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Noggin Monkey posted:Oscar Niemeyer's work is still bad in the ways modernism is usually bad, but God drat he was doing it much better than his peers. I love how sculptural his work always was. 
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Benagain posted:So JGM Architects did a building in Chicago last year for a college campus on the far NW side. So that's what that is. It's right on the Kennedy Expressway, makes a major impact.
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Humboldt Squid posted:Believe it or not, this isn't the only Victory of Samothrace themed building Shut your cakehole, it's awesome. Everyhting is awesome. 
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Apr 23, 2015 08:37
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All of this brutalist architecture and nobody has mentioned the University of Oklahoma Physical Sciences Center. Or "the blender" as it's affectionately known. Three floors in the base, with separate elevators handling the tower part.
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Cultural Imperial posted:Also, city of London street names are amazing. Ropemaker st. Haberdasher st. Shepherdess walk. The highway.
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Payndz posted:There's a Knightrider Street just down from St Paul's (by the steps where the Cybermen invaded). 
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Apr 24, 2015 20:39
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There's a Little Britain around the corner from the Barbican.
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Apr 24, 2015 20:40
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there's a toad in the hole on me bollocks mate
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Apr 24, 2015 22:45
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consult your physician
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Time for a historical architectural failure! This is the Bent Pyramid, built by the pharoah Snefre (occasionally pronounced Snafu by certain documentary narrators):  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Pyramid The architect had a radical new idea for a pyramid with smooth sides (what you think of when someone says "the Pyramids") and the older stepped version (more like an Aztec kind of style). Unfortunately, the materials or maybe the foundation wasn't up for the sheer weight and steep angle of the construction, and midway through they aborted the original angle plan and sort of topped it with a shallower angled pyramid. The pharoah was understandably underwhelmed by this construction, and later built the Red Pyramid, which did manage to be completed as planned. He actually built a pyramid before the Bent Pyramid, but it suffered at least one collapse and was understandably never finished. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meidum#Pyramid
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Payndz posted:There's a Knightrider Street just down from St Paul's (by the steps where the Cybermen invaded). There used to be a Gropecunt Lane in Victorian days. Used for exactly what you'd think.
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Apr 26, 2015 11:57
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Hermsgervørden posted:How about an Archdiocese failure? St. Mary's installed a sprinkler system in order to drench the homeless people trying to sleep in the doorways of the cathedral. Not long after that news broke, Pope Francis had the vatican install showers for homeless people who visit, and gave a surprise tour of the Sistine Chapel for 150 homeless people. a pope that isn't either a reactionary shithead or hilariously corrupt , and it only took 2000 years e: lol i checked wikipedia and i guess he actually is the former Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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Apr 26, 2015 15:46
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Pile of Kittens posted:Time for a historical architectural failure! I always love this one because it's also such a good example to give to people who marvel bout the Miraculous Perfection of the Pyramids It Must Be Aliens Man. Really lovely loving aliens if they were responsible.
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cisco privilege posted:Most of Brasila's ugly as hell but it inspired a pretty neat furniture series anyways: Holy poo poo. That's stunning. Please tell me more.
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Apr 26, 2015 18:20
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Florida polytechnic opened recently I think. It's built in the middle of nowhere between Tampa and Orlando, Florida. Pretty striking when you see it from the road. Pretty cool that they built a space pussy in the middle of dildo lake.
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Apr 26, 2015 18:59
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therattle posted:Holy poo poo. That's stunning. Please tell me more. It's Broyhill Brasilia furniture, made in the early 1960s' and apparently first shown off at the 1962 Seattle World Fair. It's rather handsome stuff, isn't it? The original sales brochure on this site if you're interested: http://www.brasiliaconnection.com/collection.html.
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NLJP posted:I always love this one because it's also such a good example to give to people who marvel bout the Miraculous Perfection of the Pyramids It Must Be Aliens Man. Egypt is great for all the gently caress ups and changes of plans that have been preserved for all eternity. It really humanises the ancient Egyptians. The burial chamber of the tomb of Thutmose III is decorated with nicely drawn stick men instead of full colour hieroglyphics. It might have been done after he died to get it finished while he was being embalmed. Also the doorways seem to have been all enlarged after they had been decorated. The pharaoh's poo poo was too big to get into his tomb.  King Tut died suddenly at a young age before a proper tomb could be built. The one they used is about the size of a lovely basement apartment. The photos Carter's team took make it look like someone's hoarder grandma's garage. The grave goods were stacked and wedged in any way they would fit. The axles of his chariots were all sawed in half to get them in there.  There are several examples in the Valley of the Kings of tombs being tunneled into older tombs. http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/articles/article_4.5b.html The Theban Mapping Project website is awesome by the way. It has detailed articles and drawings of everything in the valley. The biggest fuckup of all though would be the city of Amarna. The weird pharaoh Akhenaten decided to establish a brand new capital city on a fresh building site away from the existing power centres of Egypt. Of course there was a reason the site had never been used for a city before, it was a lovely place for a city. It built on a barren stretch of desert along the riverside and had no real economic reason to exist beyond the presence of the court. After Akhenaten died the city emptied out and was left to the desert. It may have been inhabited for less than twenty years.
