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Computer viking posted:The opera in Oslo might count? It's a "white marble at weird angles"-affair, but the acoustics are said to be good, the walkable roof is well visited, and I honestly like how it looks. That's a pretty good one. It's a novel design that actually has a purpose and looks good. It's almost modernist in its consideration of these things that postmodernism usually spits at.
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Rah! posted:It was torn down in the 1960's and replaced with this: Anytime anything is torn down in SF is an improvement 
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At least it didn't get converted into a parking garage.  http://afterthefinalcurtain.net/2013/04/30/the-michigan-theatre/
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rocket_350 posted:At least it didn't get converted into a parking garage. Isn't this where Alex and his droogs fought that other gang in the beginning of Clockwork Orange?
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rocket_350 posted:At least it didn't get converted into a parking garage. thats actually awesome, why tear it down or preserve it as a contextless piece of art instead of a building, this way it continues to 'live' and contribute, plus it kind of pays homage to the fact it was ford's garage [/human being]
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rocket_350 posted:At least it didn't get converted into a parking garage. Better to keep the shell and leave a glimmer of revival hopes than to tear it down.
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rocket_350 posted:At least it didn't get converted into a parking garage. America is the death of culture.
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Oh, you want travesties when it comes to movie palaces and demolition? Say hello to the Roxy Theater in New York City.  The Roxy was built in 1927 for Samuel "Roxy" Rothafel, a showman who thought big. He wanted a theater where he could stage elaborate live shows before movie presentations, and he got one. It was pretty big.   No, wait, it wasn't just big. It was loving huge. The auditorium could seat over 5800 people. The theater had its own radio broadcast studio, a barber shop, an infirmary with full-time nurses on duty, and a menagerie for show animals.  The Grand Foyer could hold 2,500 people and featured "the largest oval rug in the world". Gloria Swanson's film "The Love of Sunya" was shown at the Roxy's grand opening in 1927. Thirty-four years later, the theater closed down. It was simply too big to keep open in the face of dwindling movie audiences. Hell, the heating and cooling costs alone probably did it in. There hadn't been live shows before films there in a long, long time. Roxy himself had died in 1936, several years after opening Radio City Music Hall.  Gloria visited the theater was it was being demolished in 1961 to say goodbye. And what's at the corner of 50th and 7th today? 
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To be honest I think those early 20th century theatres are really garish and ugly and I'm glad they've fallen out of fashion. They got demolished because they were bad at the purpose they were designed for.
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steinrokkan posted:America is the death of culture. yes, empty impractical pretty buildings should be preserved forever, untouched and unused, so dweebs in turtlenecks can stand outside and say "hmm yes culture very good"
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Howard Beale posted:Oh, you want travesties when it comes to movie palaces and demolition? Say hello to the Roxy Theater in New York City. At least TGI Friday's actually originated in NYC.
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MullardEL34 posted:At least TGI Friday's actually originated in NYC. The original may have benefited from the apartment building full of stewardesses nearby but it was no Maxwell's Plum.
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Dejan Bimble posted:That's a pretty good one. It's a novel design that actually has a purpose and looks good. It's almost modernist in its consideration of these things that postmodernism usually spits at. Snøhetta have done some decent things.
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Frozen Horse posted:Was this made by bees? It's meant to look like basalt columns, what with Iceland being heavily volcanic and all. It really is a beautiful and unusual building up close, fantastic setting too. The national cathedral is designed with a similar basalt theme, it's also truly stunning and belongs nowhere near this thread.
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Frozen Horse posted:Was this made by bees? beads?
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Kennel posted:Bunch of ugly Finnish churches from the 60s (aka Anti-Devil Bunkers): At least they didn't try to cover their shame...unlike church Kaleva.  Bare bone concrete is depressing as poo poo, but not as bad as covering it with tiles and pretending it doesn't look like a huge public bathroom pulled inside-out. Why on earth would anyone think that covering buildings with tiny tiles will look good?
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simplyhorribul posted:At least they didn't try to cover their shame...unlike church Kaleva. 
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Now imagine that room with the same kind of blank white tile on everything.
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you irl posted:yes, empty impractical pretty buildings should be preserved forever, untouched and unused, so dweebs in turtlenecks can stand outside and say "hmm yes culture very good" Obviously nobody ever goes to see live entertainment anymore...
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Neutrino posted:Obviously nobody ever goes to see live entertainment anymore... Certainly not to the degree that a city the size of NYC needs enough seating to house a couple of dozen million people simultaneously watching live theatre, no.
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it's in detroit and for the last 10 years of its life as a theater it was used to watch hockey games, i think the arts will survive.
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Kavak posted:Now imagine that room with the same kind of blank white tile on everything. It'd probably look cool as all hell. Esp. if everything was a slightly different shade of off-white. Someday I want to see Hagia Sophia in person; only reason I'd ever fly out to Istanbul.
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Readblood posted:Any building that has a 2pm boob shadow is awesome. That is a perky building titty.
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88h88 posted:That is a perky building titty. Suckling from the teat of the Catholic Church, I'm milking this for all it's worth.
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