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Jose posted:Mark Zuckerberg is having Frank Gehry design a town for 10000 facebook employees which seems like the kind of thing for the thread This is very upsetting. Why do people keep hiring Frank Gehry?
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wayfinder posted:The Munich Schwabylon—a mall, thankfully torn down since. But that building behind it is just to die for as well! kinda looks like a homeworld ship wayfinder posted:Ferrohaus, Zurich—I think it's some kind of clinic? sorry but this owns
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Victory City posted:If a resident living in one of the wards, where he will have only a bed and a locker, suddenly found himself in a financial position where his bank balance had dropped below the minimum required for a ward, then that resident will have to be put out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WynKKY1uPwo Citizen 5169-Kappa, report to expulsion processing for financial malcompliance. "Yes, yes, I know it seems harsh... It's just the way it has to go. Don't worry. You won't feel a thing."
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Elukka posted:Great word choice. 'Don't worry. "The Cursed Earth" is just a name.'
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Tochiazuma posted:American Embassy in Ottawa, if the intent was to put up an ugly building that looked like it had a bunker in the roof then Mission Accomplished I'm surprised at the amount of front road facing glass. An embassy thread would be cool in its own.
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Mar 12, 2015 00:05
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netally posted:
Oh hey, those were a lovely ghetto in The Kingsmen
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wayfinder posted:Ferrohaus, Zurich—I think it's some kind of clinic? The scale is wrong, but this owns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaR5wVL9x2I
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Jose posted:Mark Zuckerberg is having Frank Gehry design a town for 10000 facebook employees which seems like the kind of thing for the thread I can't wait for this to become a completely unintentional solar energy weapon that damages planes or even satellites passing overhead. Any pilot that flies within ten miles of it will risk blindness. Over the course of the first day after completion it starts blinding satellite cameras and carving a swath through the GPS system.
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The Gehry-designed building half of us are moving into in a couple of weeks has a park on top, so it shouldn't be shooting down any satellites at least. (Going to be a sweet place to take meetings, too.)
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Mar 12, 2015 01:10
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The interior of some pod like houses in Mitaka ward, Tokyo. In a city where soace is at a premium, they made the floor bumpy concrete so you would stay more fit. Seriously. Imagine being hungover and trying to navigate that mess to get a cup of water from the kitchen.   Edit: Oh god how could I forget this 
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Mar 12, 2015 02:46
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RIP Michael Graves. Much like this thread, you had some good buildings and some bad buildings.
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Paddyb posted:RIP Michael Graves. Much like this thread, you had some good buildings and some bad buildings. His work really offends me. It's just so goddamn banal. Also his color choices are usually revolting. 
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Michael Graves was several years younger than Frank Gehry. He also made a teapot that looked like Hitler for JCPenney.
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Corek posted:Michael Graves was several years younger than Frank Gehry. He also made a teapot that looked like Hitler for JCPenney. ahahahahahaha!!! E: hitler!!!
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      this thing is just off the highway near where i live and it was never inhabited (was apparently put there in 2002), though it was supposed to be some sort of pharmaceutical lab but the windows keep falling off and poo poo  this is what it looks like now  that japanese thing with the gigantic column in the middle is still the best thing in this thread
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Mar 13, 2015 11:17
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  http://www.retrowow.co.uk/architecture/60s/tricorn/reflections.html This was my local brutalist monstrosity that they knocked down about 10 years ago after condemning it as the ugliest building in britain. I remember it always smelling of piss and it was graffitied to hell, but it was visually interesting. They replaced it with a flat black expanse of tarmac with probably half the parking capacity and none of the ugly charm.
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Penn Jillette's house in Las Vegas is ...special. It's jumble of random poo poo just dumped in the middle of the desert with a lovely fence around it: Scenic! They keep adding poo poo to it, too. The front looks like a prison, and the back looks like... well. You know those books that carpet salespeople have, with little squares of the different kinds of carpet in them to browse? Imagine an architect had a book like that for all the different styles of houses they could build, and they took it to a client, and the client said "I love it! We'll go with that!", and the architect was like, "Wait which one are you talking about" and the client said "Uhm, the whole book!!?"   
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It looks like it should be the set of a Nickelodeon show.
