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SocketWrench posted:Really? ”Getting" as in "buying", I think.
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The Berlin Embassy is a cool and good building and the boring street front is the result of boring German planning officials. The interior is really colorful like the Czech one, which is also good and cool.
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ruebennase posted:The Czech embassy has been posted before. But you can't post that thing without showing the still very 70s interior: Wanna seek asylum at that embassy.
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Mar 14, 2015 18:51
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Cthulu Carl posted:Wanna seek asylum at that embassy. Just dress like this and you'll get right in. 
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Mar 14, 2015 19:43
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ruebennase posted:The Estrel hotel/convention center: It's the Soviet train from Goldeneye.
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Mar 14, 2015 20:26
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ruebennase posted: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 stained glass on this one looks cool though  
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Mar 14, 2015 20:46
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Hi thread! I like Brutalism when it takes the time to integrate bits of nature like flowing water and lots of greenery.   They work really well with each other I think. It helps that the building materials can actually endure the additional strain these feature entail.
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Mar 14, 2015 21:10
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nature + brutalism owns.
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I agree completely. It brings a nice bit of life and color to contrast the crazy starkness of the buildings shapes and materials.
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Mar 14, 2015 21:28
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Brutalism can look nice like Brisbane's cultural centre     Until someone puts a huge stupid wheel next to it:   And now City Council wants to ruin the design by building towers behind the original structures. 
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Mar 14, 2015 21:57
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 This is an apartment building in Torino and not at all an Ewok village.
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Mar 14, 2015 22:16
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Paddyb posted:
that looks really fun. also a bit impractical, maybe?
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Mar 14, 2015 22:21
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ZeusCannon posted:I agree completely. It brings a nice bit of life and color to contrast the crazy starkness of the buildings shapes and materials. Yup. The grey flat concrete really brings out the color in the plants, too. It's a shame brutalism as a whole didn't stress this more - imagine if the public perception of the style included some flattering greenery.
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Lucy Heartfilia posted:that looks really fun. also a bit impractical, maybe? It was on Archdaily but they didn't show any of the apartment spaces. The "mud" material at the base and the steel shaped like "trees" are annoying but it looks nice and green-brutalist.
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Mar 14, 2015 23:14
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As far as I remember, that thing in the middle was originally supposed to move.
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Mar 14, 2015 23:17
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Paddyb posted:
I really like buildings which incorporate nature. Here are some more pictures, also from inside:   The metal tree sculpture is a bit tacky, though.
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Mar 15, 2015 00:19
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I would pay any amount of money to live in the ewok house, that's great.
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Mar 15, 2015 01:36
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Grim Up North posted:I really like buildings which incorporate nature. Here are some more pictures, also from inside: that is by no means a failure. that is an awesome apartment.
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Anyone from Ipswich?  BT (British Telecom) Adastral Park This building is like an allegory for the state of broadband in the UK. quote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adastral_Park If any of you have the misfortune of ever having to work here, PM me. I can recommend an awesome loving hotel.
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 Question for brits, how does anyone manage to live in Sheffield without committing suicide?
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Cultural Imperial posted:
How can you post Sheffield, without posting park hill? 
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Fajita Fiesta posted:On a similar note does anyone have some urban planning monstrosities? Hypothetical ones would be great. Cities: Skyline comes out in an hour and I'm looking for some inspiration for my virtual hellscape. perhaps how we're dumping insane amounts of money into extending the seawall in Seattle in the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement to build 9 foot wide underwater bicycle tunnels nobody will ever use because of a stupid law that requires all new roads to include 9 foot bicycle lanes. Over the years its worked its way up to a conservatively estimated 3.1 billion dollar project because of the bicycle tunnels because lawmakers don't understand that expanding the seawall gets exponentially more expensive the further out you push it. Also any attempt to lower the cost of the tunnel gets shot down by the bicycle lobbyists (this is A Thing.) you just know it's going to go bad, if you've been following how badly the 520 bridge project has been going (taxpayer funded drunk construction workers, bottom of the barrel cheap chinese concrete, delays, toll bridge inoperable for 6 months because it was contracted to be designed+installed by a company that a quick google search would reveal had scammed several other cities in the past, zero additional lanes of traffic on the new bridge but it's getting a BUS ONLY lane when barely any buses run across the bridge and two 9 foot bicycle lanes, just the tip of the iceberg) HEY VAPER fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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The penis of south america (?) (of course part of it is a mall) Looks like a cool hard shaft.