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Cacafuego posted:Florida polytechnic opened recently I think. It's built in the middle of nowhere between Tampa and Orlando, Florida. Pretty striking when you see it from the road. that's an artist rendering, most of the trees aren't there yet and the surrounding land is very under-construction-y. the building itself looks pretty awesome from i4 though. there's also an ugly square building off to the left (from the camera pov in the pic) that doesn't fit with the main building
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you irl posted:there's also an ugly square building off to the left (from the camera pov in the pic) that doesn't fit with the main building That is the taint.
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Apr 26, 2015 21:16
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darkwasthenight posted:There used to be a Gropecunt Lane in Victorian days. Used for exactly what you'd think. There was a really good bbc four documentary about the history of the word oval office, can't find it anywhere. Fillcunt used to be a common surname in the middle ages apparently.
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Apr 26, 2015 22:03
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i live at 69 gropecunt lane 
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Speaking of histrorical architectural gently caress ups:
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Apr 26, 2015 22:15
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Apr 26, 2015 22:49
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Some of it did!
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Apr 26, 2015 23:27
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Cacafuego posted:Florida polytechnic opened recently I think. It's built in the middle of nowhere between Tampa and Orlando, Florida. Pretty striking when you see it from the road.
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you irl posted:that's an artist rendering, most of the trees aren't there yet and the surrounding land is very under-construction-y. the building itself looks pretty awesome from i4 though. there's also an ugly square building off to the left (from the camera pov in the pic) that doesn't fit with the main building That appears to be an impressively bad master plan for a college campus.
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Demonachizer posted:
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Pile of Kittens posted:Time for a historical architectural failure!
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looks like the kind of pyramid i'd build, i don't understand this spergy tryhard obsession with straight lines and geometrical shapes
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jazzyhattrick posted:There was a really good bbc four documentary about the history of the word oval office, can't find it anywhere. Fillcunt used to be a common surname in the middle ages apparently.
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Tunga posted:I'm impressed that they managed to air this, I'm guessing they had to say "the c word" a lot? I'm guessing it was really dry and quite academic and said oval office a lot because it would be ridiculous otherwise. Like newspapers who *** swear words and look fu*king stupid.
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simplyhorribul posted:At least they didn't try to cover their shame...unlike church Kaleva. The thing about the Kaleva church is that it's ludicrously massive. It's also smack dab in the middle of a large green park, so it's kinda dominating the whole area. Very much in the spirit of Jesus with the whole "blessed are the meek" thing. Also from Tampere, the new city library. It's called the Metso (Tetrao urogallus, the bird species capercaillie in Finnish). Why, you ask? Well, because it looks like one when viewed from above.  What does it look like from street level? Confusing!  From the same city, the new public health building which houses -- among other things -- mental health services for young people is an imposing colossus covered entirely in copper. Yes, copper.  
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Der Shovel posted:From the same city, the new public health building which houses -- among other things -- mental health services for young people is an imposing colossus covered entirely in copper. Yes, copper. Copper roofs and siding are not that unusual are they? Just needs a few years to develop a nice green patina.
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Copper roofing is nice until it gets stolen.
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Phlegmish posted:looks like the kind of pyramid i'd build, i don't understand this spergy tryhard obsession with straight lines and geometrical shapes If you want to be the only guy in the afterlife that lives in a bent pyramid go ahead.
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NihilismNow posted:Copper roofs and siding are not that unusual are they? Just needs a few years to develop a nice green patina. I can't think of any examples of copper siding other than the photo that was posted. Copper roofs are rare but not unusual.
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DNova posted:I can't think of any examples of copper siding other than the photo that was posted. Copper roofs are rare but not unusual. Have another example 
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 It works for roofs but copper walls are a terrible idea.
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DNova posted:I can't think of any examples of copper siding other than the photo that was posted. Copper roofs are rare but not unusual.
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