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Mar 13, 2015 13:49
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nice house for a clown to live in
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wayfinder posted:... Las Vegas is ...special. It's jumble of random poo poo just dumped in the middle of the desert ... Jillette's house fits right in (kidding aside, yeah his house looks pretty ridiculous)
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Corek posted:Michael Graves was several years younger than Frank Gehry. He also made a teapot that looked like Hitler for JCPenney. Not getting this unless it whistles like a Jericho trumpet.
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Mar 13, 2015 14:24
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Looks like he saw the Money for Nothing video and thought "yes, I would like a house like that."
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Mar 13, 2015 14:51
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"So Mr Jillette, what kind of house would you like" "Just gently caress me up
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wayfinder posted:"So Mr Jillette, what kind of house would you like" He does have a bondage chamber hidden in it
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Penn is one of the gooniest fuckers to ever exist.
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Anyone know anything about this house? I see it sometimes driving on the free way and I'm eternally disappointed they painted it a hideous orange. It was such a nice cream/off white color. Now instead of looking like it belongs in tatooine it is tatooine.
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Wedemeyer posted:Anyone know anything about this house? I see it sometimes driving on the free way and I'm eternally disappointed they painted it a hideous orange. It was such a nice cream/off white color. Now instead of looking like it belongs in tatooine it is tatooine. its wikipedia article is called "the flintstone house" if you want more
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Bluemillion posted:Architectural failures - "Load Bearing Asbestos" Oh, and I forgot to add to that too: The original plan was to make tearing them down a part of the 2014 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony, held in Glasgow. Until pretty much the entire country pointed out how tasteless tearing down the homes of thousands of people during a celebration ceremony is.
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Here's a few more highlights from Berlin: The "Haus der Kulturen der Welt" ("House of World Cultures"). As seen in Aeon Flux and several other Sci-Fi films.  Built in the late 50s, the roof collapsed in 1980. The collapse was originally blamed on sonic booms from Soviet jets repeatedly buzzing the nearby parliament (seriously), but was eventually ruled to have been caused by bad planning and shoddy construction work. It took almost 30 years to be rebuilt. The Gedächtniskirche (Memorial Church). Destroyed in WW2, it was decided not to rebuild it but instead leave it (as, you guessed it, a memorial) and build an ugly boxy concrete church thing around it instead:  The Czech embassy has been posted before. But you can't post that thing without showing the still very 70s interior:   The British embassy:  The Estrel hotel/convention center: 
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ruebennase posted:The British embassy: ok seriously what the gently caress is going on? Why have the British committed to ugly loving buildings?
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boom boom boom posted:ok seriously what the gently caress is going on? Why have the British committed to ugly loving buildings? To be fair, there's a bunch of cool British embassies too. The British Embassy in DC is ridiculously opulent, for example. 
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boom boom boom posted:ok seriously what the gently caress is going on? Why have the British committed to ugly loving buildings?
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idk bout this but a lot of sustainable n alternative-construction home builds are wonderfully hideous cause 1) the wack rear end homeowner is designing the thing from the ground up, often w/ a very tenuous regard for building code, and 2) a lot of construction methods like w/ earthships and cob and so on favour smooth organic curves     
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Berlin is the greatest city in the world. Lookit that poo poo.
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:To be fair, there's a bunch of cool British embassies too. The British Embassy in DC is ridiculously opulent, for example. I'm betting that one's older.
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ruebennase posted:Here's a few more highlights from Berlin: Since we love to give our buildings stupid nicknames, these are affectionally called "The Pregnant Oyster" (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), "The Hollow Tooth" (old, bombed-out part of the church), and, my favourite, "Jesus Bunker" edit: It may not come as a surprise that the plaza around the church is one of Berlin's drug hotspots. wayfinder fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Mar 14, 2015 |
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ruebennase posted:
I am ashamed of my nation
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I'm sorry this isn't the interior of an embassy, it's either a bar or the inside of a building at a liberal arts college.
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EmperorFritoBandito posted:Not getting this unless it whistles like a Jericho trumpet. Really? Handle is Hitler's hair style. Lid nob is his mustache, and spout and bell are his arm raised in salute
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^^ I think he meant getting as in purchasing ____________ Some of these buildings are so bad, they could be cases for the European Court of Human Rights!!  
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