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Mar 15, 2015 03:36
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SybilVimes posted:How can you post Sheffield, without posting park hill? To be honest, I couldn't find a pic with a vantage point from Sheffield station which IMO is the most glorious view of this monstrosity.
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Mar 15, 2015 03:38
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Prague is such an amazing city for architecture. It's like wandering around in a fairytale land of castles and cobbled streets. Then, there's this piece of poo poo... The worst part is that the windows don't line up. That must be super annoying on the inside.
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Mar 15, 2015 04:50
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anchoress posted:the stained glass on this one looks cool though It looks super tacky to me. I hate it when architects try to pass colorful crap as innovation, especially in such an uninspired fashion I can only imagine how it fits with the rest of the buildings in the area
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Mar 15, 2015 07:48
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Ambrose Burnside posted: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 Why are so many of these "sustainable" houses built in deserts with limited groundwater and no good arable soils? That is the direct opposite of sustainable.
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Mar 15, 2015 07:49
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Land is cheap as chips and there are no building codes.
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Souvlaki ss posted:It looks super tacky to me. I hate it when architects try to pass colorful crap as innovation, especially in such an uninspired fashion Souvlaki ss posted:I can only imagine how it fits with the rest of the buildings in the area
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netally posted:Prague is such an amazing city for architecture. It's like wandering around in a fairytale land of castles and cobbled streets. Then, there's this piece of poo poo... By the thread favorite Frank Gehry. I don't really mind it, from distance it sort of blends into the river front, from up close it doesn't really break up anything on the pedestrian level. If there's something to hate in Prague, it must be first and foremost the New Scene of the National Theatre.  The old theatre building is a nice, ornamental building at a very prominent location. What's right next to it, obscuring it's view from one side and overshadowing it?  Prepare to be assimilated  Resistance is futile
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Souvlaki ss posted:It looks super tacky to me. I hate it when architects try to pass colorful crap as innovation, especially in such an uninspired fashion Surprisingly well, it would seem. https://www.google.cz/maps/@52.504388,13.333738,3a,75y,70.9h,89.51t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s5WtBtTg_diJdgPk8e1IvYw!2e0
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Why assume they're trying to pretend its innovative? It's stained glass windows on a church. It's a functionalist style church made in the 60's. It’s from things like this that the lazy modern adaptation of old-style stained glass windows began A Buttery Pastry posted:There are two large roads and a bunch of regular ugly Berlin buildings around it, it fits in perfectly well. Well, as much as any building fits in Berlin, a city lousy with clashing styles. Good point
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How did Prague get so lucky and keep so many of its old building during WWII?
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Kavak posted:How did Prague get so lucky and keep so many of its old building during WWII? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Bombing_of_Prague
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Kavak posted:How did Prague get so lucky and keep so many of its old building during WWII? -Wasn't targeted by major bombings on account of being further away than Germany and being owned by Allies, technically. The largest bombing happened when planes bound for Dresden mistakenly arrived at Prague. -Wasn't reached by the Soviets until right before the armistice, the German garrison was more interested in escaping to the American territory than fighting
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Souvlaki ss posted:It looks super tacky to me. I hate it when architects try to pass colorful crap as innovation, especially in such an uninspired fashion Tacky is the word. Look at those faux log cabins that sells cheap crap attached to the church. It says "we don't give a gently caress about style".
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Those aren't log cabins, those are market stalls. Kurfürstendamm serves as a marketplace. 
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steinrokkan posted:Those aren't log cabins, those are market stalls. My point exactly. Those kinds of markets are one of the most tacky things on the planet and a sure sign of poor taste. I don't see how it is remotely ok to place one of those things next to a church.
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Well, for one they aren't organized by the authors of the church, or even by the church itself, so it's weird to blame the architect or anybody else besides the city council for them. Second, churches are the default place for markets. Third, they are popular and traditional, if tacky.
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