that kinda sorta collapsed in britain? like i dont think the whole thing toppled but some parts of it did
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