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steinrokkan posted: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. Ok i shift my blame to the city planner.
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NihilismNow posted:Ok i shift my blame to the city planner.
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wayfinder posted:^^ I think he meant getting as in purchasing Ah, gotcha. In my defense, I had to explain it to a friend i showed it to.
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Having driven past this temple countless times, I can't help but think maybe they could have picked a better spot to build it, rather than sidled up to the highway surrounded by factories and shipping centres  
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This is Zaha Hadid fire station in Basel. Specifically, the dining table.  First of all, it is made of stainless steel, which means it feels uncomfortably cold, but that's not the worst... No, see, there is nothing under the sheetmetal, so it acts like a gigantic drum and fills the room with noise whenever you touch it.
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Spatule posted:This is Zaha Hadid fire station in Basel. Specifically, the dining table. Is that the fire station that can't be used as a fire station because hadid is such a lovely architect?
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Mar 15, 2015 14:08
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steinrokkan posted:If there's something to hate in Prague, it must be first and foremost the New Scene of the National Theatre. What the gently caress is wrong with you, that's an awesome old building! quote: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? Oh. Nevermind. Yeah, that's just terrible.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Is that the fire station that can't be used as a fire station because hadid is such a lovely architect? Yes, that's the one where firetrucks can't fit or something. She's such a nice person, but what a hack.
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Mar 15, 2015 14:35
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"We're so sorry, you see we meant to bomb this other civilian target".
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Blistex posted:"We're so sorry, you see we meant to bomb this other civilian target". "The Americans have voiced their regret many times" In fairness, this is more than can be said about our (the UK) official stance on what we did to Dresden. I believe David Cameron just the other week reiterated that 'it was war, it was the right thing to do to brutally kill innocence people in the night'
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KiteAuraan posted: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. ehhhnnnn, not really. living a first-world lifestyle anywhere at all on this planet earth is gonna be de-facto "unsustainable", the thing is reducing impact as much as possible. earthships in particular (what most of those are) are designed to work well in deserts- they integrate greenhouses into the design (the glass frontage is usually filled with planters for food crops), use cisterns to catch rain and divert waste greywater that isn't from the toilet directly back into the planters, and use passive heating/cooling to stay comfortable without AC, along with using garbage and local cheap/appropriate building materials like adobe for construction. so its not net zero impact but it's a hell of a lot better than any conventional dwelling built in the desert, and yeah, the tradeoff is very cheap land and relaxed building code
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Kavak posted:How did Prague get so lucky and keep so many of its old building during WWII? FWIW, Regensburg was the only major German city that was pretty much untouched and is a really unique place as a result. I don't really know why it was spared but I don't think there was much there to bomb. There was one raid, but it wasn't a city center raid and although they lost one major church, the rest of the city is pretty much untouched and doesn't seem to have too much modern crap in it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regensburg
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THE_Chris posted:FWIW, Regensburg was the only major German city that was pretty much untouched and is a really unique place as a result. I don't really know why it was spared but I don't think there was much there to bomb. There was one raid, but it wasn't a city center raid and although they lost one major church, the rest of the city is pretty much untouched and doesn't seem to have too much modern crap in it.
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Pfffft.Corek posted:Michael Graves was several years younger than Frank Gehry. He also made a teapot that looked like Hitler for JCPenney. You call that a Hitler teapot? 
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lDDQD posted:Pfffft. I would pay to have a box printed out that said Zyklon Tea to place next to it
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Ambrose Burnside posted:ehhhnnnn, not really. living a first-world lifestyle anywhere at all on this planet earth is gonna be de-facto "unsustainable", the thing is reducing impact as much as possible. earthships in particular (what most of those are) are designed to work well in deserts- they integrate greenhouses into the design (the glass frontage is usually filled with planters for food crops), use cisterns to catch rain and divert waste greywater that isn't from the toilet directly back into the planters, and use passive heating/cooling to stay comfortable without AC, along with using garbage and local cheap/appropriate building materials like adobe for construction. This is pretty much it, when it comes to desert living. Some people also have wells that access the water table (if you're lucky) and other people rig up elaborate condensation catching setups that can collect a lot of fresh water due to the day/night temperature changes. You're not going to be having hour longs showers or watering an acre of crops, but you can get by comfortably if you ration a little.
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steinrokkan posted:Those aren't log cabins, those are market stalls. A seasonal Christmas market next to a Christian church doesn't sound entirely unusual.
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Sappo569 posted:Having driven past this temple countless times, I can't help but think maybe they could have picked a better spot to build it, rather than sidled up to the highway surrounded by factories and shipping centres that the one in liburn ga?
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joat mon posted:A seasonal Christmas market next to a Christian church doesn't sound entirely unusual. I agree, but some people don't like them. 
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Frostwerks posted:that the one in liburn ga? Google says Toronto.
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THE_Chris posted:FWIW, Regensburg was the only major German city that was pretty much untouched and is a really unique place as a result. I don't really know why it was spared but I don't think there was much there to bomb. There was one raid, but it wasn't a city center raid and although they lost one major church, the rest of the city is pretty much untouched and doesn't seem to have too much modern crap in it. is this really a major city i've never heard of it least original name ever
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Phlegmish posted:is this really a major city i've never heard of it 140k is not a major city. So no.
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Demonachizer posted:Insert pretty much any mormon temple. that one from starship troopers
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NihilismNow posted:140k is not a major city. So no. Major for Bavaria maybe. I also recommend visiting Regensburg. Really pleasant and beautiful on a mild summer day.
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Sappo569 posted:Having driven past this temple countless times, I can't help but think maybe they could have picked a better spot to build it, rather than sidled up to the highway surrounded by factories and shipping centres
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steinrokkan posted:I agree, but some people don't like them. That some people don't enjoy foot long bratwurst, cheeses out the arse, sweets galore, tankards of great beer and lovely Christmas knick knacks is terrible. I don't think I've bought anything other than food and drink from a market like this. I did go on the carousel though, that poo poo was great.
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Surprised at the lack of Edmonton in this thread our Provincial Law Courts  downtown library   Then we slapped some poo poo on one side to hide the brutalism  "Wow, the nice thing about this city is the amazing river valley, I think I'll build a nice million dollar house right at the edge of it..." 
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my city just allowed a bunch of mcmansions to be built up on a ridge just like that, i cannot wait until nature takes its course
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Welcome to Belgium. We do beer, and fries, and chocolate quite well. Architecture though ? Not so much: http://uglybelgianhouses.tumblr.com/ Mix and match ! 
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 One of the most bizarre places I've ever visited. It's like they got some nerd in the 70s to design a secure building except he was obsessed with barbarella. This is SYGDC in Barnsley (what a loving shithole). That huge tube on the left of the picture is a covered walkway leading into the building entrance. I presume they designed it like that so you can't drive a truck bomb into the the front door easily.
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NihilismNow posted:My point exactly. Those kinds of markets are one of the most tacky things on the planet and a sure sign of poor taste. Don't let all the stall-lovers ITT get you down. Jesus agrees with you. 
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  It eventually got torn down  Unrelated but ugly 
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Holy lmao the Egyptian junta wants to build a new capital city out in the desert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7KdtShlwqA Yeah that'll never happen. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/03/egypt-to-build-a-potemkin-capital/387826/
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Here's some pictures from my university. Nothing's really horrendous, but some days all the buildings just piss me off because none of the ones I spend time in have any natural light. The math building. I spend most of my time here. Notice that there are almost no windows on the first 4 floors. The upper floors are offices.  This is what it looks like on the inside.   Computer Science building. Actually does have natural light, but I just find it so ugly.  This building is called Psychology, Anthropology, and Sociology. As far as I can tell this building has no windows.  One of the two libraries on campus. The other one is in the CS building above. Looks oddly similar to the library neckbeard posted above. There's actually a moat around this thing which is never filled with water. Makes it really annoying to get into/around it.  The oldest building on campus. Megafonzie fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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Demonachizer posted:Insert pretty much any mormon temple.  I kind of like this because it seems like something out of a movie about a fascist theocracy. It's located adjacent to the capital beltway in Maryland, and the parts of it that poke above the treetops give the impression that you've suddenly arrived at Disneyland. 
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Spakstik posted:
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When I was a kid, I thought the Oakland temple was Disney-related for the longest time. To be fair, I only saw it from 580.
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gleebster posted:Is the "Surrender Dorothy" graffiti still on that overpass? It might not be. I don't think I've ever seen it.
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